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    invented the powerloom‚ Which after 1800 was powered by new steam engines. Replaced by the flying shuttle. Five years later after that in the late 70s‚ 1790‚ cartwright changed all his big factories over from water power to steam engines. Then in 1799 about nine years later‚ some combination acts were made illegal in England for workers to unionize in order to bargain for higher pay and better working conditions.

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    Public Health 1800-1900

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    How Far Had Public Health Improved 1800 – 1900? Imagine if you were working in a factory at least for 16hours in a dirty atmosphere‚ then when you eventually get to go home‚ you have to go through the smell of overflowing cesspits‚ and finally you enter the dingy little room with a bed in the corner filled with sleeping family‚ how would you feel? Well‚ in the 1800s- 1900s poor people lived exactly like that‚ because they were lacking the effectiveness of public health‚ which was suppose

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    Child Labor In The 1800s

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    Before 1842‚ “children who worked in mines would be covered in toxic black coal dust and regularly died from malnutrition‚ overwork‚ and black lung disease”(Farrell). However‚ because of the Coal Mines Act of 1842‚ “women and children were banned from working in mines”(Farrell) which was a big step towards abolishing child labor. Acts and laws like this have been and need to be continuing to happen. A “key factor of ending child labor is providing better and more education”(Stearman). This is because if

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    conditions under the tsar

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    Conditions under the Tsar Russia used to be ruled by the Tsars Before February 1917‚ Russia was ruled by the Tsars and the Royal Family were the Romanovs. The Tsarist system was an autocracy (ruled by one person). Tsar was ruled by decree‚ his word was law. USSR’s Population was very diverse(variety; very different ) Russia was a multi-national and multi religious state. Most of russias population was Russian but there were significant minorities including Ukrainians‚ Fins‚ Poles and Georgians

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    While the doctors were giving treatments‚ their work area was not very sanitary and that caused a high risk of infection. Also‚ most of the doctors had no idea what they were doing because they had no formal education of medicine. In the 1800s most of the medicine practiced was based off of a logical guess then prayers to get better. Soon the sickness was only identified by its symptoms rather than the sickness itself. Most treatments went straight to bleeding‚ and sometimes the given

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    Never Too Late

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    eventually. It is never too late for a person to be who they might have been. It can take a long time for someone to find a passion or a drive to become what he has always wanted to be. Some people might have been too afraid to come out as being homosexual‚ others might have had too low of a self esteem to like who they are‚ and others might have grown up in a place with no hope. It will always be difficult trying to accomplish what has already been lost in life‚ but it is never too late for a second chance

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    1800s Dbq Analysis

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    The 1800s were a time full of growth and modernization. The geography of countries plays a big roll in their economy and the resources they can provide for themselves. The fact that Great Britain and Japan are both island nations has lead them to develop around their location and limitations. Great Britain is a big island located to the west of the European continent. The geography of England made it easy to protect and to trade. "[British] ports command an unobstructed passage to the Atlantic

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    Late Victorian True Love

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    the idea that sex is to be conversed in confidentiality. Correspondingly in the early 1800’s‚ society deemed sex talk as confidential and urged others to discuss sex purely for procreation. Therefore from 1820 to 1860‚ the era became known as “Early Victorian True Love” where sex was perceived as an act of true love triggering reproduction and not pleasure. However‚ from 1860 to 1892 an era identified as “Late Victorian Sex-Love” was established and sex converted into desire and economic gain. Consequently

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    Cheap Labor Condition

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    an article about the sweatshop conditions in third world companies such as Bangladesh where basic worker right conditions are not respected. Large apparel companies do not want to be associated with offshore suppliers that violate basic human rights due to immense pressure from consumers and Non profit Organizations. An example given in the article states that “Shares of Inc tumbled through the late 1990s as a stream of reports emerged about poor working conditions at Nike Supplier factories in China

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    Working Poor

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    The Struggle of the Working Poor Revised Essay Sociology 113 Yvonne Barney October 19‚ 2012 The Struggle of the Working Poor Society often describes the impoverished with one word‚ lazy. Society has taught us that if a person wants to be financially successful‚ it is a simple process of education and hard work that will equate to a successful income. This is the American dream. If the impoverished simply would get a job instead of being lazy‚ they would not need to rely on programs like

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