set of attitudes and behaviors that discriminate against people of different sexes and it has began from the old times. Since the past centuries‚ men always had more rights than women. While men were seen as the pillar of society‚ women were seen as fragile human beings. The right to vote‚ for example‚ has only been achieved by women in the mid-nineteenth century. Despite all the progress we had‚ our society still faces numerous instances of sexism‚ which often begins in childhood. We all grow up
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virtuoso began in the nineteenth-century with musicians such as Niccolò Paganini and Franz Liszt. Franz Liszt perfected the idea of the ideal nineteenth-century virtuoso performer. As a virtuosic pianist‚ he used his learned technicality and grandiose way of performing to amaze audiences with his professionalism on the piano. His exciting performances started a grand uproar that lead to the rise of an intense fan frenzy known as Lisztomania during the mid-nineteenth-century. One of Liszt’s most famous
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The insanity defense and legality of those who were deemed insane was an important question in the nineteenth century. The question of insanity was contested because it had become a medical question in an age of rampant science. The English court formulated the most important legal definition of insanity‚ the right-or-wrong test. The high court in England ruled a defendant could be deemed insane if and only if‚ while committing the crime‚ he was “laboring under such a defect of reason‚ from disease
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As the Roman Catholic Church begins to untangle itself from the secular government and become its own kind of state around the turn of 10th century‚ the need for a mechanism of enforcing its laws and punishing perpetrators becomes apparent. In Charlemagne’s empire this role was filled by the missi who sought out criminals and imposed fines; in modern America‚ it is the police and prison‚ respectively; and in the late Middle Ages‚ religious violations begin to be punished with excommunication. Excommunication
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The conflicts that occured in the late nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century caused America to shift from a primarily isolationist country to an imperial power. After years of staying out of international affairs‚ America’s domestic and foreign policy was on track to change completely. Throughout the Progressive Era‚ we dealt with political corruption and other internal problems that arose from the rapid industrialization. In Man with the Muck Rake which was written by Theodore
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It is fascinated how the history of hysteria started as well as the study of trauma. I have to say that this was a very brave study to be done in the nineteenth century. As a goal was to banish all the atrocities from the consciousness. But in order to do that the researchers started studying the trauma and hysteria. The first person to be interested in something like this was French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot. The study started at the most expansive hospital‚ an ancient Salpetriere which
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foreign idea‚ a negative connotation arises due to the fear of change. However‚ throughout this period of history‚ nationalism opens the door to equality and individual rights and allows countries to move forward progressively. By the end of the century‚ a positive connotation engulfs the negative one‚ and the world is well on its way to being westernized‚ modernized‚ and industrialized. Nationalism is an idea based around unification. The people of the world no longer wanted to be labeled as
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Children in the nineteenth century were usually faced with poverty and lived in the urban slums. Progressive reformers‚ who were generally people from small towns who later lived in cities‚ focused primarily on these children and their problems. The goals of the reformers were to change the meaning of childhood and help people understand how children should really be treated. A child growing up in the nineteenth century was expected to live an adult life by an early age. “In the colonial period
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China–India relations China–India relations‚ also called Sino-Indian relations or Indo-China relations‚ refers to the bilateral relationship between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of India. Historically‚ India and China have had relations for more than 2‚000 years but modern relationship began in 1950 when India was among the first countries to end formal ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan) and recognise the PRC as the legitimate government of Mainland China. China
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The Healers Back in the 19th century‚ the African civilization can be characterized by a single relationship‚ this relationship consists of kings and their slaves. Within this relationship Kings and slaves are dependent on each other‚ without slaves Kings cannot be rulers and without Kings‚ slaves would not be slaves. This relationship is similar to capitalism; capitalists are people who own natural resources‚ land‚ and factories. Capitalists are dependent on their workers in society to sustain
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