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    period introductions in The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women offer insightful background that is pertinent to understanding the authors’ inspiration and rationale behind their literary works. Two time period introductions that serve this purpose well are “Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance” and “Early-Twentieth-Century Literature”. “Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance” gives insight into how women were limited in their literary capacity as they “had to struggle

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    ECONOMICS PROJECT NEW TRADE THEORY: CONTRIBUTIONS OF PAUL KRUGMAN Paul Robin Krugman‚ born February 28‚ 1953 is an American economist‚ Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University‚ Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics‚ and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times.  In 2008‚ Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his contributions

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    17th Amendment The Seventeenth Amendment made it so there would be two senators from each one of the states‚ voted in by the people. The senators would be given a six year term and have one vote each. They added an article to the amendment so when vacancies happen in the senators seat the state legislation would assign someone until the people voted a senator in. The old way of picking state senators was by state legislatures choice. This way was used to make sure that the federal government

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    other women‚ absolute equality. After that is secured‚ then men and women can take turns at being angels." - Agnes Macphail The 20th century has been a period of rapid and far-reaching change for many women but life for women in some parts of the world still remains harsh. Even where females have experienced great advances like those in Canada‚ there are still some similarities between their economic role today and the role of women in the 1900s. During the 19th and 20th century‚ attempts

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    Important changes being with excellent ideas. During the 17th and 18th century in Europe. “Well educated people know as philosophers‚or philosophes met in a french salons and English drawing rooms to discuss political religious‚ economic‚ and social questions. The enlightenment helped shape the capitalistic‚ democratic world we live in today‚ because the was a time of high intellect and bright new ideas.” The philosophers believed that allowing individuals more freedom and reduce government control

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    Women´s in the 19th Century European and American women in the nineteenth century lived in an age characterized by gender inequality. At the beginning of the centurywomen enjoyed few of the legal‚ social‚ or political rights that are now taken for granted in western countries: they could not vote‚ could not sue or be sued‚ could not testify in court‚ had extremely limited control over personal property after marriage‚ were rarely granted legal custody of their children in cases of divorce‚ and

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    Does the world of photography‚ fashion and advertising still stereotype women in the 21st century? Underpinning photography‚ advertising and fashion‚ Voyeurism plays an important part in how we perceive stereo-types in contemporary society‚ and has done so for some time. From the Victorian angel of the house ideal‚ the domestic goddesses and pretty pin ups of the 1950s to the size zero catwalk models we see parading the fashion of today. The idea of ‘a woman’s place’ has altered somewhat over

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    nude body as a source of inspiration and content since the beginning of the medium. As stated by Graham Clarke in his book The Photograph‚ “[m]uch of the photography of the body in the early twentieth century is an extension of nineteenth-century preoccupations and attitudes” (Clarke). The 19th century encompassed the Victorian Era‚ and although it was shortly after the camera was invented‚ according to the Museum of Sex: “Victorians took millions of photographs; an untold

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    out the most were the New England Colonies and the Virginia colony. There were many differences‚ for example‚ New England colonies were full of families while the Virginia colony was mostly dominated by males. They mostly had differences and had few things in common. The foundations of the colonies were different. The New England colonies were founded because the founders wanted freedom of religion. The founders of these colonies were the Puritans. They came to this New World so they can build

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    Race‚ class and gender interacted in 17th Century Virginia in several important ways which include the English changing the slave system that was not based on race into one that was‚ population of free blacks were also strictly controlled which resulted in their slave status as being inevitable and they created the perception that masculinity and femininity only existed among white men and women. The first law to discriminate blacks from the Europeans was created in 1640 where all blacks except

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