Industrialisation

The term ‘family’ is believed to be easily defined by most people, and almost always involves the image of a two parents and their children. Despite this, sociologists have been debating the true meaning of family for years, and although multiple definitions have come up, none provide an explanation broad enough to cover its spectrum. For example, Oxford Dictionaries has a lot of definitions for this term. One of them is that family is “A group consisting of two parents and their children living…

In which he identified that industrialisation led to the replacement of extended families by the nuclear family as it was “well suited to an industrial economy” (Fulcher and Scott, 2011:434). This is because it allowed for one member of the family, particularly the male breadwinner, to earn…

Introduction So why do people migrate to cities? Well there is an array of answers which will be covered in this essay. The number of people internally migrating, moving to cities from rural areas within a country is growing, also known as urbanisation (Procupez, 2015). The sovereign state of the United Kingdom (UK) I will use as a case study due to the rapid rate of urbanisation that has occurred up until present. The main points covered will be, what is believed to be the main reason which…

developments that prompted the modernisation of Japan to take place such as the decline of the Bakufu (military government) which led to democracy, the changing role of the samurai allowed for social mobility, the arrival of the black ships introduced industrialisation to Japan and Commodore Matthew Perry’s arrival resulted in the Militarisation of Japan. These were…

globalisation(p16,25).Although industrial revolution was the symbol of globalisation, while looking at the timeline on human history, the expansion of capitalist activities have already appeared. From the Age of Discovery to colonisation and industrialisation, it represented that Europeans created global market but also emphasised the importance and power of bourgeoisie in future. It illustrate that there are a closely relationship between globalisation and capitalism. For Marx's prospective, it…

The Strength of a woman: The Role of Women in British Literature In the 1800’s, women in Britain saw changes occur as they started a movement demanding that their voices be heard. British women saw writing as their opportunity to take their place alongside their male counterparts in society to present their viewpoints heard. Even though women had been writing, their voices were subdued and often silenced next to male writers. Elizabeth Browning’s writings reflected her beliefs throughout all…

EXAMINE HOW THE TREATMENT OF TECHNOLOGY IN METROPOLIS AND NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR HEIGHTENS OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE VALUES, SIGNIFICANCE AND CONTEXT OF THE TEXTS. In both the political satire, ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’ (hereafter 1984) by George Orwell and the science fiction film ‘Metropolis’ (1927) by Fritz Lang, the composers explore the values and attitudes brought about by each of their historical contexts which is impacted by the influence of technology. The composers both use technology as a…

survive. Since Russia possessed unused fertile plots of land and as the agrarian population constituted the majority of the population, Communists presented collectivisation as a system initiated to generate profit and support the process of industrialisation. Stalin wanted to reinforce the reciprocal bond between the agriculture and the industry, as the countryside would provide the industry with resources and the cities with food, whereas the development of the industry would support the…

Witte’s successful economic reforms to industrialise the nation encouraged my family and I to move to the city in the late 1890s; the promise of work and better standards of living too enticing for us to refuse as peasants. Upon arrival, the industrialisation of St Petersburg was obvious and astounding, the economic reforms that have strengthened Russia’s place as a country of power and supremacy evident in the city’s doubled size. While this stabilisation of Russia’s economy has been welcomed,…

the syntax of the phrase is disrupted, creating pauses that instill reflection in the reader’s mind. The reader is obliged to contemplate and immerse with the poem’s message. Likewise, “little we see in nature that is ours” suggests that the industrialisation has hindered the vision of individuals from the possession that they own, which is nature. The collective pronoun of ‘we’ engages the reader and puts them at fault for the lack of appreciation of nature and reinforces the concept of man &…