founding member and leader of the futurist movement. He was influenced by the divisionist theories of Giacoma Balla and he had a great in the interaction of visual art and psychology. He was technically inventive and focused on the effects of industrialisation. He was very strict when it came to aesthetic considerations and this is what ultimately led him to become a great futurist painter and sculptor. Examples of the beauty of his colours can be seen in his paintings‚ "the city rises" 1910-11 and
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Functionalists believe that society is based on a shared value consensus; this is a set of shared norms and values into which society socialises its members. This enables society to work harmoniously and able to meet its needs and goals. Functionalists believe that the family is regarded as a basic building block of society. George Murdoch (1949) argues that the family performs four essential functions to meet the needs of society and its members. These functions are; economic needs‚ reproduction
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exceeded expectations. Global growth expected to average 4% in 2011 and 2012. Its change of fortune derives from surging market prices of iron ore‚ copper‚ coal and aluminium and a sharp resurgence of China-led demand for the raw materials of industrialisation. * Emerging technologies to change the Metal &
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Worksheet 3 1) Firstly they agreed that important changes brought about by revolution had to be preserved. Secondly‚ at a fundamental level‚ all of the contenders believed that history was moving towards a socialist and then a communist society. Thirdly‚ the contenders were passionate believers of that one day the revolution would spread to Europe and then to the whole world. 2) ‘Leninism’ meant the ideas of Lenin. The first form of Leninism focused on Lenin’s policies during the civil war of 1918-1921
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conglomerates‚ which now dominate the South Korean economy constitute a unique type of business enterprise in the development worldwide of capitalist economies. With the support of a developmentalist state‚ the chaebol played a central role in rapid industrialisation of the South Korean economy‚ which in turn facilitated the transformation of what were originally small‚ family capitalist enterprises in the late 1940s‚ to large scale industrial enterprises in the 1990s. The chaebol employed aggressive diversification
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Victoria and the outbreak of World War One‚ Britain stood in a period of economic transition. There are several observations on whom or what caused the rise and fall of the cotton industry. The late 1840s saw Britain enter into a second phase of industrialisation. The railway network was almost complete‚ and this mode of transportation appeared to stimulate the growth of the coal‚ iron‚ steel and engineering industries. Together with the cotton industry‚ they began to flourish and grew at a rapid pace
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revolution’ from the upper classes filtered down to the middle and lower classes None of these economic changes were critical enough to create an industrial revolution but without this new‚ solid economic platform that they had by 1750‚ British industrialisation would have taken much longer than it did. Economic Growth after 1750: The century following 1750 is named as the birth period of industrial Britain The invention of machines‚ such as the spinning jenny. The use of steam and the creation
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Background With the growing and rising economies‚ located in the southern hemisphere Australia and China are home to billions of citizens. Australia is known to be the sixth largest nation in the world and the only nation to govern an entire continent and its outlying islands. On the other hand‚ China holds 20% of the world’s population‚ and populates the most people in the world. When comparing the growing economies of Australia and China‚ there are many aspects to consider including; economic
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leadership and a brief power struggle‚ Joseph Stalin came to power in the late 1920s. Stalin committed the state ideology to Marxism–Leninism and a centralised planned economy was initiated. As a result‚ the country underwent a period of rapid industrialisation and collectivisation which laid the basis for its later war effort and dominance after World War II.[4][4] However‚ Stalin repressed both Communist Party members and elements of the population through his authoritarian rule. During World
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Explain why the NEP was unpopular with many communists in the 1920’s USSR. The NEP‚ abbreviation for the ‘New Economic Policy’‚ was a number of policies deployed by Vladimir Lenin to improve the conditions of post war USSR. The NEP replaced the system of War Communism which was used between 1918 and 1921. The main motive for the War Communism policy was to support and supply the Red Army with food and weapons during the Russian Civil War. However‚ after the war the country was in turmoil and the
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