Initially attracted to California by the discovery of gold in the mid-nineteenth century, by the l860s thousands of Chinese laborers were enticed here to construct the mountainous western section of the transcontinental railroad. ... The popular conception of the Chinese woman, whose numbers were few in nineteenth-century America, was that of a singsong girl, a prostitute or an inmate of an opium den. ... For example, in "Criticism and Fiction" (1891), William Dean Howells, a advocate of nineteenth-century American realism, warns readers to avoid sentimental or sensational novels, which he cla...

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Families in the Victorian Age were large, but as the century went on family size began to shrink. ... In the latter half of the century, the industrial age came on full bore and created some very rich people. ... The stresses and strains of the industrial nineteenth century brought about a spiritual and emotional retreat to the soothing comforts of hearth and family and a tendency to escape from the harsher realities. Eighteenth-century sentiment was replaced by nineteenth-century sentimentality, as evoked in the following popular verse: "If I should from this world/Depart you'd have a ...

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This paper focuses on the oppression of American Indians in the U.S. during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. ... The arrival of Europeans to the Americas in the seventeenth century marked a major change in the natives' society and culture. ... This idea of, "otherness," led to centuries of oppression and discrimination against native people. ... The Euro-American view of the American Indian is historically significant because it shaped the attitudes of those who would later construct Indian policy in the nineteenth century. ... In the early nineteenth centu...

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In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. ... The nineteenth century saw the continental expansion of the United States and a transportation revolution that resulted from it, as well as industrialization, astonishing population growth and urbanization. ... The Hunter's Return was specially made for New York art collector George Austen, and the painting w...

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Social Darwinism and Eugenics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are often seen as theories based on scientific knowledge. ... Usually when writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century wrote on this theory they rarely used the actual term Social Darwinism. ... I would define social Darwinism as a defunct social theory in which people tried to determine fitness within society using race and class that often was an excuse for acting out on social anxieties of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in industrialized countries. Social Darwinism in the U...

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Certain aspects of seventeenth century philosophy left room for human err, such as the easily influenced mind and its ability to misrepresent information, beside the already prevalent social tension amongst classes of the time that would have a eruptive impact society's subconscious. ... The highest ideology of nineteenth century liberalism was that economically, maximum freedom would only come as the result of the limited power of government. ...

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Was the British entrepreneur the most important single reason for the relative decline of the British economy in the late nineteenth century? ... There was only state intervention in British education as late as 1902, and the century` s children and industries were generally regarded as ill -served. ... "The assimilation of the British business classes to the social pattern of the gentry and aristocracy had proceeded very rapidly from the mid nineteenth century, the period when so many of the so called ` public schools ` were founded, or reformed by finally excluding the poor for whom t...

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Not until the spread of the Industrial Revolution in the late nineteenth century, has man possessed the ability to adversely alter, on a global scale, the geologic and climatic cycles that have existed for millennia. ... Only now are we beginning to comprehend the long-term effects of more than a century of environmental ignorance, neglect, and apathy. ... We have arrived at the threshold of the 21st century where nothing less than a global call to action is necessary. ...

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Additionally, we will examine why this foreign policy could not be successfully carried over into the twentieth century. ... However, this power began to shift in the late nineteenth century and consequently, so did the United States approach to foreign policy. The rise of a militant Germany and a modern Russia in the late nineteenth century threatened the balance of power in Europe that had been so advantageous for the United States. The technological advancements that had been made in the nineteenth century made the landscape of Eastern Europe more dangerous if it fell into the hands of a ...

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The United States of America itself provides for a great example of this phenomenon – particularly the rise of free, compulsory education during the nineteenth century (Cole, 2008). ... This is because the historical origin of the rise of free, compulsory education in the nineteenth century was solely created in order to prevent the different values and norms of immigrants from corrupting American values (Barkan, 2012). ...

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Among other important amendments are the Thirteenth (1865), which abolished slavery; the Fourteenth (1868), which granted citizenship rights to former slaves and guaranteed to every citizen due process and equal protection of the laws; the Fifteenth (1870), which granted voting rights to former male slaves; the Seventeenth (1913), which provided for the direct election of U.S. senators; the Nineteenth (1920), which established woman suffrage; the Twenty-Second (1951), which limited a president to a maximum of two elected terms in office; and the Twenty-Sixth (1971), which extended voting right...

