...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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...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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...In The Merchant of Venice and Pygmalion, Portia and Eliza on the surface seem to be typical women of their time, sold to men and told who to marry. Although more than 300 years separate these two plays, the role of females is very similar in that they are portrayed by society as objects of desire. Women typically got their identity from that of their husband’s power and status. Portia and Eliza both illustrate how women can have great influence and which is unheard of from women in the renaissance and early 20th century. Shakespeare and Shaw use female characters to convey the true definition of feminism by creating heroic and independent characteristics in Portia and Eliza. As seen in both the Merchant of Venice and Pygmalion, Eliza and Portia were both given arranged marriages and told who they belong to. This was the common thing that was done in renaissance time (Merchant of Venice) and also in the early 1900’s (Pygmalion). In Pygmalion, Higgins says “Very well, then, what on earth is all this fuss about? The girl doesn't belong to anybody—is no use to anybody but me”, Higgins is implying that Eliza doesn’t belong to anyone at the moment, meaning that a girl should belong to someone. In Merchant of Venice, Nerissa is quoted “Your father was ever virtuous; and holy men at their death have good inspirations: therefore the lottery, that he hath devised in these three chests of gold, silver and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen...
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...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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...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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...Women had it difficult in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Men and women had different treatments towards each other first of all women were not noticeable during elections. They couldn’t vote until the 1920s. Women also could not have professional jobs, and most importantly, women could not get the same education as men because most colleges would not accept them. This truly made women completely dependent on men. Nor only that “In the 1920's the world experienced several revolutions in areas such as music and new scientific discoveries.” (Chee, 2012) As a woman myself, it is hard to imagine a time when women not have been allowed to vote, work or go to college. One of the biggest reasons the narrator selected this topic was to find out what these women did to make a difference, not only in their lives, but also in the lives of so many future generations. Women were not permitted to vote. “Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote” (Gillett, 2008) There were many women active in the movement of the 1920s, with the help of great leaders such as Susan B. Anthony, Alice Blackwell, Carrie Catt, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Lucretia Mott, the 19th amendment was passed. The 19th amendment basically denied the right to vote based on sex that was the only way where women were allowed to participate in political elections. Other than becoming a housewife...
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...What right does one man have over another, let me rephrase the question, what right does one person have over another? This is the question that women have been asking for over the last one hundred years or longer. America was a very different place 100 years ago, from the way that people interacted with each other to the rights and perception that some individuals had on other persons place in society. In the early 20th century women were to be seen and not heard, they were unable to vote, work, or even own land in many parts of the country. Many of the different movements for women came from the abolitionism, the early fight for social justice. For social movements, human rights are simultaneously a system of law, a set of values, and a vision of good governance. Each of these dimensions of human rights offers resources for grassroots social movements, but in quite different ways. (Merry, Levitt, Rosen, & Yoon, 2010) Understanding that rights for everyone is ethically and morally right was even hard for some of the most prominent men of history. It was a very hard tradition to break to give women the same rights and privileges as men, especially when leading political and cultural figures had pressing opinions. Despite the rise in women’s importance on the economic, social, and political scene, many men still did not see them as strong, productive, or politically active members of society. A leading politician of these two decades, Theodore Roosevelt, on more than one occasion...
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...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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...the early 1900’s there were a lot of significant reform movements, one example of one was when Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle.” Sinclair wrote a nonfiction book following the life of a factory worker, he intended for the book to make a change in factory workers life. Instead of the book following its original purpose, it ended up making a change in food packing processes. Eventually, well many years later there began to be changes in the life of a factory working but it was a while till changes were made. Another activist is Lewis Hine he was sant to take photos and interview children that worked in factories. He was payed to take photos to try to help other activities put rules on child labor. Hine was not always allowed to go into the factories so he would wait for them to come out of the factory then he would question them. He would even lie and say that he was there to take photos of the factory when he was really there to take photos of the children. The photos that Hine would take would be published in things like newspaper....
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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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...There is a lot of talk of how the Civil War affected African-Americans in the late 1800’s and what this did for their rights, but this was also a huge time for the women’s rights movement. Seeing the advances in freedom and equality that African-Americans had made after the Civil War many women thought this would be the perfect time for them to push for their own equality and if nothing else at least the right to vote. The women’s right movement was starting to gain traction, but once the Civil War begun their momentum was gone. Some of the women’s groups saw an opportunity with the animosity towards African-Americans and tried to use this to their advantage. They would work with the southerners who still wanted no freedom for African-Americans...
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...The Prohibition Movement in the early 1900’s was not the first time America was struggling with the concept of alcohol consumption. It has been an ongoing issue for years. Dating back to the Gilded Age and the second Industrial Revolution, alcohol was used as an escape for working men. With long hours and harsh labor conditions in the factories, often times men would come home and drink their pain and stress away. Their minimal income was spent on more alcohol. The consumption of alcohol has been and continues to be an escape from reality that is often times abused. During the era of progressive reform, prohibition was added to the list of improvements these small groups of middle class, Protestant, Americans were trying to impose upon the nation. The achievement of the overarching goals during the movement was demonstrated by the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the...
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...Modernism’s Relation to Early Film In The Cabinet of Caligari women are portrayed in a way that matches up with Modernism concepts. Dr. Olsen’s daughter is kidnapped and the men quickly hurry to rescue her. This scene shows how Dr. Caligari makes no attempts to resist savagery, in film men often must come to the rescue of women, and the savagery exemplifies why there are boundaries and standards in the world. Dr. Olson’s daughter, Jane, puts herself on Dr. Caligari’s radar when she comes looking for her father. Caligari is using a sleepwalking man, Cesare, to commit murders in the town. Jane goes searching for her father, for no reason other than her curiosity and anxiety, and gets herself in trouble for it. In Modernism, searching for answers can be dangerous as one can see glimpses into the savage world, as Jane does with Caligari and Cesare. As we’ve seen over and over in this course, such as in Heart of Darkness, the savage world is truly too much for a civilized person to handle and leads to many problems. In this case, even though she wasn’t directly searching for knowledge on savagery, Jane’s inquiry helps get her kidnapped. Jane is kidnapped from her sleep. In Modernism sleep is often associated with being g able to see the truth as well as viewing one’s hopes, fears, and desires. While it’s impossible to know what Jane was dreaming about she is quickly awakened into a quick nightmare. However, this “nightmare” helps the truth about Caligari soon become known. Cesare...
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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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