They started taking positions that were originally reserved for men. More than seven million women entered the work force whereby two million women went to the heavy industry. However, these women lacked formal workplace rights. Women then and today still face inequality when it comes to aspects of pay and opportunities. Women get lower starting salaries, and are not paid the same as men for the same work.
This displays a higher power for women because they demonstrate power in agriculture and agriculture was a needed economic sustain for any civilization. An additional document would be records of women’s impact on the trade. This would be helpful because it would show how women controlled many businesses involving agriculture. The Song dynasty also displayed status through sudden recognition in literature. In an excerpt from a poem by Li Qingzhao (doc 6), she makes fun of herself for being a popular female writer.
Other major objectives at this time were political, economic, and military control of beneficial societies. From previous years, the imperialistic mentality had died as an issue and had received little support from citizens of the United States. However, with the “rapid industrialization and soaring productivity of the national economy,” the country was in a position to become the leading industrial powerhouse by the year 1900 (Healy, 2008). Americans began to feel wealth and
Free Speech During Wartime Throughout American history, Americans has played a key part in the perseverance of the freedom of speech during times when the United States has been involved in wars. There have been incidents where American citizens have criticized our government and there have been time when American citizens have supported our government. America is no different from any other nation when it comes to this. However, a failure to keep popular opinion inline with the ways the government acts during any wartime effort. Through public opinion, the Internet, or the media, the liberties of free speech during wartime will always be a concern to the national security.
It also had an enormous impact on the growth of America itself. Without slaves, we would have no America, because there would have been no one to do the work.. During America’s early years, as they still are today, three things that are ingrained deep into our nation are Capitalism, individualism, and racism. Although, racism is indeed frowned upon now and is much less pronounced than it once was, it continues to infect our society. Although, one could argue that there is more racism against white people now rather than “minorities” however, that is another subject matter completely and is just my opinion. Another key factor in early America’s success was the plantation system.
Though he has the same thought as Roosevelt the fear has changed from war to terrorist attacks. He quotes “we stand united in the defense of our countries and against those who would terrorize our people”. Even though the fears are different they are the same. They both present fear of attacks on America. Also they are at different times but that doesn’t stop these two presidents from thinking alike, meaning standing together united to come above the situation under any
Many historical events, especially the conflicts in World War II, have shown when foreign invasions have been justified, and when they have not. Only when the people are being freed, or liberated, from an oppressive regime can changing their society be justified. The idea of liberation is nothing new, but it is still relevant in conflicts today. The morality, rationale and laws behind starting wars have changed greatly in the past century. Today, many governments still hold the historic idea that a war in a foreign land can be justified if they are doing good for the people living in the area they are attacking.
Following the Second World War there was an economic boom. Most of the money made from things like industry went to business men and upper class citizens who were able to buy shares and stocks. While many people like the rich got richer and the poor made a step up but life for the black Americans stayed the same to an extent. One reason and the most important reason that black Americans did not share in the economic boom was that they were particularly hit badly by the problems in the country as they had always done the least skilled jobs. They had jobs such as railroad track layers, brick layers, grave diggers; fruit, vegetable and cotton pickers, doormen, elevator operators.Almost 1 million black farm workers lost their jobs, many moved to the cities where they shared similar experiences with the immigrants; low paid jobs and poor housing conditions.In the northern states, decent jobs went to the white population and discrimination was just as common in the north as it was in the South and many black families lived in ghettoes in the cities in very poor conditions.
Discrimination: Still Present Today In today’s society discrimination is a particularly controversial issue. From the end of the 19th century, women’s growth of education, and demands for greater equality of opportunity has increased. [1] The Gender Discrimination Act in 1975 prohibits discrimination against a certain gender in areas of employment. [2] Another highly debatable topic is amount of ethnic minority in the media and its visible under representation as well as stereotypes in news. Minorities use to be slaves, and had very little status in society, but that status was built up to the point where there now suppose to be equals.
WW1 was a turning point in increasing racial equality between black and white Americans to a lesser extent. During WW1 black people made contributions to the war effort by moving north to work in factories making war goods. However violence occurred where they moved as competition with the whites for jobs was rife. In the short term with competition and violence intensifying, the Ku Klux Klan restarted in the south and lynchings became common. It would seem that racial equality had not improved, but worsened.