This transition is known as the Industrial Revolution and affected not only the means of production within society but the way in which people lived their lives. ... After reading the chapter on the Industrial Revolution in World History in Brief,1 I think that the major social problem was the negative impact of industrialization on the lives of the working-class families. ... "5 This was a huge contrast to the workers' lives that existed before industrialism where people worked collectively to provide for the whole and labor was distributed according to traditional roles. I feel ...

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Marx further explains his concept of materialism.It means the material base of human living activities.Also, it is a way of living, a life process. Human beings' thinking and politics, law, religion, art, science are reflected in their life activities.This is why Marx emphasizes that "life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life" Furthermore, he points out that human beings are social because they cannot live without interaction with other people; they cannot be isolated from the society. ... Since they are living human individuals, they need eating, drink...

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This might be because they are unable to distinguish the difference between their lives under the Tsar (Mr.Jones) and their lives under Stalin. ... Benjamin is in fact, the only one able to remember his whole life, even after the other animals have completely forgotten their past lives. Orwell even writes: "Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life." ...

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But I lived most of my life in Marceline, Missouri. ... The way I choose how to live my life is my decision and nobody else's. ... Us as free people should not have every aspect of our lives dictated for us. ... If The Communist Party were in control then every single American are technically being told how to live their lives, sort of like pets. ... But overall McCarthyism was terrible and my life is better without it....

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With a voice in the government now, the working class could push for more reforms to make their lives even better. ... As industrialization continued, workers began to protest the harsh conditions of industrial life. ... The working class lived happier and more contented lives after the reforms. ... Advances in medicine also helped ensure healthier and longer lives. Would a revolution among the working class have occurred if the necessary improvements in life had not taken place? ...

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A man who lived his life to the fullest up until the very last breath of his happily fulfilled life. Every Tuesday Morrie Swartz and his ex student Mitch Albom would meet and take part in life's greatest classes, Morrie would teach him of what is really important in life. ... Capitalist values create people to have selfish and empty lives and eventually leave you open to being hurt. ... Mitch's values are dominant values in the capital society in which he lives. ... It is about making a difference in other peoples lives by helping them to embrace what matters in life. ...

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Their futures mainly depended on the men in their lives and how successful they were. ... Elizabeth is poor and lives in a dirty, rat infested home while Emily lives in a big house with a servant to wait on her hand and foot. ... It all mostly depended on the men in their lives. ... As you see, the social class of a person, especially women in earlier days, played a very significant role in a person's life. For them, more often then not there was only one path to choose from in the road of life. ...

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It is even in the schools and in our everyday lives. ... The caste system was orginally started by the Hinduism culture and their beliefs, but now has developed and effects all Indians lives. The people are ranked by qualities about them or their way of life. ...

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Second, there is your own personal preferences and planning your own life. ... Also, Mill could say that conformity hurts society as well as the individual in the minority, because in conformity people lose out on possible ways of approaching life and that people will stop learning from one another, to avoid social stagnation requires a compromise between conflicting ways of life, and in communism, everyone would have the same basic way of life. ... People should use their capabilities to the fullest extent and they should not try to keep others from doing with their lives what they wish. M...

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George Orwell's characters come into similarities with Leon Trotsky's life events. ... (Rosenberg) Both of these leading figures have many differences with Orwell's book but the outline of both of the lives of Winston, Big Brother also have many similarities with the life of Trotsky. ...

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"As individuals express their life, so they are. ... Mill is of the strong opinion that people are in control of their lives, and have the right to make life choices, and pursue whatever life paths they wish. ... He has a conscious life activity. ... (Porter/Marx, p549) People give into materialism, and abandon the reality and truths in their lives. ... Marx feels that society as a collective is the determining means for individual's lives and well being. ...

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According to Ewen, industrial production has provided people with many opportunities to better their lives. ... Ewen understands that "conflict between those who profited from the increasingly mechanized and consolidated means of production, and those whose lives, labors, and energies were being consumed in service" (187). ... This new lifestyle adopted by the middle class exposed consumptions to be a bundle of "loneliness and emptiness" which was beginning to be casted as "common in their accounts of everyday life" (Ewen 196). ... Morgan goes on to state, &quo...

