... to investigate the industrial employment of women and children in the early 1840s. Inspectors visited mills, mines and shops taking evidence from workers to see ways in which the Industrial Revolution affected women and families. The sources, along with illustrations and a workforce chart, reveal the following points: Working conditions were often unsanitary and the work dangerous. Education suffered because of ... of the household chores. In Japan and England a woman could even take over her husband's business if he died. Before the Industrial Revolution people lived in feudalism. The...

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• Grade Level: High School

History Coursework - World War One 1) Sources A, B and C are war recruitment posters published by various governments with the aim of influencing more people to volunteer for armed service in the war. Sources A and B are an earlier type of source, depending on the patriotic fervour that swept Britain at the war's outset, portraying enlistment as a duty to the country and empire. The posters themselves being of an accusatory nature, demanding from the reader "What did you do in the war?" and that they should "Go!", the fighting taking a crusade-like facade in which the only way to please paren...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... ideal religious ideas of the virtue of men, this background makes up the environment of revolutionary thinking. Partly it was the same authors who influenced not only the American revolution but also the French and the Irish. It were great philosophers like Macchievelli, especially important in France where the idea of power sharing was still not even to a certain extent reality like ... made the Irish demand their rightful status as an independent nation linked with Britain and under a common crown. Finally it was the French revolution, the fall of the Bastille, that caused the disturb...

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... 's twin aims were parliamentary reform and the unification of Protestants and Catholics into one nation. It's radical ideas were spurred on by the French Revolution of 1789 which demonstrated how the will of the people could triumph in seemingly impossible circumstances. The United Irishmen sought to provide this will ... feelings of resentment, from Catholics, and therefore the Defenders who felt they had much to gain from a radical conspiracy. And, as the French Revolution continued, and the United Irishmen became frustrated in their attempts to bring about reform in parliament, then ...

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... of reform in many pieces of his works. Shelley's motivation that created his characters and political attitude is that he experienced first-hand the French Revolution. This allowed him to ponder many different situations, and determine deep philosophical views. It had been said that Shelley had been, from his ... youth, the victim of the state of feeling inspired by the French Revolution. This is the reason why he wanted to alleviate the evils of those systems from which he had himself suffered for others. Therefore, as ... fight at all. Hope roused the people to free themselves from ...

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... tells of the major events of his life and many of his important scientific and political ideas, but the work does not discuss the American Revolution, in which Franklin was a major participant. William Franklin - Benjamin's son and royal governor of New Jersey in 1771 when Ben begins writing ... further into adulthood, Franklin takes up more political issues, advocating publicly the education of women, particularly in accounting. He flourishes intellectually, learning French, Italian, Spanish and Latin, and he advocates that Latin be taught in schools as the last language rather than the ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... Carolinas without being killed off by disease. 6. Charles Town attracted many aristocrats, and it developed into a diverse community as it allowed French Protestants to take refuge. This was to the dismay of the Catholic Spaniards in Florida. They attacked the border of the Carolinas, but ... the last of the 13 colonies. The colony was designed to protect the lucrative Carolinas from the resentful Spaniards in Florida and the French in Louisiana. Georgia received financial support from Britain when Spain and England were at war. 2. Georgia was also designed to house people ... Four colon...

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... Victoria in 1901, the Victorian Age came to a close, and it was time for a new era and new thoughts to emerge. The industrial revolution started the bringing of change, but by the mid-1910s much of the change was negative. In addition to this social transition, the outbreak of ... patriotic speech about fighting for the fatherland. According to David Dowling, many Europeans went off to war to escape the harsh realities of the industrial revolution "to discover comradeship and the satisfaction of physical labor and risk- (8). Unfortunately, the young soldiers soon found out that war was ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School