The British franchise remained unchanged from fifteenth century until the Great Reform Act of 1832. ... Although heralded by its creators as the final measure needed to resolve the reform question that had, to varying degrees, plagued Parliament since the mid-eighteenth century, the 1832 Reform Act was just the beginning of parliamentary reform in the nineteenth century. ... Household suffrage, supported by many in the later eighteenth century, was even considered too radical. ... Perhaps then 1832 marked a point, possibly a watershed given the acceleration of the process in the nineteenth ce...

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This paper will compare all these important issues which came from the Victorian era with the late 20th Century and 21st Century. ... As for the late 20th and early 21st Century is known as a Postmodernism era, the time of the changes taking place and it refers to the growth of knowledge in all fields, including philosophy, literature and more. ... As stated earlier, this novel has taken place in the nineteenth century. This will make readers of late twentieth century and early twenty first century wonders if the situation that are portrayed in this novel is still relevant to the people in th...

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Next there were the working class women, who had always made up a significant part of the workforce in the nineteenth century. ... Second to domestic service the main employer of women in the 19th century was the textile industry. ... By 1899 there were 200 female doctors and by the early twentieth century the gap between male and female literacy levels was greatly reduced, by this time both male and female literacy levels were at around 95% Something that made a large difference to the opportunity for women was the new technology. ...

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It developed from what was essentially a regional accent that acquired a unique level of prestige among the ruling and privileged classes in 19th Century Britain, particularly in London. ... During the 19th century, it became the accent of public schools, such as Eton and Harrow, and was soon the main sign that a speaker had received a good education. ... Scouse is the dialect, which developed in Liverpool, an industrial town, in the nineteenth century. ...

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Russia, during the turn of the 20th century, experienced a great surge of political movements whose aim was to change the existing form of government. ... As Ragsdale states, "Russia in the nineteenth century or Russia in 1917 did not fit plausibly into any historical period described by Marx."" ...

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Social class plays a major role in the development of a person's life and the events that take place within it. Faiza Guene in "Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow" and Guy de Maupassant in "Boule de Suif" use the relationship between the class systems and their characters to show differences in the characte...

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"Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does." As the first act comes to a rather confusing end, John and Algernon reveal the secret of the play; nothing is exactly as it seems. The Importance of Being Earnest is a highly exaggerated play called...

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Three of the most influential nineteenth century writers who wrote on this subject were Karl Marx, Eduard Bernstein, and Heinrich Treitschke. ... The state demands obedience from the people to obey the laws and Treitschke reasons that the state does not need the rational consent of the people because kingdoms have survived for centuries without the consent of the people they ruled over. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate