Matthew Arnold‚ John Ruskin‚ Walter Pater‚ and Oscar Wilde were 19th century writers who all had one belief in common: that the criticism of works of art is at least as important as the works of art themselves. In 1865‚ Matthew Arnold stated that the function of criticism is “to see the object as in itself it really is.” In 1891‚ Oscar Wilde expressed that his view of the role of criticism was “to see the object as in itself it really is not.” This essay seeks to determine how and why one definition
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about forty years into the Scramble of Africa‚ Great Britain had dominated majority of the African continent‚ starting from areas of Egypt to South Africa‚ as well as Nigeria to the Gold Coast‚ and so on. Thesis The Scramble for Africa in the late 19th century consisted of several African reactions‚ these of which consisted of violent resistance‚ as seen in documents 4‚ 5‚ 8‚and 9‚ nonviolent resistance‚ as seen in documents 2‚ 6‚ and 7‚ and diplomacy with the Europeans‚ as seen in documents 1‚ 2‚ and
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In the early 19th century‚ the slave community‚ in south of America‚ was distributed into large and small plantation areas‚ on which slaves had work from sunrise to midnight in avoidance of beating. However‚ the Northerners sympathized the harsh condition of slaves‚ and fought against their own to abolish the expansion of slavery. In the south‚ the workers within a slave community worked based on either the task system or gang system. Plantation management not only exploited and humiliated the slaves
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Music was institutionalized in Europe during the 19th Century. Composing followed a scholarly route that lead to very subtle variation in classical music. Cultures outside of Europe produced music in their own unique style that differed from the usual European composition. Western composers began to incorporate music from other cultures to portray nonnative aspects of European society or bring new life into European Music. Ralph Locke’s spectrum of exoticism classifies compositions based on whether
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In the 19th century a revolutionary concept was introduced to the world: civil disobedience. It was the concept that people could disobey laws and accept their consequences to protest in peace. It may sound counter-intuitive‚ but it drew attention to some of the greatest plights in human history: civil rights for African Americans‚ Indian oppression by the British Empire‚ South African apartheid‚ among many other events. Each of them succeeded in changing the world by fighting with their words‚ their
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In the 19th century‚ the industrial revolution changed the United States and Western Europe. It led to power-driven machines in the textile industry. This came with the expansion of commercial farming areas to provide raw materials‚ increased wage labor and rapid urbanization. It also changed family life by decreasing family size because were involved in labor force. New England textile firms employed many people including children. Southern New England mills depended on single rural women who came
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other‚ telling me that the old Swiss men‚ the cultural norm of the small California town where he was raised‚ would not even nod to him until after he had returned from active military duty overseas. That cultural pattern saw its origin in the late 19th century where “ethnic identities proved to be a part of ... (white European foreign immigrants) self-identity and affected the way that they related to others.” The data presented in the reading reflects a rise in the white population and a corresponding
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In the late 19th century America went through various transformations‚ with regional changes as well as rural and urban transformations‚ with political movements‚ urbanization‚ labor movements‚ and even Reconstruction and Westward Expansion; these are only a few examples of transformation that America underwent. The Unions victory in the Civil War in 1865 over the Emancipation Proclamation meant that nearly four million slaves gained their freedom‚ leaving the Confederates and southern states upset
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Nationalism was an important factor of the 19th century. During this time period‚ the map of europe started to transformed into the map of europe we know today. This is was what was known as ‘’romantic nationalism’’ that swept over the continent. New countries were formed such as germany and italy. Because of this common national identity‚ smaller nations were formed. The rise of imperialism and colonialism took place in germany. Germany would dealt with the latter stages of ‘’scramble to africa’’
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Wohl (1983) gave a well researched historical account of public health and development in Britain from the middle of the 19th century to the early 20th century. The devastating poverty and poor physical health of most of the population‚ lucidly described by the author‚ were horrendous. At the beginning of the Victorian period few people were free from disease‚ stench and impure water. The marked socioeconomic differences‚ intolerable living conditions and poor working conditions (although not a
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