Before the bourgeoisie rose to prominence, society is organized according to a feudalistic order run by aristocratic landowners and corporate guilds. ... After gaining court victories legalizing unions, the workers set up a permanent one in which they could voice their protests. ... The New Deal and the era of the Great Depression introduced communistic concepts a capitalistic society never imagined before. ... This changed after the Great Depression, as the people looked to the government for new ways to stimulate the economy. ... Afterall, the examples of 19th century Britain and America aft...

• Word Count: 1638
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Before the Industrial Revolution, which began in Britain in the late eighteenth century, economies were based on agricultural production and handicrafts, using hand tools and basic machines. ... German industrialization began at a slower pace than Belgium and France; nevertheless, coal and iron production soared after the 1840s as an extensive railroad network underwent construction in the 1850s. ... Before the Industrial Revolution fertility rates were high, as was child mortality, which barred population growth. ...

• Word Count: 1625
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Jurgis had sprained his ankle, and it got extremely swollen after not just letting it rest. ... Jurgis began to feel a sense of confinement and anxiety, after leaving his family to support themselves on their own while he rests and heals. ... "We shall bear down the opposition, we shall sweep it before us--and Chicago will be ours! ... Ona and Santana's death was one of those moments, but after this moment Jurgis found himself in complete despair and was a mess. ...

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After being exiled to Siberia in 1895 for five years he left Russia for Switzerland where he developed a strong tie to the exiled Russian Social Democrats. ... After disagreements arose at the London Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Party in 1903, Lenin and his following split away from the Mensheviks who were the classical Marxists and formed the Bolshevik Party. ... Another aspect of the revolution in which Marxism and Leninism differed was on the form of government that would be instituted after the revolution of the proletariat. ... "While Marx had treated the dictatorship of the ...

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After food, clothes, and shelter survival needs for mankind. ... After this has taken place, the buyer of the labor and the seller of the labor must meet in the open market and talk on equal rights. ... If a man were to sign his labor over for a lifetime, he would than be making himself a slave rather then the free man he was before he signed the contract. ... If a laborer pays a landlord one dollar to work in his fields and after the day is over, his labor has produced a return of two dollars, he has made up the dollar that he spent to work in the field, and has now secured himself a d...

• Word Count: 1961
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• Grade Level: High School

There was no place for the men to wash their hands before they ate their dinner, and so they made a practice of washing them in the water that was to be ladled into the sausage. ... Every spring they did it; and in the barrels would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale water-and cartload after cartload of it would be taken up and dumped into the hoppers with fresh meat, and sent out to the public's breakfast" (p.167-168). ... After closing the deal, he finds flaws in the contract. ...

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As Marx states in the Manifesto, in this way the Bourgeoisie "create the world after their own image" (84). ... They believed that these stages lead up to a Utopian endpoint, after which there will be no more change, an end to history. ... When Marx wrote the Manifesto he thought he was starting the death of capitalism months before its end. ...

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Long-term effects of the Industrial Revolution were extremely important because what came about after the Revolution was the fall of capitalism in many cases and the rise of communism and for England and other countries, government reforms. ... However, as grand as communism sounds, no state truly ever achieves it because before communism you need socialism which is when resources are distributed equally by the government to create a classless society. ... The other countries, like England, didn't overthrow the capitalists because of the reforms the government underwent after the riots an...

• Word Count: 1719
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, when he learns that the government could potentially get rid of his stock of business-killing Egyptian cotton, he automatically convinces himself that the "business of the government is businessCalvin Coolidge said that, and Calvin Coolidge was the president" (265), signifying that profit always comes before ethics. ... After he betrays his base to the Germans, he causes a massive public outcry where "Congressmen denounced the atrocity in stentorian wrath-mothers with children in the service organized into militant groups and demanded revenge" (259). ...

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With the influx of products, the increase in channels and the increase in television sets, there are certainly more commercials than ever before. ... A designer pair of jeans, designer pair of shoes, shirt, socks, underwear and nothing else matters after that. ...

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Let them look well after their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. ... Unlike some of the other types of revolutions that England had seen before, this would be a peaceful revolution that would help society grow economically, politically, and socially, which it still does today. ...

• Word Count: 1284
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• Grade Level: High School

After 6 years of silence, Parliament was aggressive against the crown. ... The King was desirous to put down the Scots, and eventually Parliament, after it was called into session (long Parliament). ...

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For the Narrator, even after he has gone to live with Tyler, the Narrator continues to present what he owned to the outside world as himself. ... By rejecting objects they are trying to connect even further to their male primal selves; to the man that existed before society put constraints on them. ...

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Race, status, and class are one of the main reasons for inequality. There is a high degree of social inequality in the United States. Of most modern industrial countries, the United States has some of the richest and some of the poorest people to be found. This fact is very disturbing, however, expl...

• Word Count: 1944
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After a year in Paris he was kicked out, so he and his family moved to London in 1847. ... In a free market economy we put the individual before the group in order to promote integrity, self worth, and morality. ...

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Before the Renaissance, the civilizations of Western Europe were by far the most ignorant, uneducated, and unhygienic in the world, compared to the flourishing societies in India and China. ... As Crusade after Crusade sent massive waves of Europeans to the Middle Eastern "Holy Land" and back again, traders began to take their wares with them, in order to bring back Middle Eastern spices, textiles, and any other goods they could possibly sell in their homeland. ...

• Word Count: 2084
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate