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    ¬The 20th century was a very interesting period of time to live. The 20th century was the time that the human race faced two world wars‚ world war I and world war II. Also‚ a time when the united stated was struggling because of the Great Discretion although the economy was flourishing after the second world war. Also‚ it’s been an important time for a woman in America because they got their rights in 1941 when the USA government allowed a woman to work in factories because of the pressure of the

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    During the 1700’s much changed. Thing like people’s freedom of speech‚ equality among more people. So much changed; such as‚ the world of arts. The Enlightenment changed a lot in the lives of people. It changed the arts; music literature‚ and painting. One‚ of the many things that changed during the Enlightenment period was music. Before the Enlightenment music was called the Baroque Music. In those times Bach and Handel were popular. When the Enlightenment came and changed things it was now called

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    In the early 20th Century women in England were dissatisfied by the inability to voice thier opinions on national matters. Since the popular view was that men were the heads of families and the ones expected to go to war‚ voting on a national scale was reserved for males only. The people who were against women’s enfranchisement did not realize how essential women were to the progress of society and the disadvantages faced by the female sex. The women’s suffrage movement was created to thwart the

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    Living Conditions in Australia at the turn of the 20th Century. Life in Australia at the turn of the 20th Century was dangerous especially for the lower class‚ the terrible slum conditions made life difficult and hygiene was not regularly practiced‚ life was a constant battle against all sorts of infectious diseases‚ and yet the City Council did little to nothing at all to improve these conditions. Life was even worse when the unsanitary environment became accompanied by the Bubonic Plague‚ though

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    estimated that world governments spend more than two trillion dollars on education each year‚ developing extensive initiatives such as ‘Raising the bar and closing the gap’ in the UK and ‘No child left behind’ in the US. Almost every country in the world has education reform high on its agenda. Yet‚ many argue that education reform has not made significant improvement in decades and that assessment practices remain remarkably similarly to those prevalent a century ago. In response to the dramatically changing

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    definitely not equal citizens. During the 1950s and 1960s‚ African Americans‚ along with a number of other racial groups‚ embarked on a campaign to change this situation. This campaign challenged discrimination and fought to achieve the objective of equality that the American constitution promised for its entire people. It composed a number of significant groups‚ individuals and events to fulfil this vital objective. It was known as the Civil Rights Movement. Significant Groups The National Association

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    Social Darwinism gained popularity in European nations in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Social Darwinism supports the idea that people were engaged in a competition or “struggle for survival” in which the weakest people and nations would be destroyed and dominated while the strong grew in power and influence. Great Britain applied this idea to China and infiltrated the land and its systems. The British would send missionaries throughout the land and try to convert the Chinese to Christianity

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    This report seeks to explore and compare the contemporary social critiques with the modernist myth surrounding the city of Paris in the late 19th century. The sharp contrast of interpretation on both sides is exemplified through three major artworks‚ Le Train dans la Neige‚ la Locamotive by Claude Monet‚ Dans un Café Dit Aussi‚ L’Absinthe by Edgar Degas‚ and Bal du Moulin de la Galette by Pierre Auguste Renoir. Each painting exudes deeper meaning by way of brush stroke‚ color‚ style‚ composition

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    1700? 10/5/13 In the 17th Century people talked about ‘the world turned upside down’ because they felt that there was so many things that changed in that century that if somebody had left England in 1600 and arrived again in 1700‚ it have changed so much that the world would have seemed upside-down. However‚ there is disagreement about how much it changed‚ as some things still stayed the same during that time‚ and in this essay I will explore to what extent England

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    voted on a written constitution‚ and while ancient Greece and Rome operated as a democracy‚ neither were actually founded in full democratic fashion (Amar‚ 2005). The course of events that unfolded during the Revolutionary period leads one to believe that the inception of the United States did unfold in two different and unique stages. In the words of Benjamin Rush‚ " The American war is over: but this is far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary‚ nothing but the first

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