12th century

The twentieth century was an exciting period in European architectural history, it was a period of Modernism development. The early part of the period was focused on an approach by a group of architects who desired to reflect historical precedents and develop something completely new during their time. Instead of focusing on the traditional architecture such as ornaments, the architects during that time created a new aesthetic look using new materials and new structural approaches. This time of…

Modernism began in the late 19th century and spanned to the early-mid 20th century. It most likely originated in the industrial revolution, rapidly gaining momentum after the First World War, until a swift disillusionment stifled it during the Second World War (Kuiper; Deggan). As a genre, Modernism is generally defined by a self-conscious and radical reform of traditional forms of expression (Kuiper). T.S Eliot wrote and published his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in the early…

his chapter on Railroads and Patent Furniture, a much different scale is addressed, that of the train interiors, their spatial arrangement, and their mechanics . Not only is the train made available to the public in North America in the mid-19th century as a vehicle to get from point A to point B, but they are made comfortable of all riders, regardless of what social class they are in, the design of the train cars themselves aspire to be comfortable to everyone for the duration of their trip.…

Jane Austin uses her book Pride and Prejudice to make a statement about how unfairly women were treated during the 19th century. She explores the ideas of feminism and equality in the context of society and social classes through the daughters of the Bennet family. During the time that the protagonist Elizabeth Bennet grew up, society viewed women as weak, passive, and inferior to men. Nevertheless, Elizabeth refused to submit to the social norm and the idea that women are solely useful for…

Anagha Bandaru 12/14/17 Pd. 5 Things Fall Apart and Gilgamesh Comparison Essay: Gender Roles Women always have been undermined in society. Though now, in the 21st century, they have more rights and freedom, it wasn’t always like that. They were always the lesser sex, including in today’s society, always coming after men. However, some civilizations/countries had slightly different views on men. For example, in Gilgamesh, even though women are still depicted as lustful and house wives, women…

The Gilded Age, an era of mixed progression, occurred from the 1870s to the early 1900s. The United States had just come out of its Reconstruction period prior to the Gilded Age; a newly established United States was ready to be molded, or rather, “gilded.”Mark Twain, a famous author, named the era between the 1870s and early 1900s the Gilded Age. Twain gave this era such a name because this time period displayed American civilization to be cheap and flawed at its core. Although the economy was…

the true meanings and representations of Gilded age and progressive era separately. For Gilded age, it is an era of rapid economic and population growth in the United States during the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction eras of the late 19th century. Specifically, during this period, the industrialization of the United States grew and developed in a dramatically fast rate based on the factories and railroad construction and coal mining. Basically,…

serious environmental issues. For a lot of the country’s history, money had more importance than conservation, and an ethic of “man over nature” pervaded the culture. Forests were chopped down routinely to make room for cattle. However, in the 20th century Panama started to take positive steps in the opposite direction. The country started to create protected areas (including parks and wildlife refuges), write environmental laws, and establish conservation agencies. As Panama watched other…

Modernity In his article “Are We Really So Modern,” The Adam Kirsch raises the question, “what is modernity and when does one obtain such a thing?” He makes an interesting point that modernity has the same meaning to us today that it did for people back in the 1500’s. Kirsch uses historical phenomena like the discovery of the earth revolving around the sun instead of the sun revolving around the earth as examples. He analyzes the response to these new discoveries and ways of thinking and he…

since the 16th century. In the play Othello three women, each of a different social class, were part of the story and all had different roles and marriage rules to follow. Although many may believe the roles of women and marriage rules portrayed in Othello and in real life during the 16th century were extremely different, one might believe the book follows the rules very accurately. Some examples of this would be the roles of women in the 16th century, marriage rules of the 16th century, and how…