The pace of economic change in China has been exceptionally rapid since the start of its economic reform in 1978 under the influence of Deng Xiaoping. Since then its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has grown at an unprecedented 9.5 percent a year‚ making China’s the longest and most sustained growth experienced by any country within modern history. Such growth has been a result of various aspects‚ including a profound change within China’s economic policies‚ reform of the state-owned sector‚ and rapid
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Andrea Vollmer 2/11/13 Period 5 Industrial Revolutions Essay Industrial Revolutions occurred throughout the world roughly between 1750 and 1914. Beginning with Britain‚ it started to industrialize in the 1780s. By the 1890s‚ the idea of industrialization had spread to Russia. These two industrial revolutions were similar to an extent. They both set in motion their industrial revolutions with the steam-powered railroad. Also‚ the outcomes of industrializing caused major environmental effects
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Impact of Industrialization on Japan from 1750-1914 In the 1750s‚ Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate‚ which had seized control of the country at the beginning of the 17th century. The shogunate centralized Japan and transformed it from a constantly warring collection of disunified states into a single country at peace. The Tokugawa shogunate ruled Japan from the early 17th century until 1868‚ a period when Japan was well behind the industrialization of other nations. During the Meiji period
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At the end of the Nineteenth Century‚ the American population was growing rapidly. Industrialization was growing and this meant all of the major cities were populating also. After some of the government grants given to the railroad companies‚ 200‚000 miles worth of tracks laid across the country‚ to help settle the west by the year 1900. “From 1877 to 1890‚ both the amount of goods and the number of passengers traveling the rails tripled” (U.S. History chapter18). Agriculture was the first big
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While some might argue that industrialization had primarily positive consequences for society because of the many jobs that were made‚ it was actually a negative thing for society. Industrialization’s negative effects were the horrendous working conditions‚ child labor and‚ long work hours. Throughout the documents there have been negatives some less than others. For example in document #2 “My Boy” the mother is missing her son and she doesn’t see him that much because she is working all the time
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GEOGRAPHY INDUSTRIALIZATION DEFINITION The process in which a society or country (or world) transforms itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the manufacturing of goods and services. Individual manual labor is often replaced by mechanized mass production and craftsmen are replaced by assembly lines. Characteristics of industrialization include the use of technological innovation to solve problems as opposed to superstition or dependency upon conditions outside human control
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People moved to cities to work in factories as industrialization spread‚ but the working conditions in the factories were poor‚ and people during this time had very little knowledge of hygiene. People had no knowledge on the causes and effects of bacteria and germs. Procedures like washing hand did not take place‚ so germs and bacteria continued to grow and multiply. Plates and glasses were reused without washing‚ and this increased the spread of bacteria and germs. There were also no sanitation
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American Farmer Style Analysis Prompt In his Letters from an American Farmer‚ Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur establishes a strong‚ determined attitude toward both Europeans and Americans. He points out specifically the idea that many citizens of America were emigrants from Europe. He develops this idea mentioning what he thinks of both these immigrants’ past and current countries. He conveys that he has a strong favor of America over the egregious Europeans through America’s well-founded
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Canada‚ industrialization of the food system is a normative feature of the economic‚ political and social climate. Statistics Canada (2011) estimates that as one of the world’s leading agri-food trading nations‚ much of the global increase in agricultural production will come from Canada between the years 2007 to 2016 (amongst countries like Australia‚ Mexico‚ Turkey and the United States) (p. 15). If Canada is to compete globally on such a large scale‚ the country needs industrialization for mass
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The Growth and Industrialization of Manchester In the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century Manchester had been growing. The city had been expanding and it was becoming a leading textile manufacturer once the mechanised cotton mill was built. The growth and industrialization of Manchester over the course of the nineteenth century caused the people to have three main issues. One being the forcing of hard manual labour in factories effecting the health of the working force
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