Muckrakers were early twentieth-century reformers whose 1 mission was to look for and uncover political and business corruption. The term muckraker‚ which referred to the "man with a muckrake" in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress‚ was first used in a pejorative sense by Theodore Roosevelt‚ whose opinion of the muckrakers was that they were biased and overreacting. The movement began about 1902 and died down by 1917. Despite its brief duration‚ however‚ it had a significant
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When an area is settled for the first time‚ there are certain things that shape the development of the land and the people who settle it. From the 1840’s to the 1890’s‚ the natural environment‚ among other things‚ shaped the development of the West beyond the Mississippi River and the lives of those who lived and settled there. Some examples of places that were shaped and/or affected by the natural environment are Texas‚ the Great Plains‚ the Rocky Mountains‚ and the California/West Coast area.
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W.E.B. DuBois made an argument that “the problem of the twentieth century is the color line.” After only covering the first third of the twentieth century it is a problem but not this main problem. The problem that was larger was the class disparity revolving around wages and working conditions. The color line was mainly a problem in the south where there was the most diversity. The labor dispute spanned coast to coast and was in the North and the South. The main points are the great steel strike
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Writing Masculinities: Male Narratives in Twentieth-Century Fiction by Ben Knights; Men of Letters‚ Writing Lives: Masculinity and Literary Auto/Biography in the Late Victorian Period by Trev Lynn Broughton Review by: James Eli Adams Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies‚ Vol. 33‚ No. 1 (Spring‚ 2001)‚ pp. 154-157 Published by: The North American Conference on British Studies Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4053100 . Accessed: 20/01/2014 03:51 Your use of the
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The history of the 20th century can be defined by the biographies of six men: Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ Winston Churchill‚ Vladimir Lenin‚ Adolf Hitler‚ Mao Tse Tung‚ and Josef Stalin. Each of these men had a lasting significant involvement in world affairs. This essay will focus on the significance each individual had on the ideologies of Democracy and Totalitarianism. Four of the six individuals were leaders of a totalitarianistic state‚ and three of these led a communist country. Also four of
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important time in American history – once again‚ America had proven its military and economic prowess. In the years following 1944‚ much change was instituted regarding both foreign and domestic affairs. 1949 was a turning point in American domestic and foreign policies to the extent that it supplemented and amplified developments that had already been put in place. Many of these developments were the results of the Cold War or World War II‚ however 1949 marks when these policies and political ideals
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Discuss twentieth century communication developments‚ milestones‚ and applications exemplifying changes in media portrayal of sex and violence. Over the years‚ the influence of mass media has increased in ways no one could have anticipated as technology has expanded in unforeseen ways. Initially‚ there were books and newspapers and photography. This expanded to sound recordings‚ films‚ radio and television; finally‚ we have arrived at the advent of the Internet. Different as these mediums may
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Yo The United States and China’s Financial Power House Does China’s economic success pose a threat to American Financial Foreign policy? China’s idea of economic advancement has transformed the country in a unequal titan. Reframing methods started by Deng Xiaoping in the early 1980’s‚ Chinese institutions started using inexpensive capital and labor to contest on the global economy. Beijing maintains to subsidize exports massively‚ though loans to institutions and exchange cost to non-domestic
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How did the Korean War affect Sino-American relations and shape foreign policies between the two countries? The Korean War‚ also known as the Forgotten War‚ represents an important turning point in the Cold War. It was fought from the 25th of June 1950 to the 27th of July 1953. Although this war only lasted three years‚ many would argue that it had extremely important and lasting effects on the Cold War in general‚ as well as the foreign relations between China and the United States. The Korean
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The turn of the twentieth century offered a significant increase to the diversity in music‚ such that the comparison to any previous centuries is difficult to sort out. This factor (diversity) is one of the principle reasons to consider that the music of the Impressionists and Early Primitivists is more of a reaction against Romanticism versus and extension of the same. During the Romantic era the principal factor in a musical piece was the melody. This was a time in which the composer
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