“ America’s Inventor “ Henry Ford‚ pictured here in 1919‚ revolutionized the automobile industry by making cars available to more middle-class American consumers than ever before. (David Pietrusza) Henry Ford has influenced todays cars‚ assembly lines‚ and our modern economy. If Henry Ford never existed‚ our lives would be drastically different. We wouldn’t have cars‚ enough products‚ or enough food processing to withhold the population. “Today there are many stories and examples that support that
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“The Olympics damage from HMS did not exceed 125‚000” (SuperDuperFacts) They didn’t want to collect the insurance money off the Olympic because it wasn’t a lot and they wanted the millions of dollars from the
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Since the 19th century public health provisions have completely changed. During the early 19th century there have been a lot of deaths due to overcrowding‚ poor housing‚ dirt‚ poverty and diseases. After the industrial revolution origins public health began. The industrial revolution spread all over Britain during the 1800s. There was a huge increase of the number of factories due to the use of steam powered machines. People from countryside began to move to the city because if the number of factories
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the atlantic.the rivets wasn’t strong and long enough to hold the hull together. (angelo) the support bar was not strong enough to stabilize the whole ship. it was not very sturdy.the bar was the length as the ship.it was not big around and did not have enough strength to hold the ship straight.there was a lot of people on the ship as well. They wasn’t prepared for that many people and the support bar couldn’t hold that much.(anglo) iceberg warnings they had warnings that whole
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Jackson Pollock is an artist who is commonly acknowledged as someone who helped pave the path for contemporary artists. Pollock turned life and circumstance into a visual representation‚ giving way to ultimate expression and subjectivity. Jackson Pollock had many influences in his life: family (or lack thereof)‚ teachers‚ friends‚ and other artists who all contributed to his work in some way. These influences of Pollock were a cocktail that helped to produce some of the greatest examples of modern
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Steve Jobs One of the most successful people in the world would be Steve Jobs. He is the creator of Apple products and also one of the richest people that lived on earth. Steve Jobs existence has highly advanced our technology and created a whole new outlook on life itself. His Apple projects has turned civilization more dependent on technology and greatly improved society for the better. Steve Jobs contribution to our society started with his admiration through technology growing up‚ evolving his
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Populism is the revolt by the farmers in the South against the Democrats and Republicans. It was a down-up system that failed. Populism was a struggle between the elite and lower class that wanted more government control of banking and industries because farmers felt as if they were getting the short end of the stick. People were from a farming background and had the view that the government was favoring banks and industries and felt like the government was planning on getting rid of agriculture
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108). A local clergyman wrote and published an entire pamphlet that More’s school was the downfall of all good things. He continued to say that with the school closing‚ Miss More was not the evangelical radical that everyone thought she was. She did not stand up to the local authorities. The local clergyman believed “… More should have ‘defended her own cause’ and ‘that her apologists‚ with more zeal than judgement‚ have hurt her…” (Demers 107). This was later found to be untrue. Others believed
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The Great Depression in the United States caused many to die of starvation‚ as they did not have money for food and because of the dust bowl. After the end of the Great Depression‚ the economy reformed and the United States was able to feed the hungry mouths across the country. However‚ less economically stable countries struggled to improve their agricultural techniques and had very little success in feeding the hungry. An agricultural scientist named Norman Borlaug‚ helped reduce the growing problems
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In March 1999‚ NATO started its first military campaign against the Serbian army to re- establish peace and order in Kosovo. As a result of the lack of planning and miscalculation‚ more than 800.000 Kosovar Albanians had to flee their homes and thousands of civilians were used as military targets by Serbs forces‚ provoking one of the most sadistic massacres in Europe since the Second World War. NATO failed in crucial points during the Kosovo crisis‚ which led to the war. Despite the continuous warnings
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