Globalization has had an astonishing impact on the modern world. It has allowed nations to connect with other nations through mediums such as the internet‚ fax machines‚ music and television. Globalization has also encouraged companies to take advantage of the knowledge and talents of people all over the world. Outsourcing has created thousands of job opportunities for developing nations. The flow of income into developing countries has allowed people to increase their standard of living (Friedman
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Prohibition During the beginning of the roaring 1920’s‚ the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. constitution banned the manufacture‚ transportation‚ and sale of intoxicating liquors. It became known as the “Prohibition” era. The Prohibition era left a long lasting effect on the nation still to this day. Banning the sales of liquor manufacture‚ transportation‚ and sales created large organized crime/gang activity in the big cities across the United States. Prohibition was difficult to
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variety of different people‚ and hosts many diverse cultures. For instance‚ in the 1920’s not all Canadians were free from discrimination‚ and although most people were embracing this time of prosperity with new inventions and exciting lifestyles‚ others‚ such as the Indigenous peoples of Canada‚ were struggling to avoid the the overbearing push of extreme cultural discrimination. The residential schooling system isolated children from their culture‚ causing great humiliation and pain. For example‚
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of time people worked. Before 1860‚ people didn’t have an abundant amount of free time. This is because in 1860 the normal work week averaged an incredible 66 hours (“39b. Sports and leisure”)! By the 1920s the work week had decreased 26 hours‚ putting the average workweek at 40 hours. In the 1920’s Henry Ford‚ in addition to his creation of the assembly line‚ invented the 5 day 40 hour work week ("Ford Factory
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The 1920’s marked a great cultural transformation following WW1. Americans began embracing new forms of entertainment‚ which lead America to a great time of prosperity with business expansion and consumerism. The mass production of electricity helped to spur the mass production of automobiles‚ refrigerators‚ vacuum cleaners‚ radios and many other consumer products. Demand for the many new products made advertising necessary to entice buyers. The media of the radio helped spread the desire. One
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Sands 1 Clarice Sands Honors English 11 24 August 2011 Essay Judy Jones is the daughter of the Mortimer Jones. Glowing with vitality‚ Judy is casual‚ charming‚ and irresistible to many men‚ including Dexter. She is attractive‚ unattainable‚ and amusing‚ “entertained only by the gratification of her desires and by the direct exercise of her own charm” (Fitzgerald 4) . Judy does not seem to be fully aware of how manipulative she is toward the many suitors who pursue her—or if she is aware‚ she
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The 1920 ’s were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand and conservative values on the other. In fact‚ some historians refer to the twenties as the first decade of the twentieth century. What accounts for this observation? How did some people challenge those changes?A major fact that contributes to the twenties being seen as the first decade of the twentieth century is that modern attitudes about labor and consumption began to develop. The system of Fordism‚ or mass
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Did you know in the 1920’s two hundred and twenty seven gangsters were killed in the space of four years in Chicago(Chamernik‚ Mike). The period of Prohibition was very important part of America’s history . During Prohibition there was the mafia and their notorious characters such as Al Capone and the young Federal Bureau of Investigation. In the 1920’s during the period of prohibition a new kind of Gangsters came about which specialized in illegally transportation and selling of alcohol. Prohibition
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the poverty line of US $2‚000 per year per family. The Great Depression demarcates the conceptualization of the Roaring Twenties from the 1930s. The hopefulness in the wake of World War I that had initiated the Roaring Twenties gave way to the debilitating economic hardship of the later era. At the end of World War I‚ soldiers returned to the United States and Canada with money in their pockets and many new products on the market on which to spend it. At first‚ the recession of wartime production
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history‚ economics have changed drastically. The Roaring 20’s and Great Depression defined our country‚ The United States‚ and impacted everyone differently. The Roaring 20’s‚ otherwise known as the Age of Intolerance‚ was an age of social and political change. It was only the beginning of many inventions that sent American into the modern age. America was very prosperous during the 1920’s‚ but Europe was still feeling the devastation from World War I and fell into an economic decline. America was considered
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