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    by Henry Ford involving his assembly line. The mass production of cars would lead to other innovations in roads‚ transportation‚ and the everyday life of the common United States’ citizen. Henry Ford did not invent the assembly line‚ but only perfected it in such a way that automobiles could be put together in large numbers by people who only had to know how to apply one part to do their job. Ford didn’t stop there‚ he changed the life of every city dwelling American by not only changing how companies

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    People often credit Henry Ford with inventing the automobile and the assembly line. In fact‚ he did neither! What Mr. Ford actually did was change the way manufacturers operate. Henry Ford brought together many innovative ideas that helped revolutionize mass production. When Henry Ford incorporated the Ford Motor Company in 1903‚ automobiles were expensive; Workers at the Ford factory in Detroit produced just a few cars a day. Henry Ford’s ambition was to make “a motor car for the great multitude

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    Many of the events‚ situations and circumstances of the second half of the 20th century set the stage for‚ caused and made possible‚ most of the business‚ political and interpersonal scenarios we are experiencing in this country today – good‚ bad and indifferent. According to the U.S. Census of 1900‚ ninety percent of Blacks lived in the South. Three-quarters of black households were located in rural places; only one-fifth owned their own homes and most worked as farmers or laborers. If not on

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    Overtime‚ Americans have learned that in order to make a change and progress society‚ they must stand up for what they believe in. Without individuals who fight for freedom‚ our world would not be where it is today. Specifically‚ the 20th century was a time when blacks finally stood up against society for their freedom against black codes and separation. A plethora amount of brave individuals changed the world as we know it today by fighting the fight that should have been fought a long time ago

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    The 20th Century saw the United States of America grow from an upstart young nation‚ only recently over the bloody Civil War‚ into the last true Super Power. The Soviet Union‚ the United States’ mirror and polar opposite in ideals and philosophies‚ did not exist for even one single century. But while faced with this antithesis‚ the United States reversed its policy of isolationism and distancing itself from world affairs and conflicts to the containment of communism‚ both directly and covertly

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    Speech for Henry Ford presentation Chiara Slide 1: When Henry Ford Invented the assembly line he changed the entire factory industry he made an extremely long process into a quick sharp exercise‚ Henry got the idea from one of his workers who in turn go the idea from a pig dis-assembly line‚ the worker saw who each person would do only one job in the chain but by the end of the line each part of the pig had been taken out. The invention of the assembly line was and is still monumental to the

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    Henry Ford made many contributions to the American economy during the 1920’s. He was a very skilled and intelligent man at that. Henry was born into an Irish immigrant family on a farm in Wayne County‚ Michigan. He became Chief engineer of the Edison Company in Detroit during 1888. In 199 he organized that Detroit auto mobile and in 1903 he introduced the ford motor company model T manufactured in 1908. He was believed to sponsor the development of the moving assembly line in 1914. Henry Ford made

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    Modernisim covers many poltitcal and cultural movements that are rooted in the changes in Western society at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. American modernism benefited from the immense diversity of immigrant cultures. Modernist America had to find solidarity in a world no longer unified in belief. The unity found lay in the understanding of the shared consciousness within all human experience. The relevance of the individual is emphasized; the truly limited nature of the

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    World War II was a war in the 20th Century that had an everlasting impact. An event that was associated with World War II that had a significant impact on the 20th Century was Pearl Harbor. The Japanese launched a surprise air attack on the United States’ Naval Base at Pearl Harbor‚ which is located in Hawaii. This attack occurred on the morning of December 7‚ 1941. Many were asleep‚ eating breakfast‚ or getting reading for church when the explosions started. Despite the surprise of the bombs

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    Throughout the course of the semester‚ the American identity has been influenced over three hundred years of the existence from colonist to the 20th century ideologists in order to improve the way of life in America. From the colonial period‚ one individual helped formulate the American perspective and help provide cause for the future Bill of Rights. During the tough period of slavery in the South‚ the United States was spilt whether slavery should be abolished. The President of the United States

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