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    [Economy pushes us to imperialism. Main reason] - Main reason of why we’re in the mideast? - Oil B. Reasons for expansion C. Foreign policy approaches. (1867-1900) D. The lure of Hawaii and Samoa - We’ve been interested in Hawaii since 19th century - Convenient stopping place for far eastern trade.

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    Answer 1: The 19th and first half of the 20th century conceived of the world as chaos. Chaos was the oft-quoted blind play of atoms which‚ in mechanistic and positivistic philosophy‚ appeared to represent ultimate reality‚ with life as an accidental product of physical processes‚ and mind as an epiphenomenon.… It was chaos when‚ in the current theory of evolution‚ the living world appeared a product of chance‚ the outcome of random mutations and survival in the mill of natural selection. In the

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    Nationalism is defined as the “advocacy of political independence for a particular country” (Google Dictionary). It’s easy to see this definition in practice throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s in Europe and Asia. From the Boxer Rebellion to the Russo-Japanese War to the Young Turks during the Armenian Genocide‚ there are a great many examples of Nationalism to be found. The year-long Boxer Rebellion is an interesting example of Nationalism‚ as it involves a Chinese Nationalist group going

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    Refer to examples in the early 20th century.” Graphic Design in the early 20th century was created by artists as a prescribed function of advertising and propaganda‚ and was considered a secondary art form. Through the use of lithographic printing‚ woodblock prints‚ chromolithography‚ drawing and painting‚ many artists were able to produce striking images on posters‚ which conveyed messages that were directly related to the issues facing society at that time. During the first and Second world

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    In the late 19th century the government reaction was one of Laissez Faire to poverty. Minimal intervention through the workhouse (expanded after the Poor Law Amendment act of 1834) where eligibility criteria was enclosed to try to scale down the worst excesses of poverty and squalor. People arrived at the realisation that poverty was due to social and economic factors outside the person’s control. Poverty had more or less vanished from the political radar in the early 1950s. However‚ came back into

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    The Constitution is the living document of the well-known American rights. It starts the long list of all the respectable rules with the famous line “We the People”. What some people may not know‚ is that “We the People” didn’t apply to 69% of the country. The Constitution gives “the people” their rights and their power which means that the people that are left out of it‚ don’t have rights in America. In this case‚ women. Women were vital parts of America. They could do jobs and work in the workforce

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    In the 19th and 20th centuries‚ many foreigners emigrated from Southern and Eastern Europe. These were the new immigrants; they fled from famine‚ war‚ and financial instability among other issues. Once arriving‚ the new immigrants were brutally welcomed by the old immigrants. Many of the old immigrants held nativist views towards the newcomers. Old immigrants were people who were already settled in the United States and most of them believed the new immigrants were injurious to America. New immigrants

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    19th century: period of growing consciousness‚ restlessness which promulgated the formation of two major movements  Propaganda Movement (failed)  Revolutionary Movement (replaces the PM) Leaders:  Jose Rizal  Marcelo H. Del Pilar  Lopez Jaena Members:  Pedro Paterno  Ponce  Panganiban  Antonio Luna *They worked for the Philippines’ assimilation as a Spanish province and equal treatment of the Filipinos as for the Spaniards *Writings in this period cannot be called literature

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    How did the conflict between labor and business play out in the late 19th century? In the late 19th century‚ a conflict between labor and business grew as businesses began to cut wages‚ ignore the poor condition of their employee’s working environment‚ extend the hours in a workday‚ and laid off thousands of employees. From this conflict‚ massive strikes‚ organized refusals to work‚ and unions‚ groups formed together to improve working conditions‚ came into action. A notable strike known as the Homestead

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    In the 19th and early 20th century‚ there was a time of feminist movement all around the world‚ especially in the United States‚ United Kingdom‚ Canada and Netherlands. It focused on legal topics‚ primarily on gaining women’s rights. These feminist activities were referred to as the “first-wave feminism”. The term “first-wave” was devised in March 1968 by Marsha Lear writing in The New York Times Magazine. At that time‚ the women’s movement was focused on discriminations‚ which it wished to make

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