between the 1880s and 1970 through industrialization. Moving along an income growth trajectory through expansion of manufacturing is hardly unique. Indeed Western Europe‚ Canada‚ Australia and the United States all attained high levels of income per capita by shifting from agrarian-based production to manufacturing and technologically sophisticated service sector activity. Still‚ there are four distinctive features of Japan ’s development through industrialization that merit discussion: The proto-industrial
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Development is often described as the social transformation from traditional ways into embracing modernity. In the 1960s‚ many of the states in Southeast Asia experienced an accelerated social and economic growth which was pioneered by Japan. The Japanese economy was considered number one and its economic model was hailed as an example for other developing countries to follow. This essay will describe and analyze the economic changes Japan has gone through in the last century. According to Jorgenson (2005)
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Did you know that racism is one of the most controversial social issues of the modern world? Well‚ racism has affected many people worldwide and is also one of the most intensely social problems in history. In the early modern period (past) racism had begun. The official sanction began for the attitudes that had begun in the sixteenth century‚ by the Spain and the Jews. They had converted to Christianity and their descendants became the victims of a pattern of discrimination and exclusion. Also at
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During the nineteenth century Americans were experiencing something they had never seen before. From one perspective America was flourishing‚ big companies owned a vast majority of America’s wealth and were gaining more power every day. But the truth was the majority of people were stuck in poverty with no way out. The upper class was small and lived lavishly‚ while the lower class was huge and could barely get by. Unequal distribution of wealth led many to respond‚ labor unions formed because Americans
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Nineteenth century English literature is remarkable both for high artistic achievement and for variety. The greatest literary movement of its earlier period was that of romanticism. It was born in the atmosphere of the violent economic and political turmoil that marked the last decades of the 18th and the first decades of the 19th century. The outburst of political activity brought on by the Great French Revolution of 1789‚ the bitter wars with Napoleon’s France that ravaged Europe for almost 25
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something during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Intellectuals in the eighteenth century formed liberalism‚ which the economic leaders during that time readily adopted for the sole reason that it would help them generate more money‚ as a reaction citizens formed conservatism. The existing social construct was being questioned by supporters of liberalism which led to supporters of the current social arrangement forming conservatism to counteract that. In the late nineteenth-century working
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Carnegie‚ Andrew ‚ 18351919‚ American industrialist and philanthropist‚ b. Dunfermline‚ Scotland. His father‚ a weaver‚ found it increasingly difficult to get work in Scottish factories and in 1848 brought his family to Allegheny (now Pittsburgh)‚ Pa. Andrew first worked in a cotton mill as a bobbin boy‚ then advanced himself as a telegrapher‚ and became (1859) a superintendent for the Pennsylvania RR. He resigned (1865) his railroad position to give personal attention to the investments he had
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Priority of Evangelism to Social Activity Finney was involved in many types of social activity. Most of all‚ he was famous as an activist of antislavery movement. Molly Oshatz mentions in terms of Finney’s influence‚ “Most immediatists followed Charles Grandison Finney in assuming that individuals were perfectly free to renounce sin.” Finney’s contemporary antislavery activists‚ who argued for immediate freedom of slaves‚ trusted and followed Finney. However‚ Finney was a revivalist and evangelist
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In the late 19th and the early 20th century the American society shifted from the ideologies and beliefs it has always known. It went from religious beliefs and values to scientific methods and findings. Which caused major forms of conflicts between religion and science because the belief was that science was undermining the very existence of religion. In other words‚ society was not rule or based on the absolute truth any more rather it was more about finding a relationship between a cause and effect
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De-Industrialization and its effect on America America has gone through many changes over the course of its storied history. The country built itself into a world power on the hard work‚ perseverance‚ and ingenuity of its workers. The Industrial Revolution of the 19th century‚ the rise of the automobile‚ and the boom in manufacturing during and post-World War II‚ all put American manufacturing to the forefront of the world. Because of its supremacy‚ American employment‚ the economy and the overall
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