believes was designed to “control” the American working class? 6 Compare and contrast Zinn’s and your textbook’s accounts of the Haymarket Square bombing in terms of causes and effects. 7 Zinn says that revolutionary movements at this time (1880s-1890s) were stimulated by “the recognition that day-to-day combat was not enough‚ that fundamental change was needed.” How do his accounts of the Homestead and Pullman strikes illustrate both the issues and the oppositional forces involved in such change
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the reader to Kerr (2007). We make several general points below. First‚ the Government of India had a strong influence on railways from the beginning‚ but the Government’s role increased over time. Railways were partially nationalized between 1880 and 1908 as the Government of India assumed a majority ownership stake in the former guaranteed railway companies. Complete nationalization occurred between 1924 and 1947 as the colonial government assumed full control over operations. Second
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pessimistic form of Realism). Dreiser’s family was poor‚ and he soon saw a profound difference between the promise and the reality of American life. This realization was a major source of Dreiser’s discontent and an important influence on his works. Dreiser attended Indiana University for a year. In the 1890’s‚ he worked as a newspaperman in Chicago and St. Louis. By 1907‚ he was the successful editor of the very sort of woman’s magazine whose sentimentality and superficiality he despised. Dreiser’s
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within the distinctive culture of Louisiana Creole and Cajun society. Exploring the frustration of women bound by restrictive social conventions‚ her work is feminist in its implications. Chopin’s frank depictions of both female sexual passion and discontent within marriage made her work extremely controversial in her own time. • These southern practitioners of regional realism rejected idealistic romanticism in order to bear accurate witness to the reality of the world around them. In the process‚
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Assess the long-term and immediate factors that led to the fall of the Romanov Dynasty. With over a century of military and civil discontent the Romanov Dynasty was bound to fall sooner or later. The fall of the Romanov Dynasty was a result of long-term causes including Tsar Alexander’s inability to satisfy his people and Tsar Nicholas II’s inability to rule to throne all together. The collapse was also an outcome of immediate causes; the effects of World War One on Russia and the 1917 revolution
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naval officer and explorer‚ who died attempting to be the first to reach the South Pole. Robert Falcon Scott was born on 6 June 1868 in Devonport. He became a naval cadet at the age of 13 and served on a number of Royal Navy ships in the 1880s and 1890s. He attracted the notice of the Royal Geographical Society‚ which appointed him to command the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. The expedition - which included Ernest Shackleton - reached further south than anyone before them and
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Europe. A French statesman François Guizot was supported by the king to give formal notice of the state in 1844. This was during the war which would continue until late 1847. The island would remain a territory protected by the French until June 29th 1880‚ when the dependencies of Tahiti were all handed to
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painting because they were able to better capture the reflections of the scene and refracted light. This style of his can be seen forming as early as in the 1860s‚ though he didn’t paint his series of the winter flood‚ The Break Up of the Ice‚ until 1880. In 1885‚ Monet began work on Le Dejeuner sur l’Herbe‚ a painting of bourgeois leisure. We can see his start in playing with light in this painting. Manet’s painting of the same name two years early focuses on the shadow of the scene‚ but in Monet’s
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Willie Ann Smith (1873-1909) his first wife‚ he married on 16 Jan 1890‚ with whom he had his four children‚ died after just nine years of marriage. His ambition and hard work shown in the 1900 United States Census by 1900 he owned his home free and clear of mortgage and was raising his four children‚ “Nettie” Nellie
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Stephen Perri Representing Race Pendleton 4/29/13 Italian Immigration 1880-1920 Many people have emigrated from Italy to America over the past few centuries. During the time period of 1880-1920‚ the largest number of Italians arrived in America as nearly four million Italian immigrants came to the states. Most came from either Sicily or southern Italy and were mostly comprised of lower income people. A majority of the immigrants were known as the "birds of passage". Life was often hard for
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