produced products that has since been growing and has provided a constant challenge since the 19th century where Morris and Ruskin first established the Arts and Craft Movement. Craft being dead During that period of time, in the age of industrialisation, Morris william wanted to bridge a gap between the beautiful yet useless craft and the ugly but useful factory object in traditional craftsmanship. By the end of the 19th century Craft has influenced various fields which include metalwork, ceramics
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Commentaire : Les ambitions du Japon au début du XXe siècle Au XXe siècle, le Japon a assisté une transformation en puissance de pays industrialisés, avec une armée moderne et une marine qui était l'un des plus grands dans le monde. Cette nouvelle puissance a conduit le Japon à la victoire contre la Chine et la Russie, et à l'occupation de Taiwan et de la Corée. L'extrait proposé est tiré d'un essai intitulé Sous le signe du dragon, rédigé par Paul Claudel, daté de 1909 et publié en 1948
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How does George Eliot present the character of Godfrey Cass in ‘Silas Marner’ in comparison with characters from a range of short stories? Eliot presents the character of Godfrey as a total moral coward and shows he has a lack of resolution. He is ironically described as ‘fine, open-faced, good natured’ by the approving villagers when he already has much to hide. He goes through life acting on impulses and hoping luck will save him from the results of his actions. In this way he has secretly
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Brain Drain: Why People Leave their Motherland? (Implications for the Developed and Developing Economies) ‘Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country?’ – John F. Kennedy, Former US President. The need to migrate to another place from where you are is a old habit of the human race. The migration of people from one country to another has both good and bad effects. Good effects on the country that they are migrating to and a bad effect of on the country
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Secularisation is the idea that religion is going into decline – the process of becoming less religious in terms of sacred, faith and belief. Some sociologists believe that secularisation is occurring in one form or another and their aim is to explore and explain the process of secularisation, others are uncertain as to whether secularisation is happening, and the rest see a transformation to a different type of religious practise happening, like an evolution of religion, rather than a decline in
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INTRODUCTION Fifty years of ever-broadening commerce! Fifty years of ever- brightening science! Fifty years of ever-widening Empire! (Lord Tennyson, On the Jubilee of Queen Victoria) The age that followed the Romantic Age
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functionalists and postmodernist. Postmodernist are the only theory which is applicable to today’s world. Postmodernists believe that age inequalities have been blurred due to various explanations. Jane Pilcher states that modernity and industrialisation are responsible for the low status of both young and old within society, as they have both been excluded from the workplace. The boundaries are becoming now blurred however, people are not acting in the way that they are expected to. Stages in
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world rose dramatically. Increase in share of intra-reginal trade in Asia showed shift in supply chain and growing regional interdependence strengthened after the Asian Financial Crisis. Asia has become a strong commodity consumer due to industrialisation and urbanisation, with
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the housing growth was 15% and last but not least Bradford the population there was 78% and the housing growth rate was 12% First public Health Act 1848 The first public health act stated that the rapid growth of towns and cities due the industrialisation and the grown of the industries. This is also to do with the environment around them, this is also to do with where they live and where the medical care is. The act states that the year of 1848 the central of health was created and then stopped
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Daniel Walker (1554) What was the short term significance of World War One for Britain’s Empire in India? The First World War (WW1) would prove to embody the climax of British colonial ideologies and strengthen India’s international profile as an evolving nation. The Indian contribution to the war was extraordinary and Gandhi’s conscription efforts for the British Army was based upon the premise of fighting for ‘the good and glory of human civilisation’ – a contrasting attitude to the one displayed
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