1. “An analysis of the popular culture of the United States from 1865 to 1900 reveals deep class‚ gender‚ and ethnic or racial divisions.” Assess the validity of this statement. I believe that this statement is very accurate given the social conditions of American society around the turn of the 20th century. Following the end of the Civil War and Reconstruction‚ Americans struggled to regain a sense of normality and divisions between different groups of people highlighted the flaws within society
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exciting as well as easier for many families. Around the time of the late 1800’s‚ under the idea of “separate spheres”‚ caring for children was looked at as a central part of most women’s lives. The man was the breadwinner and the hunter and gatherer‚ providing the sustainable essentials for a family to survive. Marriage was viewed as a foundation of ones national morality. At the
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Through the four texts I have studied I have found a main connection of feminism in different social settings between the times of 1900 - 1920. The texts I’ve studied are the two poems ’We As Women’‚ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and ’The Bees Song’ by Julia Ward Howe‚ the novel ’In defense of Women’‚ by H.L. Mencken and the poem ’I know why the caged bird sings’ by Maya Angelou. Also through these four texts I have found three main ideas‚ these are ’how women were treated unequally’‚ ’survival’‚ and
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When the word “gang” is mentioned the first thought that comes to mind is a person wearing baggy clothes‚ a bandana across the forehead and tattoos all over the body. That is a stereotype. Obviously back when gangs were first initiated in the 1800’s they did not dress like that. Not all gangs are associated with colors‚ signs or names. A gang is defined as a group of criminals or a number of people forming a group (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary). In fact the word “gang” actually originated from
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America had the most media‚ the cheapest media‚ and the freest media by the 1840’s. Communication through the media was vital to America in the early 1800’s because‚ as a democratic nation‚ the people needed to be well informed about their system of government. Following the American Revolution‚ the United States stayed from their traditional English ideas involving the relationship between the state and the people. Unlike Great Britain’s selective press and seditious libel laws‚ information and
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economic inequality‚ lack of educational opportunities‚ internal division‚ opposition from other women‚ and intersectionality issues. Since the 1800s‚ the women’s movement has come an extremely long way. Due to the brave men and women who fought for the women’s rights movement‚ we have seen significant changes in our
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Women had it difficult in the mid-1800s to early 1900s. There was a difference in the treatment of men and women. For example: <br><li>Married women were legally dead in the eyes of the law<br><li>Women were not allowed to vote<br><li>Women had to submit to laws when they had no voice in their formation<br><li>Married women had no property rights<br><li>Women were not allowed to enter professions such as medicine or law<br><li>Women had no means to gain an education since no college or university
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The Revolution of Pugilism in the early 1900 It’s a warm night in Sydney Australia; the date is December 26‚ 1908. 20‚000 fans‚ mostly all males‚ gather around to watch the best two heavy weight fighters in the world fight for the most prestigious tittle in the world‚ the world heavy weight champion. John Johnson was fighting the champion‚ Tommy Burns‚ who was the first champion to agree to fight an African American Boxer. The bout went 14 rounds with Johnson beating Burns easily. With this fight
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Nowhere placed loneliness After watching the film‚ I only feel loneliness. As Giuseppe Tornatore’s first English-language film‚ “The Legend of 1900” was renowned in the end of the twentieth century. It tells a story of a pianist’s legendary life. On the luxury cruise Virginian‚ An orphan is abandoned in the first class. He is named after the year he was found‚ 1900. Nineteen Hundred becomes a prodigy with special piano talent‚ as he slowly grows up. He performs piano on the cruise‚ and everyone is deeply
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Women had it difficult from the middle of the 1800s to early 1900s. There was a difference of the treatment compared of the woman to the men. Women barely had any rights compared to now. Women were not even allowed to vote until August 18th‚ 1920. They were also not even allowed to attend universities to study things as a career of jobs such as law‚ nursing‚ and many more. There were not any chances of women getting an education back then‚ because no college or university would accept a female. Some
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