University of Phoenix Material End of the 20th Century Matrix Choose ten items from the following list and identify their significance during the 1990s and beyond: |Earned Income Tax Credit |Economic prosperity under Clinton | |E-mail |Creating a budget surplus | |NAFTA |The
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Many of the events‚ situations and circumstances of the second half of the 20th century set the stage for‚ caused and made possible‚ most of the business‚ political and interpersonal scenarios we are experiencing in this country today – good‚ bad and indifferent. According to the U.S. Census of 1900‚ ninety percent of Blacks lived in the South. Three-quarters of black households were located in rural places; only one-fifth owned their own homes and most worked as farmers or laborers. If not on
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Until the 20th century it has been understood that the framers of the constitution were “for the people”. Revisionists of the 20th century are painting an entirely different picture. They “argued that the Constitutional Convention was dominated by an elite and that the Constitution itself is an instrument written to protect elite interests.” (Fisk 2014) This could not be further from the truth. The framers are responsible for creating the first ever republican government‚ did not grant nobility
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American Women in the 19th vs. 20th Century For many of the American history‚ women were not considered equal to men and were denied equality in many areas in life. In the 19th century women had no legal identity‚ apart from their husband. Married women could not hold property in their own names‚ make contracts‚ sit on a jury‚ write a will‚ or vote. Nor did women have the same opportunities for education and careers that men had. Yet‚ many women found ways to show their intelligence‚ courage‚
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William Jefferson Clinton’s genius exemplifies many characteristics of the Age of Modernism and Pluralism in Western culture. The Age of Modernism and Pluralism is said to be a culmination of the previous two major periods in human history. Modernism has the "quest for an authoritatively-rational aesthetics‚ ethics‚ and knowledge indicative of the Enlightened Period" ("PostModernism"‚ 2005)‚ and the higher ideals of respect for people’s rights and liberty brought forth during the Romantic period. Former
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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 society‚ touching many aspects of our business
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Muslims complete adherence to the law of Islam and rejects as much as possible outside influence. It is based with a deep antagonism towards non-Muslims and has a particular hostility towards the West. It amounts to an effort to turn Islam‚ a religion and civilization‚ into an ideology. Islamism is‚ in other words‚ 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
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de Chavannes‚ 27C CH-1007 Lausanne-Vidy Switzerland Impacts of Information Technology on Society in the new Century 1 Introduction In the past few decades there has been a revolution in computing and communications‚ and all indications are that technological progress and use of information technology will continue at a rapid pace. Accompanying and supporting the dramatic increases in the power and use of new information technologies has been the declining cost of communications as a result
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PHILOSOPHIC MATRIX OF MODERNISM‚ IMAGISM‚ CULTURAL BEARINGS‚ INFLUENCES By the beginning of the XX c. in England‚ the poetry cultivated was one in the line of the Romantic poetry. Relevant figures such as Rudgard Kipling and Oscar Wilde: Kipling’s poetry has a social use‚ official propaganda‚ in order to make the reader achieve social goals. The style is rhetorical and discursive. The language is the language of the public. (Morality) Oscar Wilde stands for another type of poetry‚ with the idea of “art
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Impact of Technology Every day we cannot live without technology. We wake up in the morning‚ we take a bath‚ we have breakfast‚ we do our daily activities‚ and all are affected by something called technology. From the simplest form of it until the most complex one‚ technology filled our daily life. The famous phrase "Information Technology" of course is one of the forms of technology. Before we continue talking about technology‚ we must know its definition. Shortly‚ technology is something related
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