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    Lady In A Machine Shop

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    shop,” it started off telling us about Margaret’s childhood. She wasn’t your normal girl that played with dolls or sat in the house all day. She’s created a lot of different machines. Two machines that she invented were a safety machine for cotton mills, and the second one was a machine that made flat bottom paper bags. Growing up Margaret had two little brothers that she loved making things for. She made a lot of different things like sleds. She never really like playing with dolls

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    From the beginning of the 1700s’ to the early 1900s’ where the road of industrialization came to a halt. There has come times of the success and the times of defeat. Which contributed to the effects on the economic and social life of the people of England. These results have been deciphered from a variety of perspectives, observing conditions in industrial cities at the time. Using historical text prior to; can interpret the industrialization revolution to have constructed a more positive impact

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    factories all night, slaving over boiling cauldrons of metal and that during the day, they normally are in a state of drunkenness and infamy. There is smoke coming from the chimneys of the iron- foundries, which is where all the smoke and fog came from. The unnamed narrator goes on to describe a story about life and about one man in particular. This man was a furnace-

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    Working at the paper bag plant and the cotton mill in Massachusetts had influenced Margaret Knight to become who she is. Working at the paper bag plant had help start her career because she had saw something where someone got hurt so she decided that creating a device to prevent that accident for the future people while working. When Margaret Knight first entered the field they were famous for, she left school to work at the cotton mills with her siblings. While she was working there at the

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    Industrial Revolution producing the steel to make machinery and transportation possible. Carnegie built his empire from cost control, low prices, low profits, and high volume to make himself the richest man in the world. In his philanthropic stage of life, he became the world's beneficiary to education, as he is responsible for the construction and donation of thousands of libraries in

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    Question 1 When I hear the word Gothicism I quickly think of vampires and the paranormal. Gothicism makes us feel uncomfortable and turns that sense of weird to outright strange. There are two literatures that really show this weird to strange comparison which is “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Ligeia” both of which were written by Edgar Allan Poe. Both works have this preternatural vibe which reminds me of the vampire diaries due to the line or link between the natural and the super natural

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    portion of feudalism where all parts of life were centered on the lord’s manor. This system involved a hierarchy of obligations that in exchange for land, you had to complete labor. This allowed the lord of the land to have governmental power which included the maintenance of a court. The lord’s land covered a few miles of land. Most lord’s owned a manor house, a church, and workshops. Streams would pass through villages and would provide fish, while the mill was used for grinding

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    1880 To 1860 Essay

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    electricity, Public school’s public health services or even telephones. From 1880 to the 1900’s the south started building railroads and from 1880 to 1890 they doubled their tracks. They also began producing iron and steel, while also starting their own set of goods like timber mills, tobacco and textile mills. In the South a weak agricultural economy, and a high rural birthrate decreased wages severely. low wages undermined the southern economy in multiple ways. The poorly paid workers did not buy much or

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    The Industrial Revolution which began in England in the late 1700’s had as wide range of positive and negative effects on the economic and social life of the people of England. Not all the information that have been written down about the Industrial Revolution is extremely correct, it is varied on truth, false, and assumptions. The Industrial Revolution had more of a positive impact on England than a negative effect.         Not all the information written down about children during the Industrial

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    Colonial City

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    Colonial city and industrial life was very important to the American Colonies in the 17th and 18th century. Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Charleston, as key trading centers, were very busy before, during and after the war. These were a major part of the colonies. Boston was one of the largest port cities. Boston had two busy coffee houses in addition to northern and southern mail posts. At the bottom of its piers, docks were 1800 to 2000 feet long which allowed them to bring in bigger ships

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