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    This form of industrialisation could take the form of an agric industrialisation policy owing to the fact that rural areas are primarily agrarian in nature and could provide the much needed resources for this form of industrialisation. Government would have to promote investments into this new sector by adopting tax related incentives geared towards attracting and encouraging…

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    London Olympic Games accurately portrayed the Industrial Revolution in the adaptation presented during the Opening Ceremony. This is clear in exploring the transition from an Agrarian society to Industrialisation; overpopulation and the issue of capitalism. The shift from an Agrarian culture to Industrialisation undoubtedly positively impacted the British population and was adapted accurately in the performance. The evolution from depending on agriculture for a stable income, to mass production…

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    1750’s, later spreading to other countries. It changed the way people lived and worked through the transformation from an agrarian, handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacture. This period was marked by a boom in industrialisation, which was made possible by the remarkable series of innovations and inventions. As a result of the increase in industry, there were some detrimental effects to the environment and sections of the working class. However, the advances made…

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    The purpose of this assignment it to identify, describe and analyse the importance of the core changes that NHS has brought to the people of Britain since it was first introduced. To have a wider understanding of the context, a review on century back since its introduction will be explained in more detail. Firstly, a definition of what Social policy will be given in order to understand the process of Social policy- making. Social policy is considered as a political activity, which seeks the…

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    mule yarn, most of it spun in the towns” This shift stimulated an advance in productivity, and provides that population increase and the rise of urbanisation was essential factors in driving Britain’s economy. Therefore, in order to understand industrialisation these factors must be…

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    One aspect of modernity that worried Durkheim a significant amount was the increased urbanisation due to industrialisation. Durkheim had a more direct focus on this worry over urbanisation as he looked the impact of suicide in his book ‘Le Suicide’, analysing 26,000 suicides with the use of official statistics to see what caused certain societal groups to have higher rates of suicide compared to others. He looked at four different types to distinguish reasons for suicide rates: egotistic,…

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    years evolution of Australian cultures and society, it had transformed from the initial convict settlement to the modern nation built on diversity. However, the fast pace of urban life gradually exposes people to the deeply rooted issues of industrialisation, racial segregation and rationality that has been embedded in the cultural experience of Australia. These adverse cultural experiences which had also been depicted in “The Rabbits” by Shaun Tan and John Marsden, act as the triggering factors…

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    The increased price of international produce made Russians more likely to consume Russian goods, therefore supporting Russia 's industrialisation. Additionally, Witte 's solution to the inevitable discontent from other countries at his move was to "invite foreign powers to continue to participate in the Russian economy, but by investing capital"22. This was an effective action to take…

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    The political and economic turmoil facing China in the decades leading up to the reform era created a climate that lent itself to the essential economic reforms. Sharing much of the Stalinist vision of rapid industrialisation, Mao Zedong invented his own version of a more radical approach to modernisation. Mao’s original plan of a gradual transition to socialism was abandoned in favour of the completion by 1956 of a ‘socialist transformation of agriculture, industry, commerce and handicrafts’…

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    With many free serfs making up around 80% of the population, industrialisation was key for Russia to catch up to the west, especially countries that Alexander II admired such as Britain, France & America. The peasant population was grand and majority, if not all were completely uneducated and ignorant, education reform was a necessary component for the industrialisation of Russia. The poor people of Russia were now allowed to go to school and university, this helped…

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