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    CLASS WOMEN’S PLACE & ROLES IN THE 19TH CENTURY U.S. SOCIETY [pic] Section: Cassia Women were always faced specifically in history by men until they became equal to them. In the story “The yellow wallpaper” the author Charlotte Perkins Gilman says some things about the way women were treated by men back then in the 19th century. Women’s roles and place in the 19th century American society are very humiliating‚ rational

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    “modern” Britain have emerged over which century proved most significant in its development. While the 18th and 20th centuries do offer some important developments into this creation‚ the 19th century offers the most in creating a “modern” Britain. The industrial‚ agricultural‚ political‚ technological‚ social‚ economic‚ cultural‚ religious‚ military‚ judicial‚ educational‚ and imperial changes made to Britain during this period prove that the nineteenth century is the most significant in creating a

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    historical developments in the 19th century. The most important one had to be the advances in medicine. This also includes more knowledge and understanding of the human anatomy and also disease prevention. This were important developments because they were in part responsible for the accelerated growth in population around the western part of the world. In specific‚ Europe’s population doubled during this time. Another very important historical development in Europe during the 19th century was that

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    Prior to the nineteenth century‚ most of the population subsisted on plain fare‚ produced and grown locally. Dogs were generally left to fend for themselves. A lucky few were provided with a share of the family’s daily rations—whatever that happened to be. For instance‚ in Ireland‚ many dogs subsisted entirely on potatoes. The precise nutritional requirements of man’s best friend could hard- ly be described as an overriding concern to dog owners. If they considered the matter at all‚ most people

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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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    and problems between social groups such as African Americans and Caucasians and the poor and rich. In John Steinbeck’s novel‚ Of Mice and Men‚ an abundance of problems the characters face reflects real life situations. The story follows two men‚ Lennie and George‚ as they deal with the hardships presented to them. The many problems that they endure and see is what mostly occurred during the early 1900’s. For example‚ Crooks‚ an African American stable hand‚ is being discriminated against because

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    make is spent even more furosicolsy now that advertising has reached it’s trillion dollar industry‚ ads are now everywhere‚ from kids tv commercials to big billboards and we take the bait‚ our money is nowhere near secure anymore and “ By 1970‚ Americans were spending four times as much time shopping as were Europeans” (De Graaf et al.‚ 136). It’s a never ending cycle until we finally realize after we are worn out that‚ we have no money saved and have not much to show for it which end up leading

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    The average American was susceptible to many infectious diseases during the 1800’s. Because the spread of disease and pathology itself were not adequately understood until the late 1800’s(major epidemics continued to occur into the 1900’s‚ however)‚ and the practice of medicine was relatively primitive‚ the average life expectancy was very low. Many epidemics occurred in the new and thriving industrial centers of America‚ where rapid urbanization had not provided for adequate sanitation or living

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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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    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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