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    Victorian Prostitution – Rough Draft The Victorian period was known for peaceful times, prosperity, and national self-confidence. England was undergoing a time of economic crisis within its social classes. The lower class made less comparatively to the upper class. Women in lower classes during this time were desperate to make a living by creating any opportunities that were available, even if it meant prostitution. Prostitution was said to be a job with better pay, better hours, and easier work

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    Victorian England Queen Victoria of England ruled from 1837 to 1901, making her the second longest reigning monarch in England. During her time as queen, an entire era was coined in her name by historians. To what is considered the "golden age" of England, the Victorian period brought a time of improvements in society, great achievement, and revolutionary ideas that paved the way for the modern times as we know it. Like today, the Victorian society functioned on three main classes: Upper Class

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    The Victorian era was not the greatest time for women. The pressure to be a prim and proper lady was stronger than ever. Queen Victoria herself even set ridiculous standards for how a women should act. She was a firm believer in the domestic spheres. The domestic spheres is a social theory that each gender has a specific role to play in society and neither can crossover to the other sphere. According to this ideal, a man should be the head of finances and be involved with politics while it is a

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    Crime and Punishment     The increase in poverty in the 1800s and the rise of the industrial revolution had a direct correlation to the escalation of crime throughout the world. The Victorian Era was harsh on the poor and on those who pushed the boundaries of the law, meaning that living as a criminal was particularly risky. Many had “no other choice” because they had no occupation or job that gave decent pay. However, there were a good number of rich people who were involved in a recent surge in

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    During the Victorian Era there were many key people alive including Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, Benjamin Disraeli, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Charles Dickens. These were all famous people during the Victorian Era. Some important scientists include Charles Darwin, and Alexander Bell. These were both very important scientist and without them we might not have some of the basic necessities of the modern day. Now you might be wondering to yourself what did these guys, and girls have to do

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    to expose the social class system for what it was. One of the most important social reformers during the Victorian Era was Charles Dickens. Growing up in a poor, working class family, Dickens knew about the harsh realities that spawned from the social class system present. His writing reflects these experiences and attempts to expose this harsh system and other big problems prominent in Victorian society. Pip is a character that experiences some of these realities in Great Expectations. Pip initially

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    Economics of the Late Victorian Era With the power of wealth and concentration of industry, the tremendous development in machinery, and power to drive machinery; with the improvement of the tools of labor, so that they are wonderfully tremendous machines, and with these all on the one hand; with labor, the workers, performing a given part of the whole product, probably an infinitesimal part, doing the thing a thousand or thousands of times over and over again in a day-labor divided and subdivided

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    During the time of the Victorian Era, Queen Victoria was ruling Britain for many years. During the Victorian Era, many technologies were invented and science were advanced. By the Industrial Revolution, railways and trains were developed as a result. It improved transportation and it became important factors ordering society. As a result, huge population increased accompanied by rapid urbanisation stimulated by the Industrial Revolution. However there were advantages and disadvantages by the growth

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    The Victorian Era took place during 1837- 1901 and is known as Queen Victoria’s time period. She was the first English monarch to see her name given to a time period while living. It was a time of rapid advances in scientific, technological and medical knowledge, and even population growth. Although Victorian England was based around the ideals of proper etiquette and maintaining “high society”, the treatment of women during the Victorian Era highlights the contradictions of this time. Families

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    movements are styles or tendencies that relate to a specific philosophy followed by a group of people during a restricted period of time. Art movements evolved over centuries from the beginning of time, which was important for the current modern art era. Each progressive art movement was the avant-garde where individual innovated & experimented with the new. The progression & change meant pushing boundaries of what was accepted. Art movements were not restricted to mainstream art. It included culture

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