20th-century women writers

At the start of the 20th century, many small scale leagues were created for the operation of professional hockey. The current league, the National Hockey League (NHL) was founded in 1917 to structuralize the various teams around North America. The NHL reviews rule changes and…

Elfie, while primarily working in Springville, Utah, traveled the entire state and the Mountain West making photographs. Her photography tells a story of life in Utah at the turn of the twentieth century. In her work, she shows a particular interest in photographing the lives of women. Her photographs of women and girls shed light on a female culture of exploration, adventure and sisterhood in Utah during a formative time in the state’s history. The Photographer and her Mentors Elfie…

movements in the country’s history, starting reform movements throughout the nation. Beginning in the 19th century, the Progressive movement looked to make changes to some of the issues within the country, such as monopolies and the issues within the urban movement, like poverty and drunkenness. The progressive movement was typically made up of intellectuals, muckrakers, and middle class women. The movement looked to deal with these issues through reform, but wanted American society to remain…

traditional definition of “holy” is satisfied by the utilization of these lines in Marley’s song. The “Almighty”, “prophets” and “the book” all signify the impact God has on the lives of both the Afro-Jamaicans of generations ago but also on the 20th century Afro-Jamaicans…

In an article published in May of 1897, The Roanoke Times described the intimate relationship shared between two college women as a “smash” or “crush.” The article depicted these “smashes” as completely typical and mentioned nothing deviant about the relationships, even characterizing them as, “one girl, generally an underclassman, and usually a freshman, that becomes much attached to another girl, ordinarily an upper-class girl. The young girl is ‘crushed’ and the other, sends her flowers and…

Comparing the Artistic Works of Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso The beginning of the 20th century marked a transition from rural and agrarian based lifestyles to the urbanized and industrial based society that exists today. This rapid change in social ways of life introduced new ways of thinking about and reacting to society’s modern aesthetics. In regards to the creation of new ways of thinking for the modern era, the realm of art was not left out of this. New artistic styles such as…

ideologies through subcultures in the 20th century Research paper Table of Contents Goal of this paper 3 Introduction 3 Social change in modernity 3 Technological development’s impact on music culture 4 Eras of popular music in the 20th century 5 Rock and Roll 5 Pop 7 Beat 8 Rock 9  Goal of this paper In this work I will: - Show, how music eras take place in the context of social change - Present the main genres in popular music of the 20th century - Analyse the connection between…

The 20th century wielded many significant events in human history that both contributed to society and brought it down; some of the greatest struggles of the time were interconnected domino effect of hatred, inequality and a thirst for power. Corruption, racism and totalitarian rule dictated many significant the events of the early twentieth century. Gloria Fiero in her book Landmark in Humanities states, "The weapons of advanced technology made World War I more impersonal and more…

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When you turn the corner and enter the exhibition, you’re taken to the new – albeit familiar – world of the Vesper family. The Vesper family is a 19th century family of mixed heritage who was able to “pass” as a white family, despite being seen as “Negro” in the eyes of the law. The head of the Vesper family, Abram Vesper, was formerly a slave in Brazil who later become a navigator, merchant, and came to own a small shipping company. He lost his only son during a war, and so he relies on…