During the period between 1870-1900 which is also called the Gilded Age‚ Americans experienced dramatic changes in their everyday lives‚ from the clothes they wore and food they ate to their opportunities for recreation. One of the main reason was the massive influx of European immigrants to achieve an American dream for a better life. Due to industrialization‚ America moved to the city. The sudden influx of millions of poor immigrants led to the formation of slums in U.S. cities. These new city
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Between 1450 and 1850 12 million slaves were transported to the new world from Africa. However only 10.7 million of them survived the dreaded passage to the new world. In the Atlantic world many things happened that changed the world: the discovery of the new world‚ new technology‚ and most importantly the causes and effects of slavery. Slavery impacted the world in many ways and changed the world how it is today. During the Atlantic world one major resource was lacking and that was workers. Their
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that supported this thought that the problem could be resolved by providing the population with a better education‚ ensuring a safer work environment‚ and a more productive workplace. The Progressive Era changed society by causing more people to move from rural areas to inner-city locations in search for better jobs and education. Also‚ factories started producing more goods than the population could consume. While the Progressive Era was a time for social growth‚ the Gilded Age was a time
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and named him Sam. He sent Sam to live on the bottom of the sea‚ but Sam wanted to live on the land. Not listening to God’s warnings of how hard life would be‚ Sam went to live on land. Eventually the lifelessness of the land made Sam unhappy that he wept. God took pity on Sam and sent him a wife named Amy to keep him company for two years. When Amy came from heaven to live with Sam ‚ she brought fire with her‚ for it had not existed on earth before. She built a fire in the middle of Sam’s
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About eight decades ago‚ the most cruel and infamous prison in United States history was officially opened‚ Alcatraz. It was built on a deserted island 2.4 kilometers from San Francisco with cold‚ shark-infested waters in between. The building itself consisted of 336 jail cells housing approximately 200 to 350 prisoners at once‚ and had a cafeteria and recreation yard. The guards treated the convicts horribly‚ making their experience far worse than expected. Their overall goal was to isolate the
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The plague was an event in Europe that totally transformed European society and restructured the economy through necessity as there was simply no other option for returning to the former way of life after all of the deaths associated with the plague. Following the plague‚ extreme inflation emerged because of the difficulty associated with the procurement of goods through trade as well as the inability for goods to be consistently produced‚ which resulted in high inflated prices for goods throughout
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Vogue‚ etc. He won awards like the American Institute of Graphics Art with his out of the ordinary advertisement. Andy Warhol became not only a painter‚ he was also a filmmaker‚ author‚ director‚ and a photographer. Warhol focused on being different from other artist of the era. His hope of doing comic strips and cartoon soon crumbled by Roy
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“If you dream it‚ you can do it” (Disney). Walter Elias Disney‚ better known as simply Walt Disney‚ was born December 5‚ 1901 in Chicago Illinois. Born the fourth son of Elias and Flora Disney‚ Walt had become greatly interested in the magic of art‚ ignited by his early interest in drawing. He worked as an entrepreneur‚ animator‚ and film producer for a company he had originally started with his brother. A pioneer for the American Animation Industry‚ Disney held the record for most Academy Awards
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Why do you think Charles Darwin went on a five year voyage to collect samples of rock and fossils? Darwin was rich in his early life‚ he made a new theory‚ and he also changed the world by changing people’s perspective on how things were made. The voyage was not even meant for Darwin. Charles Darwin had a very irregular life. Charles Robert Darwin was born in Shrewsbury‚ England on February 12 1809 (Perrottet). As a child Darwin and his younger sister were raised by their
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’’To invent‚’’ Thomas Edison said‚ ’’you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.’’ Thomas Edison patented 1‚093 of his inventions‚ which transformed the United States into an enormous and influential industrial power. He is the driving force behind major inventions like the phonograph‚ akaline storage batteries‚ the carbon transmitter‚ the incandescent light bulb‚ and the Kinetograph. The first motion picture‚ shot by the Kinetograph‚ not only changed entertainment for decades to come‚ but
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