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Internet's 'Industrial Revolution'

In eight pages this paper compares the Internet with the Industrial Revolution in a consideration of similarities. Six sources ar...

New York Craftsmen and The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

how exemplary Franklin truly was, citing that he was nothing but an ordinary man who was faced with ordinary struggles, not unlike...

Industrial Society and Democracy

In seven pages the argument that for the agrarian society that existed prior to the Industrial Revolution, democracy was a logical...

Treaty of Versailles and Consequence of Revolutions in Asia

dynasty nearly three millennia ago (Diamond 78). Therefore, feuding between the various, similarly ordered Asian countries is an ...

Revolutionary War's Radicalism

progress of the revolution was not so much the rejection of one set of political and social values and the generation of another, ...

Has the Sexual Revolution Ended?

revolution is over because it failed, although people continue to follow along the same course of sexual activity, and then some. ...

1960s Cultural Revolution

(increases in drug use) (Garrett 288). A prominent feature of the decade is that young people became alienated from the traditiona...

Latin America and the Foreign Policy of the United States

is evidence that the U.S. actually supported the revolution. Supposedly, President Kennedy uttered words which would be aligned wi...

Urban Modernization, Rights of Workers, and Mexico

remained "destitute of hope" (Meyer and Sherman 464). The Mexican Revolution began in the spring of 1910, with the presidential c...

Was the Barons' Rebellion a 'Deliberate and Enlightened' Revolution?

Provisions of Oxford, the steps which Henry took to avoid conforming to them, and the factionalism which developed amongst the bar...

Civil War Naval History

navy of the Confederate States of America. Roughly one-fifth of US naval officers resigned and joined the Southern rebels. In hi...

The Changing View of Warfare

First World War, and similarly beggared the ability of contemporaries to imagine its sweep, duration and consequences."5 For one...

The Changing Nature of War

been various "military revolutions"-new ways of thinking about warfare that have caused complete changes in the way combat is cond...

How Revolutionary was the American Revolution?

enough to overcome racial discrimination or the claims of the south that it needed slave labor to work the plantations (Coombs, 19...

The Cuban and Mexican Revolutions Compared

the effect that the U.S. supported Castros revolt. After all, at least on the surface, it seemed as if he was the lesser of the ev...

Mexican Revolution and the Impact of Intervention by the United States

the Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution was a time of tremendous social upheaval. During this decade-long turmoil roughly ...

Peasant Village Life and the Effects of China's Cultural Revolution

to rid the Chinese Community Party of all of Maos rivals and enemies and to take control of their country through his leadership (...

American Revolution and Cultural Interactions

its many treasures. Not only were their cultures tremendous varied, so too were the various regions that they called home and the...

Overview on the 'Second Industrial Revolution'

brought about a deeper relationship between science and industrial processes. Through such processes new products arose, and thes...

Great Britain and Impact of the Industrial Revolution

be done in one cottage, the brushing of the wool to separate the fibers (carding of the wool) might be accomplished in another cot...

Industrial Revolution and the Changes in Women's Roles

a pattern which has reemerged throughout history. Fortunes were made from the new technology which surfaced during the industrial ...

Early American History Law Contradictions

independence brought the final break with Britain (Holton, 2000). Further, it was the refusal of these same individuals to joint t...

1911 to 1914 Revolution in Mexico

The circumstances behind this revolution are interesting to say the least. By the twentieth century the discontent was at an...

Assessing the Cuban Revolution

almost all Cubans. Hunger and absolute poverty were overcome" (Bohmer, 2004). As mentioned, Cuba was not perfect. However,...

George A. Rawlyk's 'The American Revolution and Nova Scotia Reconsidered'

settlements, the refusal of Washington to mount an offensive against Nova Scotia, and perhaps the religious revival, all combined ...

Race and Revolution by Gary Nash

of historians to consistently underestimate the "depth, the persistence, the pervasiveness, the centrality of race in American soc...

Second Revolution in America, the Civil War

he knew nothing of the causes for the war. Nash and Jeffrey use this to illustrate their statement that people fought on the Ameri...

Foundations of the Contemporary World Cemented by the Scientific Revolution

scientific explanation, rather than a divine one, for the way the world works. The changes that came with the Scientific Revoluti...

Agriculture and the Impact of the Industrial Revolution

sell crops. Farmers worked the land themselves. They would work for the love of the land and start family businesses. In fact, whi...

Events and Key Players of the American Revolution

colonists from making their own money. The Stamp Act placed taxation on almost all paper product goods: "all printed materials are...