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    roles were arguable in the 20th-century‚ they had many limitations in politics‚ education and jobs. Many women disliked how they were perceived‚ women were described as “The weaker sex but the more virtuous one”(Canadian Encyclopedia). This description of what women were seen as in the 20th-century is why so many women came together to make a change. The way women banded together to change the way society viewed them had a big impact in history. Throughout the 20th-century women have made major impacts

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    from the three-volume novel to the one volume one. Together with the demands of the new publics‚ this shortening divided the Victorian novel into the categories of fiction we know today. The key name in the eighties is Henry James‚ who strove to give the novel the aesthetic intensity of poetry or painting. The two dominant themes in his work are the "international subject" and that of the innocent. After the eighties the novel became the dominant prose form. 4.1. The Turn of the Century: the Modern

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    successfully achieve this method of research. The concept of “disciplines” was coined by the Romans who were trying to come up with a purpose for divisions of labor. Then during the scientific revolution‚ it was pushed even harder by having students specialize in specific areas of study. But it wasn’t until the 19th – 20th century when universities began to explicitly

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    from a place to another. He went throng his blue period‚ in which he used different shades of blue to paint‚ during his three trips to Paris. After he settled down in Paris finally in 1904‚ he met Fernande Oliver and started changing his style of art from dull blue to light color like red and pink. He then kept changing his mood of works when he moved back to Gosol‚ Spain and created works influenced by not only Spanish style of art‚ but Greek‚ Iberian‚ and African art.one of the factors that caused

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    During the 20th century law enforcement was in a progressive‚ reform‚ professional and community era and the way of policing had evolve over time. Police forces was characterized by a broad social service function‚ decentralized organization‚ intimate relationship with community and extensive use of foot patrol. Many problem police face was the lack of training‚ bribery‚ lack of control‚ political control‚ lack of education and brutality. Rome was where the 1st specialized investigative unit created

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    was also known as Romanticism. In the 19th century‚ the French revolution fostered the rise of a middle-class or society. The slogan of the French revolution was “liberty‚ equality‚ fraternity” and that inspired hopes and visions to which artists responded with zeal. Romantic period started to abandon the conservative ideas and turned to passion. During this period‚ romantic poets and artists turned to passionate and fanciful subjects. The nineteenth century novel explored deep human conflicts and exotic

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    influences in our everyday lives. I would like to focus on the twentieth-century and how the visual arts influenced the time period. Hopefully this essay can spread knowledge and awareness on how much history has to do with influences in today’s music. In the 20th century‚ there were several American and European composers who were highly interested in the jazz industry. Composers have been using parts of native music for centuries. Some of the most popular names such as Mozart‚ Haydn‚ Beethoven and 

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    At the start of the 20th century‚ Wilfred Laurier stated “ the next hundreds years would belong to Canada.” Your job as a historian is to decide whether that statement was true. When Wilfred Laurier said that the 20th Century would belong to Canada‚ I believe he meant‚ that the 20th century will be a year of great prosperity for Canada. Also that Canada will shine‚ and stand out as a country‚ and a fighting force. The 20th century belonged to Canada On January 18‚ 1904 Prime Minister

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    Many of the events‚ situations and circumstances of the second half of the 20th century set the stage for‚ caused and made possible‚ most of the business‚ political and interpersonal scenarios we are experiencing in this country today – good‚ bad and indifferent. According to the U.S. Census of 1900‚ ninety percent of Blacks lived in the South. Three-quarters of black households were located in rural places; only one-fifth owned their own homes and most worked as farmers or laborers. If not on

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    “Filthy Cities” stresses the nightmare that was life for New York’s European immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th century. “New York City was a magnet for European immigrants” (Robins) and this migration from countries such as Ireland was one of the biggest mass migrations in history. The Irish were one of the first groups of immigrants to arrive due to their 1840s potato famine. 1/3 of the immigrants died on the ships on the way to NYC but for those that did arrive safely‚ more struggles and

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