...Women had it difficult in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Men and women had different treatments towards each other first of all women were not noticeable during elections. They couldn’t vote until the 1920s. Women also could not have professional jobs, and most importantly, women could not get the same education as men because most colleges would not accept them. This truly made women completely dependent on men. Nor only that “In the 1920's the world experienced several revolutions in areas such as music and new scientific discoveries.” (Chee, 2012) As a woman myself, it is hard to imagine a time when women not have been allowed to vote, work or go to college. One of the biggest reasons the narrator selected this topic was to find out what these women did to make a difference, not only in their lives, but also in the lives of so many future generations. Women were not permitted to vote. “Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote” (Gillett, 2008) There were many women active in the movement of the 1920s, with the help of great leaders such as Susan B. Anthony, Alice Blackwell, Carrie Catt, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mary Church Terrell, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Lucretia Mott, the 19th amendment was passed. The 19th amendment basically denied the right to vote based on sex that was the only way where women were allowed to participate in political elections. Other than becoming a housewife...
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...In the early 1900's many events happened that made Maryland what it is now. Maryland's industrial expansion continued into the early year of the 1900's. The state's factories and shipyards expanded greatly after the United States entered World War I in 1917. The U.S Army established the Aberdeen Proving Ground, its first testing center, along the northwest shore of Chesapeake Bay, (one of the most famous bay in Maryland) in 1917. In 1919, the U.S. Congress passed a law making it illegal to manufacture, sell, and transport alcoholic beverages. Marylanders were among the leading opponents of prohibition because they considered it a violation of their state's right. As a result, Maryland became known as the Free State. This nickname is still sometimes...
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...The Prohibition Movement in the early 1900’s was not the first time America was struggling with the concept of alcohol consumption. It has been an ongoing issue for years. Dating back to the Gilded Age and the second Industrial Revolution, alcohol was used as an escape for working men. With long hours and harsh labor conditions in the factories, often times men would come home and drink their pain and stress away. Their minimal income was spent on more alcohol. The consumption of alcohol has been and continues to be an escape from reality that is often times abused. During the era of progressive reform, prohibition was added to the list of improvements these small groups of middle class, Protestant, Americans were trying to impose upon the nation. The achievement of the overarching goals during the movement was demonstrated by the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the...
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...Within Canada in the 1900s multiculturalism events helped form the country we know today. In the Draft letter from the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association (CCBA) in 1886 written for Chinese laborers in Canada to the Chinese Ambassador to Great Britain. When Chinese laborers were no longer needed in Canada, Canada enacted a new part to the Immigration Act. Chinese immigrants began being required to pay a head tax to live there, in a desperate attempt to not pay this tax, they reached out to the Chinese Ambassador. Pleading to get help from this decimation, this draft letter reveals that after the laborers were used to complete dangerous jobs to create the railway that connects multiple parts of Canada. The Chinese laborers believed they...
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...History of Community Nursing Matrix Historical Time Period Nursing Role in Community Major Health Issues Partnerships Used Watson’s Theory Past Period 1 1800-1900 (America’s Colonial Period) In 1800-1900, during America’s colonial period and the new republic, public health committee was concerned about the health and care of individuals in the community; in the early years of 1800, the care for sick people and the ideas of public well-being were influenced by the traditions of British immigrants. That was the motive for establishment of a system to care for sick, poor, aged, mentally ill and dependent patients based on the English model. Using the Law of 1601was a great medical privilege for poor communities, blind individuals, and those who did not have families. At that time, the problems surrounding poor communities included death, birth defects, and many other kinds of sicknesses; that was also the beginning of the industrial developments and mechanizations and population growth, which contributed to increased incidence of disease. In 1856, Florence Nightingale organized hospital nursing practice and nursing education, emphasized the benefits of public health nursing, and highlighted the job of nurses which includes health promotion and disease prevention. (Dieckmann, 2008, p. 21) In the early 1800s, nurses were responsible for providing care at home and mostly focused on ethical improvements rather than illness or disease prevention. The year 1813 was the starting point...
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...profound economic change that occurred in the early 1900’s was largely influenced and formed by the industrial revolution, in particular the second wave that occurred in the late 1800’s. The revolution as a whole resulted in the change from economies based on agriculture and farming, to industry based profits. This second wave of the revolution not only refined and improved the prior inventions of iron and coal, but brought with it new highly developed technologies such as steel, electricity, oil and chemicals that lead to the creation of new industries that had not existed prior. The introduction of large scale steel and iron production, as well as advanced railway systems and the opening of the Suez Canal, allowed countries to export vast amounts of resources easily, therefore boosting economies. The introduction of electricity into society during this time also had a profound impact on the economic situation of many countries and individuals by allowing possible work hours to be increased dramatically. In 1914, Britain, Germany, France and the US owned 72% of the world’s manufacturing output, having a profound impact on the economies of the countries but also creating a climate of competition between the strong industrial powers. To a certain extent, this economic change throughout the world had a significant impact, and acted as a catalyst for increasing social and political change. Political change was evident during the early 20th century given that dynastic rulers still...
