... financial wants and they were greatly expressed by the media. Advertisements were everywhere and they mostly targeted the influential youth of America because of their numbers. Children in America were exposed to mass hours of advertisements slowly turning them into materialistic consumers. Parents helped the growth of materialism by signing up for credit cards. The use of credit was advertised; when money was ... not available you just borrow it. Advertisers appealed to the morality of buying now paying later rather than spending all your money ... off and along with public schools fo...

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... and unhealthy, fear prevented workers from trying to achieve change. Yet, hope of a better future arrived with the immigrants who carried ideas of industrial-class labour unions that could help negotiate the changes they sought. Workers wanted shorter hours and a shorter workweek.8 They believed that there should be a universal eight-hour day to help alleviate unemployment ... their power and give labour the opportunity to take over. Despite this attitude, workers gained hope when the Canadian government signed the Treaty of Versailles at the Paris Peace Conference, which supported the w...

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... place great value on the lives of their countrymen and allies, but very little on the lives of the enemy, except for the instance where Paul, the character telling the story in first person, is stuck in a hole and must stab and kill a Russian soldier who falls into the hole and then must stay in the hole with him for hours. This traumatic part of the story presents many questions ... of the value of a human life to the reader. In "Some Barbarian ... Is Waving My Shield" by Archilochus, the person telling this story escapes with his life losing his shield. Should ... ...

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... the Turks over the top, resulting in the removal of almost all Armenians in Turkey.15 The final topic to discuss concerns the massacres that took place during the war and how great the Armenians suffered. In April 1915, on what is known as Red Sunday, marked the beginning of the genocides, on that day the majority of Constantinople's Armenian intellectuals were taken into custody and imprisoned. Twenty-four hours later, the ... imprisoned intellectuals were removed and majority condemned to death off the blacklist.16 In May, the remaining Armenian population was deported. They transport...

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... and chances were multiplied overnight. Other acts that contributed to Labour's rise was the 1908 Coal Mines Act which limited the miner's working day to eight hours and also the introduction of a Right to Work Bill in response to the high rates of unemployment in 1908 and 1909. All these changes strengthened the Trade Unions who had played an important part in lobbying for them. Another ... major reason for the rapid rise of the Labour Party was due to the sharp demise of Britain ... 's second party' in 1900, the Liberal Party. During the decade before the ... ...

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... , pressured key manufacturers to assist in the production of armaments, ended strikes through promises of arbitration, and extended daytime working hours by introducing daylight saving in May 1916. The British governments response to the shortage of men on the land was to encourage women to join the workforce and one of the ways in which this was done was through the establishment of the Women's Land Army. Lloyd George ... also directed many women to the munitions industry. Additionally, in 1917 the government established the Womens Auxillary Army Corps ... ...

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... a revolution would not have happened at this point in time. This is not to say a revolution would not have eventually happened, as many of the ingredients needed were already present. However, what World War 1 essentially did was to heighten discontent throughout society enough for it to revolt. Russia had ... Assembly" could be elected and a new constitution grafted. With his army, the Duma and the majority of society against him, Nicholas II agreed to abdicate and hand throne to his brother, Grand Duke Michael who in turn abdicated the throne 24 hours after he had received it, thus endi...

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... African problem proved unfruitful, and hostility between the Boers and the Uitlanders continued unabated. The president Kruger was unyielding in his opposition to the Uitlanders. Sir Alfred Milner issued orders to build up the British army in South Africa. On October 9, 1899, Kruger demanded the withdrawal of all British troops from the Transvaal frontier within 48 hours, with the alternative of formal war. British noncompliance with Kruger's demands brought ... about immediate action and an alliance of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State declared war on October 12, 189...

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... there own back garden. These statements clearly act in favour of appeasement, expressing that military action against Germanys actions was not necessary as she is clearly retaliating against the unjust nature of the Versailles settlement, remilitarising her troops in a part of her own country was seen as no clear threat towards Britain and France. However Britain did accelerate her rearmament ... non-Spanish ships. This demonstrated that it paid to be firm with fascists. British opinion on the breach of the non-intervention policy was mixed. Some of the left wing groups for example, the ...

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... they would respond to the crisis. Austria's response would eventually dictate the course of events that led to the war. This response came on the twenty-third of July in the form of an ultimatum to Serbia to accept and meet ten demands set forth by the Austrian government. The Austrians demanded a response within forty-eight hours. When the ultimatum was not, in the eyes of the Austrians, fully complied with ... , Austria mobilized and declared war on Serbia. Though this appears to be the cause of the war, it is a far too narrow a view of the events that took place. Germany's role, as we...

