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    Force Field Analysis: Driving Forces Field Analysis: Driving Forces KURT LEWIN’S CHANGE THEORY By: Mandeep Chahal & Arvinder Khaira Mandeep Chahal Arvinder Khaira DRIVING FORCE Driving Forces are forces that push in a direction that causes change to occur. They cause a shift in the equilibrium towards change change. i.e. A married couple who has to get ready for a party‚ the husband is on the couch watching the football game. The wife encourages her Th husband to get ready because

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    Introduction Slave trade is an economical and political system that treats a certain group of people as property; it is the trade of slaves. Just like any other commodity they the slaves can be bought‚ sold and disposed off at will. Human rights‚ equality and fair treatment is a privilege that the slaves never get to experience as they are for the entire span of their lives at the mercies of their masters. The slave master could do just about anything that they wished with their slaves‚ and they did

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    The industrial revolution of the 1800s brought about a massive change on the social and economic life in America. The massive economic growth brought about industrial growth‚ growth in population‚ expansion of consumer marketplace and economic output rose by about 85 percent. Although farm and cities grew together‚ Eric Foner wrote‚ “But it was the city that became the focus of progressive politics and of a new mass-consumer society.” (684) People moved to the cities in search of jobs and opportunities

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    The slave trade in its whole lasted a total of four centuries. This buying and selling of people as a product rather than the human beings that they were was not exclusive to African American males. The Transatlantic Slave Trade encompassed many other people such as‚ woman to be used as sex slaves and personal servants‚ children to be used in places such as sweat shops and mills for producing goods and others from all over smaller Western European countries. African Americans were usually the most

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    Domingue’s decolonization on the wider Atlantic world The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets‚ from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War‚ Haiti’s fifteen-year

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    abolition of the Atlantic slave trade Like most historical arguments‚ there is much controversy about the reasons for the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade and the subsequent progressive abolition of the slave system itself in the New World . Some have argued that in Britain‚ it was the power of the moral/Christian arguments presented by the abolitionist movement‚ led by the great parliamentarian‚ William Wilberforce. Others have pointed to the international impact of the French Revolution‚ or emphasize

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    The slave trade was undeniably a crucial part of Atlantic history as it relates to the transformation of economies‚ provides an outlook on race thinking or the lack thereof‚ and functions as one of the earliest forms of Atlantic interaction. To understand the transatlantic slave trade‚ it is necessary to examine primary sources‚ ones written by those who were engaged in operating the business as well as individuals who were ‘victims’ of it. The first source‚ “A Journal of a Voyage Made in the Hannibal

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    answering the following questions: 1.    Why was there such widespread use of children in the mines and factories? 2.    What affect did investigations of child labor have on industry? 3.    What labor reforms came out of these investigations? The Second Industrial Revolution (1840-1900) James Hager Touro University International HIS# 101 Professor Dr. Amarjit Gill Module 1 (Case Assignment) During the industrial revolution many factories and mines did everything they could

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    The Industrial Revolution was a time of progress and pain‚ of advancement and agony‚ of inventions and innovations. The Revolution started in Great Britain due to Britain’s geography‚ government‚ social factors‚ and colonial empire. The British had much access to natural resources such as coal‚ water‚ and ore‚ and they had a “free society” in which the people had opportunities such as entrepreneurship. Throughout the Industrial Revolution‚ there were several changes that affected people all over

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    improved over the course of many years. The Industrial Revolution has benefited the United States Steel Company in many ways and has helped shape what it is today. The Industrial Revolution started out in 18th century Britain (“Industrial” 1). At this time most of the world was in a handicraft economy‚ making products by hand (“Industrial” 1). The Industrial Revolution helped to change the economy into a machine driven manufacturing industry (“Industrial” 1). During this time many technical‚ socioeconomic

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