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    If one looks at Europe in the mid 1900s and the entire world today‚ one can see a mirror image of the old big 5 countries. In the 19th century it was Great Britain‚ France‚ Austria‚ Russia‚ and Prussia‚ but today it is China‚ India‚ United States‚ the European Union‚ and Russia. Today’s United States could be compared to 19th century Great Britain‚ in terms of economic dominance and world influence. China could be considered the modern day France/Russia because of its gigantic population and sheer

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    The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes that occurred in the period from about 1760 to some time between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines‚ new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes‚ improved efficiency of water power‚ the increasing use of steam power and development of machine tools. The transition also included the change from wood and other bio-fuels to coal. The Industrial Revolution began

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    The Song Dynasty did bring about an industrial revolution‚ due to highly advanced technology in the fields of diverse agriculture‚ iron-working‚ and printing. As a result of this industrial revolution‚ populations increased rapidly as people began to move to the cities because of economic opportunities and the advanced government for its time. The industrial revolution is an “economic development characterized by replacing animal and human power with mechanical power‚ mass production and the creation

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    The Industrial Revolution transformed America in many ways. One way is through communication‚ which is where the telegraph/morse code came in. The morse code was very useful between contacting different countries to the U.S. The morse code also revolutionized long-distance communication and helped grow the U.S. The morse code impacted our society by allowing us to get closer and become allies with other countries and it impacted our economy by being able to send and negotiate trade with other parts

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    During the industrial revolution there were two types of people throughout society. Those who loved industrializing and improving their standard of living and those who felt it was necessary to worry about the environment and how the earth would be affected. Cases were brought to people on how the factories were destroying and corrupting the earth’s environment when in reality they didn’t look at the good and they had little to no information on the environment. I have believed the state of a self

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    Industrial Revolution Review Guide Industrial Revolution • a major change in a country’s method of producing goods and organizing labor • a movement from: o an agricultural to an industrial society o manual labor to use of machines o Rural society to an urban society Characteristics of Pre-Industrial Society • most people lived and worked on farms • wealthy nobles controlled the land • agricultural methods had not changed drastically for

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    The Industrial Revolution opened a door of opportunity for many people during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It created job opportunities for whole families in a way that had never been done before‚ but that did not mean that these opportunities did not have costs. In Ashley’s Mines Commission‚ testimonies of mine workers of all different ages are shared and they demonstrate further detail into some of the costs that are paid for as a result of the development of mine labor progressed

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    Consequences The First Industrial Revolution is the name given to the years between 1780 and 1850 when agriculture was replaced by industry as the main wealth source in the Western world. With this major shift also came considerable societal disadvantages. I will justify my choice for the two most significant social consequences‚ the changes in family life and the penalties of child labor The role of the family was forever changed during the Industrial Revolution. When agriculture was the primary source

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    Practice 1 Based on one novel above‚ discuss one of the themes in the story. Provide evidence from the text to support your answer The novel that I choose is The Curse by Lee Su Ann. The story is about the mysterious death of Azreen’s adopted sister‚ Madhuri‚ and how Azreen goes through everything to find out the truth behind the death. The theme that I would like to discuss here is gender stereotyping . In the novel‚ gender stereotyping is presented through how females should behave. This

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    Industrial Revolution Newspaper Editorial My name is Royston Pike and the year is 1966 and I am a factory worker. I have been working in the factory since I can remember. I do not have family my mother and father both died when I was very young so I have had to care for myself. You mustn’t tell anybody but I am against this darn industrial revolution. The life of a factory worker is the worst I know this from experience. All these machines do is kill us or hurt us. I can’t do much with my life

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