19th century

Men and women were both able to receive music education in the nineteenth century; however, men were usually trained to create music that could lead them to a career, while music was looked at as only a hobby for women. If one were to look only at the surface of the history of music in the nineteenth century, he or she would find that men mainly dominated the industry. Women were often discouraged from taking formal music lessons and it was even questioned at one point if music should be a part…

There is no doubt that slavery was cruel and unfair in both English and Spanish speaking areas. However, by 1759 the Spanish had already recognized that slavery went against one’s natural right. The Pope, a very influential figure during the 15th century, Openly discouraged the act of slavery [Pope Paul III, 426]. The Spanish respected the Pope so much that when he said this, it changed the Spanish peoples’ view on slavery; Spanish started to acknowledge slaves as humans. Whereas the English…

During the nineteenth century, Romanticism, a cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement, grew to a point in which many people were influenced by the characteristics of this era. Characteristics that can be defined with intense feeling and emotional expression. It held shared values of both reasoning, self-intuition, and human emotion, which provided an alternative to the views held by the Enlightenment movement: Order, clarity, and rational restraint. Being just as important to logic,…

Late nineteenth century marked a new era for America. Because of the country’s rapid economic growth and industrial revolution, millions of immigrants from all around the world made the long journey to the United States. The “land of opportunity” as they called it, offered them a greater chance to have a better life. However, the vast majority of the “new” Americans faced an uphill battle for survival. Low wages, awful living conditions and racial discrimination took a toll on many of the…

African Americans in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century As the Civil War came to and end in eighteen sixty five, the United States had to face the challenge of reintegrating both the formerly slaved population and the formerly white slave owners back into the country in an era that came to be known as Reconstruction era. However, by eighteen seventy-seven as US forces were removed from the South, the Southerners found new ways to exercise their dominance through acts of violence and…

refers to the simplicity in which the anthropologists in the 19th century conducted their research and also the way in which they viewed their subjects as lesser than them because they were not white. Armchair anthropologists include Lewis Henry Morgan, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx. As the discipline aged, methods and techniques improved. Instead of reading about a culture, the anthropologist would go and study that culture. The 20th century brought anthropologists such as…

or pushed to the side. Despite the efforts made to decrease the gap in these classes, they are thwarted by those who hold a high status in society like those who work for the government. Social classes exist in today's society as well as in the 19th century; this is due to unfair privileges for the wealthy, the stigma of being lower class, and the lack of opportunities to advance. The class structure in today's society can be broken down into three major classes. Those who are in the underclass…

expansion amid its industrial plants in the late 19th century. At the centre of this development was the automation of the production industry. People were replaced with machines. One of the companies that perfected this in the United States was British textile manufacturer (Boorstin, 2010). As a result, workers advocated unions to solve their workplace issues. The deterioration of the workplace status changed as the country approached its last years of the century. Considering the above facts,…

Foreign policy is a set of rules and regulations stating how the government is to deal with other nations. At the beginning of the 19th century, foreign policy was used to keep foreign relations to a minimum, but as the country and its industry grew foreign relations increased and were used to our advantage by the end of the 19th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, America was fighting a war with Spain, involved in ties of World War I, and attempting to colonize Hawaii, but after the…

Schools used to be very private and available only to the rich. In the 19th century, they were open to all. In the 20th century, an education became mandatory. In the 21st century, everything in schools became about “college and career readiness.” 21st century students today are almost all expected to be technologically literate, given most jobs will be highly computer based. America’s education is certainly better than it has been, but still requires much improvement to keep up. The American…