East Asia Midterm Review • Amateratsu: a part of the Japanese myth cycle and also a major deity of the Shinto religion. She is the goddess of the sun‚ but also of the universe. Daughter of god Izanaghi. Created 8 islands. The Emperor of Japan is said to be a direct descendant of Amaterasu. • Tangun: mythological first king of the Koreans‚ the grandson of Hwanin‚ the creator‚ and the son of Hwanung‚ who fathered his child by breathing on a beautiful young woman. Tangun reportedly became king in
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gives some women suffrage in school elections. 1861: Kansas enters the Union; the new state gives its women the right to vote in local school elections. 1869: Wyoming territory constitution grants women the right to vote and to hold public office. 1870: Utah territory gives full suffrage to women. 1893: The male electorate in Colorado votes "yes" on woman suffrage. 1894: Some cities in Kentucky and Ohio give women the vote in school board elections. 1895: Utah amends its constitution to grant women
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from Fisk University because it was a predominantly African American college‚ and DuBois wasn’t allowed on campus after 6:00 pm because of his color. Dubois’ dissertation‚ The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America‚1638-1870‚ was published as number one in the Harvard Historical Series. The
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The Child Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born December 28‚ 1856 at Staunton‚ Virginia; one of four children to Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Janet Wilson who were of Scottish descent. His family moved to Augusta‚ Georgia a year after his birth and then in 1870 moving to Columbia and later moved to Wilmington in 1884. Woodrow later drop his first name‚ Thomas. B. The Student He got his early education from a few ex-Confederate soldiers who set up some schools after the Civil war and his father who
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44). Bell’s work in this field accelerated when Western Union offered to pay up to one million dollars to the inventor who could ease the congestion in their telegraph lines‚ by allowing them to carry multiple messages simultaneously. In the 1870s‚ Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray‚ two inventors‚ both designed devices‚ which could transmit
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“Women gained the vote due to their contribution during the war” - how accurate is this statement? Before 1918‚ women did not have equal rights. For example‚ they did not have control in their marriages or any reasonable say in how their country was run. Women were seen as too stupid or emotional to make any rational decisions in important political matters. There is much debate over what actually improved views on women enough to allow them the vote in 1918‚ when the government decided that including
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Modernism The Modern Novel As T.S. Eliot once said‚ “Every age gets the art it deserves and every age must accept the art it gets. A complex age like the 20th century‚ upset by two World Wars and marked by unrest and ferments‚ couldn’t as result produce anything but complex art‚ mainly resulting‚ more than in any previous age‚ from experimentation. The search for new forms of expression‚ which affected all branches of literature‚ was carried on first of all in fiction and novel. So far novelists
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University of the Philippines Ermita‚ Manila Equality: Its Importance and Implementation Roseann Jonamae Rodriguez 2012-21836 Ms. Yga Antonio Topic Outline I. Importance A. On the individual B. On society II. Concerned groups of people A. Race 1. Westerners a. Americans b. Europeans 2. Asians 3. African-Americans B. Religion 1. Catholics 2. Muslims 3. Jews C. Gender 1. Women 2. LGBT D. Age 1. Youth 2. Elderly III. Imposition A. Education B. Government C. Culture Sentence
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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s. At the time‚ it was known as the "New Negro Movement"‚ named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke. Though it was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City‚ many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance.[1][2][3][4] The Harlem Renaissance is generally considered to have spanned from about 1919 until the early or mid-1930s.
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UNIT 17 IMPERIALISM Structure 17.1 Introduction 17.2 Definitions of Imperialism 17.2.1 Empire Versus Imperialism 17.2.2 Imperialism Versus Colonialism 17.3 Modes of Imperialism 17.4 Theories of Imperialism 17.4.1 The Economic Explanations 17.4.2 Non-Economic Explanations 17.5 Stages of Imperialism 17.5.1 Mercantilism and Early Trading Empires 17.5.2 Industrial Capitalis m -----Imperialism of Free Trade 17.5.3 Finance Capitalism 17.6 The Empire on Which the Sun Never Set 17.7
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