ENGLISH ESSAY ("MODERN TIMES" AND "THE FLANEUR") "The ordinary practitioners of the city live "down below" the thresholds at which visibility begins they are walkers "wandesrmaenner", whose bodies follow the thicks and thins of an urban text." ... Chaplins character is a proletarian, a man defined by his labour in much the same way as a machine. ... A role that the Factory Worker seems to take on most consistently, one that perfectly illustrates his working class identity, is that of t...

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Then hundreds of years passed, and people who wanted to share their ideas with people had to do allot of writing, until someone thought to make a writing machine. This machine is called the printing press. ... For example, after deregulation of the airline industry, prices dropped dramatically for large urban centers, but steadily rose for small rural centers. ... Sprint has made small moves also providing cellular telephone services in five urban areas. ... It has established fiber optic services (SONET) in 18 large urban centers and is actively trying to lure the largest corporate customers ...

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After ordering the German soldiers to lie down, the machine gun opened fire resulting in the deaths of nine Americans, including York's best friend in the outfit, Murray Savage. Sergeant Early received seventeen bullet wounds and turned the command over to corporals Harry Parsons and William Cutting, who ordered York to silence the machine gun. ... Fearlessly leading 7 men, he charged with great daring a machine gun nest which was pouring deadly and incessant fire upon his platoon. In this heroic feat the machine gun nest was taken, together with 4 officers and 128 men and several guns. ...

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It also impacted urban development and the economy. ... It could create high levels of heat and power machines that were more efficient. ... New inventions like the sewing machine helped speed up spinning, weaving, and sewing. ... Because of the industrialization some workers were being replaced by machines. ...

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Also, he told him that he had plans to build machine that could destroy fortress, cannons that where easy to transport, covered chariots, and other machines. ... Leonardo spent a great deal of his time while he was in Milan working on military plans and working on engineering projects, such as plans for urban-renewal (Stokstad 688). ... Also during this time Leonardo made his first attempt at building a flying machine. ... Giovanni flying machine failed, but Leonardo asked questioned people how had seen the machine first hand. After questioning the people that had seen the flying machine L...

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During this time period, society was transformed into one of increasingly dominated by central political institutions with an urban attitude. ... He designed many machines that are being used currently in our world. ... His notes included small ideas for how a perpetual motion machine would work. ... In early research, Da Vinci envisioned machines with bird like wings. ... Da Vinci made the machine controlled by the force of the pilot or whoever was in charge when flying these machines. ...

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Immigrants with peasant backgrounds, and even migrants from America's own rural regions, are especially ill equipped to survive the urban jungle because of their stubborn individualism. Jurgis relies on his own strong back to carry his family, to cope with inhuman work, but he simply becomes a screw in the industrial machine, to be discarded as soon as he shows the signs of being broken. ... It was a huge rat race, in which it was every man for himself, but not even the strongest could survive in this urban jungle for only the wealthy and corrupt were the ones who made it to the top....

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Goods were now being produced by machines rather than by hand. ... Immigrants fled to the urban area seeking employment and a better life. ... "Machines as the men: science, technology, and ideologies of Western dominance." ...

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As urban industrial workers expanded in the 19th century, industry and the industrial work force boomed as well. ... Depressions and recessions led to cyclical employment, style and weather caused seasonal employment, and machines replacing humans brought structural employment. ...

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One of the most common (and sometimes most frustrating) problems about living in a heavily populated urban environment is parking your car in a tight parking space. ... The main reason for this mishap to happen in these dense urban area's is simply "the human error". The human error as defined by collinsdictionary.com is stated as "an error that is typical of humans rather than machines". ...

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When the machine gun fired at him, he proceeded to investigate his enemy's identity, "The sniper darted across the street. A machine-gun tore up the ground around him with a hail of bullets, but he escaped."" ... This method is called urban guerrilla warfare. ...

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"This was a new idea and perhaps marked the beginning of American Leadership in efficiency with machines."... With the opening of the Erie Canal, the urban to rural ratio began to change dramatically. ...

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"Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but the sword." (Matthew 10:34) After a thorough reading of "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth," one may find it sort of ironic that Reza Aslan exposes the reader to this quote from the gospel of Ma...

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Urban smog is also produced by acid rain and is harmful to humans; it irritates the lungs and can cause breathing difficulty. ... In our home we can run the dishwasher and washing machine with a full load, turn off lights, turn off hot water tank, turn down the heat at night, don't use the air conditioner as much, install fluorescent light bulbs, reduce, reuse, and recycle. ...

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A third station WPWR opted for a different route, saying it would lose credibility with its audience if it banned music that reflects the language of urban life. ... Another "Freedom Fighter" against music censorship is 71-year-old Mary Morello, Mother of Tom Morello, the former guitarist of Rage Against the Machine. ...

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Great depression Thesis- The year of the 1929 began a time period of horror in America. I t was the beginning of the depression. A time in which many lost their jobs, became homeless, and went hungry. They lived off of the nutrition of weeds, or worked fifty-five hours with only earning seventy...

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Modern Architecture belonged to those who decided to begin afresh and to rid themselves of a preoccupation with style or ornament, were it old or new. The fresh approach made itself felt in several parts of the world, but nowhere more consistently than in America. Frank Lloyd Wright was unquestionably an architectural genius and was years ahead of his time, he embraced modern technological developments in both building materials and techniques, and he was one of the first architects to explore and exploit the new opportunities of his time. With his refreshing and completely innovative ...

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It is as well true that the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created for transport. ... If you need to travel from a suburban or rural area to an area of high urban density, chances are that a commuter transit, (a bus or train line servicing the nearest city), exists. ...

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The form of music known as reggae was not always as popular as it has been in recent decades. Society in the 1960's and 70's had problems with racism and equality causing many people to turn to music as an escape. Bob Marley lived through harsh times, but grew up to become one of the greatest reggae...

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