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    reasons for it. This essay will look at how women ’s lives have changed in terms of employment‚ pay‚ education‚ household‚ sexuality and the state. I will conclude that the most important changes for women are in education‚ but that the basic pattern of inequality remains in most aspects of the social structure‚ from paid work to the household divisions of labour‚ from sexuality to violence. Ann Oakley (1981) has traced the changing status of women in British society from the eve of the Industrial Revolution

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    Suburbanisation: the movement of people‚ employment and facilities away from the inner cities towards outer urban areas. How has Suburbanisation changed Sydney? Urbanisation: Is the process by which the proportion of a country’s population in urban areas increases. The original settlement for Sydney was Sydney Cove. Stage 1: 1788-1860 (walk to work) 80‚000 lived in Sydney. People had to live near workplaces. Residential areas at the time included The Rocks‚ Woolloomooloo and Pyrmont.

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    the Information Age‚ infrastructure and technology has been created to allow the rapid sharing of information between parties‚ but it has not always been so. While the exchanging of information has always been consistent‚ the methods by which this task has been carried out is constantly changing relative to the time period in which the demand occurs and situation causing the demand. Over this paper‚ we will examine the ways networking has changed the past‚ present and future for 3 topics: war‚ commerce

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    innovation in technology that had never been seen before. The airplane‚ one of the fastest methods of transportation‚ has changed the way we travel‚ has changed fighting in wars‚ and has changed the way we transport goods. The Wright brothers did not get everything right on their first try. It took three other models before they achieved what they were trying to. Starting Off in 1900 with a glider that would lay the foundation for their airplane a three years later. They understood mechanics because

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    expansionists ideas by Roosevelt and Taft. However not only was the nation advancing into a world power but drastic social changes were happening within the country. World War I had changed American society through the creation of feminist suffrage organizations‚ evolutions in the labor force‚ and the surge of immigrants. Society was affected by women’s support and opposing of the war. Organizations such as the Woman’s Peace Party created by Carrie Chapman Catt and The National Suffrage Association supported

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    From the Minutemen of the Revolutionary War to today’s high-tech weapons‚ the American Military has changed and morphed to meet the needs of the times. Our military has evolved massively since the days of our Forefathers and is still growing every day. There are three key events where the American Military was improved and/or evolved setting a path for a more organized‚ trained‚ well-equipped‚ and respected Military. The events that will be discussed regarding the American Military was the Civil

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    The Constitution has many amendments that do not apply to today’s society. This document is known as a living document‚ named that because it was meant to be able to change every thirty or so years to keep along with the times. Many people think that the Constitution should never be changed because of its importance to the history of our country‚ but‚ Thomas Jefferson thought otherwise in 3 letters that he wrote to Maddison addressing the matter. From September of 1787 to today‚ America along with

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    How much has the role of women changed in the last 30 years? Since the introduction of the pill on the NHS and the equal pay act we have seen massive changes in how women are viewed in society. In this essay I will be looking at how these have changed societies views and how they have affected women. I want to research this topic as I believe that there has been great leaps forward in how women are able to live and how this is now affecting the rest of the world. I will be analysing some of the

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    The American Workforce: How It Has Changed Kathy Reed SOC304: Social Gerontology Professor Marie Mika August 1‚ 2011 The American Workforce: How It Has Changed The workforce has always been the backbone of America‚ ever since the beginning of time to the modern world of today. It begin with the men of the family going out and working‚ while the women stayed at home and took care of the children and the home. The workforce for men and women has changed because of the consequences

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    work right or doesn’t do what it’s supposed to: Say‚ for instance‚ a GPS device tells you to turn the wrong way on a one-way street (yikes!)‚ or a computer erases all of your important data (ouch!). Unfortunately‚ it’s not always easy to understand how a product or service works‚ not to mention whether or not to hold off on adopting it until a better‚ shinier thing comes along. A perfect example is the ever-evolving video format. We’ve gone from Betamax to VHS to DVD to HD DVD/Blu-ray to just Blu-ray

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