" The mediums that the preachers used to spread their messages were mostly large gatherings, where audiences counting into the 20,000s made camp to listen. The gatherings were called revivals. ... The schools were not divided by grade, which meant that older students were in the same class rooms with the younger students. ... She was a schoolteacher who knew that women and men were equal intellectually and made it her goal to prove that to the world. ... Horace Mann said, "Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of the conditions of men, - the...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The feeling of being burdened and the annoyance that comes with it is brought up in other parts of the poem, in lines such as, "and I was embarrassed/by old men standing up to shake my hand/and tell me they were "sorry for my trouble."" These lines suggest that the narrator is embarrassed by his position of eldest in the family and feels a sense of patronization from the older men rather than condolence. ... Reading this piece, the poem seems to suggest that the woman feels shut out/cast out from the world, very much trapped in the role of a typical older woman. Whether the woman in the poem i...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sometimes reformers applied conventional virtue to refurbishing an older order. ... The economy was increasingly separating women and men into sharply distinct economic roles. ... They were often regarded suspiciously by the old-stock Americans. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Because of declining death rates, couples are more likely to grow into old age together than in the past and children are more likely to have living grandparents. ... In he 1990 Virginia slims poll, women were most upset by their lack of money, followed by the refusal of their men to shoulder childcare and domestic duties. (Creating America, pg.251) Does this state that men still believe that a women's place is in the home, even though women are out working a full time job, bringing money into the family. Men should help with the childcare and the domestic duti...

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During the years of slavery, education was an extremely controversial issue among these individuals. The entire nation's economy depended heavily upon the free labor of slaves, which made so many oppose the idea of abolition. The main fear in the education of slaves was that they would revolt; and t...

• Word Count: 2340
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate