20th century

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…

twentieth-century family and its effects on an individual within a family. Family is the single most important human need for happiness in this life. The concept of family holds importance because it is through the influence of a family that an individual comes to know the world around him/her. The family is the vehicle in which most individuals first develop their character in life. James Joyce’s idea of the family is unique to the world because it reflects the early twentieth century and the…

Smoke Signals A Young Man’s Journey of Self-Discovery In Chris Eyre’s independent film, Smoke Signals, he tells the story of a young boy named Victor Joseph and his journey to forgiveness in the late 20th century. In the beginning, Arnold Joseph, Victor’s father, accidentally sets Thomas Builds-The-Fire’s home on fire in his drunken haze, killing Thomas’s parents on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation in Idaho. He miraculously saves baby Thomas as he was thrown out of the burning building. Arnold…

Susan B. Anthony, a 19th and early 20th century leader of of the women’s rights movement (1848-1920) declared, “We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all civil and political rights that belong to the citizens of the United States be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.” During the early twentieth century there were factions pursuing to change the male face of the workplace and misogynistic ideals. Skilled pioneering women spread their thoughts like wildfire through literature and…

couldn’t help but be reminded of art historic definitions of modernity and it’s the problematic idea of primitivism that was inherent in it. I was reminded of this because Arnaquq-Baril’s work 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…

In what felt like a stumping search for something interesting to share about the uses of language in my family, I was reminded of an anonymous metaphor that easily relates to ethnography, “It is not the fish that discovers the water,” which recognizes the challenge of me as the fish to see the social world that surrounds me; ‘water’. Introspectively becoming that fish that does ‘discover’ the water that surround me in a socio-linguistic sense, I took a harder look at irregularities I had never…

At the turn of the twentieth century, the ideas of evolution changed the worlds views of society. Many authors felt inspired by these new ideas of evolution, as seen in numerous novels during this time period. In the scientific novel The Island Of Dr. Moreau written by H.G. Wells, Wells utilizes his characters to compare and contrast the idea of evolution. Thus, this paper will evaluate and analyze literary criticisms discussing theme and character in Wells’s novel, The Island of Dr. Moreau. A…

helped explain why certain media campaigns may have failed to alter audience attitudes. The two-step theory still has credibility today. It is used today to look at the flow of information today on social networks. According to a paper present at the 20th Annual World Wide Web Conference in 2011, researchers discovered that news finds its way to people through a number of prominent and influential opinion leaders, such as celebrities, journalists and bloggers. The research found…

shaped the hot temper of the Sichuanese. This has further enhanced and improved the confidence and radical spirit of Sichuan people and this is proven through their involvement in the Nationalist and Communist Revolutions during the chaotic twentieth century. The hot pepper’s spicy taste and represented cultural traits have advanced from the socio-political interface between food and the romantic remembrance of Chinese Revolutions, and this is what makes it so substantial in the past, present…

objects to be admired for physical appearance. Mulvey argues that erotic scenes in films don’t have any influence on the plot but only provide a sense of erotic spectacle. However, Mulveys gaze theory could have less relevance in the early twentieth century due to technological advancements and change in social dynamics. Visual culture has progressed considerably…