Blood And Oil Summary

The concept of the automobile was first started in England during Industrial Revolution in the Eighteenth Century. The automobiles were powered by steam engine. Later on, inventors like Henry Ford began thinking further ahead about gasoline engine to produce powerful cars because steam engine cars were not enjoyable because it takes almost ten to twenty minutes to heat up the engine before driving. On June 16, 1903 Henry Ford started the ford motor company (Wikipedia). Almost 500,000 workers were employed in the automobile industry (Nick). Following this many Americans found job opportunities to make their life better in other hand they help the economy and expedite the growth of the country. Soon Ford motor company produced automobiles that were affordable like the Model-T. ”By 1927 the Ford Motor Company had sold over 15.5 million Model Ts in the United States.” (My Life and Work 560). “Nearly half of all American families owned a car in 1929” (561). According to this cars become big part of American's life. Families can go visit family or friend living farther away. Workers drive their automobile to workplace and arrive on time. Overall automotives boost up the productivity and efficiency which led American people to live cozy life, besides give them more time to entertain and refresh

Henry Ford once said, “If everything is moving forward together then success takes care of itself”. Society has been revising how we live for centuries and still continues to do so. Naturally, we look for ways to improve humanity and make the world a better place to live. One critical contributor to the success of society in the 1920s was Henry Ford. Henry Ford’s ingenuity gave birth to something that would revolutionize society for years to come. This was the beginning of a new era. Henry Ford’s automobiles revolutionized civilization in many aspects. Innovations in technology and how it’s made impacted people’s lives in the 1920s and modern-day life.

According to Foner, “By 1960, 80 percent of American families owned at least one car, and 14 percent had two or more, nearly all manufactured in the United States”(). Many families owned automobiles, for it enabled long-distance vacationing and commuting to work, malls, etc. The ability for people to travel farther distances through means other than trains and trolleys stimulated a population shift from cities to suburbs. Approximately one third of Southern California, a mainly suburban area, was “paved over with roads and parking lots,” hence showing a transformation in American landscape. Infrastructure had to accommodate for cars as they became central to American life. Not only did the automobile alter the American landscape with a web of roads and freeways, but it also led to “the construction of motels, drive-in movie theaters, and roadside eating establishments”(). The automobile revolutionized America, as it allowed for individual mobility and private choice-a symbol of

The first way the automobile has changed American society is by creating more jobs. The automobile created jobs in fast food, city/highway construction, state patrol/police, convenience stores, gas stations and auto shops.1 Mechanics were beginning to earn a living fixing the inevitable problems.2 Also oil and steel were two well-established industries that received a serious boost by the demand for automobiles, which created tens of thousands of jobs.3 The steel industry and machine tool makers flourished as the automotive industry required ever increasing supplies and components for the engines, chassis and other metal fixtures of the cars.4 Other than the basics, every car needed a battery, head lights, interior upholstery and paint, which created new side businesses.5 The trucking industry sustained a period of growth as more good were shipped via truck.6 Experts estimate that by about 1980, two

During this time period, America saw a great change in its economy. After WWI, many citizens had extra time and extra money. Due to the surplus, they were eager to attain a variety of new products on the market. The greatest example of these technologies is the automobile. Not only did the car become affordable through the use of assembly lines, but it also gave the public an opportunity to travel and live in areas other than the city. Although there was not a great selection of cars back then, progressive advertisement strategies persuaded the public that they indeed needed a car.

In the early twentieth century, science and technology brought the automobile. In less than one hundred years, humans especially Americans have grown

” When suburban housing became plentiful, the need for automobiles increased rapidly and the need for motor fuel more than doubled between the years of 1945 and 1958. With the abundance of well-paying jobs, easy access to credit and loans, and a new market of consumer goods, America was turned into a “. . . land of

The Great Power involvement in the Middle East politics often creates and contributes to more conflicts and wars. The Middle East, a region described by Victor Israelyan as ‘one of sharp confrontation between the two superpowers unavoidably fell victim to such pressures.

War is always something awful that can have horrible consequences for the country where the war is and for the people that are living there. Steven Lyons has created a poster to comment on the Gulf War that was in 1990 between Iraq and Kuwait. In fact, the painter loves to work with nature, so it was important for him to create this poster, and he shared his piece of art about the war. He liked the nature of Kuwait; therefore, he wanted to stop the war. The war was called the Gulf War and there was much dissuasion why the war started. The two most real ones were “defending Kuwait’s freedom and the second one was defending oil resource” ("The Graphic Imperative."). As a result, in that time Kuwait had oil resources that were needed to be kept safe. Also, the president of Iraq wanted the oil and when he didn’t get it, he started to burn the oil. The poster was used in the demonstrations to stop the war and stop the oil burn. The full name of

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No blood for oil is a short story about the story of the clash of a mother and daughter over something that the daughter is passionate about but the mother also knows a lot about the trouble associated with the issue of war. Is war just an international issue? The purpose of Peter Mcfarlane’s text was to make the question the purpose of war. Also the influence one person on another, comparisons of one historical event to another and how perspectives changed.

The automobile has changed city life by speeding up the expansion of population into the suburbs. The suburban trend is emphasized by the fact that highway transportation encourages business and industry to move outward to places where land is cheaper, where access by car and truck is easier than in crowded cities, and where space is available for their one or two story structures. Better roads were constructed, which further increased travel throughout the nation. The trend is most noticeable in the United States but is rapidly appearing elsewhere in the world ( The Impact of the Automobile on the 20th Century). Also,The social effects of the automobile were as great as well. Freedom of choice encouraged many family vacations to places where they could not go in past centuries. Urban dwellers had the opportunity to rediscover new landscapes, just as rural dwellers were able to shop in towns and cities. Teenagers gained more independence and confidence with driving freedom (The Age of The

“The new technology of the motor car became central to the development of twentieth century cities in the US” (Roberts 2009 p53) and by 1914 the US production had exceeded that of the whole of Europe. What started out as a transportation toy for the very rich in 1900 became available to ordinary working class citizens by 1920 (Roberts 2009 p55). The technologies born of the Industrial Revolution changed forever the way people in the West lived and worked and economies strengthened as a new era dawned of mass production and consumerism. But in the 1920s, it was the availability of a mix of technologies and policies which facilitated the pace and scale of suburbanization and decentralization of the cities in both the US and Germany

The Middle East has been involved in turmoil for a quite some time. For years, many revolutions have taken place within the borders of the Middle Eastern area of the world. Outside influences, the United States of America in particular, have tried to decrease the turmoil with military and policy intervention. These efforts have not taken into account the needs of the people involved in the revolutions. Interventions from Western influences have also fueled the revolutions instead of decreasing the violence they cause. In the book, Lynch analyzes the issues that led to the Arab Spring in the Middle East and ends the book with an assessment of solutions to help develop the United States relations with the Middle East.

the conflict in the middle east between 1948-1973 was not purely fuelled by the interest and concerns of the superpowers but rather of a series of conflictual incidents, aswell as the main wars that took place from the years from 1948-1967 such as the: 1948 War, The Six Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur war of 1973. But although the conflict was not fuelled by the superpowers, the influence of the superpowers and the reach of the superpowers into the Middle East was evident in the years both prior and following 1978. But even despite the influence and interests of the superpowers between and including 1948-1967 being undeniably evident, the extent of this influence cannot be said to have “fuelled the conflict”.