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    order to gravitate away from the past we must understand why things happened the way they did. America has continually made the effort to keep African-Americans in the chains they first came here in. First by denying them basic human rights. Also by building the projects and no encouraging them to become an educated individual who can contribute to society. In‚ “Fifth Avenue‚ Uptown”‚ Baldwin writes that by walking through the streets of Harlem you can see what our country has become. It is as true then

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    Domestic Violence In the early history of the United States‚ somewhere close to the nineteenth century‚ along with the Temperance Movement came the recognition of Domestic Violence. In 1840‚ a Tennessee parent is prosecuted for the excessive punishment of a child in the Johnson vs. State court case (Staff). Ten years later‚ it is discovered that only nineteen states have laws allowing women to divorce abusive husbands. It will take twenty years before Fulgham vs. Alabama will rule that “a husband

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    Buildings are products of the imagination‚ that is what connects us to them. Some go further than that and become just a romantic obsession. Throughout time we have begun to modify the landscape in which surround us‚ This leading us to create large industrial cities with many buildings of disuse. As time passes buildings are being left derelict due to many factors such as dying trades‚ for example‚ coal and mining villages. Buildings to this day have been changed and modified and have housed so many

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    and political power disproportionality rests with males. Given the traditional gender roles set in America’s early nineteenth century patriarchy‚ both men and women’s attitudes towards sexuality and enforcement of gender norms were used to oppress women while valuing men‚ and slavery magnified the patriarchy’s worst aspects like sexual violence. The early nineteenth century for America symbolized nationalism and industrialization‚ but with all that came gender roles emphasized by the patriarchy. Women

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    Assignment 1: Comparative Article Review Due: October 4th‚ 2010 The Evolution of Sanitation: How 19th Century Decision Makers Influenced Today’s Innovation By: Ryan Parkinson I. Introduction By the late 1800’s‚ the method of sewage treatment became a heated issue of debate among members of political parties. At the time‚ the belief was that poor health was a matter of fate. Health promoters‚ however‚ argued that‚ “disease arose from correctable environmental causes.”[i] Until the mid

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    Throughout all of the 19th century‚ European countries were scrambling to obtain more power than each other by taking land‚ especially from Africa and Southeast Asia. These two areas were geographically the most convenient for Europe‚ as well as having incredible amounts of raw materials‚ resources‚ and territory. Assets unavailable in Europe were plentiful in these areas‚ which interested Europeans in the profitable trading opportunities that these supplies presented themselves with. This expansion

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    the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Men and women defiantly had different treatments towards each other. Once women were married‚ they were not important or even relevant. Not even during elections were women noticed. They couldn’t vote until August 1920. Women also couldn’t have big professional jobs. And most importantly women could not get the same education as men because most colleges wouldn’t accept them. This made women completely dependent on men. The women’s movement began in the 19th century

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    urban centers and immigration‚ America in the late 19th century was still predominantly rural. Seven out of ten people in the United States lived in small towns with populations under 2500 or on farms in 1870. In Indiana‚ the 1880 census reported a population of almost 2 million residents‚ about 55 per square mile‚ 1‚010‚000 men and 968‚000 woman. About three out of four people lived in rural areas. Although much of the study done on woman’s roles during this period looks at the roles of the emerging

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    Compromises in the 19th Century There are two mind paths to choose when considering the statement that the compromises of the 1800s were not really compromises‚ but sectional sellouts by the North‚ that continually gave in to the South’s wishes. The first is that the compromises really were compromises‚ and the second is that the compromises were modes of the North selling out. Really‚ there is only one correct mind path of these two‚ and that is that the North sold out during these compromises

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    In the late 19th century Americans fully embraced the concept of American exceptionalism‚ believing the “United States had a destiny unique among nations to foster democracy and civilization.” With this ideology‚ Social Darwinism‚ Anglo-Saxon‚ naval expansion‚ and the need for market promoted the rise to imperialism in the United States. When the Americans moved west and defeated the Native Americans they felt matchless because of all the technological and social developments they had over the

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