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    Working condition were as bad as those in the Jungle across the us from end of the 19th to the beginning of 20th century. They introduced the division of labor into their meatpacking plants‚ replacing the skilled “all-around butcher” with a “killing gang of 157 men divided into 78 different ‘trades‚’ each man performing the same minute operation a thousand times during a full workday.” The book portrays the objects poverty‚ harsh working conditions and often dangerous unsanitary living condition. The

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    Humanities Essay Draft The Tokugawa period‚ also known as the Edo period or the Shogunate Era‚ lasted from 1603 – 1867 and was the final period of traditional Japan. During this time‚ Japan was peaceful and politically stable‚ with much economic growth while under the shogunate‚ military dictatorship. The Tokugawa period was founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu and was a period in which the Japanese culture was greatly formed (Britannica‚ 2018). The Japanese culture was greatly sculpted from international

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    Modern Industry is the manufacturing of goods in a factory. Industry took off during the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution was a period of improvement in industrial technology. Industry is mainly concentrated in three regions‚ North America‚ Europe‚ and East Asia. Each of these regions account for around 25% of industrial output in the world. Industry consist of many factories distributed around the world. Geographers work to explain the reasons for the different locations of these

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    of this time was still singlehanded‚ but that’s when the new developments were starting to appear. In the Renaissance period‚ there was a new self-sustaining freedom of expression which spread throughout much of Europe. The church was still very powerful and its influence was everywhere‚ yet the reformation brought a degree of freedom to religious thinking and some hymns which we recognize today were written in this period. Music styles became more complex with multiple parts for different instruments

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    Inventions during the Industrial Revolution (Anaesthesia) Inventions like the light bulb dominate modern-day history books‚ however‚ anyone facing surgery would have to be compelled to agree with the very fact that anaesthesia was one of the most necessary inventions during the Industrial Revolution. Before the invention of anaesthesia‚ the fix for a given ailment was often far worse than the ailment itself. One of the greatest challenges during that period occurred when Doctor’s had to pull a tooth

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    During the Colonial period there was a lot of different outlooks on how the women were treated‚ how the men thought‚ how the children were raised. Colonization is dominating land‚ and its components. What I learned about the colonial period is that how they did things back then‚ is not how we do them now‚ they were more strict‚ powerful‚ demeaning. The first thing I realized about the colonial period had a difficult time seeing women‚ and men as equal. In one of the speeches we read in “The letter

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    The Progressive Era in the United States lasted from 1880 to 1920 and started as a response to the change brought on the country after the Civil War and Reconstruction era. The Progressive Era was a period of social reform caused by industrialization‚ urbanization‚ and social inequality that lingered from the Civil War. After the Civil War‚ when the slaves gained their freedom‚ the Reconstruction Era occurred. A major goal of this time was to guarantee rights to former slaves and create new relationships

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    Renaissance period was considered a revival time in Europe with a rise in Classical learning and values. The scholars and thinkers consider it to be a new birthing of Classical learning and wisdom after a long period of cultural standstill. At the beginning of the Renaissance‚ ideas were expressed by the logical movement called humanism. The movement involved the failures in the Roman Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire to provide a stable and uniting structure for the society of spiritual

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    {Opinion- The industrial revolution era was very unbearable for people to live and work causing many people to contract diseases and live in instantiated areas.} According to the author of the Modern World Textbook of Industrial Revolution by Vern Cleary‚ it extensively reviews the disasters of the industrial revolution that had gripped everyone in the working class. It goes on that the core of this eras problems was how difficult it was to provide food and clothing for your family. This evidence

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    from the bondage of racial oppression did not stop in America‚ and it can be remembered that in the 1880s to 1890s‚ there was a political movement of workers and low scale farmers known as the populist emerging from Midwest and South. In this organization‚ it was known that black tenant farmers and the low scale white farmers from South would work together against large landowners who were considered the Southern elites. As a united team‚ the populists became real threats to the dominant groups‚

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