From this article‚ I learned that Japan and Germany contrasted greatly with the modernization of England and the United States. The United states and the England modernized and democratized‚ but “Germany and Japan had successfully pursued an authoritarian ’path to the modern world’ in which industrialization did not lead to democratization was conveniently overlooked” (698). This led to instability in these new power house countries that would create the destruction of the early 20th century. As
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Tsar Peter I‚ also known as Peter the Great‚ ruling Russia from 1689 to 1725‚ implemented major military and domestic reforms that centralized Russia and increased its role in Europe. He centralized his power and revolutionized the role of the servant nobility‚ creating a vast bureaucracy that would stabilize Russia. He would apply Western principles to his armies and the Russian Cossacks would expand throughout Eurasia. Peter also introduced radical reforms that discouraged the ancient traditions
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Family life is undergoing drastic changes as a result of industrialization and modernization. Elaborate. The family has changed a lot throughout time; this is a result of industrialization and modernization. Industrialization refers to mass production of products with machinery in a factory. Modernization is the development of social‚ cultural‚ economic and political practices and institutions‚ which are found in today’s society. Such developments and changes in society may replace religious
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THE APPLICABILITY OF THE MODERNIZATION THEORY IN ACHIEVING DEVELOPMENT IN THE LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES LIKE TANZANIA The term development is very broad and it has therefore brought many scholars in defining it.in economic view‚ Development can therefore be defined as the increase of level of economic development of a nation. This is looked upon by the economic indicators‚ for instance; income per capita‚ gross national product gross domestic product and the inflationary rates. So once these increase
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Moreover‚ Nationalism has shaped the US culture to be dependent on liberal tradition‚ universal rights‚ individualism‚ civic republicans‚ self-governance‚ collective rights and white population’s desire for continued dominance. Bonikowski says "a large majority apparently viewed Jews‚ Muslims‚ agnostics‚ and naturalized citizens as something less than “truly American” (Bonikowski‚ 2016‚ p. 11). Nationalism in the US resulted in social attitudes and policy preferences. Nationalism created “Americanism”
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Information systems (IS) focuses on the system making use of technology and information technology (IT) focuses on technology and how it can help in disseminating information. Usually Information system are build using the information technology. Information system referring to system designed to create‚ store‚ manipulate‚ communicate and disseminate information. Information systems typically include an IT component but are not purely concerned with IT‚ focusing in instead‚ on the end use of
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Islam VS The West Westerners tend to think of Islamic societies as backward- looking‚ oppressed by religion‚ and inhumanely governed‚ comparing them to their own enlightened‚ secular democracies. But measurement of the cultural distance between the West and Islam is a complex undertaking‚ and that distance is narrower than they assume. Islam is not just a religion‚ and certainly not just a fundamentalist political movement. When people think of Islam they think of all the crazy beliefs and a religion
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Linux vs. Mac vs. Windows Linux vs. Mac vs. Windows The operating systems Linux®‚ Macintosh® (Mac) and Microsoft® Windows® are the main software to every computer system to run properly along with other hardware. These operating systems (OS ’s) are very different in several ways‚ but they also have some similarities too. Linux‚ Mac and Windows use memory management‚ process management‚ file management and security management to operate the computer systems correctly
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been many cases that have made an effort to abolish segregation. Two cases that didn’t just make an effort‚ but did just that were Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education. They were related to each other as well because one changed the precedent established in the other. They also helped the country identify more with freedom than slavery. The Plessy vs. Ferguson case happened in 1892 and was about a man named Homer Plessy who was an octoroon. He bought a ticket and sat in a whites only
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Google Drive vs. SkyDrive vs. Dropbox vs. iCloud Jia Shi Yidi Zhang Nan Song Ly Le INTRODUCTION Along with the development speed of technology‚ the amount of data passing by or consumed by people around the world keeps growing rapidly. The storage devices seem to unable for storing growing data amount. In addition‚ maintenance and back-up of data are needed just in case of accident. To meet the needs mentioned above‚ the cloud computing is developed especially cloud storage which have
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