20th-century English people

Wang argues that the fame and participation of spicy food and Sichuan people has empowered for them to shape their revolutionary spirit as proven in both the Nationalist and Communist Revolutions. Agreeing with this statement, it is important to note that Communism and Nationalism both played a large role on the cultural,…

short stories that symbolize the oppression of women and the drastic differences between the rights they had versus the rights of men. The stories address the issues of women being mostly domestic and subordinate to men. Women during the 19th and 20th century were seen to be worth less than men and were considered inferior compared to their male counter-part. In “Story of an Hour” the main character Louise is a housewife whose husband loves her even though she does not often love him.…

Women’s Bodies: A Battleground of Sexuality and Violence Women in Eastern Europe were subjected to many horrors during the 20th century, both in times of peace and times of war. They had to endure war and the killing of civilians through bombs and general warfare, but there were also violences against women that were specific to women, including military brothels, rape camps, and sex trafficking. Besides these women had many problems to deal with in the household, domestic abuse was on the rise…

arrival of a large pool of freedmen provided Cairo with a dramatically increased pool of unskilled labor and changed the urban landscape of the city. Cairo experienced its greatest economic growth in the latter half of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century. River trade, industrial growth (especially in bricklaying, timber, and woodpulp…

objects to be admired for physical appearance. Mulvey argues that erotic scenes in films don’t have any influence on the plot but only provide a sense of erotic spectacle. However, Mulveys gaze theory could have less relevance in the early twentieth century due to technological advancements and change in social dynamics. Visual culture has progressed considerably…

the winter season. Fur muffs were mostly introduced early on, they were used by women population only in the 16th century when it got considered as a party of women fashion at that time. Used and popular since then in both the male and the female population, the populace of these hand warmers reached its peak in the 18th and the 19th century. However by the early of the 20th century, the use of the muffs were limited in…

Roman empires, to technological advances in medicine that have pro longed life, and the expansion of knowledge through books and curiosity. All have come from the fact that people are never content with what they have. But like everything in the world this desire has come at a cost, on the negative side, millions of native people have been killed as a result of colorization and millions of animals across…

the past two centuries, there has been an increase in this style of government around the world. From Russia to China, from Iraq to Germany, these leaders control their countries with absolute power. Because of how powerful these leaders control is, their power must be constantly maintained and in order to do so, the leaders go to great lengths to ensure their unlimited power. Through dehumanization of their population and extreme intimidation, these twentieth and twenty first century…

Over the course of this semester, I read a book called The Magnolia Story, by Chip and Joanna Gaines. Chip and Joanna Gaines, as you may recognize their names from their hit HGTV show Fixer Upper, have become experts in the business industry. This is because they have spent most of their lives flipping, selling & remodeling houses, learning how to deal with income, saving and spending their profit, and running multiple businesses at once! They started their business, Magnolia homes, and have…

modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with the rise of mass production in the wake of the industrial revolution and with the consolidation of populations in major urban centers that tookplace in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries throughout much of the industrialized world. In a consumer society, the individual is confronted with and surrounded by a vast assortment of goods. As urban centers expanded in the nineteenth century and systems of mass transit were built…