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    Both of these research studies show how far our society has come since the 18th century. In the 18th century obedience was a central discussion in childbearing. Restraining a child in order to have them obey was a common occurrence and socially accepted. In the 19th century parents used isolation and shunning in order to achieve obedience. Any means of discipline was accepted in order to have a defiant child obey. There were even manuals written on obedience that said discipline could start as early

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    Thesis: The 18th and 19th century were drastically contrasting eras of social and political evolvement but comparable in the successive mentality of economic expansion. New advantages in natural resources in the United States brought striking transitions in the economic stance of the nation and developed into distinct eras. The coal era of the 18th century was marked by the usage of coal as a main source of energy‚ heat‚ and transportation. The 19th century brought the advantages of oil in transportation

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    veterinary medicine actually changed from the 18th century to the 21st century? Many people would reply to this question by stating just like most ‘modern’ things‚ veterinary medicine has taken its current form by going through many transformations (1). Before the 18th century‚ some forms of medicine and medical practices were based solely on herbalism and superstitions. There was no significant change in medicine especially veterinary medicine until the 18th century‚ because most individuals still believed

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    Prostitution became a significant of London ’s history during the 18th and 19th century. At the time‚ prostitution was a chronic problem of the public order. It became so big in London that it attracted the attention of many groups such as‚ "the church‚ the state‚ the medical profession‚ philanthropists‚ feminists and others." (Bartley‚ 1) All of these groups worked together in order to resolve the problem‚ even though at the time prostitution was not illegal. However‚ it was an activity that many

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    underprivileged horribly. In order to improve the stability of the society during the industrial revolution‚ the government should have stepped in and provided the people with greater opportunities and the ability to be equal with each other. The 18th and 19th century government being uninvolved with the economy increased the inequality of the classes and the people within them creating an exceedingly unstable

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    Women in the eighteenth century For thousands of years women’s status and representation was oppressive and restrictive‚ in the beginning of the eighteenth century they were still under a patriarchal system and women were forced to remained silence. Women didn’t have the right to protest or express themselves as they wanted to. However‚ after the Reformation in England there were a lot of changes in the British society. The beginning of a French intellectual and cultural movement "le Siècle des

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    1.) There were many issues in the 14th-19th centuries because of injustice and unhappiness in the world. Three of these things were: unhappy marriages‚ women not being taken seriously as writers‚ and religion being restricted. Katherine Phillips‚ Margaret Cavendish and Anne Askew tried to fight back against these injustices. Katherine Phillips saw women all around her in unhappy marriages. Women gave up so much in order to please their husbands. In Phillips’s poem‚ A Married State she wrote about

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    correct this‚ Silvano Arieti‚ in 1968‚ stated‚ “By this term he did not mean a split‚ divided‚ or double personality as is popularly believed but a lack of coordination between various psychological functions.” Regardless of this clarification‚ the misconception stubbornly remained‚ seemingly cementing the faux connection between schizophrenia and split personality‚ or‚ “Jekyll and Hyde personality” (McNally‚ 2007). Cross-cultural studies lead by Schomerus and his colleagues (2007)‚ aimed to test

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    Galileo Galilei was an astronomer in the 17th century. Galileo has played a key role in philosophy and science. Because Galileo observed that space was much bigger than thought by astronomers before him‚ he is very important to modern science today. Galileo Galilei was born on February 15‚ 1564‚ in Pisa‚ Italy. Some important historical event that happened throughout his lifetime are in 1567 millions of Native Americans are killed by disease. In 1597‚ Shakespeare’s play‚ Romeo and Juliet is published

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    Women Writers: Restoration and 18th Century Ballaster‚ Ros‚ Seductive Forms: Women’s Amatory Fiction from 1684–1740‚ Oxford: Clarendon Press‚ 1992‚; New York: Oxford University Press‚ 1992‚ Landry‚ Donna‚ The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women’s Poetry in Britain 1739–1796‚ Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press‚ 1990 Myers‚ Sylvia Harcstark‚ The Bluestocking Circle: Friendship and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England‚ Oxford: Clarendon Press‚ 1990; New York: Oxford

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