...Standing at the turn of the new century, we observe the twentieth century as a great advance in technology. With those advances, human lives have changed dramatically. In some ways, life is worse, but mostly, it is better. So personaly speaking, I am, and probably will always be, one of those who agree with the idea that technology has made the world a better place to live. First of all, technology has brought with it a more comfortable life. Not only do we use aircondition and heating system during the summer and winter, but also do we take many changes in food preparation methods to make so delicious food. Due to the development of architecture and so on, living conditions are greatly improved nowadays. Besides, the world is now more convenient to live. We can travel around by aeroplane and railway network. We can talk to each other faraway by telephone. Several score years ago, it was even daydreaming that we could today obtain information as well as commodities via Internet. The last but not the least, through the process of technology improvement, people begin to realize the fact that only reconciling with the nature can we keep a continuous development. That is why we today pay so much attention to environmental protection. Many factories have achieved economic growth without pollution under certain new technology. These cities are beginning to be very beautiful places to live in. Instances of the same sort can be multiplied indefinitely. When taking into account all these...
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...Controversy and Twentieth Century Music Controversy and Twentieth Century Music The music has presented ever-changing throughout history. A variety of musicians has passed through each century leaving a lasting impression on the world. Each musician gave you a piece of him or her and how he or she saw the world of music and life through his or her eyes (Kamien, 2011). The write will elaborate on two well-known musicians of the 20th century, and then contrast and compare a 20th century musician song and a modern day song which both had aspects of controversial issues within each work. Ravels lacked emotion within his music. His music had extended harmonies. In his time, Ravels music was seen as very controversy. It seems as if his music had no feeling. The music seemed just to play. There was no intimacy or remembrance by it. When Ravels wrote this piece, it was as if he separated himself from everything around him. Although his music was bland, Ravels stayed true to his form of music. His music put a person in the mind of elevator music that has vague melodies. One can forget that the music is playing in the background after a while. Stravinsky music was unpredictable. It was as if he created a box around him and said, "This is what I am going to play, and you can either like or dislike, because I do not care and will play it." Stravinsky broke away from the romantic period and any other period. He created his own period. The Romantic period had a wide range of emotions...
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...Texas has enormous natural resources, and it is the reason due to which it is considered to be one of the largest industrial hubs in the US. In the early 20th century, the discovery of the Spindle top geyser provided a great chance for growth in the oil industry. Texas successfully utilized its oil industry to achieve great success and revenues. The oil industry is one of the most valuable industries in Texas because it contributes significantly to the overall economy of the country. The topic selected for the proposed research is the history of Texas related to the oil industry in the late twentieth century. It is difficult to gather first-hand knowledge, and therefore, the research will be based on both primary (interviews) and secondary research. Texas’s history related to its oil boom has great significance and it has deepened the knowledge about the petroleum strokes in Texas. The proposed research would provide a useful account of the history related to the famous oil industry of Texas. Therefore, the research will provide a chance to enhance the knowledge about the history of Texas’s oil boom. The related information regarding the topic will be obtained from different journals including The Journal of American History, Journal of Tourism in Southern & Eastern Europe, etc. The whole data will be compiled to complete the research work on the history of Texas and present useful information in a coherent and meaningful manner. Collecting data is also time-consuming as it could...
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...Mariana Offik English 101; 065 Bellomy December 6th, 2011 Twentieth-Century Counterpart John Edgar Wideman’s “Our Time” can be seen as a twentieth-century counterpart to Guaman Poma’s “New Chronicle.” This connection is made if Wideman’s essay is reread with the qualities that Mary Louis Pratt portrays in “Arts of the Contact Zone.” It can be presented as an example of what she defines as an autoehtnographic text. She defines autoethnography as an inferior culture defining itself through the terms of a dominant culture when writing back to them. Transculturation produces autoethnography. Transculturation is the process by which a culture takes certain aspects of another. The interactions between different cultures, the point of view, and the suppression of the inferior culture portrays “Our Time” as a twentieth-century counterpart to the New Chronicle. Multiple cultures interact constantly in “Our Time”. Robby and John represent different cultures. Robby grew up surrounded by crime and violence. He also comes from a lower educational group. John, even though he is Robby’s brother, grew up to be a different culture than Robby. He went to college and people that were vastly different from Robby surrounded him. John describes his struggle with projecting Robby’s voice in the story because of their different cultural backgrounds. They grew to become two separate cultures that interacted with each other throughout the story. 3 1/2 - 4 pgs remove...
