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    the authority in the medicinal services industry. Till mid nineteenth century the requirement for wellbeing industry was less on the grounds that the individuals were less uninformed of their body and brain. Henceforth there was less requirement for the human services industry as the significance of cash‚ materials and machines developed. Individuals began to look outside themselves than inside them after the mid nineteenth century that gradually brought about the rise of the human services industry

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    Religion and Modernity Can it be truthfully said that organized religion is a barrier to modernity? In order to determine such an accusation‚ we must first try to identify how we define modernity as well as the role of religion in science and humanity. To think modernism means the present is a very narrow view. “For many Decades‚ modernization was depicted in social sciences as a broad series of processes of industrialization‚ urbanization and social changes through which modern societies arose

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    History Midterm 2/24/14 Question #5 During the period of American history in the 1800’s to the early 1900’s many topics stick out in one’s mind. We think of words like: freedom‚ progress‚ democracy‚ immigration‚ war‚ and depression. Those are just a few of the important words that period represents. However the word “mission” not only is an important term for this time period but it is a word that is always changing throughout American history. Many will argue that we can still discuss the

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    Colonialism‚ which had been undertaken by the Europeans‚ took a new twist in the nineteenth century. No longer attempting to colonize plantation settlements in countries of the Caribbean‚ but Europeans began to imperialize among these countries instead. Through this surge of political decree and economic exploitation‚ European countries were able to expand their rule‚ spread their beliefs among the native people‚ and focus in on their economic interests. To start with one factor‚ since many factories

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    previous US expansionism shares many similarities with this “new” age of expansionism‚ they also diverged from one another in several key ways. This new stage of American expansionism took place through the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century and was quite analogous to the original or traditional type expansionism conducted by the US throughout its

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    Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Modernity and Classical Social Theory Modernity is one phrase that is complex to define. This is because no precise definition of modernity that is globally accepted has been decided upon. This is inclusive of the sociology field that has seen so many theories brought about to define modernity. However‚ we can have a general definition defining modernity as a post-middle age era that is discernible with a drastic change from the pre-modern concept of agrarianism

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    their trade or profession and came to stay in America. These immigrants were well equipped to take up life in the United States. The major first wave of Eastern European immigration took place during the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century before the World War I. Those who came were generally‚ Russian Jews fleeing

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    the California and Oregon. High wages‚ and later‚ gold‚ stimulated immigrants to pursue their fortunes in America. And above all‚ America supposedly had peace. Wars‚ famines‚ and revolutions rocked the world‚ but in the early to middle nineteenth century‚ America stayed relatively peaceful. Immigrants frequently found their monetary dreams realized in America‚ but when times got hard they often met ridicule and discrimination from people there. Although large numbers of Germans‚ Irish‚ and Chinese

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    Developments in transportation‚ rather than in manufacturing and agriculture sparked economic growth in America in the first half of the nineteenth century. The developments in transportation helped the economy of America to compete with European nations. There was much growth due to the new transportation systems of canals. With the creation of canals came a less expensive way for westerners to transport goods from the west. This also made it easier for Westerners to market their goods to the North

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    Practice? According to Bressler (2007)‚ Enlightenment thinkers‚ such as Benjamin Franklin‚ along with “modernity’s spirit of progress‚” have had a strong influence on human thinking “well into the twentieth century” (p. 98). In Bressler’s (2007) summation‚ the fundamental features of modernity include the ideas that not only are truth and reality discoverable through rational thought‚ but also truth and reality are universal. As such‚ “for Franklin and other modern thinkers‚ the primary form of discourse

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