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    The turn of the century changed everything all over the world. The Industrial Revolution began in the late 18th and 19th centuries and was a period of significant economic development marked by the introduction of power-driven machinery. The steam engine was use to run machinery. Before this time‚ a few machines were use to harness nature such as the wind and watermills‚ humans‚ and animals were depended upon as a source of power. Much like the Agricultural Revolution‚ the Industrial Revolution

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    Not only did Louis Armstrong changed the way music is‚ but Armstrong owned the definition of perseverance. “Musicians don’t retire; they stop when there’s no more music in them.”In this quote‚ Louis Armstrong is defining what he believes in. He is saying that you or anybody can’t quit. That you stop when you don’t believe in yourself.You stop when you lose hope in yourself to succeed. Louis Armstrong is a “Game Changer” because not only is he changing Jazz‚ but he is also changing how musicians

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    inventor. Gates dropped out of college and co-founded a company in 1976‚ called Microsoft with his good friend Paul Allen. This company later became the largest PC software company on earth. Gates had many positions during his career at Microsoft. He was CEO‚ chairman‚ and chief software architect. Microsoft had a big break in 1980 when the company IBM came up to them for a new operating system for all of the new computers. Microsoft became one of the main software manufacturing companies‚ just

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    of eight but became known to the world in the late 1950s. He graduated high school when he was sixteen years old and enrolled in the Carnegie Institute of Technology. Andy Warhol became a commercial illustrator‚ in 1949‚ the same year he moved to New York. He worked for well-known magazines like The New Yorker‚ Vogue‚ etc. He won awards like the American Institute of Graphics Art with his out of the ordinary advertisement. Andy Warhol became not only a painter‚ he was also a filmmaker‚ author‚ director

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    How Star Wars Changed the World George Lucas was a young Hollywood director in the mid-1970s that had the opportunity from 20th Century Fox after his hit movie American Graffiti to create his own original space adventure movie that will soon be known as Star Wars. It has been forty years since Lucas has transported us to a “Galaxy Far‚ Far away.” The huge blockbuster franchise movie that we all know as Star Wars has truly changed the film industry‚ special effects and pop culture with just a draw

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    era (1492-1750)‚ Africa and the Atlantic World were affected by Western Europe both socially and economically because of the exploration by the Europeans during the Age of Exploration‚ leading to a shift in their government to autonomous states and a desire to create trade growth. While Christianity and patriarchal views spread through the Columbian Exchange‚ slavery within triangular trade created a change in demographics in both Africa and the Atlantic World because of the movement of natives to European

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    Changing the World Almost every movie one watches nowadays contains a female character. Now‚ look at that female. Majority of the time‚ she has some kind of sexual appeal to her. That sexual appeal was make big by Marilyn Monroe. Known as one of the most photographed‚ most famous‚ and most misunderstood Hollywood actress of all time‚ Monroe changed Hollywood and set the bar high for the upcoming actresses. Marilyn Monroe not only changed Hollywood‚ but also changed the world through her

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    The industrial revolution transformed the world in many ways. With the discovery of raw materials such as coal used to fuel the steam engine and the mechanized of industry‚ people were able to move away from agriculture and lives were forever changed. During this time‚ a number of great inventions and technological breakthroughs were discovered. One was the invention of the Morse code created by Samuel Morse in the 1830s. While the invention impacted the world in a number of ways‚ two of the most important

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    Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt is the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She is one of the most powerful women in the world. Eleanor dramatically changed the role of the first lady. She did not just content to stay in the background and handle domestic matters‚ she showed the world that the first lady was an important part of American politics. She was a leader in her own right and involved in numerous humanitarian causes throughout her life. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in a political

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    Massachusetts to go to Harvard‚ he divorced and left Barack and his mother alone. After becoming an honor student in his schools‚ he went to multiple colleges and got his degree in political science. After that‚ he changed the world. Barack Obama has made so many positive impacts in the world including becoming the first ‘colored’ president of the United States: 44th President overall and he created many laws and regulations that not just helped the people‚ country‚ allies‚ but

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