26th century

1870 to the 1900 was referred to as the gilded ( to be covered in a thin layer of gold color) age due to the fact it was paraded as a brilliant and magnificent time in America when infact it was a time of poverty and corruption. During this time in U.S. history the country had become very corrupt examples of this were shown like the party bosses, railroad companies were paying off politicians, and corners were cut on the construction of the dumbbell buildings. At this westward expansion was…

The 20th century held many challenges and endeavours. From World War I to the Vietnam War it was a time of hostility and violence. Despite these hardships, the 20th century also made it possible for some of the most important events that changed the world. Without the invention of the television or the cell phone, where would the world be today? All these changes from an old world to a new world gave the opportunity for literature to blossom. Many 20th century writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald…

Asma Abeer Mr. Dean US History II Honors The Gilded Age Subsequent to the Civil War, the era of the late nineteenth century is remembered as one of significant prosperity and industrial growth, and is often referred to as The Gilded Age. The Gilded Age is when the nation went from a country that was based on agriculture and rural grounds to that of a very urbanized and mechanized nation. The rapidly increasing wealth and major expansions in industries provided an image of only positive impacts…

Halie Acor Buffay, 92, was tragically killed on April 20, 2091, at her residence in Stockholm, Sweden, when she was attacked by her pet otters, Steven and Larry. Their reason for attacking is still under investigation. She would like to let everyone know that her mission here has been completed. She has accepted an offer that could not be refused. However, this offer has a no return policy. It comes with the benefits of doing everything she loves with friends and family that she has not…

There has long been a debate no whether the capitalists of the late 19th century to early 20th century (such as Rockefeller, Carnegie, etc.) were “captains of industry” who looked to better the budding country or corrupt “robber barons” who only looked after themselves. One needs to take a good long look back into this time period to uncover the truth of the matter; however, once one does this, it becomes quite apparent that the later of the two is quite factual while the former falls flat on…

Mithraism contains elements of Hellenistic cosmology but the complexity of this relationship remains unclear as there exists a limited selection of primary sources detailing this masculine cult. There is no surviving text detailing the myth of Mithras making it difficult to discern and understand Mithraic culture and its perspective of Hellenistic cosmology. What has survived includes the tauroctony, an iconic depiction of Mithras wearing a Phrygian cap slitting the throat of a bull with one…

Explain How the Separate Spheres Ideology Shaped Women’s Lives During the Nineteenth Century. The British Victorian Era saw men have power over everything to do with politics, society and economy. Women in late 19th and early 20th century were thought to be inferior and property to their male counterparts. This stemmed from the genuine believe that each gender, in biological terms, were different. It is thought that men were logical and rational thinkers, whereas women were tied more to their…

Economically, the 21st century has been characterized by The Great Recession, an ongoing economic decline that began in 2007 when mortgage concerns hit United States markets and share indexes plunged. The U.S. housing bubble burst, damaging financial institutions and creating an interbank credit crisis. World and U.S. markets began to slide in 2008, and U.S. oil prices reached a record $147 a barrel. When the stock market crashed, over $1.2 trillion U.S. dollars in market value assets…

“The Yellow Wallpaper” is a perplexing story set in the countryside during the late 19th century, a time when “modern medicine” consisted of often brutal home remedies and doctor’s unproven theories. This was also still a time when women were part of a patriarchal society seen as fragile individuals who were controlled by their emotions and lacked the capacity for complex thought. You see he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one’s own…

According to Hunt, new types of individual experiences of empathy were created, during the eighteenth century; consequently, making the invention of human rights possible. Many of the advances in the founding of human rights that were made in the late 18th century were undone in the 19th and 20th century. As illustrated in the book, there was a new wave of racism, sexism, xenophobic and nationalist discrimination. The rights of humans in society are one of the most important distinctions that…