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    nude body as a source of inspiration and content since the beginning of the medium. As stated by Graham Clarke in his book The Photograph‚ “[m]uch of the photography of the body in the early twentieth century is an extension of nineteenth-century preoccupations and attitudes” (Clarke). The 19th century encompassed the Victorian Era‚ and although it was shortly after the camera was invented‚ according to the Museum of Sex: “Victorians took millions of photographs; an untold

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    The National Labor Union was the first union to organize workers regardless of their race‚ gender‚ and skilled or not skilled workers. NLU only succeeded in winning an eight-hour workday for federal employees and was otherwise very unsuccessful in reaching their goals. The second major

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    If a woman’s role could be shown to be socially constructed within a specific historical context‚ rather than natural and universal‚ then feminists would argue that it was open to change. Activists within the first organised women’s movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries found that women were largely absent from standard history texts and this inspired them to write their own histories. Detailed studies of women’s work‚ trade unionism and political activities were produced by authors

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    “Dynamic Tension Through Compression and Expansion” - Interior Architecture MANIFESTATION OF THE THIRD DIMENSION THIRD DIMENSION * The quality of depth or thickness in an object or a space. “Dynamic Tension Through Compression and Expansion” (5th dimension) DYNAMIC * Continuous and productive activity or change TENSION * balance maintained in an artistic work between opposing forces or an elements COMPRESSION * reduce space occupied or space required EXPANSION

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    In America‚ centuries have evolved and the people acknowledge that there are continuous issues in the struggle of Black identity. These issues have been witnessed in jobs‚ schools‚ restaurants‚ neighborhoods‚ etc. Evolving since slavery‚ leaders in the Black community wrote motivational speeches and literary narratives. These expositions promptly exposed and articulated the inhumane oppression inflicted on the African American race. “Under God’s guidance in this great democracy‚ we are rising out

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    Business was thriving‚ the economy was growing‚ and life as a whole was improving. However‚ there was a growing minority of workingmen whose long‚ difficult hours of toil were being taken advantage of by greedy‚ selfish employers. These poor men and their malnourished‚ destitute families compiled the backbone of the thriving economy. Without them‚ production as a whole would have been at a standstill and the growing quality of life for Americans would have been dampened. Yet

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    b) The rubric requires an “explicitly stated thesis that addresses all parts of the question.” The prompt here is: Identify the issues raised by the growth of Manchester and analyze the various reactions to those issues over the course of the 19th Century. Here is an organization that tracks the prompt and will lead to a solid thesis: Issues Positive Reactions Negative Reactions 1 (massive growth) 6 (disease‚ bad health‚ bad morals) 8 (short life span) 3 (better lives) 9 (workshop to world)

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    Compare and Contrast nation building in the United States‚ Italy‚ and Germany in the 19th century. The fall of Napoleon in the early 19th century had awoken a spirit of nationalism and sparked the unification of many countries around the world. The Congress of Vienna restored territories conquered by Napoleon‚ but it distributed land in ways that methodically kept certain territorial areas from uniting to form large‚ possibly powerful countries. Nonetheless‚ people across Europe fought for unification

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    female subordination‚ and to convince men to rethink their control on supporting authority and give women the right to vote and to hold public office. Reformers Ferocity. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Feminism--United States--History--19th century There has been issue of women’s rights being violated deep in American history and still going on today in America. Deep in America history there was a time when American women did not had the right to keep her possession upon marriage. (By

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    Unit I: Question 7 Case Study: North American Expansion for Threads Apparel Managing Information Technology (Brown‚ DeHayes‚ Hoffer‚ Martin‚ and Perkins‚ (2012) In this electronic age‚ the recent trends in Information Technology (IT) have influenced competition and have changed the way we work. Let’s examine how this has happened. In regards to competition‚ we can walk into any electronic store like Best Buy and see numerous brands of computer and computer software. HP and IBM were primarily

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