3. Discuss the causes of the Industrial Revolution from 1865-1895. Be specific in explaining how each point you make affected the economy. There were many factors that contributed to the industrial revolution. Money were popping up from a variety of different sources so business’ can expand‚ mining added silver and gold to bank reserves‚ investments from profits helped to stimulate the economy‚ and small investors started to invest in stocks because they thought it would help them get rich
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Dalton was the first scientist to help contribute to the atomic theory. He based his thought process off of Democritus‚ an ancient Greek philosopher‚ who stated that at one point you will not be able to break down matter anymore‚ he called this basic building block an atom (meaning not divisible). Democritus believed that everything around us such as metal‚ water‚ and wood were atoms‚ but Dalton believed and proved that it could be more basic than that. He started thinking of compounds such as water
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Guglielmo Marconi Through his experiments in wireless telegraphy‚ Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor Guglielmo Marconi developed the first effective system of radio communication. In 1899‚ he founded the Marconi Telegraph Company. In 1901‚ he successfully sent wireless signals across the Atlantic Ocean‚ disproving the dominant belief of the Earth’s curvature affecting transmission. Marconi shared with Karl Braun the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics. A genies was born on April 25‚ 1874.Guglielmo
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Robert Yates was an American politician and was part of the Philadelphia Convention. Yates was born on January 27‚ 1738 in Schenectady‚ NY. Between 1771 and 1775‚ Yates sat on the Albany board of Alderman. Robert Yates spent most of his political life as a judge‚ and was well regarded by New Yorkers of all political casts. During the pre-revolution years‚ Yates was one of the Radical Whigs‚ but once the revolution did break out he served on the Albany committee of safety and represented his county
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Daniel Boone was a hunter‚ farmer‚ explorer‚ and outdoorsman who contributed to the expansion of America during his lifetime by navigating through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. Daniel Boone was born on November 2‚ 1734‚ near Reading‚ Pennsylvania. Boone was sixth of eleven children born to Squire Boone‚ a land speculator and farmer‚ and Sarah Morgan. He was the son of Quaker parents who valued hard work. He learned some simple skills including blacksmithing but had very little formal education
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Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States. She became a leading public health activist during her lifetime. Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February 3‚ 1821‚ in Bristol‚ England. As a girl‚ she moved with her family to the United States‚ where she first worked as a teacher. Despite widespread opposition‚ she later decided to attend medical college and graduated first in her class‚ thus also becoming the first woman to receive her M.D. in the United
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Tourism helps in improving understanding between nations‚ thus I don’t agree with the statement. It involves people of a country travelling to another country for leisure‚ business or recreational purposes. Tourism is used as a vehicle for international understanding by bringing people with different backgrounds together. The interaction of diverse people with different cultures goes a long way in increasing friendship. “Tourism can greatly enrich and promote friendship and goodwill” (Bhatia‚ 2001
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IT/205 What are Enterprise Systems? Provide examples of organizational functions supported by enterprise systems Enterprise Systems are a suite of integrated software modules that help companies to integrate information from many parts of the business by storing it in one database. The database collects data from many different divisions and departments in a firm‚ and from a large number of key business processes in manufacturing and production‚ finance and accounting‚ sales and marketing‚
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Barb: Jimmy Hoffa was born in 1913 in Indiana. His father died when he was seven‚ and he quit school in his early teams to work at a grocery store to help support his family (Jimmy Hoffa Biography). He actually organized a strike at that grocery store to get a better contract for the workers. “He used a newly arrived shipment of strawberries as a bargaining chip” (Jimmy Hoffa Biography). “The workers wouldn’t unload until they had a new deal” (Jimmy Hoffa Biography). He started his official
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RAMANUJAN He was born on 22na of December 1887 in a small village of Tanjore district‚ Madras. He failed in English in Intermediate‚ so his formal studies were stopped but his self-study of mathematics continued. He sent a set of 120 theorems to Professor Hardy of Cambridge. As a result he invited Ramanujan to England. Ramanujan showed that any big number can be written as sum of not more than four prime numbers. He showed that how to divide the number into two or more squares or cubes. when
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