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    family living in Boston in early 19th century. The selections written by Mary and Henry‚ give a glimpse of their marriage and lives through a reverse of wealth‚ a loss of a child and time spent apart while Henry goes to India to regain their wealth. Henry’s trip is extended because of the war of 1812‚ and we can see Mary’s attitude change of the distant relationship and her roles as a wife. Throughout history wives have had many different roles in the family. Today women are encourage to have careers

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    successful political force in the early 19th century. It unified the nation through a common sense of patriotism and identity. America began to form its own identity since it had been an official nation for over a century. Many factors contributed to this growing sense of nationalism.. In addition‚ America had already won several wars‚ such as the Battle of the Alamo and the Battle of New Orleans‚ and its military was gradually becoming stronger. As a result‚ many Americans felt proud to live in America

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    Weimar - strengths and weaknesses The Weimar Republic After Germany lost the First World War‚ the Kaiser fled and a new democratic government of Germany was declared in February 1919 at the small town of Weimar. It was too dangerous to make a declaration in Berlin where there had just been a revolt by a Communist group called the Spartacists. STRENGTHS • A Bill of Rights guaranteed every German citizen freedom of speech and religion‚ and equality under the law. • All men and women over the

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    Because many American women of the nineteenth century had very different ideals‚ feminism became a global movement‚ and "early feminists found allies abroad." Many feminists believed that married or not‚ all women deserved the same rights as men. An extreme feminist of her time‚ Margaret Fuller‚ wanted to spread her ideas about women’s rights‚ and she became editor of the New York Tribune in 1844. She later published Woman in the Nineteenth Century in which she. Every path to self-fulfillment‚ she

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    After Analysis of the poems of William Blake‚ Percy Shelly‚ and William Wordsworth‚ it becomes apparent of the different views the authors have about England in the 19th century. William Blake looks with disdain at the materialism of the churches and political buildings while many live in poverty. William Wordsworth sees the average Englishman as money craving and greedy; to him this greed seems to be the start of spiritual decay that will only get worse as the society progresses economically. Percy

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    In the 19th century‚ America had a basic economy and small industry. It was also a new country‚ with few customs and traditions. It had not had time to acquire any‚ because it was still so new. America has grown a lot since then‚ and a lot of the steps we have taken to get to today’s bustling economy and immense industry took place in the nineteenth century. Commerce and industry contributed to America’s nineteenth century identity because it provided the framework for a larger economy in the

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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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    The American woman has endured more hardship‚ discrimination‚ and abuse then anyone could image. From the revolution to the Great Depression women encountered more battles with men over religion‚ politics‚ jobs‚ equal pay‚ and finally the victory for the right to vote. The newer generation of young women would usher in an entirely different request. Many things were forbidden‚ unheard of and even unthinkable in the 19th century. The twenty century woman were no longer fighting for voting rights

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    The early period of weightlifting began initially with the ancient Egyptians and Greeks. This included lifting stones and essentially working in fields and doing handy work to keep they civilization alive. In which this started a new system of entertainment. Emerging in Europe in 1890 a new physical culture would rise. The start of weightlifting originally was not for a person physical physique. This entertainment was to amaze crowds of people and to show off how strong he was. The point of these

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    continent. What appeared to be an empire consequently led to imperialism. American imperialism in the late 19th and early 20th century marked the country’s beginnings as a global superpower. But with these advances came with great responsibility. From 1950 to 1980‚ the world marveled at the feet of the economic Golden Age brought by the first American Empire – developing countries soared and economies proved to be growing faster than any stage of colonial history (Amsden‚ 2007:1). The first American Empire

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