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Realized the toll the war took on lives. With that realization came the understanding that it was the largely accepted theory of rational thinking that created the weapons that destroyed many lives, as a result, people??... most important questions in life couldn't be answered through science and reason. ...

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The characters have similar personalities as their real-life counterparts. ... His symbolism illustrates what life was like during the Russian Revolution. ... Stalin and Napoleon let religion into the lives of the animals and people for motivation and support. ... George Orwell expresses life of the Russian Revolution through his characters. ... Each character is very similar to its real-life counterpart. ...

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The belief that freedom and the American way of life and capitalism would cease to exist and die under a communist takeover. ... The American Society was affected by the Cold War in that the U.S. was trying to prove how great their life in this country was. ... TV shows depicted perfect families or the ideal life to lead with specific roles for each family member. ... This caught the publics" attention and blacklisted many innocent actors who could never get a job again, ruined many lives. ... Once actors were "Black Listed" they lost their lives. ...

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The unfair dystopian way the farm is run is due to the lack of absolute equality, and the presence of a singular social class would shift this dystopia to more of a utopian life. ... The Capitol takes advantage of the districts and makes them work long, dangerous hours for low wages, which means not that much food, while the Capitol lives life without doing work and hardly knowing what starvation even is. ... The lack of equality in the book leads to unfairness and dystopia, much like the real life situation from I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, with the unfairness towards women. ...

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By 1941, Russia under Stalin's rule was in a worse condition than before their plan for the betterment of quality of life for the whole had begun. ... The beginning of this speech is as follows: Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short. ... The life of an animal is misery and slavery: this is the plain truth. ... (Orwell 95) The situation continued to get worse and worse, until one day the animals witnessed the most horrifying scene of their short lives. ...

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Animal Farm was a best seller, making Orwell financially solvent for the first time in his life (Paley 25). ... But like the Russian revolution, the rebellion by the animals resulted in the lives of the animals being no better than before ("George Orwell"). ...

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The Revolution has given you at least twenty more years of life... ... This is not meant to imply, however, that The Communist Manifesto had only positive effects on people's lives, because that is not the case. ...

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Even during the layoff crisis, the women were still enjoying their own wealthy lives instead of helping others in need. ... This relates to the film because the golf women were only concerned with their own wealthy lives instead of lower class people who needed help. Fallows discusses how "the richer people become, the less they naturally stay in touch with the realities of life on the bottom" (357). ...

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McCarthyism and its Effects on America McCarthyism not only destroyed the lives and careers of many Americans but also the innocent image of the country. ... It was a threat on the American way of life, a bruise on the phrase "the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." ... Many Americans lives and careers were lost due to McCarthy and his accusations. ...

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He maintained Marx financially for the rest of his life, which allowed Marx to produce his theories. ... When depression leads to a sudden shift downward, the men will experience a deregulation in their lives. ... A rapid rise to the top may lead some people to be deprived of the social support which they need in their new life. Any rapid movement in the social structure that upsets previous life styles are has a chance to become an anomie. ... This high rate for officers can be accounted for by a military code of honor that enjoins a passive habit of obedience leading officers to underval...

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To those in other countries this progress was viewed as a life they could only imagine of. In result, vast amounts of immigrants migrated to America in search of this better life. ... As the gruesome effects of capitalism seeped into Jurgis and his family's lives they soon became divided and fell into its unsightly trap. ... It is at this point that Jurgis and his family are given a little hope that life may improve for them. ... There is not another book out there that is able to depict life from this time as well as Sinclair's The Jungle. ...

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The grapes of wrath are referring to the struggles of men when their dreams and lives were infringed upon, causing their anger and vengefulness. ... He purposely writes an ending that's both upsetting and pleasing because that's how life is, that's the beauty of the world we live in, but also the ugliness that we have to deal with. ... Of course, the tenants feel bad about this, however when it comes to losing money, there's suddenly no issue with threatening another man's life. ...

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" If money was the most important thing in life then why do we remember people like Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm x, and Gandhi, but we don't remember the richest person in the world 50 years ago. ... C.P.Ellis in "C.P.Ellis" by Studs Terkel talked about his own life of being a hardcore racist to joining hands with black people. ... Human lives are worth such little amount of money in the eyes of the slave-owners. ... We think that if we have very little money when we die, then we failed in life. ... How much more important is a person's life, or a person's job,...

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