Australia‚ Opera House‚ by Jorn Utzon‚ the work of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright • American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is the most famous architect of the twentieth century and one of the most prolific. Wright defined his Prairie School style of architecture with organic buildings that extend the indoors to the outside. Prairie style houses cling to their site with low-slung projecting roofs that suggest security and
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The nineteenth century changed into a period marked by huge changes in the area of health and well-being. This era witnessed advances in medical science‚ upgrades in public health practices‚ and the upward push of new attitudes towards fitness and well-being. From the emergence of vaccination programs to the merchandising of bodily fitness‚ the nineteenth century laid the inspiration for many of the health practices which are nonetheless typical today. One of the maximum good sized advancements in
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In the early 1800’s‚ state prisoner were leased to Florida companies where they were often worked as slave labor. Mart Taber was a young prisoner convicted of stealing a ride on a freight train. He died as a result of the brutal treatment administered by a lumber company boss to whom he was leased. The prison system of the 1800’s and the early 1900’s was based on cruel and inhumane treatment. Punishment was very tragic. The prisoners were treated as animal and consider less of inhuman because of
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Inventions of the 20th century Light Switch Tired of using old your old push-button light switch? As of 1916 William J. Newton and Morris Goldberg have come out with a new and improved patented light switch. Instead of pushing a button‚ all you have to do is either flick it up or down‚ and you’re light will automatically turn on. It’s now safer than the old push-button because it won’t control the whole mechanism directly‚ but instead through a series of springs and levers. Get your own revamped
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Global war is one of the defining features of twentieth-century experience‚ and the first global war is the subject of one of this period’s topics‚ “Representing the Great War.” Masses of dead bodies strewn upon the ground‚ plumes of poison gas drifting through the air‚ hundreds of miles of trenches infested with rats—these are but some of the indelible images that have come to be associated with World War I (1914-18). It was a war that unleashed death‚ loss‚ and suffering on an unprecedented scale
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Economics is a very important to society‚ even today. Society needs money and an economic turnover in order to function. Partaking in the economics‚ women in the 19th century took up various jobs in order to help support their families‚ a well talked about job that will be focused on in this essay is prostitution. Henry Mayhew‚ echoing the understanding of the time‚ stated “Literally every woman who yields to her passions and loses her virtue is a prostitute‚ but many draw a distinction between those
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factor “ in the changing map of Europe in the 19th century ? During the 19th century‚ the map of Europe changed immensely. War was one of the reasons for these changes‚ with Napoleonic Wars‚ the Russo-Persian War and the Crimean War. However‚ war was not the only cause of territorial changes : differences in opinions‚ revolts‚ the Congress of Vienna and the end of the Holy Alliance were also causes of the changing map of Europe in the 19th century. On the one hand‚ war was the most important
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In the mid-19th century‚ a deadly epidemic cholera had infected many citizens of Victorian London as well as taking their lives. Cholera is a bacteria disease that infects the stomach‚ which causes diarrhea and dehydration‚ usually contracted through the consumption of dirty water. According to the topic of medicine in the 19th century discussed in the 2015 lecture in Introduction to European history by Dr. Chelsea Shields-Más; both John Snow and Henry Whitehead made major impacts on the perceptions
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International Relations: At the beginning of twentieth century‚ international relations around the world were poisoned by tensions emanating from several sources. New levels of nationalistic pride spilled over into international affairs‚ heightening existing fears and hostilities inherited from past. Imperialist competition for the control of territories around the world added more fuel to the fire‚ driving nations to search for security in arms races‚ alliances‚ and plans of war. Imperialism:
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During the late 19th Century‚ people believed that the Native Americans would not adapt to modernity and die out. Those people were wrong. The Native Americans not only adapted but they survived and endured everything life had to throw at them. The United States Government made life quite hard for the Indians in many ways. The United States expanded its territory in the early 19th Century to the Mississippi River. Due to the Gadsden purchase‚ this led to US control of the borderlands of Arizona and
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