George Orwell writes of his experience in British–ruled India in the early Twentieth Century. He was all for the Burmese and all against their oppressors‚ the British. There were three groups of prisoner’s short timers‚ long timers‚ beaten. The British cruelty was that prisoners had to strip in front of others prisoners‚ public humiliate was taken away from human‚ padding strap tight to a metal barrier‚ and his buttocks a target so the prisoner is unable to resist impact. They hired a martial
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Analysis of the extract from “The fun they had” The story under the title "The Fun They Had" was written by a highly prolific American writer‚ one of the three grand masters of science fiction - Isaac Asimov. The key in this text is lyrical. The theme is probably "the influence of technology on the process of teaching." In this story the author uses colloquial speech and jargonized words‚ such as “gee‚ I guess‚ I betcha“ here‚ to show us that these children are rather ordinary‚ and looks similar
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Cultures in the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Century In the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries‚ culture‚ activities‚ rituals‚ and other social subjects continued and remained strong. Others that we today accept as normal started to surface during this period of time. Whether they were well established in society or just starting to develop‚ they nonetheless have a great impact on how society and culture is today‚ and reflect greater changes that were happening on top of it. Several documents showed continuation
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Civil Rights in the USA - How much had been achieved by 1945? Around 1900 the situation for blacks was dire. They suffered extreme discrimination and were frequently the victims of violence in the South. Blacks could not vote and their career opportunities remained limited. White society excluded blacks from equal participation in many areas of public life; they wanted to keep blacks in a position of economic‚ political‚ social and cultural subservience. After the Civil War‚ the USA offered
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A BOOK REVIEW OF MADAME VIEUX CARRÉ: THE FRENCH QUARTER IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY When thinking about the city of New Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ one may think of the opulent Garden District homes or the historic cemeteries where the dead are buried in above-ground mausoleums to avoid the below-sea-level ground conditions. But for most people‚ the thought of the Crescent City evokes images of the debauchery of Bourbon Street or the jazz musicians in Jackson Square: collectively‚ the French Quarter. In his
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very important part role in student’s idea or view‚ however‚ I believe teachers now have less influence on students than they had in the past. There are several reasons to support my statement. Firstly‚ students get more information than they did in the past. Years ago‚ when internet didn’t existed and TV and radio were the privilege of few rich family‚ children or students had only limited channel to get information. Therefore‚ teachers exert dominant influence on students since teachers were
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Written assignment - "The fun they had" "The fun they had" is a science-fiction short story written in 1951 by Isaac Asimov. The text has its focal points on the human behavior as a response to the development of technology - human dependency of technology and how it has become a necessity in order to live a normal life. The text expresses‚ how the progression of technology have lead to the closed and therefore more "efficient" school system that Margie is a part of. As she reads the "real" book
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highest America has ever seen. Prejudice in the early twentieth century was a very big problem because nobody was treated likewise. Men and women‚ Whites and Blacks‚ they were all the same‚ but at the same time‚ all were different. In the fight with different types of predisposition‚ sadly‚ the majority won the battles‚ and even today‚ the war rages on. Slavery was introduced in 1619 when the first African American Slaves were transported to the early settlement of Jamestown‚ Virginia. Slavery was
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led to very invasive foreign policy in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Imperialism caused the US to have a paternalistic attitude‚ and a craving to expand- which shaped their selfish policy. The United States derived an overbearing feeling of paternalism from imperialism that bled on to their foreign policy during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The US felt that they were a superior nation and that they had a duty to better underdeveloped nations. They saw themselves as
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status of women in the early 19th century was shaped by economic considerations‚ religious beliefs‚ and long-held notions of female inferiority. While poor‚ laboring women suffered the most‚ the characteristics of inequality were evident in all social classes. The Proper Role of Women in the Early Republic The early 19th century experienced a shift‚ at least for women in the urban centers of the Northeast‚ from the household economies that reflected an agricultural society to the necessity of linking
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