The World Economy & Social Changes New Technologies And The World Economy A. By 1890 Germany and the United States had surpassed Great Britain as the world’s leading industrial powers. B. The motive force behind this second phase of industrialization consisted of deliberate combinations of business entrepreneurship‚ engineering‚ and science‚ especially physics and chemistry. C. Electricity and the steel and chemical industries were the first results of this new force. D.
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tiffins daily in Mumbai at 12.30 pm sharp through sun and rain About Dabbawalas‚ Mumbai Almost 85% Dabbawalas are illiterate and the remaining 15% are educated up to 8th grade About Dabbawalas‚ Mumbai This service originated in 1880. In 1890‚ Mahadeo Havaji Bachche and Ananth Mandra Reddy started a lunch delivery service with about a hundred men About Dabbawalas‚ Mumbai A core job of supplying the Dabbas from home to work place‚ schools‚ office - without any technology or
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From the 1840s to the 1880s and again from the 1890s to the 1920s‚ immigrants poured into the United States for many different reasons. Immigrants were faced with challenges such as saving and spending money‚ blending with others and the Potato Famine in Ireland. Immigrants were treated differently on their appearances‚ the way they speak and customs they had. The potato famine in Ireland drove the Irish from their homeland to America. Some immigrants‚ English was a primary language‚ for others learning
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believes was designed to “control” the American working class? 6 Compare and contrast Zinn’s and your textbook’s accounts of the Haymarket Square bombing in terms of causes and effects. 7 Zinn says that revolutionary movements at this time (1880s-1890s) were stimulated by “the recognition that day-to-day combat was not enough‚ that fundamental change was needed.” How do his accounts of the Homestead and Pullman strikes illustrate both the issues and the oppositional forces involved in such change
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the United States. However‚ as domestic opposition to Chinese immigration continued to grow in the United States‚ the American government persuaded China to accept some restrictions on Chinese immigrants to the United States in the Angell Treaty of 1880. Domestic pressure to restrict Chinese immigration did not abate‚ so the U.S. Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act‚ which became law on May 6‚ 1882. In addition to prohibiting the immigration of Chinese laborers‚ the new law made it more difficult
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pessimistic form of Realism). Dreiser’s family was poor‚ and he soon saw a profound difference between the promise and the reality of American life. This realization was a major source of Dreiser’s discontent and an important influence on his works. Dreiser attended Indiana University for a year. In the 1890’s‚ he worked as a newspaperman in Chicago and St. Louis. By 1907‚ he was the successful editor of the very sort of woman’s magazine whose sentimentality and superficiality he despised. Dreiser’s
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the reader to Kerr (2007). We make several general points below. First‚ the Government of India had a strong influence on railways from the beginning‚ but the Government’s role increased over time. Railways were partially nationalized between 1880 and 1908 as the Government of India assumed a majority ownership stake in the former guaranteed railway companies. Complete nationalization occurred between 1924 and 1947 as the colonial government assumed full control over operations. Second
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naval officer and explorer‚ who died attempting to be the first to reach the South Pole. Robert Falcon Scott was born on 6 June 1868 in Devonport. He became a naval cadet at the age of 13 and served on a number of Royal Navy ships in the 1880s and 1890s. He attracted the notice of the Royal Geographical Society‚ which appointed him to command the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. The expedition - which included Ernest Shackleton - reached further south than anyone before them and
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Assess the long-term and immediate factors that led to the fall of the Romanov Dynasty. With over a century of military and civil discontent the Romanov Dynasty was bound to fall sooner or later. The fall of the Romanov Dynasty was a result of long-term causes including Tsar Alexander’s inability to satisfy his people and Tsar Nicholas II’s inability to rule to throne all together. The collapse was also an outcome of immediate causes; the effects of World War One on Russia and the 1917 revolution
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within the distinctive culture of Louisiana Creole and Cajun society. Exploring the frustration of women bound by restrictive social conventions‚ her work is feminist in its implications. Chopin’s frank depictions of both female sexual passion and discontent within marriage made her work extremely controversial in her own time. • These southern practitioners of regional realism rejected idealistic romanticism in order to bear accurate witness to the reality of the world around them. In the process‚
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