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    The history of the education system Why did it take the industrial revolution before the government intervened and made education compulsory? It took the industrial revolution before education was made compulsory because the revolution highlighted the issues of child labour and many different child labour protection acts were passed. These acts led to an alternative action of education for children instead and so the education act of 1870 was passed which gave education to all classes. How

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    Porchia Cotton April 3‚ 2014 Speech120 MWF 7:00-7:50 Speech #3 List 5 people you admire and briefly explain why: 1.) First and foremost I admire my older sister Audrey Cotton‚ who is a perfect role model for me I would say. She’s about to graduate from nursing school to become a registered nurse with a bachelor’s degree. I’ve watched her struggle‚ and she’s come a long way. This is who I admire the most out of anybody she is showing me the best route go and that’s what I appreciate and admire

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    ondon is the capital of the United Kingdom. It ranks as one of the world?s most historic cities‚ tracing its roots back nearly 2000 years. London has long been a great world port and trading center. The port of London consists of two huge docks and 43 miles of wharves along the Thames River. London also has a remarkable transportation system. Expressways‚ and underground and surface railways carry more than one million commuters between the outlying areas and central London each workday. More than

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    In the 1850s‚ Southern America produced approximately seventy percent of the world’s cotton. However‚ this production would not have been possible if it wasn’t for the invention of the Cotton Gin. Since he was little‚ Eli Whitney‚ developed a passion towards being an inventor. He frequently worked in his father’s workshop and there he would take things apart and would put them back together. At the age of 24‚ he enrolled in college in order to become a lawyer. It was not long after when he found

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    The Benefits of the Cotton Gin The cotton gin was invented in 1793 by Eli Whitney to clean cotton fibers from the seeds (cotton gin). It was an invention created to reduce work and make cotton production quicker (Cotton Gin). It caused great reduction in the time it took to clean cotton. The cotton gin could drastically reduce the time it took to clean the cotton fibers. “…the cotton gin was a machine that could clean the seeds from 50 pounds of cotton in one day‚ whereas previously a laborer

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    Penguin Random House LLC of New York City published Empire of Cotton‚ written by Harvard University Professor Sven Beckert‚ in 2014. And is vivid and penetrating nonfiction in which the author creates a definitive history of how cotton came to shape the contemporary world‚ global capitalism and political economies. The history of cotton dates back 5‚000 years and was crucial to economies of many ancient civilizations. However‚ Beckert focuses the majority of his attention to our last 250 years. Crossing

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    The Cotton On Group began in 1991 with one store in Geelong‚ Victoria. Since the time that the humble beginnings‚ The Cotton On Group has immediately advanced into a certified style end of the line gloating 600 stores and 4500 workers with Nigel Austin as the Managing Director of Cotton On. Despite the fact that The Cotton On Group began with the one store in Geelong‚ Victoria‚ it was then extended with a couple of more different stores in alternate parts of Australia. Step by step‚ the

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    Cotton Gin In the late 1700’s many people were trying to figure out a way to remove the seeds from cotton because it was very time consuming and “labor was a slow [and] expensive process” (Shectman 65). In the 1740’s the people of India had created a machine called the churka (a sankrit word for a jerking motion) that separated the cotton seeds from the clean fiber. “The cotton was fed through the dual rollers‚ which grabbed the fiber tightly and pinched free the seeds. The seeds were trapped by

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    the 1840s‚and those were the years that Irish immigration peaked.(I wonder why?) Black workers oftentimes had it worse than slaves did. This is because when the owner bought a slave‚ they did not want to lose money by their death‚so they would help them out.Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold‚ and are forced to work.[1] Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture‚ purchase or birth‚ and deprived of the right to leave‚ to refuse

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    19 Pakistan Economic and Social Review Volume XLIV‚ No. 1 (Summer 2006)‚ pp. 19-38 CONTRACT FARMING IN PUNJAB An Analysis of Problems‚ Challenges and Opportunities SHARANJIT S. DHILLON and NAVCHETAN SINGH* Abstract. Private sector participation in agriculture is envisaged through promotion of contract farming and land leasing arrangements‚ which will accelerate the technology transfer process and bring more cash inflows to the cash strapped farm sector. In this paper‚ an effort has been made

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