In the state of Georgia‚ Eli Whitney created the cotton gin in 1793. The cotton gin had positive and negative effects in the United States during the Industrial Revolution. The cotton gin changed the way cotton was processed and greatly affected the slave states. In the south‚ the cotton gin had positive and negative effects on the production of cotton. The cotton gin made processing cotton easier‚ faster‚ and more efficient. However‚ it also increased slavery and almost tore out nation apart
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Analyse of Brick Lane “Brick Lane”‚ written by Monica Ali‚ is the story about Nazneen‚ a young Bangladeshi woman living in Brick Lane‚ London. Nazneen was given into an arranged marriage to a lower middle class man‚ almost triple her age. Nazneen struggles to find her voice in the British society‚ and faces several multicultural difficulties. I find the main character’s role in the story to be very interesting. Therefore I will analyse the main character and some of the multicultural differences
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In the 1850s‚ Southern America produced approximately seventy percent of the world’s cotton. However‚ this production would not have been possible if it wasn’t for the invention of the Cotton Gin. Since he was little‚ Eli Whitney‚ developed a passion towards being an inventor. He frequently worked in his father’s workshop and there he would take things apart and would put them back together. At the age of 24‚ he enrolled in college in order to become a lawyer. It was not long after when he found
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Cotton Gin In the late 1700’s many people were trying to figure out a way to remove the seeds from cotton because it was very time consuming and “labor was a slow [and] expensive process” (Shectman 65). In the 1740’s the people of India had created a machine called the churka (a sankrit word for a jerking motion) that separated the cotton seeds from the clean fiber. “The cotton was fed through the dual rollers‚ which grabbed the fiber tightly and pinched free the seeds. The seeds were trapped by
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Through their separate mediums of writing‚ poetry and literature‚ both Neruda and Allende both achieve a common goal of criticizing the actions of certain militant forces‚ past or present‚ within there country of living. In Neruda’s “I’m explaining a Few Things”‚ the Civil Spanish war‚ sparked by the forceful and bloody overtake of the current‚ fair republican government by the Faschist general Fransisco Franco‚ is the topic of Neruda’s disgust and criticism. The “burning” and “devouring” manner
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Brick Lane by Monica Ali When you begin Monica Ali’s first novel‚ which catapulted her on to the Granta best young British novelists list before it was even published‚ you might be forgiven for feeling that the fuss has been a little overstated. The first chapter‚ with the birth of our heroine‚ Nazneen‚ her survival against the odds and her preparation for an arranged marriage to a Londoner are trundled through without much individuality. In her rather predictable portrait of life in Bangladesh
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MEMORANDUM TO: Shelby Givens (General Manager‚ Westlake Bowling Lanes - here onwards "WBL") FROM: Kumar Gaurav (Candidate # 75745133‚ UBC) SUBJECT: Recommendation towards business planning for WBL DATE: 2nd September 2013 Key Issues: Shelby Givens‚ G.M of WBL could not get the business on track to repay the funds the board had loaned it 16 months before. In Jan 2010‚ the business profited for the 1st time in two years. But‚ now she wants to decide on a future direction for the business‚ so
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Quotation Analysis “To Think that when I was a child I always shuddered when I snapped open a banana because it sounded to me like breaking of an animals neck. I descended to a level of savagery I never imagined possible.”(ch.66.p.218) At this moment of this story‚ Pi has lost all his food and has slowly started to starve. Pi not only having to worry about how he is going to get proper nourishment but Pi also has to deal with a now malnourished tiger. Without food Pi soon worried that he
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Napoleon Bonaparte must be considered a hero in French history. Through his liberal ways of coming to power and controlling France‚ Napoleon was able to create unity and stability‚ both political and economic‚ in one of the most powerful nations in Europe at the time. Napoleon was not only an excellent leader‚ but also a dominant war strategist. He was able to conquer enemies of France and expand Frances territory. By giving people rights and freedoms‚ forming a respectable educational system and
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The cotton gin Hello‚ I’m Phineas but I’m now Eli Whitney’s assistant. WOW! I know right I was thinking that I could tell you some things about me. I was born in 1772 I became friends/partners with Eli around 1793. I didn’t come from a wealthy family. But enough about me let’s get to the good parts of my life when I was just becoming his assistant. Well it didn’t happen like that I had to try out and gosh was there a lot of people there. Let’s get to it ’’hello‚ Mr. Whitney‚’’ I said confidently
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