Case 20 The Green Revolution Rockefeller Foundation‚ 1943 Scott Kohler Background. For the last five years‚ we’ve had more people starving and hungry. But something has happened. Pakistan is self-sufficient in wheat and rice‚ and India is moving towards it. It wasn’t a red‚ bloody revolution as predicted. It was a green revolution. Norman Borlaug recalls William Gaud speaking these words at a small meeting in 1968. Gaud‚ who‚ at the time‚ administered the United States Agency for International
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ICT REVOLUTION: SOME REVERBERATIONS The views expressed in this and other papers associated with the NIC 2020 project are those of individual participants. ICT REVOLUTION: SOME REVERBERATIONS Introduction This short paper touches on some of the reverberations the Information Communication Technologies (ICT) Revolution has set off. It is more of a kick start for our discussions than a compressive analysis of the subject. When the Agrarian Revolution took place‚ no one recognized it
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Causes of the French Revolution The French Revolution had many causes including; economic‚ political‚ and geographic factors that built up until people decided to take a stand. An example of this is in document number eleven which has both ----- and ----- factors from a social science perspective. This document shows the members of the national assembly who decided to take a stand and vowed to not separate until they made a constitution later known as the “Tennis Court Oath”. This document really
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Industrial Revolution‚ London: Oxford University Press‚ 1964. pp. 119‚ bibliography‚ index. Introduction & Bibliography of T. S. Ashton Throughout history‚ revolutions sprung from every corner of their time. It started with those who thought differently with the courage to confront those who were above them. From the labourers to the masters‚ from the factory working class to the ruling classes‚ every aspect could be and would have been the spark to a new era. The industrial revolution was no different
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Before the French Revolution‚ France was ruled and governed by the king‚ his Grand Council of ministers‚ and 13 courts called parliaments. King Louis XVI ruled by “divine right‚” believing that he had been put on the throne by the grace of God. France then was one of the most powerful and wealthiest countries‚ and had a strong army‚ and even stronger cultural influence. (Plain‚ 5) Louis XVI and his wife Marie-Antoinette were shielded from the daily lives of the ordinary people in France. When Louis
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Dominique McNamara Period 1 Chapter 18: Revolutions of Industrialization Every kind of society has embraced at least the idea of industrialization since it started in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. The Industrial Revolution was one of the most significant elements of Europe’s modern transformation. Initial industrialization period was 1750–1900‚ drew on the Scientific Revolution. Utterly transformed European society‚ pushed Europe into a position of global dominance‚ was more
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The market revolution in the United States brought a sudden change in the manual labor system originating in south and digressed to the north and later spread to the entire world. The integral part of the economic growth in the United States in the nineteenth century was a good thing that brought change in the market. In respect to the change‚ America took its first major step in creating the world’s most stable and strongest economy‚ which gave room for growth among the citizens. The time of the
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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Introduction and Meaning Emergence and Cause Countries involved and spread of knowledge Impact a) Urbanisation b) Capitalism c) Socialism Inventions a) Revolution in cotton and textile industry b) Revolution in metallurgy c) Steam power d) Mining e) Glass making copy headings f) Paper machine in project g) Chemicals h)
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Though the American Revolution may have been fought on the context of greater equality and rights‚ the rights of several groups of American colonists were compromised by the rest in their fight for independence‚ including women‚ slaves‚ British Loyalists and the lower-class of the society. WOMEN Most colonists who led the revolution‚ including New Englander John Adams‚ believed that most women lacked the necessary intellect or emotional make-up to deal with complex political issues‚ and were not
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issues throught the world. As the 21st century begins‚ many nations are trying to deal with with the enviornmental effects of industrialization. Therefore began the green revolution‚ an attemp to change and if not change at least make progress. Starting in the early 19th Century the United States underwent an industrial revolution. The work that many people did changed as they moved from farms and small workshops into larger factories. They tended to buy things in stores‚ rather than make them at
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