emphasis greatly upon the education of children and later on this commission also started its working on the educational aspects of women also (vocational education for lower class women) and high education for elite class women. 4- National Education Act 1870 & 1876: This act was the first official step from the Government of Britain of that time‚ which encouraged and enforced basic education for all children and women. 5-Sickness benefits act: This act was especially implemented after the trend of prostitution
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William Ramsay William Ramsay was born on the second of October‚ in the year 1852. William‚ and his parents‚ William and Catherine‚ lived in Glasgow‚ Scotland. William Ramsay performed his work in his native town‚ until 1870 when he went to Tübingen and earned his doctorate in 1872. When returned to Scotland later that year‚ he became an assistant chemist at the Anderson College in Glasgow. Eight years later‚ he was appointed principal and professor of chemistry at London University‚ which
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Competing Ideologies Thursday May 9th 2013 Following Confederation in 1867 and into the turn of the century Canada was divided among three competing ideologies. The first being Imperialism‚ a belief favoured by English speaking Canadians and the Conservative government‚ that strong British ties held a better future for Canada. Within Imperialism‚ French-speaking Canadians who preferred Canada to be self-governing and bi-lingual nation within the British Empire favoured a Nationalist ideology
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Women were treated like they were property of men‚ with no voice about their own fate. Feminist movements took place around the world in the 1870 ’s with the purpose to fight for the women ’s rights on the grounds of political‚ social‚ and economic equality to men. Mexico was no different from the rest of the world up until The Mexican Revolution in 1910. For the first time in Mexican history‚ women fought alongside men for justice and freedom. The novel "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel
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"The goal I proposed myself in making cubism? To paint and nothing more... with a method linked only to my thought... Neither the good nor the true; neither the useful nor the useless." (Pablo Picasso) What is cubism? Cubism is essentially the art of creating abstract shapes of three dimensional objects on a two dimensional surface. In cubist artwork‚ objects are analyzed‚ broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form rather than portraying objects from one point of view‚ the artist portrays the
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Your goal was to increased racial equality in challenge issues like the Jim Crow laws. Unfortunately‚ it was between 1910 and 1930 that white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan saw it’s biggest expansion amid increased racial friction. Following the First World War ‚ The NAACP devoted to the ending lynching by white vigilantes. By mid century‚ the group name instrumental
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“It Was Milner’s war. The men on the spot dragged a reluctant cabinet into a confrontation they wished to avoid.” In the context of the period 1880-1910‚ how far do you agree with this view of the causes of the Boer war? The 4th Earl of Carnarvon‚ British secretary of state for the colonies under Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli wanted to form a confederation of all the British colonies‚ independent Boer Republics and independent African groups in South Africa under British control
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relations by applying the scientific method‚ or positivist method as it is also known. These stages of knowledge illustrate the popularity of the idea of evolution in the 19th century. How was transportation transformed in the 19th Century? In the 1870s horse-drawn streetcars operated in many European cities‚ which were invented in America. In the 1890s European cities utilized the electric streetcar‚ which was another American invention. Electric streetcars were cheaper and faster than horse-drawn
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“Of all the arts‚ abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well‚ that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors‚ and that you be a true poet. This last is essential." -- Wassily Kandinsky. Abstract Art is art that is not a precise demonstration of a form or object. This depiction can be diverged in many ways including the shape‚ color‚ and form. The artist takes the object and then either simplifies it or exaggerates it using these
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extraction of natural resources. Although this period saw major benefits‚ the costs were monumental and almost entirely reliant on foreign investments. On paper‚ Mexico may have been an independent nation‚ but by the time of the Mexican Revolution in 1910‚ the country was largely dependent on another empire—the United States. Consequently‚ the early twentieth century in Mexico was a new colonial period. Mexico is naturally home to an abundance of resources that aren’t readily available in the U.S.
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