... Britain falling behind other nations with its technology, he thinks there was an anti-technological bias in Victorian education. He claims that there was no reason why British technical and scientific education should have remained negligible, in a period when a wealth of rich amateur scientists and privately endowed research laboratories or practical experience in production clearly no longer compensated for the virtual ... ...

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... be argued to have contributed to the collapse of the European Empires was a new sense of nationalism in colonised territories. After World War II for example, with the defeat of the tyrannical and imperialistic enemy, Nazi Germany, nations like India gained a new outlook on their place within the world, ... all its major territories with nationalism emerging throughout this period. The French Union (the new name for the Empire) of 1946 is a clear example of desperation to keep the Empire together with its indissoluble unity.1 The matters of France, its overseas territories, and associated...

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... level than a slave. Franklin was a primary instigator in this ethos shown in various writings, which became widely quoted by other such motivational writers. His example of working hard and thus achieving was the first signs of the American Dream' we are all familiar with today. So to this end we might see ... trade at this point, in America) by twenty-four, soon using this to publish the Pennsylvania Gazette, which Franklin also edited. He used his own example ( A good example is the best sermon' ) to encourage others to work hard for the good of themselves as well as society, and to be...

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... for his Egyptian subjects. Napoleon himself disliked Islamic clothing, calling it "barbaric". However, this insistence upon Egyptians to become civilized according to French standards also led to positive impacts: for example, the first medical school was established shortly after the establishment of French rule by a young Frenchmen, A. B. Clot Bey and the creation of the Institut d Egypte encouraged the study of Egyptians ... ...

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