...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 Color of Freedom Life for black women in the early 1900s was difficult, not only because of racism and lack of women’s rights, but because of the subjugation they faced from the men in their lives and from society. In the novel, The Color Purple, by Alice Walker, the narrator is an abused black woman named Celie. Walker uses this unique protagonist to comment on the racism, sexism, and abuse of women that was so prevalent in the early 1900s. Walker used Celie’s inner monologue (in the form of letters to God and her sister Nettie) to convey the overarching message of the novel; the power of finding that inner voice that leads to freedom from the oppression of society’s expectations. Celie started off the book as a powerless victim of the men in her life with no voice. Walker uses Celie’s first person point of view to tell her life story of abuse and submissive silence. Celie’s only form of communication about her thoughts and feelings are through letters to God that are brief at first but then are more complex as Celie gets more confident and finds her voice. In the beginning, Celie’s inner voice had been beaten into silence at an early age by her abusive step-father and later by her husband with emotional and physical abuse. She survived by “[not] fight(ing)… stay[ing] where (she) told” and staying silent letting her step father believe that she is” too dumb to keep going to school” (Walker 2.254, 3. 342) Celie was only able to find her voice once she stood up to her husband...
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...inspired her to write such a book was the racism and slavery that’s was going on during the 1900s. Alice Walker's career really took flight with “The Color Purple” because it’s set in the early 1900s the novel explores the female African-American experience through the life and struggles of the main character Celie because she suffered the terrible abuse at the hands of her step-father which later on sells her to another person named Mr.____ becoming his wife due to inequality of man to women during the...
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...A Focus on the Thesis Statement Historical Context: Between 1875 and 1900, the relationship between Africa and Europe dramatically changed. Within a quarter century European imperial powers partitioned and colonized almost the entire African continent. The prospects of exploiting African resources and the nationalist rivalries that existed between European powers help to explain this frenzied quest for empire, often referred to as the “scramble for Africa.” The policies adopted by imperial powers and colonial officials forced peoples of different societies to deal with their colonizers on a regular and systematic basis. These interactions provoked a variety of responses from Africans. 1. Traditions and Encounters; Jerry H. Bentley and Herbert F. Ziegler; 2006; McGraw-Hill 2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica Inquiry Question: How did Africans react to European imperialism? Part I - Working with Four Source Documents[1] Document #1: From a letter from one African leader to another in German South West-Africa. 1904 All our obedience and patience with the Germans is of no use for each day they shoot someone dead for no reason at all. So, I appeal to you my Brother, not to ignore the uprising, but to make your voice heard so that all Africa may take up arms against the Germans. Let us die fighting rather than die as a result of bad treatment, imprisonment, or some other calamity. (Disaster). Tell all the chiefs down...
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...people had not welcomed those foreigners, but shunned what they had brought with them. Foreign influences were not accepted by the majority as, in the past, foreigners had only brought destruction and chaos. Missionaries gradually gained their Chinese followers, but, nevertheless, there was danger stirring amidst them. The I Ho Ch'uan (The Righteous and Harmonious Fists) also known as “Boxers” had started their rebellion against their foreign enemies. Many of these people were in poverty, but felt they could make a change in their country, thus studying a new form of fighting. These Boxers were fighting against foreigners and Christian Chinese to remove the foreign influence. In June 1900, missionaries and Chinese Rebels were throwing their lives on the line for what they believed...
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...Within Canada in the 1900s multiculturalism events helped form the country we know today. In the Draft letter from the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) in 1886 written for Chinese laborers in Canada to the Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain. When Chinese laborers were no longer needed in Canada, Canada enacted a new part to the Immigration Act. Chinese immigrants began being required to pay a head tax to live there, in a desperate attempt to not pay this tax, they reached out to the Chinese Ambassador. Pleading to get help from this decimation, this draft letter reveals that after the laborers were used to complete dangerous jobs to create the railway that connects multiple parts of Canada. The Chinese laborers believed they...
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...People Magazine People Magazine, first released in 1974, is completely devoted to stardom and the lives of those stars. Our modern day culture is fascinated by what stars are doing, what they are wearing, who they are dating, where they are eating, and the list goes on to cover every little detail of famous people’s lives. Fame comes in many different forms in our culture today from professional athletes to actors to Kardashians, and people in today’s culture try to escape their own lives by reading about the lifestyles of these people. The notion of fame was not the same around the late 19th and early 20th century. There were large names such as Andrew Carnegie or JP Morgan, but working and middle class people were not obsessed over how these wealthy people were living. The closest thing to a magazine like People that existed was the notion of a painted woman. Painted woman stories were in the papers that covered sensational murders of women who were often incredibly beautiful and morally virtuous but for some reason strayed off course and paid the ultimate punishment for it. People around the turn of the 20th century were fascinated with these people, but the fascination was not an envy to be like them. There was not a fixation on becoming famous and well-known back then. American culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was undergoing serious change. The industrial revolution led to significant economic growth and concentration of wealth during the turn of the...
