This aggressive rejection of anything less then equality became a revolution of womankind and a new approach to life for most females. ... According to a "Woman's Forum" database, sixty-percent of women in North America are active in the workforce today. ... According to the Thorndike-Barnhart dictionary, technology is defined as: "The science of industrial arts". ... Most people's lives today in North America would not function if you took away their car and their computer. ... Already the ozone layer is torn from industrial toxins that are byproducts of our technological advancemen...

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Others would argue that religion is a force for social change for example with liberation theology in Latin America, a movement wanting change for the poor. ... This all prevents revolution and the rich stay rich whilst the poor stay poor. ... He argued that the cause of the transition from pre-industrial to an industrial society was the rise of Calvinism. ... This idea created a Protestant work ethic and because of this there was the rise of capitalism and the transition to an industrial society. ... Bruce used the civil rights movement in America during the 1950's and 1960's as a...

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The Puritans of the 1630s added a new element of religious and social intolerance to America, expanding on the blueprint created by the Pilgrims. ... Thoreau was a genuine social deviant, disenchanted by the growing industrial machine of commerce and its constructions. He believed that the typical American was not the individualist, but rather the conformist. ... Thoreau also emphasizes the right of revolution against inefficient or tyrannical government, further explaining how the government itself, in all cases, makes matters worse. Based on both the works of Thoreau and Hawthorne, socia...

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Before the Industrial Revolution – that is, before the 18th century in England, or the 19th century in Western Europe and North America – the majority of population lived in rural areas and worked in agriculture, where the resources for production were limited. ...

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Review and Discussion Most Americans are busy people and a great number of them schedule their daily routines down to the minute. ... This emphasis on punctuality originated in some part in response to the Industrial Revolution when the need for factory workers to arrive at work on time became more important than in previous years. ... When the need arises, they should be informed of the importance of punctuality [to Americans]" (Perez et al., p. 22). ... For example, older Americans may place a much higher regard on being punctual than younger people. ... For instance, Galatzer-Levy and ...

• Word Count: 1150
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