In the mid-19th century‚ a deadly epidemic cholera had infected many citizens of Victorian London as well as taking their lives. Cholera is a bacteria disease that infects the stomach‚ which causes diarrhea and dehydration‚ usually contracted through the consumption of dirty water. According to the topic of medicine in the 19th century discussed in the 2015 lecture in Introduction to European history by Dr. Chelsea Shields-Más; both John Snow and Henry Whitehead made major impacts on the perceptions
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Whether it is now in the 21st century or as early as the 19th century‚ there was a lot expected from women. Their main roles had always been carrying mothers for their children and loving wives for their husbands. However‚ where did this idea come from and how did it change throughout the years if they were expected to be goodwives? In a world of patriarchy‚ how did women find other roles besides domesticity? Women started with barely any rights in the colonial America but as decades went by‚ more
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and incapable social image of women that male psychologists had promoted for so many decades. Even before Sigmund Freud’s implication of his degrading theories towards women‚ men had the power to manipulate‚ control‚ and brand women because they were the only holders of authority. The concept that women were controlled by their reproductive systems was almost regarded as fact and supported the beliefs that women were feeble and “highly nervous by
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Labor in the Nineteenth Century 2. A. The Lowell Mills Strike of 1834 took place in Lowell‚ Massachusetts in 1834. The dominant work force in the Lowell Mills were young‚ rural‚ unmarried women. Working in the Lowell Mills was dangerous because the machinery could easily injure a young girl if she made a simple mistake. Also the women worked long hours with little pay. Despite these treacherous conditions there was sense of unity among the women who all came from similar backgrounds. In 1834
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While the social aspect of each population played a huge part in the success or failure of a community‚ the monies that changed hands for goods and services by both locals and wayward wanderers were directly related to the prosperity of a town. Successful mining ventures boosted the economy‚ but once the natural resources had been depleted‚ the thriving economy often accompanied gold seekers to their next destination. Immigrants who ventured to America for a chance at a better life often found
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THE SITUATION OF WOMEN The economic‚ social and political status of women have direct bearings on the level of fertility in any society. Where women ’s roles are exclusively defined in terms of household management and matrimonial duties‚ as is the case in Ethiopia‚ they are subject to the expectation that they replenish the race by bearing a large number of children and assume full responsibility for maintaining them almost single handedly. Since women are‚ by and large‚ economically dependent
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analysis of “A Supermarket in California” Allen Ginsberg; philosopher‚ activist‚ poet‚ a man highly revered as a groundbreaking figure between the 1950’s Beat Poetry Generation and the counter-cultural revolution of the 1960’s (poetryarchive.org). Ginsberg’s first book “Howl and Other Poems‚” was published in 1955‚ his work was involved in an illustrious obscenity trial because of the use of homosexuality in his work and its explicit content (poetryarchive.org). This was a pivotal case for those
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Prejudice is an unjustified or negative attitude directed toward a person based solely on their social standing. Discrimination is negative actions or behavior addressed towards a certain group of people according to their gender‚ the color of skin‚ social class‚ etc. In the late 19th century following on the heels of the "age of enlightenment" and entering the "Industrial Revolution" in France Alexander Comte believed that using the techniques of science‚ could be applied
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Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 20‚ Number 2—Spring 2006 —Pages 3–22 Why Europe and the West? Why Not China? David S. Landes T he world history of technology is the story of a long‚ protracted inversion. As late as the end of the first millennium of our era‚ the civilizations of Asia were well ahead of Europe in wealth and knowledge. The Europe of what we call the Middle Ages (say‚ tenth century) had regressed from the power and pomp of Greece and Rome‚ had lost much of the science
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Review Essay – Freedom of Contract in the 19th Century: Mythology and the Silence of the Sources – Sibylle Hofer’s Freiheit ohne Grenzen? Privatrechtstheoretische Diskussionen im 19. Jahrhundert Sibylle Hofer‚ Freiheit ohne Grenzen? privatrechtstheoretische Diskussionen im 19. Jahrhundert‚ Mohr (Siebeck): Tübingen 2001‚ 313 pp.‚ Jus Publicum Vol. 53‚ ISBN 316-147576-3 By Andreas Abegg and Annemarie Thatcher* “Qui dit contractuel‚ dit juste”.1 This oft-cited quote by Fouillée in 1880 tempts
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