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    A vast majority of modern societies around the world view Canada as an accepting nation that embraces a variety of different people‚ and hosts many diverse cultures. For instance‚ in the 1920s not all Canadians were free from discrimination‚ and although most people were embracing this time of prosperity with new inventions and exciting lifestyles‚ others‚ such as the Indigenous peoples of Canada‚ were struggling to avoid the the overbearing push of extreme cultural discrimination. The residential

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    Archaeological discoveries made in the 1920s play a vital role in understanding how and when ancient Americans and their descendants resided in North America. Their culture and way of life. In the following paragraph I will discuss how the Folsom discoveries helped scholars understand the migration of ancient American into the Western Hemisphere‚ their origin as well as the geological condition that facilitated the migration. And finally how the interaction between Native American and the environment

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    THE 1920s: MODERNISM Main writers from this period Oscar Wilde Joseph Conrad W.B. Yeats Henry James Arnold Bennett John Galsworthy H.G. Wells Modernism first came to England at the end of 19th century in the work of Oscar Wilde‚ the early W.B. Yeats and Joseph Conrad and later‚ Henry James. But in the first decade and a half of the century there is a reaction against the avant-garde movement and there is a return to a more realistic and traditional kind of writing (Arnold Bennett

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    birth of freedom during different time periods throughout history. The new freedoms that America had given birth to were the freedom of expression‚ the freedom of not being oppressed‚ free enterprise and equality. Although there were some hiccups and setbacks‚ America pushed through the symbol of freedom and equality in the world and American continues to represent those freedoms. The Gilded Age was an era of rapid economic growth in America. Mark Twain coined the name Gilded Age meaning that the

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    In the 1920s the American society began adopting new values that threatened the traditional values that originated in the 19th century. People began moving to large cities and women started to be less constraint to the image of being a proper woman. Instead‚ they became freer and tried to find their own identity. A new generation was born which challenged traditional standards with many of their new ideas. As more people began moving to urban locations‚ like New york and Chicago‚ they began making

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    A moment in history that changed our society to what it is today was The Women’s Right Movement‚ which began in 1848. At the time the U.S. was founded‚ it’s female citizens didn’t have many rights‚ especially compared to what the men had at the time. No women had the right to vote‚ married women couldn’t own property and had no legal claim to any money‚ even if they earned it. Women were also expected to focus on housework and motherhood‚ not politics or jobs. One of the biggest rights women wanted

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    Ilan Timerman Hartley Pawloski English III Honors 8 March 2015 Prohibition: The National Experiment In the 1920s‚ a large experiment was conducted in the United States that had a great effect over the economy. The name of this experiment? The National Prohibition Act of 1920. In the “Roaring Twenties” people were not aware‚ or simply did not care about the consequences of alcohol abuse. People would party‚ dance and drink all night‚ the men drinking more than the women‚ as expected. Eventually

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    In the 1890’s a famous psychology experiment was conducted by Ivan Pavlov which demonstrated classical conditioning in dogs. According to The Free Dictionary‚ classical conditioning is‚ “a learning process by which a subject comes to respond in a specific way to a previously neutral stimulus after the subject repeatedly encounters the neutral stimulus together with another stimulus that already elicits the response.” Around the 1920s‚ famous psychologist John B. Watson along with a graduate student

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    has positively has positively impacted American culture because independence from men and traditional roles‚ gave equal rights‚ and what big changes happen for women in the 1920s. What intrigues me the most is women would try to over power men and get a death sentence for what the believed in. These women who spoke up changed us as women today; we have more rights and power. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that al men and women are created equally.” (Civil Rights in America) Women’s Rights

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    terrorized everyday for being different. As time goes by‚ racism becomes more discreet‚ therefore making the task of calling racism out harder. During the 1920s‚ racism in America escalated uncontrollably. While other groups of people with different beliefs and religions were targeted too‚ mainly black people were terrorized‚ by groups such as the KKK during this period. The Morning Tulsa World Daily The invasion of “Little Africa” by whites. About 500 white people attacked african Americans. “.

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