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    mental hospital the moment she began to open up. The treatment women has been completely disrespectful and degrading within that field. While women gained suffrage in the late 19th Century‚ it wasn’t until the late 1960s that women’s roles started being questioned on a larger basis. Throughout the first half of the 20th Century‚ women were expected to go straight into work after finishing school‚ and continue just that until they were married. (Text 8) This attitude towards women supported the belief

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    contributed a lot during the civil war‚ the revolutions‚ and basically they had a very important impact during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Because of this women’s roles have changed quite a bit from the early 1800s to the late 1900s. Spain experienced an economic and political transformation during the Spanish Revolution of the early nineteenth century‚ 1808 and 1843. Men in Spain were giving birth to a new gender idea that took down women’s participation in the social and political transformations

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    In the late 19th century Americans fully embraced the concept of American exceptionalism‚ believing the “United States had a destiny unique among nations to foster democracy and civilization.” With this ideology‚ Social Darwinism‚ Anglo-Saxon‚ naval expansion‚ and the need for market promoted the rise to imperialism in the United States. When the Americans moved west and defeated the Native Americans they felt matchless because of all the technological and social developments they had over the

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    University of Phoenix Material End of the 20th Century Matrix Choose ten items from the following list and identify their significance during the 1990s and beyond: |Earned Income Tax Credit |Economic prosperity under Clinton | |E-mail |Creating a budget surplus | |NAFTA |The

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    During early 20th century progressive-era America‚ a ghastly practice was undertaken on vast groups of people in American society. As the concept of mental health strayed from a biological perspective‚ public opinion settled on it being influenced by social and societal means. Enter Eugenics‚ which means “well-born.” Through none other than the macabre‚ forced means of Eugenics‚ did sociologists seek to better American society by the latest in-vogue school of thought. By employing methods such as

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    The 20th century is been called the age of suspicion. Nothing is what it seems‚ it’s about the lack of trust and believes. There are 3 big figures of this century that talk about suspicion‚ Darwin‚ Marx‚ and Freud. The kid is the best portrait of this suspicion‚ cause they don’t know everything and they don’t have full control of the world around them. Dorothea Lange is a famous photographer from the 40’s‚ she went in an intern camp and pictures them. In 17S is peculiar the episode of Rosie washing

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    Racism‚ it started so long ago and still goes on now. It’s just stupid‚ hating people because of their color is wrong and it doesn’t matter which color does the hating‚ it just plain wrong. It’s not about being black or white because we are all human. Through out trials people‚ found out their flaws in jury cases such as Dred Scott v. Sanford‚ Plessy v. Ferguson‚ and Brown v. Board of Education ‚with people fighting for justice ‚freedom ‚rights and beliefs. In 1846 a slave named Dred Scott and his

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    The second half of the 19th century introduced a new style of enterprise to America‚ Big Business. The 19th century values of work and of being an independent business man clashed with the modern 20th century values of extreme expansion with large work forces and of earning the most money possible. The rise of the robber barons and the captains of industry helped the economy by pushing America into first place in the production of several products and by creating many new jobs. Although these new

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    The increase in sectionalism and the tensions that arose from it was surprising to me because I naively assumed the United States was for the most completely united at this point in Antebellum America. The political polarization and its dramatic impact on the political landscape of the 1850s was very interesting to learn about. The creation of two political parties‚ Democrats and Whigs‚ really cemented the notion of the divide between North and South. The rise of such parties as the Free-Soil Party

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    Nationalism is when a person has pride from where they come from. This played an immense role in the accomplishments of the British people from 1815 to 1900. One of the main reasons for the British people being nationalistic was Queen Victoria. Although Queen Victoria’s husband died just 24 years after she took the role of the queen‚ she was able to inspire the British people to create three of the most famous sports in the world. Sports such as soccer‚ tennis and cricket. Without nationalism‚

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