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    Before the industrial revolution all goods were hand made‚ and transported by foot or horseback. This was a slow process that could take days to complete. The technology of the industrial revolution changed America by advancing the speed and process of traveling efficiency‚ and manufacturing goods. The steam engine was a piece of machinery that used boiling water and steam to push its carrier forwards at a much faster speed than that of walking or horseback. Steam engines can be found in steamboats

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    The significance of improving workers’ pay and working conditions was vital to the success of the ongoing industrial revolution during this period as it helped soothe the demands of the unsatisfied workers. Due to changes and new laws introduced‚ improvements began to occur. Popular pressure however was only significant in bringing about this change to an extent. The development of specialized skills in the factories and mills‚ and due to the competition between employers as they repeatedly sought

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    Final: The Industrial Revolution and its Effects I obtained my information from the book Created Equal as a secondary source. More information was gathered from The Industrial Revolution by Charles Beard. Some sections of the book The Condition of the Working Class in England were used as well. Another book used as a source are Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England: Popular Addresses‚ Notes and Other Fragments. In order to get data on population increases during this time‚ statistics

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    there are certain types of love when one or more of these dimensions of love are interrelated. There are five interrelated loves‚ and they are romantic‚ compassionate‚ fatuous and infatuated‚ empty‚ and consummate love. Compassionate love is a mixture of intimacy and commitment. This is a slow developing love built on high intimacy and strong commitment. Fatuous loves is a combination of passion and commitment often describing people in a whirlwind passionate romance‚ but barely

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    What the industrial revolution affected to the society? The industrial revolution occurred in United Kingdom and spreaded to USA and Russia. Also in the late 20th century‚ it spreaded to East Asia and Africa. The origin of the revolution was in 18th century of England. This phenomenon was not a sudden change‚ but a progressive innovation of technology which had continued from old times. So‚ we can say all of the scientific technologies and developments are based on this industrial revolution. This

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    pre-industrialization‚ people did economic activities as work i.e. worked only for subsistence purposes. Goods were only for the family’s consumption. Production of goods was mostly done by the family and was expected to be for the family. For example‚ a farmer would grow food in the farm not for selling in the market but for his family to survive on and never lack. A mother would make clothes for her kids to wear instead of selling them in the market too (Jessica Whittemore). In this era‚ most of the people resided

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    Why Britain for the beginning of the industrial revolution? This is a great question for you to ask my friend. I am over here at the greatest time I can think of in Britain. We are about to start a great new century. If I had to sell you on the power of Britain. We have great people for factories. This has created markets at this time there never was before. Inventions are on an all new high. We have things over her they call machinery. The machines can produce the work of over fifty means at times

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    Industrial Revolution     The Industrial Revolution started in  England the 1700’s in the textile industry. The Industrial Revolution is the transition to man made machines. Textiles is where cloth is woven by workers. By the 1800th century all of that was done by machines. England had vast resources of coal‚ iron‚tin‚ wool‚ lead‚ and cotton; also it was close to water for canals (Document 1). One of the most important reason to why the Industrial Revolution started in England and not somewhere else

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    of the 18th century up until the 19th century‚ the Industrial Revolution changed the world. All of the changes began in Great Britain. This was due to many factors. The Agricultural Revolution that was going on during this time gave many new technologies to improve the life of its citizens. Great Britain also had an abundance of natural resources‚ available capital and political support for innovation. With the start of the agricultural revolution‚ many new technologies were introduced into Europe

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    briefly‚ Sullivan and Akbari’s views seem to be like the opposite sides of the same coin. Sullivan argues from a more personal standpoint that personal technology shuts us out from the world. Akbari‚ on the other hand‚ sees technology and our personal devices as a way to open the world up to us and provides facts and results from professional studies that show the connection between people and their happiness. It would seem it’s pretty straight forward; as different as black and white‚ which makes it

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