Century of Progress

a reaction to the Industrial Revolution. He worried that the factories might take away the individuality of the workers and replace it with order and uniformity. Emerson’s philosophy was his teaching to the individuals who lived in the nineteenth century America, a place in time of “new lands, new men, new thoughts” that at times fostered and at times…

We can continue on for a longer period of time to get more in-depth on the origin of gender inequality in religion, but let us go onto the focus of the 19th century. British literature displays the opinion of marriage, and that opinion isn’t the highest of standards. Katherine Phillips shows such in her poem “Friendship”. Phillips begins by defining love, explaining how love is in nature and in the heavens, which flows off into the earth (Line 5-13). Then, she explains how love is a…

After McKinley's assassination, Roosevelt was thrust into office, to the horrors of many individuals. Although Roosevelt promised to secure McKinley's strategies, his presidency was a major contrast to his predecessor's, just as the 19th century was to the 20th century. Roosevelt proceeded to instate revisions to the economy beginning with his famous Square Deal, where he promised amongst many policies to enforce civilian fairness, break trusts, and to make conservation a top priority. Although…

Equality between Different Genders The feminist movement started in the United States by Alice Paul. Feminism was not founded until the 20th century, it is defined to be “the theory of the political and social equality of the sexes.” The feminist movement was a social and political movement that fought to establish equality for women. In the early 20th Century suffrage was still an issue. Therefore, women began participating more in public. This was the beginning for women to have the ability to…

2 Objective Architecture in the 21st century, a world conscious of environmental limits and cultural diversity, towards a technological globalisation. What strategies could enable the potential for manifesting an ethical intentionality inherent in the architectural profession and how is this ethical intentionality affected in Public Architecture, where the individual client is substituted by civil society? This research paper aims to investigate a theoretical supposition in the fields of…

felt the desire to grow, move, and acquire territory as expressed through the ideal of Manifest Destiny. The nation explored new areas of expansion in the 1890s for several reasons. Which of the following was not one of them? 10. In the early 20th century, taboos about sex changed, and a birth-control movement enabled women to explore sexuality without having to worry about pregnancy. Which woman was most closely associated with this…

In accordance with Virginia’s Woolf’s essay titled “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” the idea that human relations changed circa December 1910 is explored. In Woolf’s words “in or about December 1910 human character changed” (Woolf 2). This change, which she asserts was “not sudden and definite,” (Woolf 2) leads the reader to believe it was gradual. The Victorian and Georgian Era are stark in contrast regarding the everyday individual (and said individual’s relationships). Where the Georgian lived a…

The Gilded Age was a period of rapid economic growth, but also much social conflict lasting from 1870-1900. Mark Twain called the late 19th century the Gilded Age because he saw the period to be glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. It was one of the most active, controversial, and explosive periods in American history. The industrial economy boomed, allowing for many opportunities that weren’t previously made possible for the people to make great fortunes. But, the economy also…

industry in the history of our planet has bribed politicians into ignoring science (“Bernie Sanders On The Issues”). Hillary, like Bernie, believes in helping to diminish climate change. We need to strive to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century. We need to uncover more ways of renewable energy rather than wasting away our fossil fuels. Hillary proposes to preserve, implement, and amplify smart pollution and efficiency principles, launch a clean energy challenge, and ensure safe and…

national government and political stability, while on the other, Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans desired a more moderate national government and an independent farming society. During his presidency, Jefferson implemented such changes in order to progress toward this American agricultural civilization. However, after the War of 1812, America experienced an abrupt change in attitude toward the ideas of entrepreneurialism and industry. Innovations such as the power loom and the spinning jenny…