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    Made In Britain 2012 – 2013 Sinbad Contents • • • • Key benefits Sky 1 & Sky Living overview 2013 timeline Programme specifics • • • Extending the opportunity Audience and delivery figures Investment summary Made In Britain on Sky Key Benefits • Sky 1 HD awarded ‘Broadcast’s Channel of the year 2012’ • By 2014‚ Sky are committed to invest £600 million in British commissioned content • Stella S1 and Moone Boy S1 both saw record breaking debut launches in the UK and ROI • Star

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    Home Appliances After years of rationing and shortages‚ the 1950s were a period of economic prosperity‚ high employment and great technological development. Many returned servicemen got married‚ established homes and raised families. During this period‚ Australians enthusiastically adorned their homes with a dazzling range of new domestic appliances. Hire-purchase schemes allowed people to take products home and pay for them in instalments. During the 1950s‚ the role of women was generally considered

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    Post World War II Globalization Since the end of World War II over seventy years ago‚ America has gained some major influences in the areas of economics‚ cultural‚ politics‚ and in the military but it has also gone through some major challenges as well. During the six years the world battled‚ millions of lives were lost until finally the Axis powers of Japan and Germany surrendered to the Allied forces. Suddenly America stood at the front of the world as the dominant power and it was a moment of

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    Multicultural Britain The 21th century Great Britain is a richly diverse society and culture‚ and the British people belong to a melting pot of ethnic backgrounds‚ languages‚ cultures and religions. The transformation of Britain into a multicultural society has happened rather quickly. There have been ethnic minorities in Britain for hundreds of years‚ but it was not until the last half of the 20th century that immigration to Britain really took of. At the beginning of the 1950s‚ Britain’s

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    Multicultural Britain For a long time the UK has been a multicultural state composed of England‚ Northern Ireland‚ Scotland and Wales. And as far back as the 1000s they had the Celts‚ the Anglo-Saxons‚ Vikings and Normans. Now it is also a multicultural society containing diverse cultures and identities. In a way‚ Britain can call itself multicultural‚ but to truly be a multicultural country‚ Britain has to embrace and accept other cultures. It is in this point Britain fails. If UK decides to

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    The Post-Civil War era of urbanization in the United States created a number of improvements and positive results that outweighed the negative aspects of the time. The country witnessed an increase in population‚ a better public school system‚ and increased social reform movements. During urbanization‚ the population of the United States rose. In 1860‚ none of America’s cities had a million citizens but by 1890‚ New York‚ Chicago‚ and Philadelphia all had more than one million inhabitants. With

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    After Britain’s victory of the French and Indian war tensions began to rise between the British and the colonists. Britain began to pass unfair laws‚ acts‚ and taxes against the colonists. The colonists began to protest against these acts‚ because they did not agree with the British upon these laws. The acts‚ laws‚ and taxes which were placed against the colonists were unfair because the colonists had no voice in the Parliament‚ they were restricted in where they could settle‚ and they had limited

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    Democracy in Britain

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    ‘for the people‚ of the people and by the people’‚ was necessary in Britain‚ as Aristotle once said‚ ‘man is by nature a political animal’. Franchise is the right to be able to vote and in 1830‚ only one out of ten adult males could vote; by 1832 it was a privilege of the landed elite and by 1928 it was a right of all eligible adults (over the age of 21). By 1928‚ Britain was almost democratic but not entirely so. Before 1850‚ Britain had a rule of aristocracy‚ there was great political influence from

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    Britain In The 1860s

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    Britain in the 1860s Things were quite different in Britain during the 1800s than it is today. There was no Child Protective Services. Women could not vote‚ nor did they get proper education. In order to support the family’s income children had to work from an early age. They worked as chimneysweepers‚ sellers in the streets‚ prostitutes‚ pot makers‚ coalminers etc. and had really long hours; often from early morning until late at night (which was similar to a fully-grown man’s working hours). Today

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    The U.S. consisted of natural resources that would become the driving force for the thriving economy. The central idea of the post-Civil War era of corporations was the dependence on raw materials from around the world and sold goods in global markets. The rising economy was beginning to influence future infrastructure of the growing United States before the Civil War. Also‚ the politics was a huge part of the disputes of the big businesses that would later be the main reason corporations grew. The

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