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    Child labour was customary throughout the history of family agriculture” (Minge-Kalman). This statement is the theme behind both journals and how the exploitation of child labours increased the production in the factories. The comparison of the two articles chosen both touch on the same topic‚ however they view two different opinions. The first journal written by Wanda Minge-Kalman set more emphasis on the education movement that transpired from the Industrial Revolution. Whereas the second‚ by

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    Dear (insert name) 1870 As you know‚ it is no secret that child labour has been going on in countries around the world but the stage we have reached with it here is preposterous. As a mother with a child working in one of these disgusting factories‚ there are many issues to be raised of the treatment of this country’s children. The main issues arise in regards to the fact that these jobs that children as young as three have to work‚ have unnecessarily long hours and pose great risk for these children

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    of age were used for their labor. “Although children had been servants and apprentices throughout most of human history‚ child labor reached new extremes during the Industrial Revolution” . This worsened as more groups began to migrate to America. Children faced unfair and unhealthy working conditions‚ often having to neglect their education to make money with their families and being paid less than adults. With the turn of the 20th century‚ educational and child labor activist groups began to form

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    Why Child Labor Is Wrong.

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    In this Socratic dialogue‚ Joe is representing Socrates‚ and Jane is representing the interlocutor. Jane believes that child labour is okay because of the nature of their living standards; however Joe believes it is wrong. Jane: Hello Joe‚ how are you today? Joe: I’m great Jane‚ how are you? Jane: Oh you know‚ just catching up with school work... Joe: Of course‚ grade twelve is pretty demanding. Jane: You bet it is! I see you are wearing the new school pants.. Joe: Yes indeed‚ I’m glad you’ve

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    The Progressive Era was a huge time period in US history. Many changes had occurred during this time period. Amendments 16-19 were ratified between 1890-1920. WWI comes into play for women’s rights in the early 1900s and child labor drops during the Progressive Era. Iconic people in the time period made impacts to help change America and make it equal for everyone who lived there. The food that was made in the nation from meat shops had been shut down. Monopolies had been taking over the Senate overruling

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    1750-1850

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    1750-1850: A brief survey Great Social Thinkers Inventions 1750-1800                                         1752 1755 1757 1758 1761 1769 1774 1775 1784 1785 1791 1792 1794 1796 1799 * Benjamin Franklin invents the lightening rod. * Samuel Johnson publishes the first English language dictionary * John Campbell invents the sextant. * Dolland invents a chromatic lens. * John Harrison invents the navigational clock or marine chronometer for measuring longitude. * James Watt

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    The American labor force of the late 1800s and early 1900s was weak‚ uneducated‚ and forever trapped by the low-pay and harsh conditions of work and life; there was virtually no way out‚ as explained in Thomas O’Donnell’s Testimony. Everyone was caught in a rut‚ starving and poor; hoping for a better future‚ yet knowing that nothing else awaited them. “How could [they] go…walk?” (O’Donnell 31). “The poor people…the poor operatives” were being crushed down; they faced challenges and obstacles unlike

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    Child Labor Journal entry

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    Dear Journal‚ Today wasn’t a good day‚ it was worst than most days. My brother and I woke up at 4:30am in order to be at the factory at 5:00am. We ate the leftover bread we didn’t eat for dinner on the run to the factory‚ but it was raining today‚ unfortunately‚ and that made us late. Which was what started our horrible day‚ despite the fact that I actually love rain‚ the sound it makes when it hits the ground is calming‚ but I don’t like the consequences it brought my brother and I today. As we

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    EXPLOSION IN 1750s

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    Cities. Doctors and Nurses was that after 1870 doctors started to use things like like anaesthetic and antibiotics to stop diseases caused by bacteria but they didnt know that then‚ and also so they die from diseases. Magic Midwives‚ which was after 1750 midwives started caring for patients more to stop illnesses until they were better‚ and and by that time some rich hospitals had also got maternaty bedsso pregnant women and children didnt have to lie on the floor while the they were in labour. Jenners

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    Biology 9th Chapter 7 Review N.Bouhout 1) The molecule made during glycolysis that is used later in steps of fermentation is pyruvic acid. 2) The molecule made during the later steps in fermentation that is used in glycolysis is NAD+. 3) The molecules that the Krebs cycle makes that the electron transport chain uses are pyruvates. 4) The molecule that will determine whether pyruvic acid will undergo fermentation or be converted for entry into Krebs cycle is oxygen.

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