Industrialisation

In the early 20th century, because of the effects heavily industrialisation had had on the environment in Britain, it became fashionable to have green areas in cities. This trend was brought over to New Zealand. Scottish Settlers took advantage of the green areas on the surrounding hills. The people who owned the land…

influencing the changing roles of women, progressivism had far reaching political and social effects on the lives of American women. The Progressive Era, 1900-1920, was a time of change for America; an explosive growth in urbanisation and thus industrialisation, led to reform. People worked to improve the poor working conditions and injustice in American society at the time. By 1920 the American urban population was at over 50% with millions of American’s working in factories where they faced…

eastern asian cultures “the ruling influence among her people of the strictest, loftiest, and the most punctilious codes of honor that man has ever devised,”(The Far East, p. 375) The bushido is also an important motive for the modernisation and industrialisation of Japan. “The sense of honour which cannot bear being looked down upon as an inferior power,that was the strongest of motives. Pecuniary or industrial considerations were awakened later in the process of transformation” (Bushido: The…

exports of raw materials stilldominate, including Australia, Canada and Norway). Among the emergingeconomies, this category includes a very heterogeneous group, including a spectrumranging from basic industrialisation (simple manufacturing industry, based on low-wage labour) to very advanced industrialisation (knowledge-based, high value addedinnovative industry). In this group, we selected China, Costa Rica, Malaysia,Mexico and the Republic of Korea for investigation. The economic…

mentioned earlier the implications of China’s slowdown will not just affected the Chinese economy and the U.S. but also it impacts for the rest of the world economy. China is one of the major commodity consuming countries. There are lots of industrialisation and urbanization took place in China. However, after many years of investments the project unable to deliver the expected return for investors. Thus, a raises of questions about additional investment plans. This as a consequences lead to a…

Karl Marx lived in the time of the Industrial Revolution; this was the source of his many ideas and critical views on his society. As his first real was job was a journalist he reported on the social injustices of industrialisation. He noticed that many people were in abject poverty living in atrocious conditions – bad nutrition, no sanitation and extremely limited medical care are some of many examples. Marx’s theory of Alienation focuses on the labour cog in the capitalist mechanism. The…

The classic silent film Metropolis (1927) was directed by the famous Fritz Lang and co-written by his ex-wife Thea Von Harbou. The film was produced in Weimar Germany post WW1, reflected by its German Expressionist style. Large portions of the film were believed to be lost until recently and the restored version was released 2010. It was the first film on UNESCO’s Memory of the Wold Register and has inspired sci-fi films like Star Wars and Bladerunner. George Orwell’s 1984 is a fiction novel…

Due to an industrialisation comment in the text (Jewett, 670) the story must take place during the industrialisation between 1865-1918. Another indicator for that time period is the year of publication of "A White Heron" in 1886. Linda comes from one of those manufacturing towns, as they are always very busy and…

The British Union of Fascists, or alternatively the BUF, was a far-right political party active in Britain from its formation in 1932 until it was proscribed by the British government in 1940. It was founded by Sir Oswald Mosley, who became convinced of fascism after he visited Mussolini’s Italy. In truth, the party, while enjoying some moderate success, ended up as a failure. Stanley Payne described it as a ‘political oxymoron’, being developed in a nation where ‘there was neither space nor…

The use of technology in Lang’s Metropolis and Orwell’s 1984 highlights the dystopian society, and how technology can (affect identity/challenge the future of humanity/reflect contemporary values. {Answer the question}. The Industrialisation of Europe after World War I enabled the use of new technologies that were rapidly appearing in the workplace, assisting and even replacing human labour. Technology is utilised in Metropolis as a means of control for the lower class. They are seen being…