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... as the "chancellor dictatorship" (1883 - 1887), Bismarck developed a common currency, a central bank, administrative reforms, and a single code of commercial and civil German law. He also instituted a programme of social reform which, despite violent opposition, saw a workers compensation programme for sickness, accident and old age insurance, limited woman and child labour and established maximum working hours. Particulars ... of this social security system included employee, employer and government contributions. Bismarck's revolutionary economic policy resulted in the rapid expansion ...

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... in Europe which started in 1914 and lasted until 1918. It was a modern war with aeroplanes, machine guns and other deadly weapons such as the tank. During this period of time, millions of soldiers were killed, various advancements were made in military technology, and a wide range of different ... gases. There were three main types of gases (mustard, chloropicrin and prussicpacid). However, the mustard gas was the most brutal biological weapon used in the trenches. This gas was odourless and although it took 12 hours to take effect, it remained active for several weeks and could take up ...

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... in Europe which started in 1914 and lasted until 1918. It was a modern war with aeroplanes, machine guns and other deadly weapons such as the tank. During this period of time, millions of soldiers were killed, various advancements were made in military technology, and a wide range of different ... gases. There were three main types of gases (mustard, chloropicrin and prussicpacid). However, the mustard gas was the most brutal biological weapon used in the trenches. This gas was odourless and although it took 12 hours to take effect, it remained active for several weeks and could take up ...

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... battles. When soldier got a wound located in his arm or foot, the treatment centre would most likely cut it off. However, during the Second World War, modern technology medical treatment had made a remarkable turn around. The new technology was so advanced, that doctors could perform surgery in less than a couple of hours saving many soldiers lives, who would likely have died in ... the previous war. The wounded individuals were also treated with antibacterial drugs and antibiotics, for quicker relief and pain free within days. " a hypothetical wound that 9 of 10 times would have killed...

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... everybody's minds. Today, the majority of parent's work and watching television is considered by most good quality family time. It's a time where families catch up on each other's lives, and are entertained without gaining the expense of going out to a movie. The television also doubles as an inexpensive babysitter. Children keep their eyes glued for hours on end to the magical box. Not only ... , is the television an inexpensive baby sitter it's educational, with programs such as Sesame Street giving children opportunity to ... learn at home through imagery in an entertaining way. Whil...

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... production. Products were made quicker and in large quantities thus making them cheaper and much more affordable to the American public. As a result of mass production, workers' wages increased by 8 percent between 1923 and 1929, Republicans lowered the income tax, and workers had less work hours (The National Experience). If more Americans had more money and more time on their hands, then they would ... spend it on the latest products such as radios, refrigerators, washing machines, etc., thus increasing consumerism. The assembly line dropped the cost of a Model T from $850 in 1908, to ...

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... examiner of political ideologies ("Andrew Heywood "). Heywood states the socialism was closely linked to the development of the industrial workers. Some of the features of industrialism were of workers who suffered through poverty, long work hours with no pay or benefits, and degradation of human life. The laissez faire policies of the early nineteenth centuries gave capitalist owners the freedom to determine how long work days would be ... and how much they would pay their workers. This allowed resulted in the easy exploitation of workers for increased profit. From there ... ...

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... most of Europe consolidating earlier industrialization, extending it to previously untouched areas. The shift to machine production became permanent; steam power and other forms of energy were harnessed; and more sophisticated tools introduced. Unions developed and social legislation was passed, especially laws dealing with hours and conditions of labor and protection of woman and children. In more advanced ... industrial areas, the workplace changed, with woman and children being pused out by unskilled male labor. During the second sput, which occured after the Great Depression of 1873...

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... superiors and there desire to attach themselves to Serbia and create an independent state to be known as Yugoslavia, or "The Land of the South Slavs." This was seen as the reason for the assassination of Ferdinand and his wife. The assassination gave Austria-Hungary the ideal excuse to declare war against Serbia. An ultimatum was issued to Serbia stating that it must agree to all ... terms described in the ultimatum in order to avoid war. Austria-Hungary gave Serbia 48 hours to reply and clearly stated that all terms must ... be met and complied with. Serbia agreed to all terms of the ...

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... coupons for restricted foods. In 1939 sixty percent of food eaten by British people came from overseas so the war put a huge strain on supplies of food. During this time many food items were in short supply, consequently shoppers were forced to spend hours in queues hopeful for something unusual such as fish. "Sometimes you could get fish but it was always ... nine out of ten single women had either joined forces in a non-fighting roles or were working in factories. It was the mass production from factories on the home front that enabled the Allies to win the war. " . The Americans kept...

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