Century of Progress

Women’s Changing Dress and Role at the Turn of the 20th Century American poet Walt Whitman once wrote, “Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy/Of value is thy freight, ‘tis not the Present only/The Past is also stored in thee” in his poem Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood. Throughout America’s short and dynamic history, women have played a vital role in the development of belief systems, policy making, and country building that fostered the country America is today. However, that is not to say…

second half of the nineteenth century; (ii) comparing that difference to the difference observed by the 1970s; and…

western countries like Canada and the United States. Rapes and sex trafficking are ruining women 's chances about going out in the workforce but many labour laws are put in process which help women advance more and more everyday. Women in India for centuries now have been known to hold the role of housewives. Men were and still in some circumstances hold the…

19th Century Russian Prostitutes: Sinners or Victims? In pre-revolution Tsarist Russia women were seen as completely subordinate to men, and prostitutes felt this injustice more than anyone else. Prostitution ran rampant across the nation and those stuck in the profession were drowning in legal and social plight with no voice with which to speak up for themselves. Sonya in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment exemplifies how prostitutes were affected by their profession while showing a…

The Burgermeister’s Daughter The Burgermeister’s Daughter written by Steven Ozment is quoted “The litigious Anna fought endless battles to regain her alienated fortune, leaving behind a legal trail that has enabled Ozment to reconstruct sixteenth-century German society in rare detail-a task he carries out with even rarer grace – The New Yorker.” Ozment describes perfectly the life of young Anna and he also includes many other intriguing things that display important elements of German society.…

to determine the success of local schools. The scores for each school are then published which was supposed to lead to heightened accountability between schools and districts and show which schools were lacking or failing to meet “adequate yearly progress”. Often in today’s schools, students will ask, “Will this be on the test?” if the answer is no, most students stop paying attention. This culture of teaching to the test can even…

Was the Civil War really about slavery? For over a century, one of a famous conflict in American history, the Civil War of 1861-1865, with Abraham Lincoln and his views of slaves. However, was the civil war exclusively about slavery? Was there more to the equation than just moral and ethical differences on the issues of extreme oppression and human rights? To answer these questions, we must first explain the economic and social landscape of the United States led to war. More specifically, to…

The 21st century has been labeled as the “information age” – a time when society relies on technology not only to connect and communicate, but also to get work done, to conserve energy and produce more goods, and to even save lives. Due to the nature of technology, information changes rapidly and increasingly influences more and more people each day. While there are controversies and arguments about how we as a society have begun to rely too much on technology, there is no denying that…

Mercantilism Work: London Merchants and Atlantic Trade in the Seventeenth Century.” Transactions of the Royal Historical Society vol. 9, no.6 (1999) 143-158. Nuala Zahedieh (Director of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies) provides insight into the background of London merchants and their role in Atlantic trade in the seventeenth century in “ Making Mercantilism Work: London Merchants and Atlantic Trade in the Seventeenth Century.” Zahedieh’s argues that the examination of merchants…

consider factors that may be contributing to this shift. First, it is important to consider a definition of 21st-century learning and by doing so how this can impact your teaching overall, then by key features in traditional education. These features in traditional education can be seen to be less supportive of today 's 21st century like education. Next is new practices in the current 21st-century education such as the meaning of knowledge. Finally, factors that are overall contributing to…