Industrialisation

“the rack and ruin of our gangster death, the rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies”(Hughes). Hughes is using this line to reference the political machine, an organized party that controlled American politics and industry during the industrialisation era. Political machines took advantage of the oppressed industry workers, and oftentimes those in power could get away with heinous crime, such as the “rape” Hughes…

There are two main approaches when it comes to dealing with children and youth; the welfare and justice based approaches. This response will compare and contrast the difference between the two, and comment on how each approach constructs childhood and youth. The welfare based approach involves around the concern of the wellbeing of children and young people. It is used in the context of legal system to justify the intervention of children or young people from facing the criminal justice system.…

Why was Great Britain the first Industrial nation? Great Britain had an abundance of factors that gave it a significant advantage over other countries and Empires when it came to Industrialisation. Britain had all it needed to begin this revolution as they had large amounts of natural resources such as coal, an increasing population due to agricultural improvements, the development of new inventions and most importantly, an ever expanding Empire. All these factors contribute and provide the…

purchase it and leading to the increase in economic growth. Along with growing consumers, the supply of goods would have to increase as well to support it and the transportation has to be revolutionised to move the goods to places more effectively. Industrialisation had benefited large amount of people. It created plenty of jobs for the people, wages rose, labour unions won the right to bargain. Yet, in spite of the many positive effects, there were still negative effects existing. With the…

the value, significance and context of each through the differing perspectives they present on the same thematic concerns. [Q] Fritz Lang’s 1927 expressionist film Metropolis portrays the loss of human autonomy through the lens of the rise of industrialisation in Weimar Germany and conveys the message of the importance of mediation. Contrastingly, George Orwell’s 1948 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) explores the loss of human autonomy, influenced by totalitarian regimes of the…

Explain how the Enlightenment, The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution led to the development of Sociology as a social science. A number of events contributed to the development of Sociology as a social science. Firstly, the Enlightenment was a time of improvements made in science, politics and philosophy. During the 1600s and 1700s the Enlightenment thinkers questioned superstition and tradition, they embraced scientific methods in order to gain an understanding of the world in a…

A way in which the indigenous people in colonies were subjugated was through land divination. Colonists, realising that the more land they controlled the higher the profits would be, increasingly sought ways to achieve this. Naturally, the European colonists of India and Africa were of a higher economic standing than their native counterparts, and used various methods to lay claim to large areas of land and the most fertile ground. Subsequently, it meant that any individual native enterprise was…

including pressure groups, political advantage and changing political attitudes, contributed to the change in how Britain was governed. To a large extent, changing political attitudes were a main factor for the growth of Britain 's democracy. Industrialisation and urbanisation changed the ways people worked and lived. Workers went from the domestic system to working in factories. The upper classes who owned these factories then hired people to manage their factories, this lead to many people…

The human settlement is a huge, industrialised mining city. Lady Eboshi and her followers have cleared out all the natural life in and around the city. It is full of people going about their jobs, working in factories, mining, transporting resources, etc. Mass amounts of smog can be seen rising from the factories which pollutes the environment and angers the nature spirits. The forest is a huge forest habitat that was created and cared for by the nature spirits. There are no humans and nearly…

Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin In the novel Animal Farm, many of the animals show to be influenced by the dominant figures in the Russian Revolution. Here I will be focusing on Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin and how they can be compared to certain characters in the book. Lenin (1870-1924) Vladimir Lenin was a leading political figure and a revolutionary thinker who was often influenced by the ideology of Marxism and Karl Marx. He was ruthless but at the same time also rational and sensible. Old Major,…