This helped workers get to their post faster and more conveniently. ... Finished products, raw materials, and food could also be stored in these catalysts of transportation (Montagna 3). This contributed to help the normal working American get where they needed to go and also be able to get there faster and cheaper. Transportation was a large piece of the industrial progress in our world, and without the plans of this we would be a big step behind in our fast paced lives. ...

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Regardless of the criticisms, including the sometimes "slow" pace of the Web (the Web has not yet achieved the same status as a fast-food restaurant), it has the potential to change our lives in tremendous ways, adding to our entertainment and information resources. ...

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By 1824 the United States adopted the idea of interchangeable parts, doing so not only led to faster gun production, but quickened the manufacturing rate in all other venues, The Revolution completely transformed America's economy, it made a full switch from an agricultural economy, to an industrial one. ... Although the wages did increase, the rich class had to watch the poor class suffer in dreadful housing, eat adulterated food, have health hazards, and mental trauma. ...

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The first one focuses on the improvements in agriculture that lead to greater food production, factories, and machines that decreased the amount of manual labor that had to be done. ... During the next twenty years, Britain had almost 6000 miles of railway and this meant faster and cheaper transportation, that decreased the price of goods, and improving markets. ... An increase in food production lead to more people being able to get the proper nutrition and the increase in urban populations lead to the increase in industries. ... With the growing power of the industry, modern conveniences ...

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The population had doubled within 30 years, driving many citizens out of business (farmers being the majority) and into either factory jobs with horrible conditions, or no job at all, resulting in an unemployment rate rising almost as fast as the immigration rate. ... This was a huge break-through in trade amongst the nation, allowing goods to be transferred, including perishable foods, to virtually anywhere in the country in a much faster time. ...

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The most appalling and horrifying moment to the audience concerning the food was the bones in the tank. ... Another huge issue once Jurgis returned to work was that someone had taken his spot, someone more fast paces, and they would not change that. ...

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An educated work force helped their economy, with the fast growing population provided a major market and a very skilled work force. ... Food production, agriculture, housing, air pollution, energy production and consumption and all other basic needs of human survival are connected to the demands and usage of the resources available to us. ... It became cheaper, faster and comfortable. ...

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He stated that there were, "A plentiful of navigable rivers to facilitate movement of bulky goods, access to the sea for foreign trade and fast flowing streams which provided motive power for the early mills. ... Eric Williams stated, "By 1774, 15 roperies in Liverpool had been created and fish was the most important food supply." ...

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Humanity at the moment may be compared to a colony of bacteria in a Petri dish with a constant food supply: with no way to remove the wastes of their metabolism, the bacteria eventually poison themselves. ...

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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). ... Europeans enjoyed better clothing, more varied food, more furniture and more household utensils than did their counterparts in China and India. ... By keeping a large population from which to start, recovery could take place somewhat faster when capital stocks were depleted from disasters. ...

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Businesses had money to manufacture more products at faster rates causing the factories to boom in England's cities. ... The Agricultural Revolution resulted in an increased amount of food in England and in effect, the population increased. ...

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Consumerism, a social and economic order and ideology that encourages the consumption of products. Stewart Ewen, in his essay "Chosen People" addresses the topic of consumerism in the middle class of America and suggests different negative effects. He supports his claim by describing the nature of t...

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Some owners sought shortcuts by hiring orphans from London and other cities and bringing them to the northern textile mills with the promise of wages, food and housing. ... The many physical dangers inherent in the early factories might include working in mills with temperatures of more than 80 degrees, inhaling dust from the textile fibers, and injury of death from fast-moving, unsafe machinery. ...

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