not only the year that Queen Victoria acceded the throne‚ but also the year that a new literary age was coined. The Victorian Age‚ more formally known‚ was a time of great prosperity in Great Britain’s literature. The Victorian Age produced a variety of changes. Political and social reform produced a variety of reading among all classes. The lower-class became more self-conscious‚ the middle class more powerful and the rich became more vulnerable. The novels of Charles Dickens‚ the poems
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Information Age is a term that has been used to refer to the present economic era. The name alludes to the global economy’s shift in focus away from the production of physical goods (as exemplified by the industrial age) and toward the manipulation of information. Information technology The relatively recent field of information technology concerns the use of computer-based information systems to convert‚ store‚ protect‚ process‚ transmit and retrieve information. Technological advances in
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Immigration in the Gilded Age In the years following the Civil War‚ The United States changed dramatically. At the outbreak of the war‚ the country had been mostly agricultural‚ although the North was already well on the way toward industrialization. By the early years of the twentieth century‚ however‚ America had been transformed from a mainly agricultural society to the world’s leading industrial nation. Unskilled labor‚ entrepreneurial energy‚ and technological talent were necessary to bring
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As the nineteenth century began in Europe‚ fledgeling ideologies rapidly gained popularity and clashed with the familiar conservative mindset of the past. Common among the wealthy and aristocratic‚ conservatism was well accepted by people of power. Conservatives focused on traditional beliefs: strong monarchies‚ the mercantilist policy of holding one’s assets close‚ agrarian economies‚ and rigidly defined class structures. As the lower classes of Europe grew impatient with their lack of rights and
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THE COMPUTER AGE AND THE INVENTOR by Dr Farag Moussa © President of the International Federation of Inventors’ Assocations (IFIA) (e-mail: invention-ifia@bluewin.ch) Keynote speech given at the International Invention Symposium "How Invention & Innovation Open New Business" (Hong Kong‚ November 27‚ 1998) Different eras of political history are frequently identified with royal dynasties‚ or great wars and revolutions. Eras in the history of art and architecture may be distinguished
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Victorian Age (1837-1901) The label Victorian is given to the period of Queen Victoria’s reign‚ which is from the time of 1837 to 1901. This period consisted of continuity and a change. It was an extension of the Romantic age and also a break from it. There is consciousness of something having disappeared and something having almost appeared. Matthew Arnold spoke of living between two worlds‚ one dead‚ and the other two young to be born. There is conflict‚ doubt‚ nostalgia and uncertainty in the
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The middle ages The period in European history between 500 and 1400 is known by many different names‚ but it is most commonly referred to as the Middle Ages. It was a tie after the collapse of Rome in which Barbarian invasions lead to the disruption of trade and when businesses began to collapse. It was also a time when there was a downfall in cities‚ population shift‚ cities were being abandoned‚ feudalism was necessary and there were crusades. The middle ages could have been called dark ages
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From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance‚ Europe underwent a great deal of changes‚ including attitudes towards learning‚ science and technology‚ art and literature‚ and the way humankind felt about themselves and towards their society. The Middle Ages were the time period between ancient and modern times in Western Europe. Before the Middle Ages‚ Western Europe was part of the Roman Empire. After the Middle Ages‚ Western Europe included the Holy Roman Empire‚ the kingdoms of England and France‚ and
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Professor Rodgers Humanities I November 5‚ 2010 Literature in the Dark Ages: The Apocrypha The Dark ages is referred to as such for many reasons there was plague and sickness that hit humanity during this time and people lived in fear to name a few. But one main reason is the fact that not much information exists about this period in history. Nearly all the ancient critical texts were lost during the Middle Ages. Emperor Flavius Juvianus ordered the burning of Antioch Library. Tons
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Essay 2 The Viking Age Before gaining a clearer understanding of the term: Viking‚ the first impression that may came to mind‚ could be a plethora of simplified notions. Mine was: “Seafaring Barbarians”. My interpretation of the Vikings was that of a nautical savage people who were characterized as more violent‚ and intolerant than any other people of their time‚ wanting nothing more than to wreak havoc on an otherwise civilized world. I wasn’t even completely sure where they exactly came
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