In India and the orient, there was a decided emphasis on having numerous children, marrying off daughters as soon as they were physically able, and favoring sons over daughters. ... In order to keep this standard of living, they produced fewer children, which would have competed with the animals for the scarce food resources (Jones 14-15). The lack of an extended family also contributed to later marriages and fewer children among the Europeans. ... Floods regularly occur along the Yellow River in China and the Yangtze resulting in famine from lost crops in subsequent years, not to mention lost...

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The colors of the town are black and red - red brick covered in black ash from the factories, which even infected the river to bleed these colors combined: It was a town of red brick, or brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as the matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. ... It had a black canal in it and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye. (30) Associating Coketown with "the painted face of a savage" implies that the growing urbanization is in reality the opposite of what it claims to be; rath...

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In 1782, James Watt invented the first steam powered engine, that could help run the factories, and allowed the factories to be built anywhere not just by a river or a body of water. ... Since women and children were cheaper to hire, they ran many of these sweatshops. Some of the children as young as six were beaten, or dipped into tanks of cold water to keep them awake. ... Women also replaced children in the workforces because of the new child labor laws that had been enforced. With the growing power of the industry, modern conveniences like canned food, dish and laundry soap, and contra...

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The Social and Educational Reformation in New Lanark New Lanark, the former cotton spinning village in the valley of the River Clyde near the old town of Lanark, is famous internationally because of its pioneering management, and social and educational experiments led by the publicist, Robert Owen. ... No. 3 mill was mainly for water-powered jennies and No. 4 mill served as storage and housing for some children. Approximately two-thirds of the work force were women and children, and most of them were hired from the counties around Glasgow and Lanark. Perhaps the most remarkable benevolen...

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Factors such as: The Agricultural Revolution, population growth, financial innovations (encouraged people to invest and trade), the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution (brought up mechanical and technological challenges), rivers and canals, coal and iron (machines were made of iron and powered by coal), government policies that encouraged global trade, and, finally the cottage industry which was a transition from rural to industrial economy. ... In 1764, James Hargreaves invented a spinning machine that could fit in small places and could be used by unskilled workers, or even children. ...

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Many of them are creating a good product and dispose their waste into the river, swamp, sea, and even forest, creating large scale of pollution into the environment. ... Together we can build a world that will exist for our children and grandchildren....

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