than men. Wifehood and motherhood were regarded as women’s most significant professions. In the 20th century‚ however‚ women in most nations won the right to vote and increased their educational and job opportunities. Perhaps most important‚ they fought for and to a large degree accomplished a reevaluation of traditional views of their role in society. Early Attitudes Toward Women Since early times women have been uniquely viewed as a creative source of human life. Historically‚ however‚ they
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China’s one child policy In eastern Asia‚ boarding the East Asian China Sea a huge country named the Chinese Republic has now over than one billion people. China had a leading civilization for centuries guiding the whole world in different fields. However‚ in the 19th and the 20th century China suffered form serious problems‚ which resulted from huge numbers of population. When China was under the leadership of Mao who believed that a strong nation must have large population‚ the population of China
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REALISM IN 19th CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION The 19th century is considered to mark the origin of realism as a literary movement in the United States. American writers following the era of change in American life‚ moved steadily from Romanticism towards Realism‚ which was to lead the next step of Naturalism. The process was gradual‚ reflecting the periodic fluctuations in the history of American society. In this process‚ the Civil War provided a dramatic point of cleavage. In 1865 at the end of the
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As the 19 century ended and the 20th began‚ the American wave of women pushing for access to the ballot box gathered momentum. As astonishing as it was many women were against the right to vote. These women were referred to in many ways: “anti-suffragettes‚” “anti-suffragists‚” “remonstrates‚” “governmentalists‚” “antis‚” and “naysayers.” Anti-suffragists leaders were not average American women but were women of the higher‚ privileged‚ class. These women were already doing well in society and had
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The 19th century saw an uprising of anti-Semitism in Europe. Although discrimination against Jews diminished during the Enlightenment‚ the modern era saw it survive. 18th century European rulers enforced restrictions on Jewish culture and language. In the 1700’s‚ some parts of Europe were still known for discriminatory laws and regulations against Jews. Also‚ In Austria‚ Jewish families could not have more than one son. For example‚ the Prussian king Frederick II passed laws confining the number
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To this day it is unknown who threw the bomb and why they did it but this event was one that defined a period of rapid industrialization and great corruption in the United States. The conditions that defined this era in the history of still young country‚ where the graves still lay fresh from civil war and with the seams that were broken barley mended back together‚ would become the clamor of the nineteenth century. This riot was not just a random outbreak during a labor demonstration but rather a
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The lives of women in the nineteenth century were greatly shaped by an attitude that believed women should be domesticated‚ pure‚ pious‚ and submissive; true women focused their lives around the family and the home‚ influencing husbands and children by providing them a moral compass. These women‚ however‚ were shielded from the outside world and were neither influenced by nor a part of the politics and business taking place on the other side of their doors. The idea that women were meant for households
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rights and of a black ruled world. A paranoia of a change in power that caused violence in the 18th century and how it carried over into the early 19th century will be emphasized in this paper. The white folk of the United States were threatened by the potential of black Americans exercising their freedom. They feared the possibilities of a black man’s
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China’s Interaction with Western Nations in the 19th century And the effects on its economy The 19th century had sparked a time period of bloody revolution‚ social and political reform‚ and both economic and financial problems for China. Though the cause of many of these problems could be rooted to internal conflict‚ foreign influence on Chinese ways proved to be disastrous. During the early 19th century the population was growing‚ the economy seemed stable and generally people seemed content
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adults‚ but how has that changed? Prior to the nineteenth century‚ no specific laws were set in place to
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