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    Industrial revolution represented in Dracula and Frankenstein The world was going through a major change when Frankenstein and Dracula were published. The U.S and Europe were the main forces of the Industrial Revolution‚ which was basically the transition from humans completing tasks using their own hands or tools‚ to humans using machines to do those things for them‚ due to the fact that it made their lives easier. However‚ not everyone was fond of the idea of modernization. Mary Shelly feared

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    much more common. The new American city changed people’s lives and people continued to change the city. The most prominent factors that transformed places like New York‚ Boston‚ and Chicago were immigration‚ industrialization‚ and the expansion of the railway system. The Industrialization of cities in the mid to late 1800’s all started with the railroad system. Railroads were not brand new at the time‚ however the amount of railroad tracks laid went up exponentially during the civil war‚ especially

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    19th Century Industrialization Nineteenth Century Industrialization During the second half of the nineteenth century‚ the United States experienced an urban revolution unparalleled in world history up to that point in time. As factories‚ mines‚ and mills sprouted out across the map‚ cities grew up around them. The late nineteenth century‚ declared an economist in 1889‚ was "not only the age of cities‚ but the age of great cities." Between 1860 and 1910‚ the urban population grew from 6 million

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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 of Industrialization in the Late 1800’s In the late 1800’s the United States underwent a major transformation as a country‚ in becoming the world’s leaders in industrialization. During the early 1800’s the industrial growth was steady but slow and most American companies were still relatively small. It wasn’t until after the Civil War that the United States experienced a huge growth in big business due to innovative new technologies and services most importantly the Transcontinental Railroad

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    when it went off again‚ Ruth said‚ “Dam that was quick.” Pulling the pillow over her head‚ and wanted to go back to sleep‚ but today she had planned to see her grandfather‚ after her trip to Howardsville. During the last few visited him in the Mountaineer Nursing Home‚ he told interesting stories about Putney Mountain and Howardsville‚ a mining town forty miles southwest of Charleston in the Allegheny Mountains. Being a young reporter‚ Ruth wanted to jump-start her career by writing a fascinating

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    Long ago‚ in the Appalachian Mountain region‚ there was Bear. He was the greatest and mightiest of all bears. One morning he woke up to go get some food from the nearby stream when this big thunderstorm made him get lost. Bear ended up far from his home and there were animals he’s never seen before. They were bigger‚ meaner‚ and stronger. A rhino came up to him and asked why was he there. Bear told him what happened and the rhino said “Follow me my friend‚ I will take you back to the mountains

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    in the early 20th century. The Appalachian region was very isolated and without much change until this time‚ and once we saw industrialization we saw many new changes affect the region in a religious sense. Some of the industrialization that had the greatest effect on our area was the building of large railroads in the late 19th century and early 20th century. These railroads connected the nation to the rich coal fields and virgin timber stands of the Appalachian Mountains. Although the influence

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    While the South was busy with its problems‚ authors of that era were emerging writing about the troubles of the South and its unwillingness to move forward. Born and raised in New Albany‚ Mississippi‚ William Faulkner is in the preeminent position of southern gothic writing. This genre depicts the south as a place permeated with lack of progression. It exposes the American South’s inability to move forward along with the industrialized North after the Civil War. Similar to Gothic‚ Southern Gothic

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    characteristics of industrialization: Improved standards of living‚ New Inventions‚Railroads‚ Laissez-faire and free enterprise‚ Urbanization‚ Immigration‚ Labor Unions‚ Indian Removal. After the Gilded Age‚ came the Progressive era‚ the progressive era was the term applied to a variety of responses to the economic and social problems of rapid industrialization introduced to America. Final but not least World War 1 was the era of a different or more modern technology or any type of industrialization for back

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