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    The south is a place that isn 't as welcoming for the LGBT community, and this play give insight into their minds, because they are humans as well. All humans hold the same rights, no matter who they love. Although this was set in another country a century before, it could easily be produced with Georgia in the 21st without changing much at all. A feminist philosopher was quoted in Critical Ethnography by saying, “Traveling to some one’s world is a way of identifying with them... because by…

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    Chinese Cultural Revolution, “Mao encouraged marauding Red Guards to terrorize class enemies… killing perhaps 7 million” (322), and the 20th century became known as the “century of genocide”. However, in chapter six, Pinker argues that even genocide has declined throughout the centuries. He explains that, “The decline of genocide over the last third of a century, then, maybe traced to the upswing of some of the same factors the drove down interstate and civil wars…” (342). Autocracy nations…

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    During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was faced with a series of dramatic shifts and cultural reforms that revolutionized the world in order to make way for the postmodern era. During this tumultuous time, scholars began reevaluating concepts and challenging the authenticity of life prior to this period. Consequently, many philosophers examined the new definitions of freedom and autonomy and discovered their role as an individual in an increasingly absurd world. Fyodor…

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    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…

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    Women’s Changing Dress and Role at the Turn of the 20th Century American poet Walt Whitman once wrote, “Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy/Of value is thy freight, ‘tis not the Present only/The Past is also stored in thee” in his poem Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood. Throughout America’s short and dynamic history, women have played a vital role in the development of belief systems, policy making, and country building that fostered the country America is today. However, that is not to say…

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    For this assignment I have chosen to look more in depth at Immigration in the late nineteenth century until early twentieth century, and how this life changing experience was handled by different ethnic groups. In turn I will compare and contrast the essays of Victor Greene and Mark Wyman who both portray immigration in their own light. Victor Greens’s essay titled “Permanently Lost: The Trauma of Immigration” uses tools such as music and ballads to display how immigration effected certain…

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    one thing present in every culture that never ceases to linger over the heads of humans: love. The twentieth century marks a huge transition in how the human race lives, in physical ways like technology and transportation, but also in how they feel or how they think they should feel. The people that walk this planet do not have the same mindset as those who are alive in the nineteenth century and prior to then. The idea of love- a fundamental motif in every person’s life- has evolved…

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    Both international and domestic events have had a colossal impact on the American identity in the first half of the 20th century. During the late 1800’s, the country was divided. America came out of the bloody Civil War in 1864 (Taylor). During his second inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln urged his country towards peace when he said, “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us…bind up the nation’s wounds…care for…

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    the mid twentieth century there were a few different collective identities that had an effect on the European’s. A collective identity is a group that has a shared definition that derives from its member’s common interests, experiences and solidarities. A few examples of these identities were: African’s in the Congo, nobles, bourgeoisies, proletarians and the Jews. All of these different identities had a mixed effect on the European’s in the 1880’s through the mid twentieth century depending on…

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    While the 20th century was a period that saw relatively little interstate conflict in comparison to the past, the void was filled with several kinds of domestic conflicts, especially within colonial territories. It was an era of rapid social and political change that saw the forces of development, modernization, and independence all acting in concert to create insurrectionary movements against government across the globe in Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, among others. The…

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