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    REPORT: SEWARD’S PROPOSAL c. Compare and contrast the ideologies of social Darwinism and Social Gospel. The Ideologies of both Social Darwinism and Social Gospel was a form of justification that was adopted by many American businessmen as scientific proof of their superiority. Social Darwinism was created by using the applications of the English naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin’s scientific theories of evolution and natural selection‚ ‘the survival of the fittest’. Herbert Spencer applied

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    they do but those ideas will have an effect in day to day life‚ the economy and social ideas. For instance in Carnegie’s Wealth he makes it a point to pin point certain things in society that have caused it change rapidly‚ and the influence they have had in the ever changing society of his time. Because of how Carnegie became this wealthy industrialist he seems to believe in the whole idea of Social Darwinism and Social Gospel which was pretty common for people like him. He seems to believe in the

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    PER 1 This essay is about the story of antigone ‚I wrote it about the whole story about what she died and about crean and what they did and how they died.Atigone is siters with ismene and she has a brother named creon. Antigone‚ the sister of Polyneices‚ decides to bury her brother despite the death penalty for doing so established by Creon. When Antigone is caught in the act‚ Creon sentences her to death by surrounding her "in a vault of stone... in the wilderness" despite the fact that Antigone

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    Dubois’ writing The Souls of Black Folk‚ Dubois shows how this idea of justified actions through social Darwinism has corrupted human societies. After the civil war‚ the reconstruction period began as people began to try and integrate blacks into their society post slavery. The sudden end of slavery left millions of blacks without anything to their names

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    tumultuous times of reconstruction and the Civil War‚ but the Progressive Era refined the country with political‚ social and economic reform. Four major sectors of such reform included theory and practice‚ regulating big business‚ organizing the working class‚ and civilizing the city. In the Progressive Era‚ reform Darwinism directly challenged the previous theory of social Darwinism and the inevitability of natural selection; progressives instead ushered in a period of efficiency and rationale

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    GKE1 Task 4 Karla Weeks WGU #000438833 A. Justify your choice of the two most significant social consequences of the First Industrial Revolution (circa 1780–1850). The Industrial Revolution is synonymous with Mechanization‚ or exchanging human labor for machine labor. During the first Industrial Revolution‚ child labor was a common theme in both Britain and the U.S. due to the great demand for labor. Looking for work families left their farms to travel to cities that were becoming

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    The Industrial Revolution leaves us with many questions: Was the revolution in industry simply an issue of new machinery or mechanical innovation? Did young boys and girls work and live shoulder to shoulder for more than twelve hours a day? Was industrial capitalism nothing more than a clever system devised by clever capitalists to exploit the labor of ignorant workers? Was the revolution in industry the product of conscious planning or did it appear spontaneously? The revolution was

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    Through the course of history primarily in the late 19th century to the early 20th century‚ many countries have dealt with the understandings and fundamentals of social Darwinism. This could also be noted as Eugenics. These concepts of Eugenics stems from Charles Darwin’s theory that states that individuals or groups achieve advantage over others as the result of genetic or biological superiority. With this classical definition‚ it really loosely justifies certain species and life forms

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    02.01 Regions Chart and Written Response The Second Industrial Revolution affected the regions of the United States differently. Use this chart to compare the effects of the revolution on the North‚ South‚ West‚ and Midwest. In the chart‚ you will identify the political‚ social‚ economic‚ population‚ and transportation changes that the revolution brought to each region. Part 1 – Complete the following chart using information from the lesson. Regions Chart | Category | North | South | West

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    The industrial revolution took place during the early 1700’s to late 1800s‚ which had a huge impact and transformed societies in Europe and America into more urban and industrial societies. The industrial revolution first started in Britain in the 1700s. The industrial revolution brought the mass production of goods in factories‚ which lead to changes in machinery and tools. Many people found themselves jobless due to the replacement of job positions to new machinery. The advancement and development

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