In the early decades of the twentieth century‚ Canada went through significant changes. A lot of trends and inventions became known in these years that are still relevant today. Many changes were made on the provinces and laws that helped shape Canada into the country it is now. Canada went through much social change in these years also‚ from medical inventions to new entertainment to the rights of its citizens. Not only the laws‚ but provinces and people faced much positive change in this time.
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Jane Addams‚ a pioneering social worker‚ helped bring attention to the possibility of revolutionizing America’s attitude toward the poor. Not only does she remain a rich source of provocative social theory to this day‚ her accomplishments affected the philosophical‚ sociological‚ and political thought. Addams was an activist of courage and a thinker of originality. Jane Addams embodied the purest moral standards of society which were best demonstrated by her founding of the Hull-House and her
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Alfred Kinsey In the early twentieth century a time a time where sex was an unspeakable subject‚ when adolescents were taught that masturbation was not only a sin ‚but could cause blindness or hairy palms‚ along came Alfred Kinsey‚ who first started as a biologist studying gall wasps‚ and suddenly turned his interest from insects to people‚ disturbed by the lack of scientific knowledge concerning human sexuality he released a series of books called sexual behavior in the human male‚ next to human
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After the civil war and then throughout the rest of the nineteenth century‚ became much larger‚ more industrialized‚ and became much more common. The new American city changed people’s lives and people continued to change the city. The most prominent factors that transformed places like New York‚ Boston‚ and Chicago were immigration‚ industrialization‚ and the expansion of the railway system. The Industrialization of cities in the mid to late 1800’s all started with the railroad system. Railroads
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With this in mind‚ airplane stability refers to the tendency of an airplane remaining in a straight and upright position despite there being a change in attitude during the flight (Vincenti‚ p. 52). However‚ while the invention of the airplane was gradually gaining the interest of inventors/pilots during the late 1800s into the early 1900s‚ the importance of airplane stability was not always obvious and was often taken for granted. For example‚ in the 1910s‚ airplane stability was often referred
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FUNDAMENTALISM AND ITS RISE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. What is Fundamentalism? The most common association those with no base knowledge of the term make is with Islam‚ the word being linked to the faith with great popularity in the first decade of the twenty first century. Despite this point many faiths‚ apart from Islam‚ like the Christian‚ Jewish‚ Buddhist‚ and Hindu have those within their respective memberships who can be classed as fundamentalists. Fundamentalists are staunch believers and
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Jane Addams’ legacy and impact on history lives on through many people and organizations today. Because Jane Addams opened the Hull House‚ many other settlement houses were built and continue to function. These settlement houses brought attention to the needs of youth in society. In 1893‚ Hull House opened the first public playground in Chicago. Current care for children and teens are seen today in early childhood education‚ after-school programs‚ and focus on recreation such as gym‚ recess‚ and
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Early Austrlia 1900 Health Health in the 1900th century was not as up to date as it is today there were plagues and very deadly diseases spreading not only through Australia but through the world. Bubonic plague was unknown in Australia until 1900. There had been outbreaks in ports with which Australia had constant contact from 1894 when the plague was officially declared an epidemic in Hong Kong. From 1896 a plague pandemic spread around the world. Hydatid disease was a major problem in country
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Hull House‚ by: Jane Addams April 3‚ 2014 Jane Addams was undoubtedly one of the most influential and prominent female figures in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s. She single handedly changed the face of social reform among poor immigrants living in Chicago during this time period‚ and was also regarded as a catalyst for influencing positive community relationships between the poor and the wealthy. Although she was the centerpiece of numerous other reforms during this time‚ her
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Andrew Jackson began to pursue a laissez-faire policy after he revoked the second central bank of the United States.; This led to the rise of American barbarism in the Nineteenth Century. More brutal monetary power has exploited labor. Therefore‚ the American government and the central bank that betrayed the interests of the people were the main culprits for the decline of the Democratic Party. Most Americans are eager to move westward and explore new areas of life. Most of them are farmers. Because
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