HISTORY SUMMARY 1865-1990 1865-1900 In the years following the Civil War the United States was transformed by the enormous growth of industry. Once‚ the United States was mainly a nation of small farms. By 1900‚ it was a nation of growing cities‚ of coal‚ steel‚ and of engines and fast communications. Though living standards generally rose‚ millions of industrial workers lived in crowded‚ unsanitary slums. In the north‚ industrial violence was common and occurred on numerous occasions.
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Realism Realism is defined as an attempt to reproduce faithfully the surface appearance of life. "Death of a Salesman" can be termed as a realistic play in many ways. The play has characteristics of an everyday-life situation. "Death of a Salesman" is almost equivalent to some families‚ in the way of Willy and Biffs disagreement on certain ideas. Willy is upset with Biff because he has not settled down and found a good job. As Happy and Biff are in the bed talking‚ Biff tells Happy‚ "I tell
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students were unaware of it‚ in a sense what they were questioning from the standpoint of literary criticism is not only the theory of postmodernism with its emphasis on race‚ class and gender‚ but the theory of naturalism as well: the idea that one ’s social and physical environments can drastically affect one ’s nature and potential for surviving and succeeding in this world. In this article‚ I will explore Toni Morrison ’s The Bluest Eye from a naturalistic perspective; however‚ while doing so I will
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The UNI-01 class recently participated in a group activity‚ which tested both our abilities to coordinate and communicate. In short‚ we were all separated into groups‚ given a variety of crafting materials‚ and were told that we had five minutes to plan a design for a stable‚ and tall tower. During the five minutes of planning‚ however‚ we were not allowed to touch any of the materials we would use. We were then left to construct the tower‚ but were to remain silent. During the first phase of
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The international environment is very complex‚ due to the inclusion of various political actors and the interaction of these actors at different levels. Typically‚ threats emerge from competition between states over geopolitical and traditional issues. Recently‚ non-traditional threats have emerged that affect the national interests of various countries; one of these challenges that is quickly moving to the forefront of importance is that of energy security‚ and the related topic of environmental
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escape the political and societal restraints of the old Europe. The belief that the ‘Promised Land’ was the site chosen by God to free its people‚ a wide territory of unlimited potential constituted the main reasons‚ which led the colonists to flee from the Old Continent’s religious persecution‚ societal and political restrictive organization. Thus‚
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Using material from Item A and elsewhere‚ assess the value of the right realist approach to crime and deviance. Realist approaches to crime are alternatives to the Marxist and Interactionist approaches‚ which in realists eyes both seemed to be unable to generate ideas that could lead to reducing levels of crime. Marxists tended to see property crime as a justified attempt to redistribute wealth‚ whereas Interactionists saw criminals as different from non-criminals only in that they had acquired
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Within the years 1865 and 1900‚ changes in farming allowed for the increased production of crops such as wheat‚ corn and cotton. Technology allowed the Great Plains to be opened to agriculture. Perhaps the most important advances were John Deere’s steel plow (which made it much easier to break the thick and heavy soil of the area) and barbed wire (which could keep livestock out of fields). Also‚ according to Document A‚ in 1870‚ the production of wheat was 254 million bushels‚ cotton had a production
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Chart the development of Italian Neo-Realism and discuss its influence on later European and American film-making. Italian neorealism was established in the 1940 and is now a national film movement branded by narratives which are set around the ordinary lives of the poor and the working class. The majority of films within the movement are filmed on location‚ commonly the use of nonprofessional actors are incorporated to reinforce the realist impression. Italian Neorealist films mostly portray the
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The realistic impulse‚ the desire to reproduce on stage a piece of life faithfully has been persistent over the last hundred years. However reaction against the theatre of psychological realism and of ordinary speech and behaviour was also relentless throughout the twentieth century. In order to explore any form theatre‚ it is important to understand the historical‚ political‚ social and cultural perspective of the time in which the piece is created. Through the turn of the 19th century‚ “a period
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