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    The Forever Changing Significance, But Constant Role of Art: An Analysis of How Art, Specifically 19th Century British Literature, Creates Windows to New Perspectives In the American society of standardized and quick knowledge, it may be difficult to see the significance of art, especially when it was created in nineteenth century Britain. People want to take the easy way out and resort to finding most of the answers or the meaning of a work on the internet. A reason must exist, though, for…

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    During the eighteenth century, Europe experienced a period of intellectual, social and political movements influenced by the enlightenment ideals, that challenged the repressive social and political structures in society. It was also the period in which France and Britain dominated international affairs, engaging in lengthy wars to expand or protect their colonies from invasion. Most significantly, the costs involved with continual large-scale wars, proved devastating for the economies and the…

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    In this manner, the French tended to dominate the northern and southern parts of the island, and the British…

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    Imperialism has been a prominent force in the world for centuries and centuries, shaping the way the world looks today. Imperialism is a system of control where the minority completely dominants the majority through the extraction and exploitation of the land and its inhabitants. Through a corrupt system of control, MNU, the film District 9 reveals the prominent downfalls of imperialism highlighting the subjugation of the “inferior”, personal benefit, and national oppression. Subjugation of…

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    polarized views of the British government’s intentions with the American colonies. In the years before the 1770’s, Americans of all races had accepted British colonial rule and it laws that governed the colonies. In the years leading up to 1770, the British began to increasingly exert the authority over the colonies through new taxes. These taxes eventually lead to civil unrest in the colonies and the call for colonial independence. In the 1770’s white Americans were tired of British rule…

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    supremacy through fear, limitation, and degradation. White Americans did not want to chance that slaves would become educated or have the opportunity to unite and initiate a revolt, as the American revolutionaries had just demonstrated against their own British master with success. Slave codes legally degraded slaves and demonstrated white superiority on a personal level through useless laws, such as that which prohibited African Americans from looking any white person in the eye. More useful,…

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    to Cape Coast town. She then realized that she need a piece of document that says that she is free, but it wasn’t that easy. She would need a job and a place to stay; or the police would place her in prison. In this story there are important men a British judge and two Euro-African attorneys. William Melton played a major role in this story as a judge and magistrate, he was a…

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    Orwell was born in Burma during British Imperialism in 1903 and moved with his mother and sister back to England shortly after. Due to his sickliness, frailty, and bedwetting he was picked on by the children of his school, and was determined to be ungracious by his headmaster. Because of…

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    decision would harm their autonomy. The final decision for Canada was that it should leave the centralized British Empire and be without a central authority. In terms of Canada and Australia that might have caused a few complications since Australia strongly supports the U.K, but it did not severely affect their relationship because Australia believes that Canada seemed more American than it did British. The first trade line between Canada and Australia commenced in 1893. Although there…

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    As the Civil Rights movement progressed throughout the 1960s, racial tensions within American communities were in a perpetual state of hostility. Inevitably, commentary on the protests and riots sweep through every possible medium from news articles to high esteemed works of art. Two notable works include Larry River’s Black Revue (1970), and Andy Warhol’s Birmingham Race (1964). Larry River’s composition features three black men from chronological historical events. However, Birmingham Race…

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