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    Children in the nineteenth century were usually faced with poverty and lived in the urban slums. Progressive reformers‚ who were generally people from small towns who later lived in cities‚ focused primarily on these children and their problems. The goals of the reformers were to change the meaning of childhood and help people understand how children should really be treated. A child growing up in the nineteenth century was expected to live an adult life by an early age. “In the colonial period

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    Matthew Geronimo Professor Haydu SOCI 106 12 March 2013 Tea and Social Class Boundaries in 19th Century England How did tea rituals‚ customs‚ and etiquette reinforce social class boundaries in 19th century England? This question is relevant‚ in that it asks us to reflect on how simple commodities such as tea can distinguish social differences between classes‚ both past and present; it also allows us to ponder on how tea was popularized into the daily-consumed beverage it is to this day with people

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    Nuanced gender roles and related social expectations for Germans changed as much as the political climate did between the 18th and 19th century. War‚ revolution‚ and poverty influenced these shifts. By WWI traditional gender roles‚ despite some fluidity in the 1800’s‚ had been reified by wartime necessity. For German men‚ this arc of gender norms took them from militaristic masculinity‚ to a freedom for philosophic fluidity and then back to martial manhood. Women‚ particularly those of the middle

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    After the civil war and then throughout the rest of the nineteenth century‚ became much larger‚ more industrialized‚ and became much more common. The new American city changed people’s lives and people continued to change the city. The most prominent factors that transformed places like New York‚ Boston‚ and Chicago were immigration‚ industrialization‚ and the expansion of the railway system. The Industrialization of cities in the mid to late 1800’s all started with the railroad system. Railroads

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    The 19th century was a time in history when many new things were happening in the United States and medical marvels happened often. The south was a place specifically prominent where social standings were how people were judged and how one was were treated by people. While mental illnesses have been around forever‚ the treatment of them‚ medically and socially‚ has changed drastically over time. In a “Rose For Emily” William Faulkner tells how the community that Emily Grierson lives in did not speak

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    In her essay Woman in the Nineteenth Century‚ Margaret Fuller discusses the state of marriage in America during the 1800‘s. She is a victim of her own knowledge‚ and is literally considered ugly because of her wisdom. She feels that if certain stereotypes can be broken down‚ women can have the respect of men intellectually‚ physically‚ and emotionally. She explains why some of the inequalities exist in marriages around her. Fuller feels that once women are accepted as equals‚ men and women will be

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    Coca-Cola ZeroCarbonated drink is also one of a product that is really popular not only among teenagers but for everyone who would like to have a refreshment and enjoy a taste of sparkling soda. But some people try not to consume it as they are afraid of a quantity of sugar contained in a carbonated drink. Moreover total sales of cola flavor carbonated drink seem to be decreased due to the popularity of health concerned trend so most of consumers switch to consume green tea and fruit juice instead

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    Even in the early infancy of America‚ it is evident that it’s people desired to expand and grow their tiny nation. The New World held so many opportunities for the foreign people with its abundance of land. Though the prosperity of expansion was a major factor‚ moving into the unexplored land was a cause for most of the countries battles. But‚ the people’s craving for land was insatiable once they started to branch out. Land was power‚ and the more you had the better off you’d be in terms of foreign

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    Wollstonecraft‚ Elizabeth Barrett Browning‚ and Emily Dickinson who expressed themselves in ways comparable and exceeding men during the 15th centuries to the 20th century. Women’s roles varied throughout the different centuries building up to our current day. Literature allowed women to express themselves and share their stories. For example‚ prior to the 15th century and Margery Kempe’s work‚ Marie de France

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    The 19th century was a time of rapid change and modernization of the world through quite possibly the most impactful economic movement in human history‚ the form of the Industrial Revolution. Coming out of the 18th century‚ which saw Enlightenment ideas flourish into actual Constitutions of rapidly rising nations‚ the 19th century saw the infant mortality rate drop rapidly and population growth boom due to findings such as the first vaccine‚ not using leeches to treat disease‚ as well as a variety

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