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...Racheal Hunt HIS 122 Mr. Raby September 6, 2012 Globalization of the Twentieth Century What is globalization? According to our text book, globalization is “a term referring to a trend by which peoples and nations has become more interdependent” (Spielvogel 679). When using the term of globalization most people are talking about our global economy and global culture. Over the last forty years new technologies have changed the way we communicate. Not only can we communicate with friends and family around the world with the touch of a button but we can use the same technology to buy, sell and distribute almost anything to almost anywhere in the world. This has not only changed our bottom line of profits but has also changed the mindset of how we view the world and how we do business and communicate with others. In this paper I intend to describe the main characteristics of globalization of the Twentieth century and discuss some of the many elements that have led us to this point in history. There are many characteristics of globalization. Arvind Kumar, writer of the article “What are the Characteristics of Globalization” says that there are three distinct characteristics of globalization. The first is liberalization which is the, “freedom to start industry, trade or commerce in his country or abroad (Kumar).” The second characteristic is free trade. Kumar explains that, “Free trade is the absence of excessive government control over trade (Kumar).” He goes...
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...Fascism in the Twentieth Century; Hitler and Nazism ‘Fascism’ is one of the most controversial political terms in modern history. The lack of a universally accepted definition for the term has meant that it can and has been applied to a wide variety of political contexts. Fascism developed from the destruction caused by the First World War. Its origins can be traced, however, to the intellectual revolt against liberalism in Europe at the end of the nineteenth century. While there was a revolutionary reaction against the ideals of the French Revolution before 1914, it was the First World War which acted as a real catalyst for the emergence of fascism. The war swept away the Hohenzellern, Halsburg and Romanov dynasties in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia respectively and sharpened class-consciousness (the idea of lower, middle and upper classes) and increased ethnic tensions, severely weakening the social fabric of many nations. Fascism, in part, was also the result of a reaction by the middle classes against the perceived communist threat caused by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917. Fascism was the most severe reaction to the post-war political, social and national crisis. The First World War also had a positive significance on the rise of fascism. The survivors of the ‘lost generation,’ (the survivors of the First World War) had become disillusioned and embittered, and were attracted to the direct-action approach of fascist paramilitary organisations. This increased...
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...The literacy movement along and the desire to break away from traditional cultural views was continuing to increasing because of the difference of colonization between the different colonies. Globalization and technological advances was allowing the views of colonies to be broadened. It was also allowing the different colonies to interact more with each other. “Science and technology also came to be questioned with a new intensity, both in terms of their intrinsic nature and in terms of their effects on human societies” (The Twentieth Century, 2347). Over the time of the twentieth century science and technology has made several changes. “For cultural imagination, three changes have held particular significance: the shift in public scientific...
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...Abstract Immigrant groups in various lands have had to contend with ferocious animosity in the wake of the twentieth century. It is not till the late decades of twentieth century that there has been significant relief from oppression and stigmatization even in the face of law prohibiting such inhumane acts. These illegal activities are present long after all lands were emancipated and freed from colonization. Of noteworthy concern is the issue of citizenship. Neither philosophers nor legal professionals have come to a consensus on a clear cut definition of citizenship in order to determine who does or does not qualify for citizenship in different lands worldwide. Despite adequate protection by conventions on human rights outright objectification...
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...Over the centuries there have been many attempts at reforming healthcare, but the starting point of the healthcare system as we know it in the U.S., can be seen at the emergence of the twentieth century. Technological advances in the medical field were advancing posthaste and with that, came vast new opportunities. Skill levels, performance metrics and training all improved dramatically. Hospitals were now seen as facilities for advanced research, surgery and specialized medicine. This is supported by the reading, “But by the early twentieth century, hospitals were becoming high quality organizations with state-of-the-art diagnostic and treatment methodologies” (Showalter, 2017, pg. 71). In the wake of all this, medical care costs...
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...Who is the Greatest Canadian of the Twentieth Century? Thomas Clement Douglas was born on October 20, 1904 in Falkirk, Scotland. He was often called Tommy. He and his family immigrated to Canada in 1911. They settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba. When Tommy was 10, he had a bone infection in his leg, osteomyelitis, which needed many operations. None of the operations helped him and his family could not afford to send him to a special doctor. He was extremely fortunate when a visiting surgeon volunteered to operate on him for free. He was also a minister and a politician. Tommy Douglas is the greatest Canadian due to the fact he achieved Medicare, became the first national leader of the NDP and fought for social programs even in the presence of strong oppositions. Tommy Douglas learnt from the experience of his sickness the importance of doctors. The sickness and how he was saved was his inspiration for the Medicare. He wanted everyone to receive the Medicare they needed, even if they did not have a great deal of money. During one of his speeches as a politician, he said, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price-tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they required irrespective of their individual capacity to pay. This inspired him to work hard so as to make health care available to all Canadians at no cost. In 1959, Tommy announced the plan to establish a medical insurance called Medicare. He faced...