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...Philipp Lenard, who credited Hermann von Helmholtz for using the word in the area of electricity. However, the word quantum in general was well known before 1900.[2] It was often used by physicians, such as in the term quantum satis. Both Helmholtz and Julius von Mayer were physicians as well as physicists. Helmholtz used "quantum" with reference to heat in his article[3] on Mayer's work, and indeed, the word "quantum" can be found in the formulation of the first law of thermodynamics by Mayer in his letter[4] dated July 24, 1841. Max Planck used "quanta" to mean "quanta of matter and electricity",[5] gas, and heat.[6] In 1905, in response to Planck's work and the experimental work of Lenard (who explained his results by using the term "quanta of electricity"), Albert Einstein suggested that radiation existed in spatially localized packets which he called "quanta of light" ("Lichtquanta").[7] The concept of quantization of radiation was discovered in 1900 by Max Planck, who had been trying to understand the emission of radiation from heated objects, known as black-body radiation. By assuming that energy can only be absorbed or released in tiny, differential, discrete packets he called "bundles" or "energy elements",[8] Planck accounted for the fact that certain objects change colour when heated.[9] On December 14, 1900, Planck reported his revolutionary findings to the German Physical Society, and introduced the idea of quantization for the first time as a part of his research...
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...Characterization of the protagonist, Celie, and the setting of the novel disprove this. Mohja Kahf also shows evidence against this in her poem, My Grandmother Washes Her Feet in the Sink of the Bathroom at Sears, with the plot of the poem. The main protagonist in Walker’s, The Color Purple, is Celie, a young African American woman fighting through the struggles of living in the early 1900s as a black female. The novel is written in an epistolary style with Celie writing letters to her distant sister Nettie, and god in the beginning. Eventually Celie stops writing to god and solely writes letters to Nettie. “‘…the god I been praying and writing to is a man. And act like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgetful, and lowdown.’”(Walker 73). At this point Celie has finally given up belief in god, which in a way removes the blindfold from her eyes. When Celie was relying on god nothing good was coming from it. So once Celie became less spiritual and cultural and acted on things that displeased her by herself, she got results. The whole time these cultural beliefs were just blinding her. It’s the early 1900s in Georgia, in the Deep South, a region known for being very close-minded at the time. Discrimination, injustice, and sexism are just three of the words that can be used to describe some of the actions that take place in this region. The culture down there is a very simple one: Agree with us, act like us, and live like us or get out. The setting of this book shows that...
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...Journal 1 What impact has the Canadian Social and Political history on writing of Joy Mannette and Denise Chong? Both authors Joy Mannette and Denise Chong have written different articles about racism and discrimination .First article “My Dearest Child” is written by Joy Mannette and the other one “The Concubine’s Children” is written by Denise Chong. Both of these articles reflected how the black and Chinese immigrants suffered in Canada in 17th and 19th century. But now as we all know Canada is a multicultural country. Everyone respect each other’s culture and religion. The first article “My Dearest Child” is a letter written by a white mother Joy Mannette to her African Canadian child. In this letter, she explained how their ancestors experienced discriminations. The people who were African although they born and citizen in Canada they were still treated badly. Even their ancestors had to work as labourers as white people offered them minor jobs. They worked hard but still got fewer wage. She narrates in her article that the black people came to Nova Scotia in 17th century as slaves. They were banned to enter the religious places, Schools and other amusing programs. In the second article “The Concubine’s Children”, Denise Chong states how the Chinese immigrants had to face racism in Canada in the past. She explained about unfairness that the many Chinese immigrants experienced in Canada. In addition, Chinese people had to pay special taxes for school and policing, employment...
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...time progressed, the punishment for what embezzlement entails has changed, this has coincided with the evolution of the legal system and the definition of embezzlement changing has well as the moral awareness increasing through our countries history. Embezzlement is a non-violent offense that is an economic crime and has been around since the 1800s and before the innovation of the term white collar crime. While embezzlement does not exhibit the violence of a crime such as assault or robbery the effects of the crime ripple through communities and impair the ability of individuals to trust entities and businesses with their hard earned money. Through examining the evolution of embezzlement and how it has evolved from the 1800s to the mid- 1900s and today is what will be examined in these next pages. By examining the evolution as well as the effects on the victims and the perpetrators the understanding for embezzlement can increase on a wide scale further preventing the crime from taking place and raising the overall awareness to prevent anyone from being a victim to this heinous crime. Black’s Law Dictionary defines embezzlement as “the fraudulent taking of personal property with which one has been...
