Bill Clinton’s contributions to social and civil reforms in the United States‚ his support of the spread of democracy throughout the world‚ and his previous and ongoing support for the humanities constitute this nomination for the 20th Century Genius Award. On the surface‚ the Age of Modernism‚ from 1890 through1950 appeared to follow on the heels of the ideals of the Romantic period: realism‚ liberty‚ and state nationalism. Instead‚ the times were characterized by the reevaluation
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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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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 British Novel The turn of the century meant the end of the Victorian Era with the Queen’s death in 1901. The legacy of Darwin‚ the Victorian loss of Christian Faith‚ Socialism and the awareness of threat against England’s wealth increased the existing social
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and 20th centuries Introduction During the 19th and 20th century‚ Europe witnessed its so-called demographic transition‚ with a fall in birth rates and an even greater fall in mortality rates‚ which led to a rapid increase in the population. The demographic transition was essentially a result of a decrease in chronic infectious diseases like tuberculosis‚ syphilis‚ diphtheria‚ measles‚ dysentery‚ and typhoid fever. The wage dispersion evidence suggests that the middle of the 19th century is
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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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another twentieth-century radical utopian discourse‚ offering a way to control the state‚ run society‚ and give the Muslim community a sense of unity. Islamism is by now a powerful force. It runs governments in Iran‚ Sudan‚ and Afghanistan. It is an important force of opposition in Algeria‚ Egypt‚ Turkey‚ Lebanon‚ and the Palestinian authority. The paper at hand is going to analyze what conditions and events allowed for the rise of Islamism as an ideology in the later 20th century? The first part
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Modernisim covers many poltitcal and cultural movements that are rooted in the changes in Western society at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. American modernism benefited from the immense diversity of immigrant cultures. Modernist America had to find solidarity in a world no longer unified in belief. The unity found lay in the understanding of the shared consciousness within all human experience. The relevance of the individual is emphasized; the truly limited nature of the
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Revolution: The Change of Literature in the Early 20th Century America went through many changes in the early 20th century. These changes greatly altered the American mind‚ and consequently the literature of the time. Large scale world events such as: The first total war—WWI‚ and the swift change from prosperity in the twenties to nationwide depression in the thirties‚ drastically changed the American mind. Times were progressive—on one hand‚ man had never before been so powerful before‚ and
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the Early 20th Century Women have struggled to obtain equality and freedom of every kind over the years‚ as they have traditionally been viewed as inferior to men. The old stereotype of men and women and their respective roles has come into question‚ specifically over the last century‚ which has been one of great change. A number of events and influential people led to these positive shifts in gender equality. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and the start of the 20th century there was
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Political instability in the 20th century started with the onset of World War 1‚ which some would call a defining moment of the century one that sowed the seeds not just of the Second World War but of Communism‚ Nazism‚ the Holocaust‚ and the Gulag‚ among others. Of course all these global events had extreme effect on the volatility of the stock market throughout the century‚ including the deflation in the 1930s and the inflation of 1970s. I will start with the 1910s that showed a steady decline
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