REALISM IN 19th CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION The 19th century is considered to mark the origin of realism as a literary movement in the United States. American writers following the era of change in American life‚ moved steadily from Romanticism towards Realism‚ which was to lead the next step of Naturalism. The process was gradual‚ reflecting the periodic fluctuations in the history of American society. In this process‚ the Civil War provided a dramatic point of cleavage. In 1865 at the end of the
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one short century‚ Spain would suffer a complete national breakdown‚ a partition‚ and one of the greatest falls from grace Europe had ever seen. It was a rotting national pyramid and administration‚ coupled with declining industry competitiveness and
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In the 19th century‚ the industrial revolution changed the United States and Western Europe. It led to power-driven machines in the textile industry. This came with the expansion of commercial farming areas to provide raw materials‚ increased wage labor and rapid urbanization. It also changed family life by decreasing family size because were involved in labor force. New England textile firms employed many people including children. Southern New England mills depended on single rural women who came
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In the early 19th century‚ the slave community‚ in south of America‚ was distributed into large and small plantation areas‚ on which slaves had work from sunrise to midnight in avoidance of beating. However‚ the Northerners sympathized the harsh condition of slaves‚ and fought against their own to abolish the expansion of slavery. In the south‚ the workers within a slave community worked based on either the task system or gang system. Plantation management not only exploited and humiliated the slaves
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the mill workers who were on strike. Torrents of authorities came rushing in‚ pointing guns and arresting violent participants. Rapidly‚ the crowd diffused‚ leaving only a few mumbling men with the weight of the world on their shoulders‚ wondering how they
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Every generation has its minority that is actively fighting for change. For example: Today that is the gay/lesbian community which struggles for equal rights when it comes to tax‚ marriage or military service. During the 19th century it was a larger portion of the population; Women. During this time women and men were expected to fill different roles in society. Men were expected to be the bread winners‚ live public lives. Whether it be going to work or socializing in saloons/pubs/bars‚ while women
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Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries Introduction During the 19th and 20th century‚ Europe witnessed its so-called demographic transition‚ with a fall in birth rates and an even greater fall in mortality rates‚ which led to a rapid increase in the population. The demographic transition was essentially a result of a decrease in chronic infectious diseases like tuberculosis‚ syphilis‚ diphtheria‚ measles‚ dysentery‚ and typhoid fever. The wage dispersion evidence suggests that the middle of
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FUNDAMENTALISM AND ITS RISE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. What is Fundamentalism? The most common association those with no base knowledge of the term make is with Islam‚ the word being linked to the faith with great popularity in the first decade of the twenty first century. Despite this point many faiths‚ apart from Islam‚ like the Christian‚ Jewish‚ Buddhist‚ and Hindu have those within their respective memberships who can be classed as fundamentalists. Fundamentalists are staunch believers and
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Did you know that America wasn’t always as equal and free as it is now? Well for many decades Black Americans suffered and fought for Civil Rights. The Civil Rights Movement is important because everyone deserves to be treated equally and rightfully under the constitution. It was a long fight for equal rights‚ and many things impeded the progress of Civil Rights such as Jim Crow laws and the case of Plessy V. Ferguson. However‚ many things helped Black Americans find freedom. Passed immediately after
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The decision maker of the time was Harry Truman; the united states president in 1945‚ a man who was determinedly for the dropping of the bombs. Truman’s rise to power was unconventional to say the least‚ he had a seemingly normal life and family which registered well with the american populous and from there he was backed with support in becoming a senator for his home state missouri and then briefly serving as vice president before succeeding to presidency on April 12‚ 1945 upon the death of Roosevelt
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