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The American spirit of "Manifest Destiny" which had remained unbroken since the founding of the Republic reached one of its peaks at the end of the nineteenth century. ... In other areas of the Pacific, as well as in Latin America, the growing assertiveness of the United States became more and more evident as the century drew to a close. ... At the end of the twentieth century, the canal was no longer essential to U.S. strategic or economic interests. ... Earlier in the century, however, the canal was regarded as a vital national interest. ...

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Unfortunately they failed to recognize a non-materialistic wealth i.e. spiritual, cultural and intellectual the Indians had achieved over centuries. ... Unfortunately they failed to recognize a non-materialistic wealth i.e. spiritual, cultural and intellectual the Indians had achieved over centuries. ... Disease has been the number one killer of the North American Indians from the fifteenth through the twentieth century. ...

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In sixteenth and early seventeenth century in England women's attractiveness were played by the "practical visibility and erotic half-concealment"(Korhonen 335). Therefore in England in sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries identity of ideal beautiful woman was considered by the dress, gesture and comportment that she was presenting and wearing. ... To posit "the phallic body" as the "true, enduring sex object of Western culture" in place of "any female version of beauty" is to radically alter the paradigms inherited from the eighteenth century. ... With all beauty industries raising ...

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Since the 1970s, Mexican-Americans in the United States have been identified as apathetic, indifferent, and disinterested in the process of attaining an education. Many Americans point to the high Mexican-American drop-out rates and the low number of Mexican-American professionals as a confirmation of this stereotype. This Latino group has struggled to dispel the characterization. In response, Mexican-Americans, as well as Anglo-Americans, have searched for ways to counter such misinformation. As a result, many communities have adopted bi-lingual programs, in order to help Mexican-American...

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The emergence of many popular music genres during the twentieth century can be linked to technological advancements of the same period. The rise of recorded music together with more stringent copyright protection laws facilitated the development of the music business in capitalist society and more specifically the centralization of the American music publishing business and songwriters in an area of New York known as Tin Pan Alley in the late-nineteenth century. ... During the twentieth century, a vast number of musical genres and styles emerged, particularly during the postwar period. ...

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A marked out in line of dull red light."52 Many other people of the town see it as well, but each interprets it to his own liking, never once suggesting that it may just simply be a meteor.53 With the Age of Reason on the horizon in the late 18th century-early nineteenth century, "the area of the unknown [is] steadily contracting,"54 but "it has always existed, and it will always exist."55 America's first professional writer, Charles Brockden Brown, has a deep attraction...

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According to Barbara Epstein, in Industrialization and Femininity: A Case Study of Nineteenth-Century New England, women were told that they had special abilities for raising children due to their innate warmth and morality. ...

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Thesis: The transcontinental railroad greatly increased Westward expansion in the United States of America during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The history of the United States has been influenced by England in many ways. In the second half of the 1800's, the railroad, which wa...

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Libertarianism can trace its history as far back as sixth century BC philosopher Lao-tzu who accordingly stated "Without law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony." (6:27) Nevertheless, Libertarianism as it pertains to the United States struck a cord with Americans under the despotic colonial rule of Great Britain. ... In the early twentieth century there was a war Americans won and a Depression Americans beat, all of which catered the impression that government was an effectual force that could solve all and fix all. ... After a number of decades in the twentieth century Americans had ...

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June 21, 2000, a police officer is shot dead in Flagstaff, Arizona. This violent crime was committed by 17 year-old Eric Clark. In the Supreme Court case of Clark vs. Arizona, Clark argued that his paranoid schizophrenia gave him the inability to understand the nature of his acts at the time they we...

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This was a government based on a charter that said that all men are created equal with an equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but a society which by the nineteenth century was the largest slave holding country in the world (qtd in Ferris 9)". ...

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In the late 18th century during the American Revolution the issue for women rights became prominent. ... It is incongruous that women needed to form the National Woman's Party in order to receive voting rights in America under the protection of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. ...

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Augustine introduced the idea of a just war and the middle Ages furthered its cause, it was not until the 16th and 17th centuries that a complete theory, which included the proper waging of a war, was established. ...

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The establishment of an effective Judicial System in the United States of America has come with numerous challenges over the past centuries. What is thought of as "probably the most important and the most satisfactory Act ever passed by Congress," the Judiciary Act of 1789 created for the people a...

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