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...One major genocide of the twentieth century took place in Rwanda in 1994. It began when the Hutus, who were then in charge of the government, worked to overthrow and eliminate the entire Tutsi population as well as those who opposed government policies; in order to maintain dominance over the minority group. Around 500,000 to a million victims were killed in the massacre which lasted only one hundred days; from April to mid-July. The mass murder began when President Juvenal Habyarimana was suspiciously killed in a plane crash. Because of his death, a peace treaty being implemented between the government and a rebel Tutsi group was never brought to action. This group, known as the Front Patriotique Rwandais (FPR), was immediately targeted by the in-control Hutu group, and a some three-quarters of the Tutsi population was murdered. Eyewitness Damas Gisimba describes the horror of reality, “We were no longer scared of dying. We lived the death; it surrounded us. Death walked among us. And so I was...
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...In the early twentieth century, women were not a part of political life- they didn’t serve on juries, hold a political office, or even vote. Instead, they remained inside the house and did the stereotypical “wifely” duties (cook, clean, watch after the children, etc.), and watched their husbands, brothers, and fathers partake in political elections. Thanks to women suffrage leaders, the role of the woman (although not yet fully equal with men) changed drastically changed in politics. It asserted the right of women to participate in everyday life as separate citizens and not standing behind their husbands In the 1900’s, according to the Supreme Court, they were not protected under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, giving them no...
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...Who is the Greatest Canadian of the Twentieth Century? Thomas Clement Douglas was born on October 20, 1904 in Falkirk, Scotland. He was often called Tommy. He and his family immigrated to Canada in 1911. They settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba. When Tommy was 10, he had a bone infection in his leg, osteomyelitis, which needed many operations. None of the operations helped him and his family could not afford to send him to a special doctor. He was extremely fortunate when a visiting surgeon volunteered to operate on him for free. He was also a minister and a politician. Tommy Douglas is the greatest Canadian due to the fact he achieved Medicare, became the first national leader of the NDP and fought for social programs even in the presence of strong oppositions. Tommy Douglas learnt from the experience of his sickness the importance of doctors. The sickness and how he was saved was his inspiration for the Medicare. He wanted everyone to receive the Medicare they needed, even if they did not have a great deal of money. During one of his speeches as a politician, he said, I came to believe that health services ought not to have a price-tag on them, and that people should be able to get whatever health services they required irrespective of their individual capacity to pay. This inspired him to work hard so as to make health care available to all Canadians at no cost. In 1959, Tommy announced the plan to establish a medical insurance called Medicare. He faced strong...
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...Technological advancements in the nineteenth and twentieth century were incredibly powerful, and they undoubtedly changed the world forever. However, I believe that the effects that developing and differing ideologies have on the world are permanent and are more significant in the way they affect the world. Ideologies are sets of political beliefs that people hold. Before the enlightenment, ideologies formed naturally, but since then, people have studied them and developed them as well. People hold their ideologies dearly, and when they encounter others with different ideologies, conflict will often occur. There’s no doubt that technology is incredibly important and impactful, especially in the twentieth century. The changes that technology brought to the world caused two of the biggest wars to be multitudes more dangerous than they would have been one hundred years prior. The impact of technology on the death toll in war can be seen in the development of military tactics like trench warfare in World War I. Technology lead to the introduction of tanks, chemical warfare, flamethrowers, and other weapons that were much stronger than anything previous. After World War I, the invention of submarines, better airplanes, more dangerous guns, and the atomic...
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...As stated by John Winthrop in the 17th Century, Americans have committed the cardinal sin of putting their own good ahead of the common good of the nation. However, Americans of different races, classes, and genders have experienced a variety of obstacles in maintaining their own good. Over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these obstacles caused conflicting and changing meanings of individualism, community, and freedom according to Foner, Plunkitt, Etulain, Buder, Gilfoyle, Bernstein, Leuchtenburg, Degler, Friedan, and Horwitz. As stated by Eric Foner, in the 1860s after the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation by President Lincoln, Congress ratified multiple new amendments and added them to the Constitution. First,...
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