1st millennium

Throughout mankind’s history, humans have always seemed to have a barter system in place for all of their trades. From trading trinkets for food to the modern day practice of trading money for goods, capitalism has grown and flourished not only in America, but in many countries around the world. From the simple shopkeeper of the community general store of the past all the way to the CEO of the modern day retail giant, the retail trade has become a part of our everyday lives. There is not a day…

Life in Twentieth-century America Society is changing every day. Prior to just over a year ago, it was not legal to marry the person you love if that person was the same gender as their significant other. Disparities between men and women continue to decrease. Our government is increasingly recognizing the need for social change. The selection’s we’ve read in this section have commonly revealed the personal relationships of Americans in the twentieth century. Literary works across the twentieth…

The Rights of women have definitely evolved over the past centuries. Women went from being treated as an object, not a person, to gaining many rights. They have evolved to be entitled to the right to vote, the right to work, the right to own land, and the basic fundamental rights that men have received. As the world becomes more modernized, women still want more rights, they want to be treated as an equal to men. In the United States, women want equal pay in the work force as men, when their…

During the 16th, 17th, and 18th century the way parents looked, thought, and raised their children were viewed as good in the eyes of a certain people at the time. At this time there was many good and bad ideals about children on how to look after and care for them. At this time the wealthy English parents had many changes on how to raise their children at the time because they believed that they knew best on how to raise a child into an adult. During the 16th century the upper wealthy english…

21st century is known to be the start of new beginnings. It was that generation where machineries evolve the economics and social life of the human beings: from traveling to one place to another, a click of a button for communication, and to sending news to the residents of the world. But, as the year progress the mortals abused the capability of these machines. One of the problems is how they report news and how they edit stuff to create news and spread rumors. Can news reporters be fully…

Ever since the first American colonies in 1607, society has long instructed women their place in a developing civilization. Despite the significant changes in America during the 15th century to early 16th century, women rarely deviated from their role in “true womanhood” . In general, women knew their place can never go beyond the boundary of domesticity or motherhood and venturing towards unconformity was frowned upon. However, in the late 16th century, as all of America was mobilized by…

In Jonathan Daly’s book, Revolutionary Civilization: Explaining Western Power in the Modern World, the author argues that European political fragmentation created hothouse conditions for innovation and almost constant warfare. Professor Daly’s argument is accurate for many reasons. The decentralized government of Europe had led to innovation and constant warfare which developed into “the world’s first arms race – one that never ended (Daly 94)”. I firmly believe that the political fragmentation…

Throughout the play A Doll House, Kristine Linde is the stronger woman when compared to Nora Helmer. Kristine is a practice and down to earth woman. She lives for others instead of herself. On the other hand, Nora is a naïve woman who lacks knowledge of the “real word.” She does not have any real responsibilities. The two woman are complete opposites throughout the play. They have experienced very different upbringings, which has also caused Kristine to be a stronger woman than Nora.…

Stratum 800 lacks cultural material, so it was uninhabited. Seven radio-carbon samples were dated, which gives this stratum a mean calibrated date of 100 BCE ± 100. Stratum 700 was also uninhabited because it lacks cultural material. Three post holes were cut into the top of this layer (features K, L, and M). This building was constructed during the time of Stratum 600, and none of it remains due to the fire that formed Stratum 600. Stratum 700 is given start and end dates based off the the…

Summary of the Paper “Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States Since 1850” by Jason Long and Joseph Ferrie, attempts to answer the question whether the authors can identify, for Britain and the US, historical differences in mobility, particularly intergenerational occupational mobility. In addition, the authors check for sufficiently large differences that explain the differences in labor radicalism between Britain and the US. The authors give a more in…