Drugs have played a most important role in increasing average life expectancy in the world in the previous century. In the 19Th and previous centuries‚ natural product extracts‚ mainly those derived from botanical species‚ provided the major source of folk medicines. In 19Th century‚ biologically-active organic molecules began to be isolated in pure form for medicinal use. For example‚ salicyclic acid‚ the precursor of aspirin‚ was isolated from willow bark in 1874. Painkillers‚ such as codeine and
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extent did writers‚ painters‚ and composers of the early twentieth century deliberately break with tradition? Explain how they accomplished that goal. Consider the development of atonal music in 20th century. Before the 20th century‚ serious music‚ even the music of the greatest composers‚ was pretty easy for the average person to understand and enjoy. Serious music followed common and easily understood patterns .In the 20th century‚ however‚ many of the most important composers began to move away
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Colonial literature From the very moment when Europeans encountered the New World‚ early explorers and conquistadores produced written accounts and crónicas of their experience‚ such as Columbus’s letters or Bernal Díaz del Castillo’s description of the conquest of Mexico. At times‚ colonial practices stirred a lively debate about the ethics of colonization and the status of the indigenous peoples‚ as reflected for instance in Bartolomé de las Casas’s Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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During the nineteenth century why did criminals continue to break the law when the punishment was so barbaric? Despite the Industrial Revolution‚ crime was on the rise. Was crime due to poverty and the lack of education‚ more prosperity-induced than poverty-induced‚ or was it based on where you came from? The Penal System in England during the nineteenth century did not seem fair. Regardless of the reason for criminal activity‚ the punishment didn’t seem to fit the crime either. Undoubtedly
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privilege to wed. 150 years prior‚ it was a considerably bigger segment of the populace’s turn: ladies. All through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth‚ ladies battled for equivalent rights under the law and in particular the privilege to vote. In both North America and Europe in the nineteenth century‚ ladies and men were relied upon to fill separate circles of society. Men were required to carry on with an open life‚ whether it was working in a processing plant or associating
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The Industrialization Era and American Society During the times between the end of the Civil War and World War I (WWI)‚ industrialization had evolved to great extents‚ transforming the once agrarian American society to one that would rapidly move toward the manufacturing of goods. For many‚ this would entail more luxury and comfort‚ but for others‚ the less fortunate‚ perhaps a glimpse of hope for a better future than they left behind. This tremendous change in technological advancement would bring
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Many of the events‚ situations and circumstances of the second half of the 20th century set the stage for‚ caused and made possible‚ most of the business‚ political and interpersonal scenarios we are experiencing in this country today – good‚ bad and indifferent. According to the U.S. Census of 1900‚ ninety percent of Blacks lived in the South. Three-quarters of black households were located in rural places; only one-fifth owned their own homes and most worked as farmers or laborers. If not on
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multi-family dwelling in the urban core‚ usually old and occupied by the poor.” As New York became more and more crowded with immigrant’s tenements started popping up through the city. There was approximately more than 80‚000 tenements build by 19th century. It is said that they housed approximately 2.3 million immigrants. Tenements featured small cramped apartments with poor ventilation and lack of indoor plumbing. “A typical tenement building had five to seven stories and occupied nearly all
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In the timespan of 1820 through 1929‚ oppressed by economic hardship‚ persecution‚ and the great social and political discrimination of the nineteenth century‚ increasingly steady flows of Jews and Hispanics journeyed to America and the massive amounts of immigrant counts spiked near the beginning of the twentieth century. Due to Industrialization‚ overpopulation‚ and urbanization‚ millions of immigrants
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. The evolving status of European Women from the sixteenth to early twenty first century. Women in the sixteenth‚ seventeenth‚ and eighteenth centuries were challenged with expressing themselves in a government controlled by men a system that generally refused to grant permissions to women’s views. Cultural and political events during these centuries increased attention to women’s issues such as education reform‚ and by the end of the eighteenth century‚ women were not able to speak out against
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