City-states which were successful during the early stages of the industrial revolution, such as Venice, also suggest limitations to the physical resources idea (Rosenberg and Birdzell 42-43). ... One harvest failure could cause serious problems; two spaced closely together were catastrophic. ... European cities and transportation systems also gave the western societies distinct advantages over their eastern neighbors when discussion is focused on the industrial revolution. ... More than 160 trades and crafts were active in the city at that time, in approximately the following proportions: 25 p...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In chapters two through six Candide goes through the process of being a soldier in the Bulgar's army during the time they were at war with the Abarians. Candide's recruitment was at an Inn of the neighboring town of Westphalia, where two men buy him food after he went through a complicated travel. ... The glory of war was then described by Voltaire in the third chapter by showing the brutality of European war, cities burnt to ashes and so forth. ... Next the old woman tells her tale of hardships in life and civil war she witnessed while in the Middle East. ... Voltaire shows the true...

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• Grade Level: High School

Littleton, Colorado was devastated when events in Columbine High School left twenty-three people wounded and fifteen people dead, including the two supposedly "unstable- gunmen, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. ... A Tale of Two Cities certainly portrays incredible atrocities about what events occurred to cause mass beheadings in Europe, and how the poor revolt against the rich. ... Suicide bombings mirror the Columbine tragedy in a number of ways; many people were killed including the two causing the crime, and the events occurred in a highly public area. ...

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The book records Thoreau's experiences in a hand-built cabin, where he spent two years in partial seclusion, at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. ... His "The Gold Bug" (1843) tells the tale of a search for buried treasure on a South Carolina island lV. ... In 1899 Robinson moved to New York City, where his volume Captain Craig and Other Poems (1902) attracted little interest. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Another reason that may have contributed to the rise of missionaries in Africa was that the industrial society from the emergence of cities and towns created a "godless" society where Christians began to feel the government was not putting enough emphasis on the church and religious life. ... From a traveller's perspective, tales arose of the stereotype of the African as barbarous, prone to excessive sexual desire, lazy, untrustworthy and even cannibalistic. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate