malaria‚ and diphtheria. The average American city during the 19th century was a breeding ground for the frequent epidemics that occurred‚ killing thousands. Port cities were particularly susceptible to epidemics of infectious disease. New York‚ Boston‚ and Philadelphia were places where ships carrying foreign goods-and disease- were unloaded; they were also where potentially infected immigrants disembarked. Toward the end of the 19th century‚ as people searched for a way to control infectious diseases
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wonder of scientists; therefore we owe everything to imagination and wonder. Scientists have used their imagination to come up with some of the craziest ideas and experiments to try and find new discoveries and inventions in the world. During the 19th century‚ there were a lot of these new scientific discoveries. Some of these discoveries include Dalton’s Law of Partial Pressures‚ Dalton’s modern Atomic Theory‚ the Doppler Effect‚ James Prescott Joule’s and Helmholtz’s Law of Conservation of energy
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many countries used slaves from the 17th to the 19th century‚ however‚ this nation was built upon from the hard work of slaves. The southern states were solely built upon this ideology and this would only end after the end of the American Civil War. Slavery was a practice that essentially moved the southern economy‚ there were only a small number of individuals who owned plantations‚ and owned slaves‚ while many were common people. By the 18th century‚ there were nearly 40‚000 slaves in the state
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play in that world? A common thing that is happening in the world today is sexual harassment. Women are helpless when it comes to men abusing them. Most women today are giving major attitude to having more power. The women’s rights movement rose during the nineteenth century in Europe and America in response to great inequalities between the legal statuses
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since the 19th century has been truly amazing. They have gone from not having any anesthesia to the anesthesia being a normal thing now for operations from a simple tooth being pulled to major surgeries like open-heart surgery. Other things that has improved majorly is the cleanliness of the operating rooms and the surgical tools. And lastly the doctors are in school a lot longer then they ever was back in the 19th century. Anesthesia has been an ever-changing item in medicine since the 19th century
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In The Age of Innocence‚ I found that the topic of women’s roles in the 19th century held a great deal of importance. In the 19th century women lived lives much differently than women of modern day. Men and women were perceived as having extremely different roles and purposes in life. Women were expected to live their lives in private‚ while men were able to go out freely. While men were given powerful attributes‚ women were given weakened attributes. Women were seen as weak‚ domestic‚ emotional
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in the 19th century and they felt that way because of how society treated them. The Yellow Wallpaper by‚ Charlotte Perkins Gilman was about a woman in the 19th century who isn’t given her rights because of the society she lives in and because of her husband. This story lets us see into a mind of a woman who is dealing with a bad case of postpartum depression. She is going through postpartum depression while she stays in a rental house that is supposed to help her. Women in the 19th century weren’t
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The foundation of correctional law and the start of the correctional system goes back to the seventeenth and eighteenth century in England. In the seventeenth and eighteenth century it began as hospice facilities which were institutions that promoted the idea of isolating offenders from each other. There were also had houses of correction which emphasized the importance of hard work at disagreeable tasks. The 1779 Penitentiary Act found that prisoners should be housed in secure and sanitary facilities
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As late as the 18th century‚ the Vatican Prison still served as a model prison design in Europe and America. Early settlers of North America brought with them the customs and common laws of England‚ including the pillory‚ the stocks and the whipping post. During the 18th century isolating offenders from fellow prisoners became the accepted correctional practice. It was thought that long-term isolation‚ combined with in-depth discussions with clergy‚ would lead inmates to repent or become “penitent”—sorry
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woman’s role could be shown to be socially constructed within a specific historical context‚ rather than natural and universal‚ then feminists would argue that it was open to change. Activists within the first organised women’s movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries found that women were largely absent from standard history texts and this inspired them to write their own histories. Detailed studies of women’s work‚ trade unionism and political activities were produced by authors such as
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