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    Women's Reform Movement

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    Women and the Fight for Reform Women in the late 19th century‚ except in the few western states where they could vote‚ were denied much of a role in the governing process. Nonetheless‚ educated the middle-class women saw themselves as a morally uplifting force and went on to be reformers. Jane Addams opened the social settlement of Hull House in 1889. It offered an array of services to help the poor deal with slum housing‚ disease‚ crowding‚ jobless‚ infant mortality‚ and

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    written about the film‚ each analyzing the meaning and implications of it in different ways. In one of these articles‚ “Mastering the Real: Trinity as the ‘Real’ Hero of The Matrix‚” author G. Christopher Williams explores the idea that it is Trinity‚ not Neo‚ who is the true hero of the film. While Williams effectively utilizes primary and secondary evidence

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    The Reform Movement is a collection of social reform movements that emerged throughout the 1820’s and 1830’s. Factors driving these movements were the growth of urbanization‚ changes in labor‚ immigration and emergence of a new middle class. The main driving factor was the religious fervor that swept middle class America and was characterized by the need for large scale provisions for the needy‚ a belief in the basic goodness of human nature and the reformers moralistic dogmatism. All these factors

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    The reform movements in the United States of the years 1825-1850 were intended to expand democratic ideals – those of equality and justice for man. While many did accomplish this‚ such as the educational‚ disciplinary‚ educational‚ feminist and abolitionist movementsreforms revolving around governmentally-controlled religion and temperance‚ utopias‚ and nativism ultimately limited the overall democratic ideals of society. The Second Great Awakening inspired many movements that truly did further

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    The Progressive Era‚ which lasted from 1900 to 1918‚ was a time in which the American government and its people aimed to improve their economic status and to correct injustices of their country. Here are the ten leading reform movements: 1. Civil Rights After the Civil War‚ some would have expected that racism would have stopped but unfortunately‚ that didn’t happened. Racism still existed in the American society in the stated era therefore civil rights organizations‚ most made for African-Americans

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    Reform Movements: Part B

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    achieve this were Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison‚ a white man‚ going to show there was support from all types of people. Two of the women’s rights advocates were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sarah Grimke. They both achieved great things to help out their cause. Although slavery and gender equality are arguably the most important evils in the time period there were still many other. One of these was alcohol. During the time period the Temperance Movement grew and advocates like Lyman Beecher

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    society. This time period is known as the Second Great Awakening. This specific “era” consisted of a plethora of movements that focused on different ideas and beliefs. The reform movements in the U.S during the 1800s had a massive impact on expanding democratic ideas; In particular‚ abolition‚ women’s rights‚ and education. Abolition was one of the most influential and significant movements of the time. This idea focused on getting rid of slavery. Before this aspect of life was reformed‚ the belief

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    Lord of the Flies Outline I. The classic novel Lord of The Flies by William Golding is an exciting adventure deep into the nether regions of the mind. The part of out brain that is suppressed by the mundane tasks of modern society. It is a struggle between Ralph and Jack‚ the boys and the Beast‚ good and evil. II. Novel Analysis: A. The title refers to Beelzebub‚ most stinking and depraved of all the devils: it is he‚ and not the God of the Christians‚ who is worshipped (Burgess 121)

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    Movements for Liberal Reform and Revolution- In decade following Congress of Vienna‚ conservative regimes=successful in maintaining order as only revolutions in Greece and Latin America succeeded‚ but late 1820’s brought new series of challenges. Russia‚ France‚ and Great Britain would deal w/ these new demands/problems in own unique ways.* Russia – Suppression:-- Secret societies developed in military. The Southern Society=more radical (republicans; no serfdom) while the Northern Society=more moderate

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    Educational Reform Movement In the early 1800s education in American wasn ’t the best. Most schools were small and only went for 6 weeks because the children worked on their family farms. Other‚ more wealthy‚ children would have a tutor in their homes or they would be sent to a private school. The children that did go to school would sit in a one room building with 60 other children. The teachers also didn ’t have much training and has limited knowledge to teach the children. They also received

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