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    so popular that it was the main priority for people around the world. By the time the 21st century was reached, writing became a recessive priority due to the fact that new technologies are developed for people to use. Explanations why the writing was so popular back then is that they were so many events that happened around the world, people wanted to talk about it. Another factor that occurred was that there were a vast majority of classes that people thought they belong in, this inspired the…

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    The past century has done much to bring women’s rights and equality to new highs in the Western world, from granting women the vote, to increased economic, and personal freedoms. World War One can be held in part responsible for this expansion of horizons for women that would then continue on for the remainder of the 20th century. However, issues women faced during that time still continue to impact women today. World War one was not only a time of great change on the battlefield, the…

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    In the twentieth century, mental health was not regarded with the amount of importance as it is today. People did not prioritize mental health as much as it is today, often resulting in the overlooking of people struggling with mental illness. Albeit this, over the past decade, mental health has become and increasingly supported and viewed issue and topic of resolution, most specifically among youth. Nowadays, there are many services, ideas and places to go for help with mental illness and the…

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    2.4.1 Historical Review of Paralympics Sainsbury 's (1998) cited several examples of sports and leisure clubs of people with disability in early 20th century, British society armed player (1932) and the disabled to drive the car club (1922). In fact, the first international organization working for the specific obstacle group and its participation in sports is the establishment of a deaf French, E. Reuben - alcais, in 1924 to support the 6 National Sports Federation for the deaf. SOURDS DES…

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    reminded me of the notion of salvage anthropology in the 20th century. Anthropologists felt that native culture and native traditions were dying out. As a result, there a rush to record these traditions and ways of life before they became extinct. What struck me as ironic was the fact that the same people who rushed…

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    In the early 20th century, Margaret Sanger began a major reform, known as the birth control movement, in order to make contraception widely available so that women could limit the size of their families. I n “I Resolved that Women should have knowledge of Contraception,” Margaret Sanger describes women’s desperate efforts to limit their family size by attempting to prevent or eliminate pregnancy and their reasons behind doing so. Included was the story of her mother’s death, which was a major…

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    Piranesi’s Carceri, is a series of 16 prints depicting prisons as aggregates of monumental historical architectural structures “he captured their overgrown residues with archival precision”(pg. 15). Piranesi’s etchings were rediscovered in the twentieth century, a reflection on northern transatlantic countries’ growing obsession with nostalgic and romantic ruin. Piranesi’s ruins represent a different and nightmare-ish ‘authentic ruin’ of which Huyssen argues contemporary depictions of ruin…

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    Superiority: Ground Work of Social Justice Barrier Compare to 20th century, our society significantly demolished the barrier of social justice. In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison accentuate the barriers of equal opportunity in our society in the 20th century by using the actual setting and background, which means she primarily focused on the of social justice specifically in the 20th century. After I finished the novel, I searched the definition of social justice on assorted websites, and my own…

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    Capital cities in Latin America during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries used the “modern model” for public space as representative of public consciousness. This “modern model” based on Paris, a European city that achieved civilization in the broadest sense. In some cities in Latin America, such as Buenos Aires, this meant the implementation and emphasis of Parisian style architecture, monumental buildings, parks and promenade that created public consciousness of high culture…

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    20th Century Authors on Work Americans would benefit from reading more literature from authors such as Charles Bukowski, Franz Kafka, and Albert Camus because these types of literature encourage personal reflection and analysis of contemporary American life. This is particularly relevant in the way that these authors discuss work and the balance between work, life, and pleasure, which is something that most Americans do not consider. We all have a tendency to run on autopilot and do what we…

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