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...Racial Equality in a modern society Racial Equality Brian Dugas University of Phoenix In the decades previous to the nineteen fifties, African Americans were the subject of more discrimination than any other race or religion in all aspects of being treated both as a person, and a race. These people were up until almost the mid 1900’s as slaves, even though slavery was abolished long before, even in the mid 1900’s, African Americans were still considered “second class citizens”, not seen as equals in the eyes of others. It was during the 1950’s that African Americans, and other racial authorative groups collaborated to change their status in society. This challenge of fighting against discrimination and for racial equality among racial groups became one of the most important times in United States history; it was the beginning of what we know as the Civil Rights Movement. The fight for racial equality started long before the 1950’s, in the early 1900’s, the NAACP (the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) was created by Booker T. Washington, and Webb Du Bios, Mr. Washington was actually an ex-slave. As the NAACP grew in numbers and support, the NAACP also published its own newspaper, showing progress, and enticing people to come forward to support for their rights. One of its first victories was the laws of segregation in housing, and also the right of African Americans to jury duty. The NAACP helped in establishing other groups...
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...care dates back almost to the beginning of time. Each new time period brought new procedures to us here in the United States. For some reason the United States fell behind as far as these new procedures went. Other countries were more developed health care wise. The same holds true for today. This is a brief time line of some of the health care eras we have seen here in the United States. From the days of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid era and up until the late 1800’s other countries, France, Germany and Great Britain to name a few, were way ahead of the United States in health care education and practice. This added to the fact that medical practices in the U.S. were considered primitive. Doctors were more a tradesman than a profession. The local barber could be the town doctor and dentist all rolled into one. There were barely any hospitals and no health care insurance at all. Health care services were paid for by each individual that needed the services. An apprenticeship was the main form of education and training around 1870. There was no University training given at this time. Although they were practicing physicians taking on the apprentices, these physicians had very little medical training themselves. In order to offer training to larger groups of interested candidates, the practicing physicians began opening medical school. Not only would they be able to make money as a practicing physician, they also got to charge a fee for going to these schools that would...
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...Sociology Instructor Rochester Community and Technical College Rochester MN © 2008 NCUSCR • 71 West 23rd Street, Suite 1901 • New York, NY 10010-4102 • (212) 645-9677 • www.ncuscr.org Introduction The author had the privilege of traveling to China on a Fulbright‐Hays study tour during the summer of 2009. While sociologists have been studying the effects of McDonaldization in U.S. society since 1993, few have studied how Chinese society has been influenced by this phenomenon. James Watson and his team studied the phenomenon in 1997 and their book, “Golden Arches East: McDonald’s in East Asia” is an excellent resource for anyone studying this topic, especially the first two chapters. During a lecture at Chongqing University, Professor Zhang Jin mentioned that the idea of Scientific Management was being explored in China during the early 20th century by such business leaders as Lu Zuofu with his experiment at Beibei. This “model society” was implementing the same values in the early 20th century that McDonald’s later touted in the U.S. fifty years later. The author suspected that they had a common ancestor in Taylorism, a business model developed in the U.S. around 1900. Further research found that indeed, they shared that common ideology. Could this be the reason that the Chinese have adapted so well to an open market system? The ideas were not new, having, in fact been explored by Chinese business leaders prior to the Cultural Revolution. ...
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... English 155 Instructor Caramess May 18, 2012 Comprehensive Sex Education vrs. Single Sex Education There have been many debates and changes made throughout history on the subject of Sex Education in school. Now a day's there are many forms of sex education. Two main forms of sex education being debated on are Comprehensive and single sex. Dates of when sex education was first taught in school date back as early as the 1830’s. However sex education didn't really get noticed or take a dramatic affect in scholls till the 1900's. In 1913, Chicago became the first major city to implement sex ed for high schools. During the 1920's school finally began adding sex education to their curriculums. "To prevent the immense evils of self-pollution, therefore, in our boys and students ... They should always subsist on a plain, simple, unstimulating, vegetable, and water diet; and care should be taken that they do not eat too fast, and are not excessive, in quantity. They should never be kept too long a time in a sitting, confined, or inactive Jonathan Stokes 2 posture. They should never sleep on feathers." —Sylvester Graham, Lectures on Chastity (Cornblatt 1) (1834) Upon further investigation into my topic i have found several key dates and facts. one fact was that during the 1930's the U.S. Office of Education started publishing articles and training teachers. also during the 40's and 50's colleges began adding courses on Human Sexuality. And in 1964, Mary Calderone...
