~Author Unknown When you think of drinking a hot cup of tea‚ you can’t help but feel rather British. Although tea did not originate in Britain‚ it certainly found a home there. At a time when the world was speeding up‚ the shuffle of the Industrial Revolution was embraced by some‚ avoided by others‚ and left some scrambling to find their place. Tom Standage’s A History of the World in Six Glasses‚ cleverly explains tea’s journey across the world and back and its lasting impact on all. As the
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The spring of 1775 is a cold one to say the least. Ever since the events of the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party years prior‚ there has been an evident divide between us. The majority of the colonists are blinded by the want to rebel and seek independence when without the security of England there would be no one to defend and protect anyone disregarding what you stood for. Complete independence could lead to the loss of all social and economic benefits derived from the partnership in the
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LIFE DURING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Industrialization- As American factories grew‚ they no longer needed to employ skilled workers who had spent years learning their particular trade. Instead‚ they could hire unskilled laborers who performed simple tasks and worked for lower wages. As a result‚ American factory work became "deskilled" after the Civil War. WORKING CONDITIONS -Even in good times wages were low‚ hours long and working conditions hazardous. -Little of the wealth which the nation
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The Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution are closely linked through the standard idea that freedom and autonomy of the human being is what would bring advancement and progress. The age of Enlightenment was characterized by the belief in both human advancement and nature. The human advancement was believed to be achieved through education. The human being was seen as an integral part of nature. Nature‚ therefore‚ was acknowledged to be governed by a complex system of interactive laws‚ as was
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Due to his title it is assumed he lived inside the city of Alexandria‚ Egypt and though it is up to debate most historians agree he was most likely alive around 62 A.D. Mathematician and inventor he made many various inventions before the Industrial Revolution. His most notable invention though‚ is the world’s first ever vending machine which dispensed holy water for a small fee. His vending machine was made of a simple lever system unlike today’s complex vending machines. Following Hero’s invention
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Have you ever wonder how transport was created? In the industrial revolution between the years‚ 1750-1901 transport had a big influence on the society and Economy. Transportation inventions picked up in 1800 seeing the creation. Railways‚ steamboats and roads. Transportation in Britain roads were badly built and maintained. The railway’s lines were not around and instead‚ they had carriages pulled by horses. Transportation was created to get one thing from point A to point B which could be people
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Women in the early Industrial Revolution were commonly associated with domestic duties such as housekeeping‚ child rearing and nurturing‚ and household management. However‚ Industrialization helped create new modes of employment that allowed many young women to earn enough to marry o to support themselves independently. These new methods of work did present a lower skill set needed to work in them. Textile production was the starting point of the Industrial Revolution. Women and their labor were
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strengthening the locally owned industries catering to a huge domestic market to contain dollar outflow and encourage domestic entrepreneurship (Kuruvilla‚ 1996). This strategy saw the rise of a new domestic-industrial capital elite; and expanded manufacturing sector which registered growth rates of between 11% to 14% from the late 1940’s to early 1960’s (Toussaint‚ 2006). On the downside‚ the dependence from imported capital and technology to sustain this strategy had a negative impact on the balance of payments
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The Industrial Revolution set off an assortment of new improvements that were open to disasters. To begin‚ there was an increase of food supply. Not much of money was spent on food as it normally would have been‚ it was spent on manufactured goods too. Now that there was a demand for manufactured goods‚ there was a demand for workers also. Better agricultural technology left many farmers without jobs. That was not much of a problem because these workers could take the jobs in factories to operate
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Social: As the industrial revolution began‚ coffee started being replaced by tea since it slightly sharpens the mind as compared to alcohol. Workers began to get tea breaks so they can concentrate better on the fast working machines. Tea was a really popular drink in China and it was also famous for it’s antibacterial properties. Since‚ tea was made with boiled water it had the ability to fend people from waterborne illnesses. The East India Company was most famous for trading and exporting tea;
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