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    Prior to the age of industry‚ 1865-1920‚ products were made by hand. Most businesses were owned by one or two people. The industrial revolution was the time period when products were made by machine rather than by hand. There were many causes of the growth of industry. In addition‚ there were many effects of the growth of industry . the age of industry was a turning point in american history. There were many causes of the growth of industry. One cause is new inventions‚ the new inventions increased

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    The 1920s were known as carefree and relaxed. The decade after the war was one of improvement for many Americans. Industries were still standing in America; they were actually richer and more powerful than before World War I. So what was so different in the 1930’s? The Great Depression replaced those carefree years into ones of turmoil and despair. The decade after the First World War saw tremendous change. Progressivism was a leading factor of World War I and in the 1920s the evidence can

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    If someone is Christian‚ some of the things they do to praise the Lord most likely started with Aimee Semple McPherson in the 1920s. McPherson was the first woman preacher in history. She toured the west coast preaching the Gospel to many people‚ gaining a great deal of followers. When she settled in Los Angeles to start her ministry her fame increased along with her profits. While her success was booming‚ she disappeared very unexpectedly and no one knows what really happened. After this incident

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    Los Angeles in the 1900s was changing at a very rapid pace. African Americans from the South were migrating to the major cities of the North in search of opportunity. In the 1920s‚ the first wave of migration largely bypassed the city of Los Angeles. But starting in the 1940s‚ the second wave of migration caused Los Angeles’s population to skyrocket from 63‚700 to 350‚000 by the year 1960. This mass-migration caused many demographic problems in the new racially diverse city. The first sign of lingering

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    The conclusion of Duncan’s vocation in the 1920s‚ in fact‚ clearly shows and uncovered the inconsistencies in the innovator mission for wholeness and their perspective of a brought together culture. The visual trepidation of Duncan’s performing body as the solidarity of another meaning of womanhood and Utopian desires for the twentieth century divided as Duncan herself faced contrast and change in present day society. Duncan saw an enlarging split between her hypothesis of an entire human advancement

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    American Gangster Many issues affecting politics take place behind closed doors. Some of the events that take place which influence political decisions can stem from sociological‚ cultural‚ and political issues. American Gangster does a great job of conveying how each of these issues effect different aspects of today’s government. In this movie‚ Denzel Washington’s character (Frank Lucas) demonstrates how sociological influence can be exploited to gain power and wealth. Ellsworth "Bumpy"

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    terrified. My life would be different in the 1920s as of then because in middle school was around when technology was coming out i we were in the 1920s we would not have as big as technology we were beginning to have. All though the 1920s was known as the roaring twenties and was when technology was becoming bigger but not as it was when i was in the eighth grade. In the eighth grade was better cell phones‚ computers‚ wifi and more. In the 1920s the things that were better technology was movies

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    Group 1 Human trafficking is the trade in humans‚ most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery‚ forced labor or for the extraction of organs or tissues‚ including surrogacy and ova removal .Human trafficking can occur within a country or internationally. Human trafficking is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim’s rights through coercion and exploitation. Victims of human trafficking are generally forced to work for or provide services to the trafficker or others.

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    proclaimed their new freedom as "flappers" in bobbed hair and provocative clothing. Jazz became the soundtrack to the young artists and writers of the Lost Generation. One of the oddities of this time of progressive reform‚ however‚ was prohibition. In 1920‚ the United States passed the 18th Amendment which outlawed the “manufacture‚ sale‚ or transportation of intoxicating liquors” (Legal Information Institute Staff). President Herbert Hoover famously called prohibition

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    of women’s liberation from their biological constraints lie in the heart of the first wave of feminism; a wave which although is characterised by the suffrage movement and political equality; does not provide a comprehensive view of feminism in the 1920s. In order to correctly analyse the evolution of birth control in relation to the waves metaphor I am therefore encouraged to start with the first ‘wave’ and recognise the emergence of bodily autonomy against a political equality background which is

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