“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful‚ or believe to be beautiful." -William Morris In the age of decadence and authenticity‚ William Morris stood out from the artists and designers of the time by creating works based upon good quality raw materials‚ hand processing and natural dyes. The walls of most Victorian homes‚ with few exceptions‚ were deeply colored‚ profusely patterned‚ draped with printed cloth‚ or heavily hung with pictures. Especially in the rising middle classes
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The story ( The Wonder World of OZ ) written by Frank Baum is filled with symbolism. Symbolism a style of writing using symbols and indirect suggestion to express ideas‚ emotions‚ people etc. The story gives a lot of symbols relating to the gilded age in American history which took place from 1880 1900. The main symbols are: Dorothy‚ the Land of Oz‚ lion‚ Emerald City‚ flying monkeys. <br> <br>The first person the story talks about in the story is Dorothy. She’s a girl that comes form Kansas and
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please their men. Even though the men are sexual‚ the women are always there to please him to relief his stress and to get his mind of the evil day. The image of the Victorian Era was seeing of full of riches that the historians called the Gilded Age. The Gilded age is a perfect luxury for people to live in‚ filled with perfect pleasure by paintings‚ all over their furniture. The new place of Jerusalem looked gorgeous and magical: the streets were paved in gold‚ the metal was in gold‚ and every single
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PROGRESSIVE ERA THROUGH THE GREAT DEPRESSION Name: Course: Tutor: Date: First Paper Themes of the progressive era Introduction This was an age of social involvement and political progression in the United States between the period of 1890 and 1920s. The main reason for undergoing this process was to purify the government by making efforts to eliminate corruption by revealing the political masters and machines. A large number of citizens supported the movement to ensure the elimination
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In 1873‚ the late nineteenth century was named The Gilded Age‚ thanks to Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner. This reflected the time’s combination of dazzle and wealth along with poverty and inner corruption. Most historians define this period by it’s negatives‚ due to a lack of powerful presidents and cheap history. These people‚ Twain and Warner included‚ weren’t wrong about The Gilded Age’s corruption. However. there were also some of the most influential years in American history during this
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The point in America’s economic history in which Mark Twain‚ famous American author‚ called The Gilded Age‚ had many myths around every corner. One of the more prominent myths in The Gilded Age was the idea that an average man could become successful through his own hard work and passion for what he did‚ and if they didn’t get this it was because of the idea of Social Darwinism‚ or that they didn’t work hard enough. Though there are a few rare cases of this occurring‚ such as Andrew Carnegie‚ this
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exactly what is the Progressive movement? As well as what is conservatism to liberalism? During The Gilded Age we see the rise of what is now known as the progressive movement. The Knights of Labor for example helped unite workers and was a starting point of progressivism. People came to understand that our founding fathers never expected a massive growth of private wealth as that of the Gilded Age. So coming out of this time period‚ there will be a time for reform. The Progressive movement was this
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and the stench of dead animals. The factories were an unsafe place for children filled with machines everywhere. Children and even adults get hurt every day. The gilded age has its own era in time. “The gilded age is a time between the Civil War and World War 1 during which the U.S. population and economy grew quickly.” The gilded age was about around the time of 1873. The American Dream was to become rich
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The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era were 50 years in which a large wealth gap between the rich and poor increased dramatically and needed a solution‚ similar to our nation’s situation today. Big corporations in major cities were able to take advantage of a surplus of those in the working class and technological advancements‚ leading to a select few holding the majority of fortune. There were many resolutions to this gap in wealth coming from powerful people‚ like Andrew Carnegie‚ William Sumner
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To contextualize‚ during this time period the Gilded Age was taking place. This was where on the surface‚ things looked good‚ but really they weren’t. The Great Chicago Fire was something that tremendously impacted everything in its path including people‚ infrastructure‚ and nature. Due to the Great Chicago Fire devastating Chicago and the surrounding areas‚ it left the city in a large amount of debt‚ thousands of people homeless‚ and massive destruction to the city. The Great Chicago Fire devastated
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