The Industrial Revolution was a period of social, economic, and technologic growth and expansion that originated in England in the late 1700s. ... The spread of the Industrial Revolution was fast and brought wealth to England and Europe with the "World Trade System" and later to the rest of the world. ... India exported cotton clothe to Africa and Africa exported slaves to America to produce sugar, tobacco, coffee, raw cotton, and wood to export it back to England. The Triangular Trade was an exchange of slaves, cash crops and manufactured goods between West Africa, the Caribbean...

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The discovery and colonisation of the Americas, the exploitation of slaves to be used as a work force to generate commercial goods, the consumerist and industrial revolutions that followed and the formation of the foundations of the modern financial system. ... Africans were transported to America to be sold throughout the continent as slave labourers. ... That being the Portuguese settlers in the Americas or the "New World" were given loans with easy repayment and interest plans to buy more slaves and develop sugar plantations. ... The French Revolution lead to a huge social upheava...

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Liberation theology was a movement that grew in South America. The aim of the movement was for the church to act to bring about social change for the poverty and the bad treatment of ordinary people. In the 1950's, 1960's and before the government were like a dictatorship and they seen no problem wi...

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With the decline of the Amerindian population, labor from Africa formed the basis of the exploitation of the gold and agricultural resources of the export sectors of the Americas, with sugar plantations absorbing well over two thirds of slaves carried across the Atlantic by the major European and Euro-American powers. ... African capacity to resist Europeans ensured that sugar plantations were established in the Americas rather than in Africa. ... The epidemiological impact of the Old World destroyed not only Native American societies, but also a potential labor supply. ... A revolution in o...

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This age of discovery and exploration led to the expansion of European powers in the Americas and in parts of Asia. After a gradual decline in Imperialistic views and ideals following the American and French revolutions, a sudden increase for colonial power ensued in Western Europe. ... After the 1820's many Western European countries had lost many of its colonies, such as France in America and Spain in South America. Of course, Britain had also lost its crucial colonies during the Revolutionary War North America. ... After losing its thirteen colonies in North America, Britain had beg...

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Whereas, India had social issues such as famine and Latin America did not have the land capacity for the colonial powers to invest. ... Within Europe, the industrial revolution had created social distress and unease on the population. ... Thirdly, the industrial revolution which had left a surplus population allowed for colonial states to send out people to the settlements in Africa. ...

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Since the agricultural and industrial revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries, the global population has soared to currently approximately 7.4 billion people. The population of "the West," which includes Western Europe, North America, and Asian capitalist economies, such as Japan, Singapore, and South Korea, has remained flat since the latter half of the 20th century, with some populations, such as Japan's, experiencing a steady decrease. ...

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Some of the issues that she identified among facing women in both America and Mali include poor communication among spouse. This resulted into incompatibility and unhappiness among the married partners, which she claimed was the major causes of most divorce in America even though the rate of divorce in Mali were low since women did not have rights to child custody among others. ... Surprisingly, the same thing happened to the author, which she claims it is a common issue in America even though people rarely discuss about it in public. ... This is because after realizing the challenges that wo...

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Between the year 1650 and 1900, it is estimated that over 10.24 million enslaved Africans arrived in the Americas. ... The slave trades from the Bight of Biafra steadily deteriorated in the nineteenth century, mainly due to English patrols and a decrease in demand for slaves from the Americas, but also because of local shortages of slaves. ... Making history is not always about revolutions and great victories, but equally about blind determination that often leads to tragic downfalls....

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They had to survive the "middle passage" and legions of cruelties and atrocities committed against them before they even faced the hardships of America. ... Enslaved African Americans developed a sense of racial identity. ... Yet through, storytelling, religion and music African Americans managed to preserve their culture. ... Spirituals - Were a genre of religious folk song founded in American black and white musical traditions. ... During the decades following the American Revolution, however, Christianity was increasingly central to the slaves" cultura...

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Introduction There is a need to meet the growing energy demand. Having a sustainable source of electricity is a universal dream that all countries want to achieve. The interest in green energy is growing because fossil fuels are limited. Fossil fuels are currently he main source of electricity. They...

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While Walcott opposes colonialism and would therefore seem to be sympathetic to a revolution with an anticolonial cause, he has passionate reservations about Mau Mau: they are, or are reported to be, extremely violent - to animals, whites, and Kikuyu perceived as traitors to the Mau Mau cause. ...

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ABSTRACT This dissertation aims to study development and broadcasting in Zambia, to draw conclusions as to the present situation of broadcasting and the direction it should move in the future. The study of the development of broadcasting in Zambia and its current structure are outlined together with details of its structure, policy and the constraints placed upon it. The findings of this study show that broadcasting - radio in particular - has become the dominant news source for the nation, an effective instrument of propaganda for the government and a powerful influence in the political, s...

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