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    JIm crow laws were a big part of life in the 1930s, this laws brought segregation and violence, to the South which has lead to the various forms of racism sem today. The Jim Crow Laws were horrible because of all of the bad laws that they had many white people hated the Jim Crow laws because they thought all people were created equal. They lynched blacks if they did something wrong and if whites did something wrong they just got a fine that's not far at all, and that made everyone hate the…

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    The Bengal Famine

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    The 18th century marked the demolition of the Mughal sphere of influence and the rise of the British East India Company. By expanding its trade enterprise into the Indian subcontinent, The Company, hoped to both fund the administrative costs of its day-to-day operations and generate sizeable profits (John 21). After some initial difficulty, the Mughal emperor, Jahangir, allowed the Company to trade in 1612. Two decades after this agreement, the first trading port was established in Bengal. As…

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    Our world as we know it is a result of the Industrial Revolution. As the rise of factories, machines and other technologies began in Britain in the 18th century, it brought with it huge advances in society. The Industrial Revolution kicked off the beginning to a forward movement of technology in our world that would not be slowed down. To put it in perspective: writing has been around for 200 generations, books have been around for 20 generations and computers have only been around for less than…

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    The Industrial Revolution brought about significant changes to the world. It started in the mid – 1700’s in Great Britain, where changed impacted rural life, cultivation, and fossil fuel as a means for power. Innovation was introduced to the world, but there were also adverse consequences that came along with it. The population increased which affected the rise in living norms, which steered the reduction of everyday resources. The pollution became a major issue, due to the coal burn offs that…

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    Fashion Impact On Society

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    Impact on Clothing: Indian Fabrics were treated as exotic and the British fell in love with cotton and indigo. These Indian textiles influenced British tastes before the Raj. But once the British started ruling, everything changed, a new culture emerged and so did a new cultural identity. There was a stark difference in the dressing sensibilities of the British and Indians. After looking at the clothing attires of British people, Indians started looking down upon themselves, they thought that…

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    Hybrid Cars Case Study

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    1. Introduction The birth of industrial revolution have led to a series of widespread cases of air pollution in the world today. Industrialization have brought about an improved standard of living as well as contributing to our advancement in technology over the years. In general, air pollution refers to the presence of substance in the air which has harmful or poisonous effects. For example, volatile organic compounds. These carbon-based chemicals evaporate easily at ordinary temperatures and…

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    Parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament’s power is unlimited and it can make law on any subject matter. No one can limit the law - making power of any future Parliament. It is impossible therefore for any Parliament to pass a permanent law or in other words to entrench an Act of Parliament. According to Dicey, parliamentary sovereignty means that Parliament has the “right to make or unmake any law whatever”. This basically means that there is no limit on the subject matter on which…

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    With this sense of superiority and right to lead as ordained by nature and God upon the British people, Victorian writers produced literary texts and essays promoting it. Scholars like Mathew Arnold, Benjamin Disraeli, Sarah Austin were at the front-burner of eulogizing the Englishness and the British race superiority. Arnold, in his Common Place book according to Evans Richard, states that the British "are the best breed in the world … The absence of a too enervating climate, too unclouded…

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    Me: The industrial revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes between the period of time from about 1760 to between 1820 and 1840. It first started by the Britain and it processed to the United States in the early 19th century. It was first created to raise people’s standard of living. Before the revolution people were living on farmland, small towns or villages where there were little manufacturing. This includes the transitions from hand production methods to machines and…

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    Mustapha Mond Mustapha Mond is a controller for Western Europe, and he is one of the ten world controllers that are present in the World State in Brave New World. He is a “man of middle height, black-haired, with a hooked nose, full red lips, eyes very piercing and dark” (pg. 28). Mustapha Mond is considered to be a very high authority figure in this novel, because he is introduced as “fordship” and “Straight from the mouth of Ford himself”(pg. 29). Henry Ford is thought of very greatly in this…

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