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...What are Plakatstil how? How were they important? How have they changed the world today? Plakatstil also know as Sachplakat was an early Poster Style of Art. They were important because they helped advertising and selling of important products. Some of the styles of Plakatstil was bold, straight, font,with flat colors. Plakatstil helped incorporate color combinations that were not always seen. Plakatstil also gave a modern look on Poster Art. This Style of art originated out of Germany in the 1900s. This style of art was intended to be used for advertisement and products that was sold abroad. During the 1900s fascism arose in Germany and a dictatorship took over. Germany was also part of the Alliance system Austria- Hungary, soon after Germany was pulled into war. Japan then declared war on Germany that was the start of World War One. Germany also made military weapons such as tanks, bombs,and heavy artillery.Lucian Bernhard was a German Graphic designer in the 1900s. He was one of the most important German Posters Artists. He played a huge role in shaping the style of product advertisement.He helped create the Graphic Design Plakatstil (Poster Style).This type of graphic design used flat color as well as Sachplakat ( Object Poster).Bernhard style spread throughout Germany and became the foundation for a revolution in commercial advertising in Pre-War Berlin .(http://www.internationalposter.com/style-primer/plakastil-posters.aspx). Hans Rudi Erdit was a German Graphic Designer...
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...of offer and acceptance. The general rule in law states that acceptance is communicated, and has been received by the offeror . The ruling applies where the means of communication are deemed instantaneous Entores Ltd v Miles Far East Corpn (1955). The exception to this rule is the Postal Rule. Where post is the requested form of communication between parties or where it is an appropriate and accepted means of communication between parties, acceptance is complete as soon as the letter is posted. Even if the letter was mislaid or lost and does not reach the offeror. It is a requirement that the letter of acceptance has been properly posted London and Northern Bank (1900). It is found telegrams also fall under the postal rule. An issue that rises from the Postal rule is that there is a period of time, where person(s) are in the dark as to whether a contract is in existence or not. Courts have decided that the offeror assumes all the risk, as the offer is still open during the time the letter of acceptance is in the post Adams v Lindsell(1818). The decision was based on the fact that an acceptance of an offer could go on ad infinitum, back and forth between the parties. If one had to acknowledge the receipt and then the acknowledgment had to be acknowledged so on and so forth. Unless the offeror has clearly stated in the terms of the offer that acceptance must be communicated by other means the offer must be accepted through the terms of the postal rule. Such a situation...
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...hieroglyphics cuneiform into letters that could said and written to one another. Paragraph 1: Where it originated from 4000 thousand years ago a sematic form of writing developed in Egypt between 1800-1900 BC. * Compared to other forms of writing like cuneiform that used wedge shapes or hieroglyphics which primarily used pictographic symbols The Phoenicians developed a widely used alphabet about 700 years later * 22 letters that were all consonants * This sematic language was used throughout the Mediterranean, including North Africa and South Europe The Greeks built on the Phoenician alphabet by adding vowels Around 750 BC * Adopted by the Latins who then combined it with Etruscan characters “F” and “S” * By the 3rd century the Roman alphabet looked very similar to the modern English but it still excluded the letters J, U, V and W Paragraph 2: Old and Middle English The history of writing began in Britain with the Anglo Saxons in the 5th century AD. * Anglo Saxons had ties with Scandinavia and other North Sea cultures and had a writing style call futhroc a runic language * New Runes (symbol/character) were continuously added, it originally APPEARED IN England with 26 characters by the 11th century it had 33 characters In the 7th century the Latin Alphabet was introduced by Christian Missionaries and it took old throughout Britain. * In 1011 AD formal list of Old English Alphabet including five uniquely English letters ond, wyn, thorn, eth...
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...Compare and contrast essay – Frank Earley and Albert Smith In the Frank Earley letter, it is clearly shown to the audience that the English soldiers are fighting with the last sense of hope they have as they have been fighting the war a lot longer compared to the Americans, which is shown in the Albert Smith letter. The audience have a real sense of empathy as Frank Earley admits to ‘how close death is to us’ which shows a feeling of near defeat in the morale of the soldiers. However, in the Albert Smith letter, the feeling of defeat and lowness of morale is non-existent as Albert writes to his little brother ‘ready to come home after the war but not before’ highlighting to the audience that he isn’t exhausted by the war yet and wants to continue fighting, showing that the Americans haven’t been in the war long and so haven’t experienced what the English have. Following on from this, the use of semantic field in the Albert Smith letter denotes a feeling of how bad the conditions were for the Americans, ‘wettest’ ‘muddiest’ ‘raining’ ‘wire entanglements’ ‘up to my waist in mud’. This evokes a feeling of empathy from the audience as we usually complain about the weather and these men dealt with it night and day whilst fighting for us and their own lives. Furthermore, in the Albert Smith letter, the war is described as ‘slaughter’ which is a very optimistic view to take compared to the Frank Earley letter where he describes his friend being killed ‘in a moment’ and that it was ‘God’s...
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