20th century

superhuman feats he had performed. The story Beowulf focuses on a battle between the hero and a terrible monster that harasses the mead-hall of King Hrothgar, leader of the Danes. Beowulf presents the monster, Grendel, as a horrific beast but by the 20th century, after hundreds of years of storytelling, his character seemingly evolves into a young, confused boy with psychological issues. The novel Grendel, written in 1971 by John Gardner, is a first person account from Grendel’s viewpoint.…

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…

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…

exhausting, desperate men were willing to work under poor conditions just to care for their families. Eventually workers began to stand against their companies and protest, which eventually led up to one of the biggest massacres in mining history. On April 20th 1914, the national guard was called to shoot upon a tent city of miners in Ludlow, Colorado which killed a total of nineteen people; including two women and eleven children. Could the bloodshed and unjust killing of innocent women and…

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…

er: The information revolution is a current, and still evolving system of advancements to technology, particularly of the information/communication sector. Back in the early 19th century, a mathematician named Charles Babbage designed plans for a theoretical analytic engine. It was for making computations of complex mathematical problems. He never finished building this machine. It was nearly 100 years later, that Alan Turing would explain many of the fundamental essentials to coding and…

daily household tasks and taking care of their families. Without background information some readers may think that all of these different elements of the story shape it into a piece of literature that emphasizes the problems during the nineteenth century for women, but when they learn that there were other elements that affect the story as well the theme of this piece is…

The Similarities and Differences Between the Governments of Qing China and The Ottoman Empire in the 19th and 20th Centuries The governments of both Qing China and the Ottoman Empire had many significant similarities and differences during the nineteenth and and turn of the twentieth centuries. Three outstanding similarities between these two glorious empires during this time are that they had many reforms, the intervention of the Europeans was part of the reason why both declined, and that…

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…

evening, just as darkness begins to fall. Max and Al are wearing matching outfits consisting of derby hats, black overcoats, silk mufflers and gloves. It is worth noting that this outfit is commonly associated with organized crime in the early 20th century. The…