COMPUTER REVOLUTION Personal Computers The personal computer revolution was a phenomenon of immense importance in the 1980s. What the average American commonly refers to as a PC‚ or personal computer‚ did not even exist before the 1970s. Mainframe computers had been the norm‚ and they were primarily relegated to business and scientific use. With the dawn of the personal computer all Americans were allowed potential access to computers. As competition and modernization increased‚ issues of cost
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knees. Massive protests on the streets of Prague – often several hundred thousand strong – forced the resignation of the hard-line Communist Party in what became known as “the velvet revolution.” The attack on November 17‚ 1989 that seemingly hastened the fall of the government was the offshoot of a peaceful student march marking the 50th anniversary of the slaying of a Czechoslovakian student‚ Jan Opietal‚ by the Nazis. White helmeted riot police attacked the students after they swerved from
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Question 3 Discuss the relationship between the Scientific Revolution‚ the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. What do they have in common? How did they affect each other? The seventeenth century marked the beginnings of the scientific revolution in which scientists began to question the existence of the world and humanity as it was explained by church from a religious standpoint. Scientific inquiry and experimentation resulted in the development of a new way of thinking and looking at the
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Once the fighting ceased and the Americans had gained independence‚ citizens would question how revolutionary the war actually was. The American Revolution was in fact revolutionary because the battles and treaties between the two nations led to the American people getting their independence as well as inspiring another revolution. The American revolution was actually revolutionary because the battles allowed for a complete shift in power to occur. The battles themselves led to the destruction of
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The french revolution and Russian Revolution are the same yet different in many ways. The are the same because they have separate groups‚ However they are different because they both occurred in a different time period and in different locations. The french revolution occurred in ___________. The russian revolution occurred in russia. The first difference between the 2 estates is that their social life was very different. The french had 3 estates where as the russian only had 2 groups The church
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World Studies 16 January 2014 The Same Revolution?: The Russian and Chinese Communist Revolution Many question the many similarities and differences between the Russian Revolution and the Chinese Communist Revolution and how they may have been the same historical rebellion. Using Crane Brinton’s Anatomy of a Revolution to compare and contrast the two revolutions’ stages‚ there might be an answer to the debatable question. While during the Russian Revolution‚ they started out united‚ a new government
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The American Revolution was an extremely important event that helped shape the modern world‚ however‚ it was not a true revolution. According to Richard Price‚ a British Unitarian minister‚ "A true social revolution destroys the institutional foundations of the old order and transfers power from a ruling elite to new social groups." (Digital History ID 3222) During the 1700’s‚ the American colonies had already been engaging in a form of self-government in their localities‚ which they largely fashioned
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The Haitian Revolution was one of the most successful slave revolutions of all time. During the period before the Haitian Revolution‚ Haiti was one of the richest countries in the Western Hemisphere: fueled by slave labor. Slaves were forced to work as long as the sun was up and they often spent all day chopping or hacking at sugar cane with a machete. If the slaves refused to work‚ they were shot or beaten. This upsets me because people of color were treated like lesser beings because of their skin
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The French Revolution The American Revolution was not as revolutionary as the French Revolution. The French Revolution was mostly about having basic facilities and independence provided to all the people. All of this began because the monarch was not looking after his people properly. So the people wanted to remove the king from his position. This revolution was also about the people demanding for justice and equality‚ while the American Revolution was about driving the British away from their country
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Are you an urban inhabitant who is fed up with the characteristic noises and dirty of the city? Do you yearn for hiding in a quiet and tranquil place inside? I was once awed by the peaceful scene of a small anonymous village in northern Fujian where lived an old friend of my grandmother’s. The beauty and peace of the village were unequaled. It was a beautiful morning; green mountains extended high above the clouds. Wild flowers speckled the base of the mountains‚ waving their faces in the gentle
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