Turn of Century was a time of great social upheaval and cultural change for the women of America who inhabited a world that was neither of the nineteenth century nor the twentieth. ... Above all else, women's modernism was shaped by a radical challenge to linguistic, spiritual, and social conventions, particularly as these writers journeyed further and further from the world of their foremothers into territory marked off as forbidden by patriarchal ideology. ... The dawn of the consumer era brought on new spending opportunities for most Americans; however, it did nothing to loosen the sta...

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We live in the land of the free and the home of the brave, right? ... Also, we say we live in the land of the brave and I question this to. In most aspects the American people have earned the right to call themself brave, Americans have been through many struggles to become the super power we are today,but it seems to me that most American people are not brave enough to realize a very obvious problem in this country. ... America was started by people who did not want to be neglected by their country or told what to do in their country, so these people decided to leave their country and begi...

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Our brave troops fought in the east to fend off the Czechoslovakians and Serbians from nearly defenseless Bosnia. ... The mighty oak births many acorns with hopes that they will spring forth into new trees. ... From the fallen acorns come new trees as if it were a miracle. ... Our elderly pass, allowing for room for the hopeful new generation to begin. ... That is perhaps the characteristic of America that has made us the greatest country in the world- the tallest oak in the forest....

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He warned the new king Charles II that his usage owas for the most part destructive to his citizens at home and with his characteristic outspoken manner, frequently spoke up for the freedoms and rights of the lower classes. ... He is the reason that America is the land of the free, and the home of the brave, he himself the brave. ... Through the finely educated and refined oratories of Thomas Jefferson, the colonists, whether educated or grass rooted, were able to recognize the inherent battle facing the New World. ... His framework led to the beginning of war, and a new nation, which...

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Some did not make it back to the safe haven of their homes because four commercial jets were hijacked and two of those aircraft were flown into the World Trade Towers, leveling the once mighty skyscrapers that stood tall above New York City. ... No one new which way to turn and no one knew exactly how to deal with the economic slump or what the right decision should be in stopping the economy from a downward spiral. ... "We our looking at the world the way we wanted to see it, not the way it really was," Giuliani said. "September 11th, 2001, gave us a chance to see the world as it really is...

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This helped to increase new trade in other parts of the country because the trading was faster and easier for the items and goods to get to their destination. ... The suffrage movement in the United States gained fame and was much known with the first women's rights convention in the world: the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. ... They were active members of the abolitionist movement who met in England in 1840 at the World Anti-Slavery Convention. ... As they made themselves known worldwide, others joined from around the world to prove to the world that they are important and are needed...

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The author of this story was obviously hurt and left very afraid by the harshness that the ways the new country she had come to live in. ... Anzia's courage is what many immigrants who came to this country had to display, and by doing this it helped set standards for what was possible for a person to do if they simply remain strong and brave through hard times. ... Courage is not only demonstrated through the reading that we have been assigned this semester but also in my personal life and the world that surrounds me everyday. ... This country showed the rest of the world that it co...

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Not because you eat hotdogs at a braves baseball game or because we all go to the lake on the 4th of July. ... " Going through the timeline of history you come to a point when you realize that the world around you has changed, topics that were once not discussed freely are now to the point where they are openly discussed. ... " This quote said by Barry Goldwater is understood that when the founding fathers created our system of government that they all knew we would have differences and new creative ideas, but they also knew that those things were going to be the foundation of Amer...

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But in today's world of dual income households that job is looked down upon. ... That would mean that in professional baseball the Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves would have to find new names. ...

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Women today comprise half the world's population, do two thirds of the world's work, earn one tenth of the worlds income and own one hundredth of the world's property. ... At the beginning of the twentieth century, the United States had the highest divorce rate in the western world, and one child in ten lived in a single-parent home. ...

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Slave culture had at its heart a set of cultural themes, forms of artistic expression, a religion, a family pattern, and a community structure which set blacks apart from whites and enabled them to form and control a world of their own values and definitions . ... He stated: It was a new and special revelation, explaining dark and mysterious things, with which my youthful understanding had struggled, but struggled in vain. ...

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The father of the new objective school was the great Leopold von Ranke. ... Turner, emphasized social and economic factors in explaining historical development, as did the "new history- of James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. ...

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