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    Russia in 19th Century

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    Why was Russia so difficult to rule in the nineteenth century? Russia was considered as a difficult country to rule during the nineteenth century as there was such diversity in cultures for instance‚ only 40% of the population was made up of Russians. The rest of the population were other nationalities‚ this made it a problem as the Tsar insisted on russification which meant other cultures had to leave their traditions behind and speak and act like a Russian person. Not a lot of people were happy

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    The average American was susceptible to many infectious diseases during the 1800’s. Because the spread of disease and pathology itself were not adequately understood until the late 1800’s(major epidemics continued to occur into the 1900’s‚ however)‚ and the practice of medicine was relatively primitive‚ the average life expectancy was very low. Many epidemics occurred in the new and thriving industrial centers of America‚ where rapid urbanization had not provided for adequate sanitation or living

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    this essay is to examine what crime and punishment was like during the 17th century through to the 19th century. Throughout the 17th and the 19th century‚ in Europe‚ states were being taken over by early forms of organized crime‚ such as highwaymen‚ bandits‚ brigands and bushrangers. Europe was not the only country to be overrun with organized crime‚ international countries had to deal with them too. How organized crime came to be was during the 15th and 17th centuries‚ in Europe there were a lot

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    In the Postbellum and Industrial nineteenth century‚ many religions adapted their beliefs and practices to the environment around them. Catholicism‚ as it was worshiped by Greek and Italian immigrants‚ looked vastly different from the ways in which the Americanized Roman Catholics worshiped. Judaism experienced this acclimatization as well‚ with Orthodox Jews and Reformed Jews sharing more differences than they did similarities. As time progressed gender norms began to evolve in American society

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    During the 19th century a revolution had occurred. It was called the Industrial Revolution. Many inventions were being made which would not only help the society but also the economy. A man by the name of Eli Whitney had found a way to make slave lives easier. Machine by the name of "cotton engine"‚ also called cotton gin. It would allow kind fibers to separate from the seeds a lot easier than by hand. It took a toll on a society by causing the slave population to increase. As the cotton production

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    The 19th century was a time of rapid change and modernization of the world through quite possibly the most impactful economic movement in human history‚ the form of the Industrial Revolution. Coming out of the 18th century‚ which saw Enlightenment ideas flourish into actual Constitutions of rapidly rising nations‚ the 19th century saw the infant mortality rate drop rapidly and population growth boom due to findings such as the first vaccine‚ not using leeches to treat disease‚ as well as a variety

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    The 19th Century Virtuoso

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    virtuoso began in the nineteenth-century with musicians such as Niccolò Paganini and Franz Liszt. Franz Liszt perfected the idea of the ideal nineteenth-century virtuoso performer. As a virtuosic pianist‚ he used his learned technicality and grandiose way of performing to amaze audiences with his professionalism on the piano. His exciting performances started a grand uproar that lead to the rise of an intense fan frenzy known as Lisztomania during the mid-nineteenth-century. One of Liszt’s most famous

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    military administration‚ or the privilege to wed. 150 years prior‚ it was a considerably bigger segment of the populace’s turn: ladies. All through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth‚ ladies battled for equivalent rights under the law and in particular the privilege to vote. In both North America and Europe in the nineteenth century‚ ladies and men were relied upon to fill separate circles of society. Men were required to carry on with an open life‚ whether it was working in a processing plant

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    Developments In The Last Century Brenda Steger Hum/186 Media Influences On American Culture June 8‚ 2013 Dr. Victoria Yancey Developments In The Last Century In detail this paper will show how the media played an important role in the culture today. It will answer the questions What were the major developments in the evolution of mass media in the last century? It will also ask How did each development influence American culture? And What is ment by the term media convergence and

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    Woman in the 19th Century

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    In her essay Woman in the Nineteenth Century‚ Margaret Fuller discusses the state of marriage in America during the 1800‘s. She is a victim of her own knowledge‚ and is literally considered ugly because of her wisdom. She feels that if certain stereotypes can be broken down‚ women can have the respect of men intellectually‚ physically‚ and emotionally. She explains why some of the inequalities exist in marriages around her. Fuller feels that once women are accepted as equals‚ men and women will be

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