systems. Automated teller machines have reduced the need for bank visits to obtain cash and carry out transactions. In general‚ automation has been responsible for the shift in the world economy from industrial jobs to service jobs in the 20th and 21st centuries. My friend‚ who worked in the field of publishing‚ told me that a lot of jobs are gone‚ many in layout and production‚ since computers do layout and design faster and more accurately. Here’s just a glimpse of how much the world is changing
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Fall 2011 Assignment #2 Walter Benjamin’s‚ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Walter Benjamin is an internationally renowned philosopher and a critical theorist from the early 20th century. He has written many diverse and intellectual pieces that were strongly influenced by the social‚ political and economic movement at the time. Benjamin’s thoughts and research is still fresh and recently obtained its due. The essay‚ “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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nineteenth century (1997‚ 5). Why do you believe this occurred? In your answer please define the concept of work and outline at least four historical factors which contributed to the declining employment of women. Information about the work of women in the 20th century can be gathered from archives like the census or from autobiographical and oral history sources. Kiely and Leane point out the difficulty in gathering information about women in the workforce in the 20th Century as there was
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17th and 18th centuries‚ if a parent were to have a child with a physical/mental incapability‚ disability or deformity‚ they were considered an embarrassment to society and should have be scorned‚ abandoned or put to death. Since parents didn ’t know what to do with their child‚ they would sometimes lock them up in cages like animals and hide them from society and sometimes their own self. As time went on‚ culture conditions and definitions started to change. Now in the 20th century‚ we ’re more understanding
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THE GOLDEN BIRD THAT TARNISHED In the 19th century‚ the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century‚ it was totalitarianism. In this century‚ it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking‚ acid attacks‚ bride burnings and mass rape. Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries suffer are of paramount importance‚ in an economic and geopolitical sense the opportunity they represent is even greater. “Women hold up half the sky‚” in
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Crystal Palace Describe the exhibition come about‚ what was the reason for it‚ the understanding that the industrial revolution is permanent‚ not some strange thing thats happening to society . The description has to give us insight to why the exhibition was important and to modernism. Two Parts: Building itself- dimensions‚ what does it mean when you build with iron and glass (to form an interpretation)‚ no internal supports which creates space to exhibit. Linear thinking‚ transparency‚ pre-fabrication
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Legislation of the 20th Century Juvenile Delinquency and Justice – CRJ180 Legislation of the 20th century The 20th century produced a number of important legislation and movements that shaped the way juvenile offender and delinquents were treated. The Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974; is to be considered one of those important legislation. This act was one of the first federal legislation that helped shape states policies when dealing with the juvenile court system
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Just imagine how our lives would be if all of the technology and inventions we have in today’s modern society were never invented. A history marking event called the Industrial Revolution began in England in the middle of the 18th century and spread to the rest of Europe and the United States in the early 19th century. This era changed the way people worked and lived in drastic ways. New machines were invented and a large part of the population moved from the countryside to urban areas. In the early
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CITIZENSHIP - A means of exclusion? It has been claimed that schools should be society ’s chosen agency for training for citizenship ’. Discuss the link between citizenship and education and ways in which this relationship has changed over the 20th century. Illustrate your discussion with reference to aspects of Australia education and students with disabilities. ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP - A means of exclusion? Although institutions such as the family and church play a significant role in preparing
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department stores like Nordstrom and Meier and Frank. Clothing has evolved through the ages‚ and has made most of its artistic leaps in the last century. Women’s fashion has gone from the corset and button up boots to Jennifer Lopez’s infamous and revealing‚ low-cut Gucci dress. But why has this happened? What brought fashion from where it was in the nineteenth century to where it is now in the twenty-first? Did social changes produce these changes in fashion‚ or did fashion designers and couturiers change
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