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...The Gilded Age and the Progressive Era are time periods that were significant in the growth of the American society. The Gilded occurred during the 1870’s to about 1900. Gilded, meaning wealth, refers to the flawless and neat society. However, underneath the gold, there is discrimination, corruption, and poverty. Although the gilded age was a time of industrial, economic and innovative accomplishments, discrimination against immigrants, poverty, gender oppression and political corruption were notable. The term was created by Mark Twain. Known as the second industrial revolution The Gilded Age was manufacturing and transporting goods became increasingly easy with the aid of machines and new railroads. Many breakthroughs and technological innovations...
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...Melisa Gonzalez Period: 5 During the late 1800's and early 1900's a massive number of people migrated into the united states. This great migration was generally a hope for a better life. People in poor conditions from Italy, Croatia, Greece, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Russia, arrived into Ellis Island, and Angel Island from their long and difficult journey to the United States. In their native country, this people suffered from religious persicution, their country was overpopulated and jobs were scarse, they had no political nor social freedom and because of economic prosperity. Although the journey was very tough, coming to the United States was worth all this suffering and struggles because this people were able to build a better economic status, they sought for freedom, and also because they wanted to take advantage of the opportunities the United States offered and their native country didn't. Migrants arrived to the United States during a time of economic opportunities. During the industrial revolution plenty of factories opened up and depended on hundreds of employees. In their native country, many of this migrants suffered from economic issues, and poverty. The United States supplied them with a job, and an affordable place to stay at. Although most immigrants were discriminated for being *different*, and payed less than native born americans, they were recieving an income that aloud them to support their families with a roof to stay under and food so...
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...The ideas of health care have changed tremendously in the past years. Health services are provided in many ways and the funding is now more accessible. Outstanding changes in public health have changed life over the past century. Health care became an area of concern as early as the 1900’s. It was during The Great Depression in the 1930’s when priorities changed with greater emphasis on unemployment insurance and “old age” benefits. Between 1940 and 1950 President Roosevelt asked Congress for “economic bill of rights,” including right to adequate medical care and later on President Truman would offer a national health program plan involving a single system that would include all of American society. Unfortunately, this agreement would be terminated by the American Medical Association (AMA), and is called a Communist plot by a House subcommittee. It wasn’t until the start of the decade during the 1950’s that national health care expenditures were 4.5 percent of the Gross National Product (PBS, 2010), and then later on in the 1970’s an effort brought forth by the World Health Organization planned to achieve “Health for All” by the year 2000. Declaration of Alma-Ata International Conference on Primary Health Care, Alma Ata, USSR, 6-12 September 1978 Governments have a responsibility for the heath of their people, which can be fulfilled only by the provision of adequate health and social measures. A main social target of governments, international organizations and the whole...
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...Name: Essay Title: Examine the reasons for changes in birth rates and family size since 1900 (24 marks) | Underline or highlight the key concepts, terms and instructions, by identifying these key elements it will allow you to focus on answering the question. It is important to use relevant sociological terminology within the context of you essay. List the key sociological terms that will be appropriate for this essay. Birth rates, family size, baby boom, total fertility rate, economic liability, child centeredness, socially constructed childhood, infant mortality rate | IntroductionSignpost to the question and clearly explain the key concepts /terms of the question | The birth rate is the number of live births per 1000 of the population per year. There has been a decline in the number of births since 1900. In that year, England and Wales had a birth rate of 28.7, but by 2007 it had fallen to around 10.7. However there have been changes in births, with three baby booms (after the two wars and in the mid-1960s) The family size is the number of people living in the same house as a child. There has also been a change in family sizes since the 1900’s - it has decreased from an average of 3 to 1.8 children in a household. | Paragraph 1PointThe point must be appropriate in answering the question. | Changes in the position of women has affected the birth rates in the UK since 1900; | Explain the point | Women now have legal equality with men, they have increased educational...
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...after eighteen pregnancies, 11 births and seven miscarriages Margaret's mother died from tuberculosis. After her mother's death Margaret decided she wanted to become a nurse and care for women that were pregnant. Wanting to do better for herself, Margaret attended Claverack College and Hudson River Institute in 1896. In 1900, she was wanting to continue her education and transferred to a college in New York City, there she started the nursing program at the White Plains Hospital in 1900. In England in the 1800s, Florence Nightingale led to push the formalization of nursing education with regulations and standards. The United States quickly adopted similar regulations, and the first Nurses Associated Alumnae was established in 1897 to regulate nursing colleges. At this time in the United States nursing was just getting started. Nursing certification and professional training was just being introduced. Healthcare and nursing in the 1900 to 1919 period would change history forever. Nursing during this time would change from the traditional bedside nursing at a home to a more institutional-based nursing within the hospitals. Also during the early 1900's nurses started working at local doctors offices and clinics. Nurses would be in great demand with professional training due to the upcoming wars of World War I and World War II....
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