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    Most scientists in the 1900s were worried about the earth only because they thought it looked too beautiful to destroy‚ however scientists created a new science that will help preserve nature and the earth. Ecology teaches that the damage done to forests‚ the extinction of animals and the toxic wastes in the water and oceans were not just coincidental but were man-made mistakes. Aldo Leopold a scientist that argued that ecology was not something to be taken lightly but it is a solution to a serious

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    Modernisim covers many poltitcal and cultural movements that are rooted in the changes in Western society at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. American modernism benefited from the immense diversity of immigrant cultures. Modernist America had to find solidarity in a world no longer unified in belief. The unity found lay in the understanding of the shared consciousness within all human experience. The relevance of the individual is emphasized; the truly limited nature of the

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    The American movement for women’s liberation and rights was undoubtedly the most progressive in the decades that followed the Second World War. The second wave of feminism that ensued in the 1960s and 70s redirected the goals and ambitions in the fight for gender equality in many aspects. This new wave of liberal reform allowed women to break free from the domestic sphere from the conservative restraints of the 1950s‚ which have traditionally limited a women’s access to the same political‚ economic

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    Women’s suffrage was one of the most important issues the United States had in the 20th century. It included women’s revolution to gain their rights‚ where they fought hard for a good purpose‚ but the most important was the end of slavery. This battle caused the loss of human’s life for some and incarceration for others. This tragedy would have never happened if and only if women had an important voice in the society‚ had the right to work‚ and the right to vote. However‚ if women’s voices

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    “Filthy Cities” stresses the nightmare that was life for New York’s European immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th century. “New York City was a magnet for European immigrants” (Robins) and this migration from countries such as Ireland was one of the biggest mass migrations in history. The Irish were one of the first groups of immigrants to arrive due to their 1840s potato famine. 1/3 of the immigrants died on the ships on the way to NYC but for those that did arrive safely‚ more struggles and

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    the aesthetic intensity of poetry or painting. The two dominant themes in his work are the "international subject" and that of the innocent. After the eighties the novel became the dominant prose form. 4.1. The Turn of the Century: the Modern British Novel The turn of the century meant the end of the Victorian Era with the Queen’s death in 1901. The legacy of Darwin‚ the Victorian loss of Christian Faith‚ Socialism and the awareness of threat against England’s wealth increased the existing social

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    non-western) in the 20th Century. Compare their political and economic systems and discuss the effects on each country s relative progress in achieving economic growth‚ and fair distribution of income and economic opportunity. In this capstone paper‚ I would like to discuss the economic and political systems of three countries on three different continents‚ which are the United States (North American)‚ the Republic of China (Asia)‚ and the Republic of South Africa (African)‚ in the 20th Century. Then‚ I would

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    Throughout the late 20th century there was a boom of liberation. The LGBT community had been established‚ religious diversity was common‚ and women had gained more respect. Everyone was bringing attention to more diverse communities. Speculative fiction describes the fear that society had that could have potentially ruined the beautiful freedom we have to express our opinions‚ beliefs‚ and gender. During the late 1900s speculative fiction displayed the privileges of gender equality and freedom that

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    Prostitution Prostitution is by definition the exchange of sex for money. It is illegal in the United States (except for some parts of Nevada)‚ but legal in a lot of other countries in the world. Although it is illegal‚ it still has a large impact in our economy in the US. “Every year billions of dollars are spent on the sexual favors of prostitutes‚ whose profit amounts to at least 10 times the annual budget of the U.S. Department of Justice.” (Thio‚ 215) It is very hard to get a exact number of

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    perception. As such‚ the perception of globalization has shifted significantly from the 20th century to the 21st century. Whereas globalization was still a developing phe- nomenon that dominated politics more than personal lives in the previous century‚ the faster movement of data‚ people and goods today makes us feel like we have arrived in a globalized world. This essay proceeds by putting globalization in the two centuries in perspective and by then highlighting recent trends in the globalization debate

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