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    CHAPTER I The Problem INTRODUCTION Computers are considered to be one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th Century.  As time goes on‚ computers have become more and more important in our lives. We use computers at school‚ at home‚ and at work and most of us can’t imagine life without them. One of the many uses of computers is used in communicating within the country or even around the world where there is Internet access. The Internet has become a fully integrated part of our

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    The twentieth century was shaped by scientists‚ leaders‚ civil rights workers‚ entertainers‚ and so many more. Throughout the last half of the 20 century‚ many leaders have come to power to create great change in their nations. Such leaders as Ayotollah Khomeini‚ And Mahandas Gandhi has led their nations to independence by nationalism and civil obedience. From genocide of the Africans to abolishing westernization‚ some kf these changes have had positive as well as negative effects on their nations

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    20th Century Study of Music

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    Session 6 20th Century To be specific - focusing on five performances: First one comes before this period. Laying down framework that comes later: A concert at the Carnegie Hall‚ 1938‚ called Spirituals to Swing. Second one‚ in 1939 another concert-same title. Then we come to Post war period - A concert‚ in 1953 that became known as Jazz - Massey Hall‚ Canada. Referred to at times as the quintet of the year - the five musicians that played were some of the foremost Bebop musicians at the time

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    generations. In the timespan of 1820 through 1929‚ oppressed by economic hardship‚ persecution‚ and the great social and political discrimination of the nineteenth century‚ increasingly steady flows of Jews and Hispanics journeyed to America and the massive amounts of immigrant counts spiked near the beginning of the twentieth century. Due to Industrialization‚ overpopulation‚ and urbanization‚ millions of immigrants

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    The profound economic change that occurred in the early 1900’s was largely influenced and formed by the industrial revolution‚ in particular the second wave that occurred in the late 1800’s. The revolution as a whole resulted in the change from economies based on agriculture and farming‚ to industry based profits. This second wave of the revolution not only refined and improved the prior inventions of iron and coal‚ but brought with it new highly developed technologies such as steel‚ electricity

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    American Poetry 20th Century

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    beauty. (Beauty) So we can find two different trends: morality (Kipling) and beauty (Wilde). Some important poetry’s figures of the end of XIX and the beginning of the XX c. were Emily Dickinson‚ Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman‚ but also the group called “The Fireside Poets” with Longfellow. There were writers and journalists who marked a style. This poetry of the 1850s is mainly romantic‚ with mythological imagination‚ with mournings… T.E. Hulme helped to change the poetic idiom (to find a poetic

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    them hard to use. Film does not simply suggest a worldview; it states‚ and we experience‚ its existence as truth‚ which is the fundamental power and danger it poses to the observer. One cannot deny‚ however‚ film’s phenomenal impact in the twentieth century‚ drastically changing the way we see the world and how we absorb information. In this way‚ film is best considered as one stage in the ongoing history of communications. As a historical medium‚ therefore‚ fiction film can be very valuable‚ as despite

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    During the early decades of the twentieth century‚ African Americans left the South in growing numbers‚ migrating North‚ with hopes of leaving a life behind that was dictated by racism‚ Jim Crow law‚ disenfranchisement‚ and violence based on hatred of black skin. With dreams of new opportunities for economic self-sufficiency‚ political participation‚ integration and freedom from racial violence‚ African Americans were soon

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    An individual ’s personality‚ opinion and even the way they perceive things are highly influenced by experience. Many experiences are documented‚ whether positive or negative‚ in the form of film‚ story‚ song or poem. The twentieth century was an era of imperialism‚ nationalism and decolonization which would all contribute to the outbreak of both world wars. Each war was both surprising to many people‚ as well as damaging. The state of a nations economy‚ moral and even landscape became a daily reminder

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    de la Vega and Guaman Poma wrote accounts of the Spanish conquest that show a perspective that often contrasts with the colonizers’ accounts. During the colonial period‚ written culture was often in the hands of the church‚ within which context Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz wrote memorable poetry and philosophical essays. Towards the end of the 18th Century and the beginning of the 19th‚ a distinctive criollo literary tradition emerged‚ including the first novels such as José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi’s

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