treated when it came to crimes and decision making. Using the books; “Mutiny on the Bounty”‚ “Great American Trials”‚ and “A Murder Most Foul”‚ this would allow a deeper understanding of how race was handled in the American Legal system in the 18th‚ 19th centuries‚ and also in this era. Looking at how court systems handled cases involving race‚ how the courts were likely to stretch the law to suit purposes‚ and the possible different treatment of free blacks versus slaves. Also taking a step into the trials
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up” all race differences and cultures to become on American culture. The ideas of multiculturalism started at the end of the nineteenth century and turned into the concept of cultural pluralism that defined the nation as a mixture of diverse ethnicities with different cultural backgrounds‚ all co-existing and contributing to the new nation. Over the past centuries‚ there have been debates on how to define the “real” American and the “real” American identity. A lot of these struggles also led to Civil
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A History of 19th and 20th Century Russia A society’s understanding of its history is crucial to a society’s perception and definition of itself. During the 1980s the Soviet Union underwent a cultural revival‚ whereby the Russian people‚ prompted by Mikhail Gorbachev’s invitation to glasnost (more openness)‚ began critically re-examining Soviet and pre-revolutionary history. As the nation engaged in oral discussions and literary readings to study their past‚ they started to reassess the Soviet
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In the late 19th century the government reaction was one of Laissez Faire to poverty. Minimal intervention through the workhouse (expanded after the Poor Law Amendment act of 1834) where eligibility criteria was enclosed to try to scale down the worst excesses of poverty and squalor. People arrived at the realisation that poverty was due to social and economic factors outside the person’s control. Poverty had more or less vanished from the political radar in the early 1950s. However‚ came back into
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The 17th and 18th centuries are commonly referred to as the Enlightenment. The ideals of the period are based upon reason. People began thinking for themselves rather than the government or the church think for you. People began questioning‚ and not relying on fear‚ superstition‚ government or faith to guide them. Instead people used reason and logic to search for truth. Searching for the truth leaves out faith and science becomes the new focus. The scientific method becomes the standard when
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Women have come so far since the nineteenth century. They have become so much more equal to and more independent of men. “The story of an hour” shows feminism through the eyes of a women in the nineteenth century which compares to feminism nowadays. You can define feminism in so many ways. But the main two are “The theory of the political‚ economic‚ and also social equality of the sexes” and “Organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests as well”. (Merriam-Webster) Feminism has been
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Over the course of two centuries‚ the ways that wars and battles are fought have changed drastically‚ and yet the end goal has always remained the same‚ to win and not be defeated no matter at what cost. As the progression of the Industrial Revolution escalated‚ it paved the way for what could be produced to help military forces win in battle. Industrialization during the 18th & 19th centuries caused the battles of Waterloo and the Somme to be a great example of how industrialization helped evolve
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grown cynical and cruel. This interaction caused the Lakota culture to change a great deal during the nineteenth century. Horses and guns brought about a dramatic change in the Lakota’s culture. They “enabled them to seize and defend their rich hunting grounds‚ to follow the great migrating herds of buffalo that shaped their distinctive way of life‚ and by the middle of the nineteenth century to evolve into the proud and powerful monarchs of the northern Great Plains (R6).” They acquired their first
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The Influence of Realism and Naturalism on 20th Century American Fiction After World War I‚ American people and the authors among them were left disillusioned by the effects that war had on their society. America needed a literature that would explain what had happened and what was happening to their society. American writers turned to what is now known as modernism. The influence of 19th Century realism and naturalism and their truthful representation of American life and people was evident in
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In the turn of the 19th century‚ a psychologist Herbert Spencer branched off the thought of Darwinism and promoted the evolutionary thought of social Darwinism which differed from the original idea of survival of the fittest (Goodwin‚ 1995). Social Darwinists believe in the idea that humans‚ like plants and animals‚ struggle for the existence of natural selection results in “survival of the fittest.” Spencer claimed that‚ evolution must be unchecked because of its natural and inevitable forces that
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