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    Mental Health In The 18th/19th Century America As a young woman who is still experimenting with adulthood myself‚ having to read about the oppression and subordination of females in the 19th century can become very depressive and heartbreaking. It often goes unnoticed that social neglect leads to mental illnesses and includes more than loneliness and depressive behavior but it rather voids the individual from the identity and the aspiration that they have for themselves and that they

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    19th and 20th Century composers: Claude Debussy‚ Igor Stravinsky‚ and Bela Bartok Many composers existed during the 19th and 20th centuries who defied the principles of common practice tonality. In my opinion‚ Claude Debussy‚ Igor Stravinsky‚ and Bela Bartok are great examples of composers who often refused to follow the norms. Each of them created new compositional methods and structures and each had their own reasons for doing so. In the end‚ their innovation and originality is what has kept

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    In the early colonial period up until the 1800’s‚ many Christians believed that mental illness was a result of sinfulness or demonic possession. This led to people believing that the mentally ill just needed to become closer to God and that idea led to a stigma that still affects today. Many religious people will tell the mentally ill to pray or go to church more often or read the bible‚ and while these things might be effective for the spiritual strain on the mentally ill‚ this often discourages

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    throughout the last quarter of the 19th century due to the large scale of industrialism‚ immigration‚ and urban expansion. At the end of the century‚ a reform movement that included a mix of different people and groups had developed. This time is known as the Progressive movement or era‚ and the people are known as progressives. These people were culturally different‚ but they had the same desires. These desires were to change the way life was in the industrial movement and make political changes and

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    Health Problems of the 19th and 20th Centuries and What Lies Ahead Emily P. Preboski-Michel A.T. Still University Health Problems of the 19th and 20th Centuries and What Lies Ahead Health concerns over the last two centuries have drastically changed and evolved over time with advancements in modern medicine‚ imaging‚ surgical techniques‚ vaccines and research. This paper will explore a few of the major health problems that predominated over the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition it will

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    Discuss the artistic movements of the eighteenth‚ nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. How does one lead to another and what values conflict and produce the change. The eighteenth‚ nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries were characterized by four major artistic movements. They were Neoclassicism‚ Romanticism‚ Realism‚ and Modernism. More often than not‚ these movements represented clear break with old and transition to new social‚ political‚ and cultural ideologies. Through music‚ literature

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    Devine Manifestation was the belief that God sent them fourth to possess the land for expansion and growth. The United States‚ one of the most powerful countries in the world‚ has sought to expand‚ control‚ or influence nations and their people that are not strong enough to defend themselves successfully. The United States almost always has something to gain when “helping” other countries. At the end of the nineteenth century‚ the United States stated to realize what potential they had as a

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    19th Century American Imperialism & 20th Century War Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan couldn’t have said it any better‚ “No nation had ever become great without control of foreign markets and access to the natural resources of foreign countries” (Kinzer 33). Throughout the years‚ America has had an astonishing obsession with the idea of global imperialism. One can’t help but ask the following question: what sparked this sudden obsession with global imperialism? Even though there are many different

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    all. In the late 1800s‚ blue-collar workers carried their lunches to work in metal pails‚ which protected their food from the rigors of the workplace. In fact‚ your lunch pail illustrated your place on the economic scale -- a lunch pail meant you couldn’t afford a hot noontime meal. This didn’t stop children from wanting to emulate their working parents‚ however. Soon enough‚ kids fashioned their own lunch pails from tin boxes that were originally used to hold cookies or tobacco. Early mass-produced

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    During the 1860’s America was in a period of economic hardship due to the ongoing demand for materials and money to fund the war. In the South‚ sufficient money and materials were hard to acquire because the southern economy still depended on the labor of slaves to produce their goods and income rather than factories. The Northern economy used numerous factories to produce goods and make profit for the war‚ but they still did not have technology that was advanced enough to easily produce all the

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