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    Hysteria‚ a disorder associated widely with women in the late 19th century‚ has since disappeared from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Although this diagnosis has gradually declined‚ during the late 19th century there was an increase of European women with this doctors’ diagnosis. The leading medical experts in Europe believed various different cause along with a symptomology expression. Sigmund Freud‚ Jean Charcot and Josef Breuer were some of the experts who were proposing

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    [Economy pushes us to imperialism. Main reason] - Main reason of why we’re in the mideast? - Oil B. Reasons for expansion C. Foreign policy approaches. (1867-1900) D. The lure of Hawaii and Samoa - We’ve been interested in Hawaii since 19th century - Convenient stopping place for far eastern trade.

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    together‚ would become the clamor of the nineteenth century. This riot was not just a random outbreak during a labor demonstration but rather a boiling over of a culmination of many factors that were building up in the late 19th century.

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    The challenges Americans faced in the late 19th Century and early 20th Century. The progressives were urban Northeast college educated middle-class protestants that wanted to solve some problems. To do this they started to form groups named unions. They also started to make strikes in order for them to get the new rights that they wanted. Some of the issues that they were trying to solve were women suffrage‚ income inequality‚ child labor and safer workplace conditions.

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    WOMEN: THE NEW ART PATRONS IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY AMERICA Art was not always a woman’s pursuit‚ like it is nowadays. In the late 18th centuryduring the Enlightenment‚ the idea of the “gentleman” pervaded American culture‚ as exemplified by Ben Franklin. Arts‚ natural sciences and humanities became de rigueur for respectable men. This continued throughout the early 20th century‚ until the end of the westward expansion and the transformation of the United States from a rural to an urban society

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    THE WORLD AND THE PHILIPPINES IN RIZAL’S TIME 19th Century - Rizal was born and raised in a period of massive changes in Europe‚ Spain and the Philippines.  - During this era‚ the glory and power of Spain had waned in both in her colonies and the world.  - Social scientists marked this period as the birth of modern life as well as the birth of many nation states around the world. The birth of modernity was precipitated by three great revolutions around the world:   the Industrial Revolution in

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    characteristics of a city. It wasn’t until about thirty years after the civil war that America started seeing signs of urbanization. In the late nineteenth century‚ America started changing its lifestyle and started going from farming to city life. Cities started growing and more people started living in the cities. The Industrial Revolution of the 19th and 20th century gave people higher expectations to improve the way of living. Jobs along with technology and transportation increased. Cars and railroads

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    apparent within the guiding principles concerning railroad land grants‚ management of interstate commerce‚ as well as antitrust actions we see direct governmental intervention and clear infringement and disruption of laissez-faire ideology. During the late 19th century many Americans advocated the fosterage of a laissez faire administration to allow for the insurance of property rights as well as the upkeep of social order. However‚ many Americans believed that the government did not have the right to

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    Today Women and Men are equal in almost all aspects‚ but a few decades ago that was not the case. Imagine ladies that you couldn’t vote‚ you couldn’t decide things for yourself. That you where looked at as a lower role model than a man. I cannot even begin to imagine how horrible life would have been. But women in the 18th and 19th centuries have been there and survived. They were both very different in many aspects. The eighteenth century helped mold and shape the way women were treated in the nineteenth

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    Research Paper July 11‚ 2011 The Role of women‚ sexuality‚ and Independence in the 17th and 18th century There are two short stories that relates to the women in the 17th and 18th century. There is “The story of an hour”‚ and “Astronomer’s wife” and the two short stories related by the women being in a disconsolate marriage. Both Kate Chopin and Kay Boyle suggest to their reader that a woman need a man to connect with her physically to be happy. The two women experience a hard life that made them

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