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. ... The development of railroads was one of the most important factors of the industrial revolution. ... These factors affected the entire Industrial ...

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" Although Eugenics may have been loosely based on scientific theory it in itself was not a scientific theory. ... Social Darwinism in the United States in the late nineteenth century seems to have been the logical path for social theorists after the industrial revolution. The country had just experienced an industrial revolution and business was booming. Of course, along with the industrial revolution came larger separation of the social classes and countless poor. ... It also does not include any discernible scientific method. ...

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There were many similarities between the causes of the American Revolution in 1776 and the Latin American Wars of Independence beginning in 1810. ... The causes of the American Revolution and the Latin American Wars of Independence were similar in many aspects. ... The colonists" want of freedom from excessive taxation and free trade and manufacturing were principle impetuses of the Revolution. ... The economic causes of the American Revolution and the Latin American Wars of Independence are quite similar. ... The American Revolution and the Spanish American Wars of Independence were cause...

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While researching the American Enlightenment Movement, I found that although historians talk more about the French thinker's role in the revolution, it was actually four American rulers who left a mark in history. ... Thinkers in the United States and British North America adopted strong political and religious views that greatly influenced the American Revolution. ... The American enlightenment thinkers applied scientific reasoning to politics, religion, science, etc. ...

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In just viewing one of these great social changes occurring within the United States at this time, the sexual revolution, which effectively broke down the pre-existing gender roles, sex laws, and the sexual morality of mainstream American society, one may see that this change, though beginning slowly eventually became so great and so widespread that it not only affected American culture, but, also, the legal institutions of the United States as well. ... ACLU (1997) the full extent of the effect of the sexual revolution upon the Supreme Court can clearly be seen. In fact one can trace, thro...

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The Developments Caused by Liberalism in the Rise of Socialism Early theories of the Enlightment philosophy formed an underlying theme through the history of liberalism and the development of socialism. However often contradicted through our own human err of bias perception, the works of great thin...

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Kaczynski's basic thesis is, in his own words, that "Scientific progress will result in the extinction of individual liberty." While his ideas and anxieties aren't especially new - we need only recall Huxley's Brave New World or Orwell's 1984 - the Unabomber's call to a revolution against technology and his readiness to shed blood for his beliefs set him apart. ...

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The competition with the Soviets gave an added boost to the technological and scientific revolution; and American universities expanded immensely as centers for defense research, for the education of a vast new public, and as employers of creative writers and as arbiters of taste. ...

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However, since humankind's placement at the center of the universe lay at the core of the argument for rejecting natural instincts, the Roman Christian church found it necessary to reject scientific discoveries of the Renaissance which denied humans of this exalted cosmic address. ...

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What Is Development? 'Development is the process in which someone or something grows or changes and becomes more advanced.' In the case of a country, it means to have a highly developed economy and be technologically advanced. The criteria to assess a country's development is by looking at it...

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In 1869, they were more or less set free from all government control and set about elaborating that anti-intellectual, anti-scientific, games-dominated Tory imperialism which was to remain characteristic of them. ... Knowledge, especially scientific knowledge, therefore took second place in the new British educational system, to the maintenance of a rigid division between the classes. ...

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The nineteenth century saw the continental expansion of the United States and a transportation revolution that resulted from it, as well as industrialization, astonishing population growth and urbanization. ...

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However, during the Industrial Revolution, we began altering our climate and environment through changing agricultural and industrial practices. Before the Industrial Revolution, human activity released very few gases into the atmosphere, but now through population growth, fossil fuel burning, and deforestation, we are affecting the mixture of gases in the atmosphere. ...

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America has come a long way since its Independence. Throughout her history she has gone through a number of changes. One of these periods in which number of reforms took place was the during the period between 1870- 1914 five political parties dominated the American politics of that time. These par...

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Thesis: The prior terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon, have many Americans searching to understand the source of such intense hatred. Extremist-suicide bombers committed a heinous act "unparallel, in recent history. Immediately, America must gain insight as to how terrorist groups can be minimized and at best nullified. In fact, if this is accomplished; national security will be restored and the free "democratic society will succeed, living each day in absence of fearing terrorism. As Defense establishments are concerned; the U.S. has proved to be the gr...

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