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    Effects of Industrialization and the Conditions of the Working Class in England In the middle of the 19th century the industrial revolution was flourishing in England. With all of the advancements in machinery there would be new opportunities and drawbacks for citizens. Many would leave their lives on the farms and work in factories with unsafe settings. Karl Marx felt that the new advancements in society were able to support the fourth stage of human development, Communism. Along

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    Capitalism is defined as economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods. Also Capitalism discouraged local productuction and encourages unregulated growth of gigantic corporation that exploit local labor for profits elsewhere. And last, capitalism encourages corruption, economic disparity, individualism, hyper - competitiveness, and consumerism. The cause and effect of capitalism, is to allow rich people to invest their money in projects and make more money.

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    Despite this supernatural description, fate is depicted as being inevitably natural. Fate, or providence, is a paradox of both the natural and supernatural. Allusions to the changing of the seasons and the natural cycle of life portray fate as belonging to nature. Biblical allusions associate Tess’s fate to pagan worship. In chapter eleven, the narrator questions the location of Tess’s guardian angel (Hardy.80). The diction used in this scene almost identically matches the language used in 1 Kings

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    Theme Of Oliver Twist

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    The word ' money ' sums up a theme that Dickens has been preoccupied with in many of his novels . Dickens has studied the nineteenth century commercially-oriented England and observed the corrupting influence of money on members and deplorably , suggesting how material possessions have become the criterion of evaluating a human being . Dickens's critics are well aware of this devastating influence . Humphry House confidently tells us that Dickens's plots and characters are , " constructed round

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    on by the tyranny of a motherland, once triumphant in a fight for freedom, became segregated by principle. Power and greed fueled a dichotomy between color and people which repercussions' lingered in the air of America for the better part of two centuries, and quite possibly more to come. The civil war has left its mark on American society, and its damage is still crippling a social zeitgeist that has the potential to flourish in harmonic

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    However, this was accounted by many of the cities in the New England and Middle states, but with the connection of the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts by railroads, urbanization increased extensively throughout western United States. In addition, the Homestead Act in 1862 influenced many Americans to settle out in the

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    eighteenth century. In her book Pride and Prejudice, originally published in 1813, Jane faces society’s problems head on with her incredible use of literary elements like metaphors and satire, her wonderful use of setting to tell a story and her skillful use of point of view to portray the untold story of the eighteenth century societal problems. Jane uses her book, Pride and Prejudice to address the economic, political, feminist, sociological, and philosophical themes of the century through humorous

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    The nineteenth century was the beginning of the age of exploration, the age of the Renaissance, the age of discovery etc. Considered to be one of the most extraordinary writers of her time, Charlotte Bronte was born the 21 April 1816 in Yorkshire, England. Before the novel Jane Eyre Bronte worked as a teacher and governess, then after ,she collaborated on a book with her two sisters, Emily and Anne. In 1847, Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre was published and considered a classic of western literature.

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    In the 18th century India represented one of the world’s most important manufacturing centres. In fact, it supplied about twenty-five percent of world’s industrial output, and an even larger percent of world textile exports. When Britain colonized India it caused the decline of the country’s economy and, as it is argued by Allen (2011), by the end the 19th century Indian shares of the world’s manufacturing had dropped to one percent. India’s de-industrialization has been argued and analysed for years

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    Honors DBQ During the 19th century the growth of Manchester led to an increase in population. The population increased from 18,000 in 1750 to over 300,000 by the census of 1851. The population increase triggered an increase in pollution. Different perspectives of the Industrial Revolution took on varied opinions of what was best in Manchester in terms of pollution, population, working conditions of factories. Although the overall outcomes that came from the growth of Manchester came with negative

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