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    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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    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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    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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    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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    past. We shall eradicate it by restoring our rights in the Suez Canal. This money is ours. The canal is the property of Egypt.” This quote represents what political philosophy expressed in the post-colonial world? Nationalism 13. Most early civilizations before 600 B.C.E. shared what characteristics? Cities‚ technology‚ metallurgy‚ writing systems‚ growing population 14. Before 500 C.E. Judaism and Hinduism were similar how Ethical codes of conduct‚ written scripture 15. Between 200 B.C.E.

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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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    evolution of mass media during the 20th century? | By the turn of the 20th century‚ other types of media were gaining public attention on this scale. Silent movies became increasingly popular during the early 20th century. Although entertainments‚ such as the dramatic narratives‚ dominated the silent screen‚ informational genres of cinema‚ such as the newsreel and the documentary film‚ were also born at this stage of development. By the middle of the 20th century‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ movies‚ phonograph

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    in the whole world too‚ proof that the mentality of society did not change from one day to another. Therefore‚ representing a major discussion to society since the beginning‚ women’s role in society has changed along with history. In the 19th century‚ women were manipulated by their husbands and had little or no opinion. Husbands were their wife’s bosses and had complete power over them. The play A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen‚ portrays that situation clearly throughout the whole story‚ for example

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    Short Answer Questions: 1. The progressives believed that growth and progress could not continue to occur recklessly‚ as they had in late nineteenth century. The “natural laws” of the marketplace ‚ and the doctrines of laissez faire and Social Darwinism that celebrated those laws‚ were not sufficient to create the order‚ stability‚ and justice their growing society required. Direct‚ purposeful human intervention in social and economic affairs was essential to ordering and bettering society

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