7-3 Notes Gilded Age • Gilded means Gold Covered • 1880-1900 is called the Gilded Age because of societies focus on $ and greed. The rich were getting richer and the poor getting poorer. • Mark Twain wrote a novel entitled The Gilded Age and showed the growing gap between rich and poor. • President Rutherford B. Hayes (1876-1880) noted that 90% of the nations money was controlled by just 10% of the population. Political Machines Graft – political corruption. o Politicians
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the AFL formed in 1886‚ sought worker rights‚ better wages‚ hours‚ and working conditions during this era. Although they never achieved the 8 hour workday they did manage to cut the average workday for industrial workers by 30 minutes from 1875 to 1891 (Doc. A). The labor union’s goal of better pay and working conditions was offset particularly by the immigration factor. Due the new inventions industrial jobs that once took three to four hundred skilled workers now required 100 unskilled laborers
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Germany. In 1885 he was appointed Professor of Hygiene at the University of Berlin. In 1891 he became one of many great professors at the Medical Faculty in Berlin. Here he worked with other known names including‚ Paul Ehrlich and Emil von Behring (Nobelprize.org). Ehrlich had been studying red blood cells prior to Koch’s arrival at the Faculty. Emil von Behring had just discovered diphtheria antitoxin in 1890. In 1896 Robert Koch traveled to South Africa‚ where he worked to limit the outbreak of
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“In 1888 Du Bois enrolled at Harvard as a junior. He received a B.A. cum laude‚ in 1890‚ an M.A. in 1891‚ and a Ph.D.” ( Holt‚ Thomas C) In 1896 he was invited by the University of Pennsylvania to conduct a study of the seventh ward in Philadelphia. Thereafter an estimated 835 hours of door-to-door interviews in 2‚500 households‚ Du Bois completed the monumental study‚ The Philadelphia Negro (1899). The Philadelphia study was both highly empirical and hortatory‚ a combination that prefigured much
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Book Review: Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness Title: Heart of Darkness Author: Joseph Conrad Publishing: Green Integer Year: October 1‚ 2003 (original 1890) Pages: Paperback‚ 200 pages ISBN: 1892295490 (ISBN13: 9781892295491) Joseph Conrad’s ’Heart of Darkness’ is one of the most well-known works among scholars of classical and post-colonial literature. It is thought provoking and ominous‚ but is also considered to be one of the most highly stylistic in its class. The novel blends the
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studio or the artist at work is not what is thought about‚ but the event itself. The Third of May‚ 1808 by Francisco Goya‚ pg 487 in The World of Art Francisco Goya ’s painting‚ The Third of May‚ 1808‚ is a firing squad; "the execution of citizens of Madrid by Napoleon ’s invading army" (Sayre‚ 2005). The painting is lit by a lantern with a man in a white shirt‚ arms outstretched as though he is surrendering. In the dark background you can see a shadowy church. This concentration of light‚ coming from
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Philippines.” He told countrymen in Europe‚ “There is where we should meet… There together we will suffer or triumph perhaps”‚ Two months later‚ on December 31‚ 1891‚ he reiterated this belief in a letter to Blumentritt‚ “I believe that La Solidaridad is no longer our battlefield; now it is a new struggle… the fight is no longer in Madrid”. In going home to lead a new the reform movement‚ he was like the biblical Daniel bearding the Spanish lion in its own den. Arrival in Manila with Sister.
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In 1895 he returned home to Catalonia and was appointed to the faculty of his own Escola Municipal de Música. He was also made principal cellist in the orchestra of Barcelona’s opera house‚ the Liceu and in 1897 he performed as soloist with the Madrid Symphony Orchestra‚ and was awarded the Order of Carlos III from the Queen of Spain. His later career found him conducting master classes‚ as mentioned earlier‚ throughout the world. Some of the master classes were actually televised in the 1960’s
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instead want them to happen as they do happen‚ and you life will go well". I agree with his statement above. Many people are always looking to find ways on predicting what their future may bring them. I’m a victim of that. His view are whatever misfortunate may come your way you will find the endurance‚ and patience to deal with the situation‚ rather than to seek a prediction in advance‚ because as human beings we were made to deal with certain capacity of
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task to accomplish for the United States. The story of the annexation is a story of conflicting goals as the American businessman struggled to obtain favorable trade conditions and native Hawaiians sought to protect their culture and heritage. In 1891 Hawaii was a monarchy ruled by King Kalakaua and was later ruled by his sister‚ Queen Liliuokalani. The United States began seeking interest in Hawaii in the early 1820s to expand on agricultural growth. The United States became interested in Hawaii’s
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