20th century

Women: intelligent, willing, and powerful. That is the definition used to describe those of today’s century who have conquered becoming political leaders, entrepreneurs, and working mothers in a world surrounded by critics. However, to understand the success of these women, one must understand how the 19th and 20th century influenced many to take a stand for equality in the political world. Many women during that time were raised and lived to be “perfect housewives,” providing a safe and clean…

Throughout the thickening 20th century as racism became extraordinarily rampant, blacks trying to elevate their status/living standards through mechanisms like buying their own house, creating their own businesses,1 and many other options were vehemently protested by racist white men who still wanted the feel of superiority over minority races.1 The sickening actions like the razing of the black city Rosewood, Florida in 19231 and the destruction of the “Black Wall Street,”1 are horrid examples…

Surrealism and Art in the 20th century: An Exploration of its effects on the art Since the 20th century was mostly dominated by enormous wars, such as the most popular First World War and Second World War and the outbreak of several civils wars, it is nothing but a normal aspect of the effects of war to have major reformations in several aspects of society. Influenced by the powerful Sigmund Freud, several artists and scholars at the time began to use their unconsciousness and imagination to…

The United States earned its title as a super power from the powerful performance in the 20th century. Everyone in the world was growing and advancing and all of the decisions America made allowed for America to maintain a certain level of power still held tightly today. Power comes in many forms but for a country it comes in the form of economics, politics, the military, and technology. These four pillars of America has kept it standing strong and able to help and defend others who may not have…

1.0 Introduction Communism was one of the various ideological trends in the 20th century. Communism is a social, political, and economic doctrine that the goal to build communist society, which is aiming to replace private property to all the production are owned in common. With the developed by capitalism and the development of the industrial revolution, the proletariat is growing. The proletariat is on the stage of political history, under the guidance of Marx, the socialist movement is…

30th century B.C to today, men and women have tried to avoid pregnancy by using numerous methods. From 3000 B.C to the 19th century the methods included condoms first made from materials such as linin sheaths, animal intestines and fish bladders. Then spermicides were introduced where linen cloth condoms were soaked in chemical solutions and then dried before use. They then evolved to condoms made from durable rubber and introduced diaphragms made from the same durable rubber in 1838. The 20th…

The 20th century was filled with change and many tragic events. There was WW1 and WW2. There was even a terrorist attack on our country. People question if these events had a unifying or dividing effect on the people. However, these events unified America more than divided. When there was a serious crisis like 9/11 the whole country was unified. Even when fighting for the rights of African Americans the country was unified. However, some people disagree and say all these events divided the U.S.…

Life has never been easy for women, but during the 20th Century, it was especially hard. The 20th Century was a time of change for women. Women were slowly gaining rights and discovering their own place in society. They were no longer sitting at home waiting for orders, but protesting and becoming activists for their own rights. Many of them had mixed emotions about their status in society while others knew exactly where they belonged. The 20th Century was a time of exploration and discovery for…

previous ways of functioning. However, for much of the 20th century, contemporary anthropology was still highly effected by its colonial past. Despite various anthropologists making strides towards improvement of anthropological study, anthropology’s colonialist foundations still disseminated into contemporary work. Yet, in the late 20th century, numerous anthropologists made direct efforts to reject racialized methodologies, and, into 21st century anthropology, entire forms of perception began…

The 20th century was quite the time for America. It was growing tremendously into the world superpower that it is today and the so called “American dream” was beginning to look like the real deal for certain people. A lot of factors have gone into this, but a question one might have is did race play a role in the shaping of America during this time and if so, how significant was its impact? I argue that through the use of harmful tactics, such as assimilation and dehumanization, race had a…