3Victorian/Edwardian Era (Notes) Past Exam Questions 2010: 1) INSTITUTIONS Any industrial decline evident in late Victorian Britain can be attributed to inadequate institutions for financing the development of domestic industry. Discuss. 2) EDUCATION The Englishman’s lack of scientific and technical education has been blamed for the failure to develop new industries and engage in R&D in late Victorian Britain. Is it the case that scientific education was deficient and‚ therefore‚ problematic for the development
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Victorian Era In the Victorian Era‚ it was all about man and man only. The man was the bread winner‚ the man was the one who made decisions‚ and the man was in charge of basically everything. The female‚ however‚ was the considered angel of the household. She followed the rules and never left the house. She had to stay in the house and provide a comforting home by cooking food‚ cleaning‚ and taking care of the kids. The Victorian Era was described as women being in the outer circle and men being
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My lords‚ the distinguished and noble opposition has spoken most eloquently and with deep emotion. They would have us to believe that the protection offered by His Majesty’s government is not in the best interest of our beloved merchants of England. But we should never forget the very strength of our nation and the merchants upon whom our future rests… Within the times of this great era‚ England has reached great commercial leadership under a powerful system of economic regulations known as mercantilism
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The period known as the Victorian era in England‚ from 1837 to 1901‚ had gender roles that drastically defined the difference between a man and a woman. These differences were based on the theory that “men possessed the capacity for reason‚ action‚ aggression‚ independence‚ and self-interest. Women inhabited a separate‚ private sphere‚ one suitable for the so called inherent qualities of femininity: emotion‚ passivity‚ submission‚ dependence‚ and selflessness‚ all derived‚ it was claimed insistently
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“Did late Victorians think of homosexuality primarily as a crime‚ a disease‚ or something else?” The late Victorian era of the nineteenth century‚ has long been synonymously recognised as highly-repressed and morally obsessive. Yet distinct from all preceding eras‚ there lay a fixation in society in the belief that an individual’s sex and sexuality form the most basic core of their identity and indeed of one’s social or political standing‚ and freedom. Though we can acknowledge that the urbanisation
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Seeing‚ Hearing‚ and Printing Data 1. This type of monitor is common on desktop computers. It looks much like a standard television. A) cathode-ray tube B) flat-panel C) monochrome D) projector 2. Monitors use various intensities of __________ colors to generate the rainbow. A) 16 B) 16 million C) three D) four 3. The __________ helps to align the electron guns. A) pixel B) shadow mask C) resolution D) refresh 4. LCD monitors often have a smaller __________ than CRT monitors. A) refresh rate B)
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members mentally or physically inside the sanctuary of a home‚ has one or two common factors to the domestic violence that of which occurred in the Victorian era‚ the two still have clearly visible differences‚ including how it is practiced and why one is driven to it. Oliver Twist‚ a book written by Charles Dickens in 1961 to address Victorian era social issues‚ covers the topic of domestic violence. The topic is mostly observed by a couple named Bill Sikes and Nancy. Bill Sikes constantly
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Women in During the Victorian period men and women’s roles became more sharply defined than at any time in history. In earlier centuries it had been usual for women to work alongside husbands and brothers in the family business. Living ‘over the shop’ made it easy for women to help out by serving customers or keeping accounts while also attending to their domestic duties. As the 19th century progressed men increasingly commuted to their place of work – the factory‚ shop or office. Wives‚ daughters
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Victorian mores are the unspoken rules known and observed by society. In the eighteen-hundreds several mores were very important including justice‚ Christianity‚ high standards of honesty and morality‚ and women’s roles. All good people are part of a family‚ a Christian family and women are to serve men as they stand unequal to them. Marriage is simply a tool to gain more money and connections‚ and only people of the same social class are worthy of each other. Whichever social class someone is born
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GRAPHIC BUILDING ANALYSIS – FITZROY TOWN HALL HISTORY The Victorian Gold Rush of the mid-late nineteenth heralded in a new era of prosperity and growth in Melbourne. The first suburb in the flourishing city‚ Fitzroy was declared a municipality in 1858‚ a town in 1870. and a city in 1878; the Fitzroy Town Hall was built in accordance with the area’s “increasing stature” (MICHAEL O’BRIEN HEART AND SOUL ETC)‚ intended to represent the growth and progress of the city of Fitzroy after residents demanded
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