...In the early 1900’s reformers where willing to fight for what they believed in. It was many different reformers that had a big role in influencing and changing America’s politics and governments since the early 20th century also known as the progressive era. These things helped shape our great nation and what it has grown to be. Some of those reform groups where the muckrakers, women’s rights, and flappers. In the beginning of the 20th century women were basically seen as less than men as they weren’t involved in anything political as in voting, being one of them ones to hold office, and they were looked down upon as second class citizens. However, women were willing to protest and fight for equal rights in the early nineteen hundred’s since blacks had the right to vote due to the 15th Amendment in 1870, they also felt they should have a say in who is elected into office. As time developed during the early 20th century, a group of ladies known as flappers showed that they were willing to rebel against what modern America wanted them...
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...One of the most important things I learned from the reading involved education being used as a tool during the early 1900’s. College presidents wanted to keep their increased number of students before WWI because most of the men attending colleges had to report to military duty. After reporting a loss in enrollment, colleges wanted assistance from the federal government. The government decides on a training on college campuses. I agreed that our service men deserved adult and higher education for their service to the country. In the early 1920’s when the demand for college increased, it was good to see servicemen being invested in. After the mandatory draft that took place, many of the colleges changed the way they enrolled students. Since...
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...Organized crime was booming in the early 1900’s due to new laws and millions of people immigrating into the country. The 19th amendment was put into place after many protesters argued that alcohol caused men to beat their wives and children and also spend their entire paycheck at the bar. This new law prevented the transportation, buying, and selling of alcohol, which created a crime empire. Gangsters took the country by storm, due to the new market and left scars that are still reminisced in pop culture today. Lucky Luciano was the idol gangster, practically creating the modern mafia and owning an empire without being noticed by the public eye. Luciano’s birth name, Salvatore Lucania was given to him when he was born in Sicily in the mining...
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...During the early 1900s in Germany, all women, regardless of their social and class position, faced social injustice, as certain rights that would allow them to contribute to Germany’s political sphere were specifically restricted from them. Although German women had been undoubtedly successful in forcing Germany to grant them the political rights of union and assembly rights, women still lacked the most fundamental political right, that is, the right to vote. The denial of this imperative right to vote prevented women from truly participating and contributing to Germany’s political sphere, because it would allow German women to “decide directly on the people’s representatives in legislature and administration, [and] to be an elected member...
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...She was in the center of the lake, just under the surface. She was drowning yes; but, not physically. Breaking down inside, she was an emotional mess. To get degraded over and over again, she was exhausted. That was what it was like to have men superior over women, to be of a lower “status” as a woman. Women were always swept under a rug because everyone thought they were unequal. Since they were thought of differently, women were treated differently as well. So how can I tell women were treated differently than men from just reading this poem? Well women were treated differently in society overall in the early 1900s and that is when this poem was written, in 1939. In 1939, before and after The Depression, women were dehumanized all the time...
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...told a story of something horrible. My Grandmother told me a story about her childhood. The reason why it was so sad is, that she grew up in the times where children her age were getting pulled away from their families to be a child soldier. It was hard for her, she described it as something she would remember forever because her own best friend his family barely had money and they sent him away to be a child soldier. After hearing this I read articles about child soldiers. I came across two articles “Armed & Underaged” by Jeffrey Gettleman and “The Charge: Genocide” by Lydia Polgreen.I can tell justice will never be done for anyone in the late 1900’s through the early 2000’s. I know this because there was the killing of certain ethnic groups....
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...the world between 1900 and 2005 is communication. The twenty- first century have more different varieties of communication advantages than back in the nineteen hundreds. These communications includes mail, phone, and even sound languages. In the 1900's most people wrote letters in order to contact loved ones. In the year 2005 most people send an email instead of writing on paper and sending it by mail. The advantages of email are that you don’t have to spend money on paper, pens, and stamps. Sending someone an electronic mail than a letter by mail is a lot easier. Sending an email is also cheaper than sending a letter by mail also. Phones in the 1900‘s were not as good back then than they are now. In the early 1900 hundreds there were no caller id or voice mail. In 2005 people were more aware of who was calling or who had called them because of the expand of phone technology. Cell phones were not invented in the early 1900‘s either. By 2005 people were able to used cell phones even if they were not at home. Sound languages are another variety of communication advantage that occurred between 1900 and 2005. There are more ways to do sound languages now than back then. It was very hard to communicate with deaf people in the early 1900‘s. Now in the twentieth first century, more people are learning sound languages. There are also classes people can take now to learn how to do sound languages. As you can see, the world has changed significantly between 1900 and 2005 in communication...
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...The character Peter Pan was actually inspired by the tragic death of the author's brother. Because J.M. Barrie,which is the author of Peter Pan, experienced what it's like to lose a brother he used this to write the very popular story known as Peter Pan. J.M. Barrie was a boy who grew up in Scotland.He later released the book of young wendy being taken to neverland with a boy named Peter. Information concerning the life of J.M. Barrie includes his early years,inspiration for writing Peter Pan. and the world at the time. These topics are all associated with Peter Pan. To begin,information regarding the world of J.M. Barrie includes his early years. James Matthew Barrie was born May 9, 1860(“J.M. Barrie” 1). He grew up in scotland and graduated from Edinburgh University around 1882(“J.M. Barrie” 1). He studied Journalism and later started publishing popular novels(“J.M. Barrie” 1). The article states “He got married himself in 1894 to actress Mary Ansell but it didn’t turn out to be a happy union”(“J.M. Barrie” 1). In other words Barrie and Ansell soon got divorced. To escape his difficult life at home he often took long walks in the Kensington Gardens(“J.M. Barrie” 1). On one of his walks he made the acquaintance of the five...
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...In the book “Major Problems in California History”, there are two decades in two chapters that share some similarities and differences. For example, Chapter 5 discusses about women playing a role during the California Gold Rush, while Chapter 8 discusses about women progressives who created and took part in the progressive movement in California. Both chapters take place in different decades, while Chapter 5 takes place during the 1850’s – 1870’s, Chapter 8 takes place during the early 1900’s. A similarity both of these chapters share is that both chapters discuss about women having a major role in two important decades in California. On the other hand, both chapters are different because they take place during a different time period in California....
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...population. During the early 20th century many of the arriving African American musicians began moving to an area in Memphis known as Beale Street. Beale Street allowed musicians to create soulful and emotionally charged music relating to the struggles they faced involving racism throughout the country (Charlton 9-10). Beale Street musicians such as W.C Handy later helped popularize a form of music throughout Memphis known as “the blues,” which would eventually become a nationwide craze throughout the United States. During the early 20th century Beale street contained the “largest urban black population in the south” (Robertson 4). Thousands of African Americans traveled from all over the U.S to Beale Street for a chance at a better lifestyle (Robertson 4). Beale Street attracted many former slaves to its union territory between the 1860’s and the 1870’s (Williams). With them the music they brought “was a blending of European form (12-bar structure) and African traditions (rhythm), accompanied by narrative lyrics (Conover 10). This synthesis of musical cultures helped to shape the development of the music of Memphis, and aided early musicians in creating a style of music later known as the blues. One important musician who incorporated these styles into the early shaping of the blues was William Christopher Handy. Handy was born eight years after the civil war ended in Florence, Alabama (Robertson 21). He began playing the coronet in the early 1880’s, and one day wished to...
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...The Change in Education from the 1900’s to present day. Separation to Inclusion (Special Education) https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osers/idea35/history/idea-35-history.pdf • The IDEA was initiated in the Early 2000’s it was an improvement of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, Public Law (P.L.) 94-142 • The IDEA allowed children with disabilities to be able to get an equal education (up to their capabilities) • Up until the 1970’s children with disabilities were not given the opportunity to get an education like the children without disabilities. • Before the 1970’s students with disabilities, people didn’t know what to do with them, so the parents sent them away to schools specifically for them, or put them in mental...
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...Mass Media Nicole Domenichello HUM/186 Erin Di Cesare We have always turned to the media to find out important information in regards to what was going on in the world. Starting out early in the twentieth century with the simplest forms of media, to now extending beyond what anyone could have ever imagined in that time. Mass media has made some major turning points over the last century. Each development in the evolution of mass media has left lasting impressions on the way our society and the world function today. People within our society relied heavily on newspapers and magazines to get their source of information and their fill of current events in the early years of the 1900’s. This was a huge landmark in the early part of the twentieth century because it allowed people to stay up to date on local and national news. Then came the 1940’s, when the world was introduced to the radio. Having the radio available brought people more resourceful information, and current updates on the war. In the 1950’s came the television, and this reached people in the masses, allowing live telecasts of news broadcasts. Having the television was great for society at that point in time, because people embellished the fact that it combined the newspaper and the radio into one. Then came the introduction of the satellite. In 1962, people were able to get information about international news, and this just blew up from there. In...
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...Maya Angelou, along with writing poetry, was a civil right activist and produced most of her poems from the late 1960’s until the early 2000’s. Because of her involvement in the Civil Rights movement and the time period in which she lived, almost all of her poems are about common instances of that time. The message of most of these poems relate to social issues that developed during the middle to late 1900’s, whether they pertain to race, gender, or other matters. These poems are a way of informing people of those issues and hopefully able to cause a change. Some of Maya Angelou’s works address more than one problem and have many different interpretations while others have a more straightforward way of revealing their meaning to the reader. She writes from a certain perspective so that most people can understand the poem’s message and central idea....
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...migration: is the number immigrating into country minus the number emigrating from it • The UK’s population grew from 37mil in 1901 to 61mil today and should reach 71mil by 2031 • Growth has been mostly due to natural change rather than net migration Births There are two measures of births 1. Birth rate 2. Total fertility rate The birth rate • The birth rate: is the number of live births per 1,000 of the population per year • There has been a long-term decline in the birth rate • In 1900, it was almost 29 • By 2007, it had fallen by more than 60%, to under 11 • But there have been fluctuations • There were 3 ‘baby booms’: 1 after each war and another in the 1960’s • The rate fell sharply in the 1970’s, rose during the 1980’s and early 1990’s, and then fell until the recent increase since 2001 The total fertility rate • The total fertility rate: is the average number of children a woman will have during her fertile years (aged 15-44) • In the 1960’s baby boom, it reached an average of 2.95 children per woman, declining to an all-time low of 1.63 in 2001, before rising slightly to 1.84 in 2006 • The total fertility rate obviously affects family and household size – the more children a woman has, the bigger the family: 1. More women are remaining childless nowadays 2. Women are having children later: the average age is now almost 30 Reasons for the fall in birth rate Many social, economic, legal and technological factors are...
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...In the early 1900's many events happened that made Maryland what it is now. Maryland's industrial expansion continued into the early year of the 1900's. The state's factories and shipyards expanded greatly after the United States entered World War I in 1917. The U.S Army established the Aberdeen Proving Ground, its first testing center, along the northwest shore of Chesapeake Bay, (one of the most famous bay in Maryland) in 1917. In 1919, the U.S. Congress passed a law making it illegal to manufacture, sell, and transport alcoholic beverages. Marylanders were among the leading opponents of prohibition because they considered it a violation of their state's right. As a result, Maryland became known as the Free State. This nickname is still sometimes...
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