Essays Tagged: "industrial centers"

Economic and Monetary Union of Europe. Includes personal comment

national economies alone won't be able to compete against countries like the US, Japan and the new industrial centers in East Asia. The biggest advantage of the European integration is the unique cha ...

(4 pages) 161 1 4.8 Dec/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government > European Union

Diseases In 19th Century America

rimitive, the average life expectancy was very low. Many epidemics occurred in the new and thriving industrial centers of America, where rapid urbanization had not provided for adequate sanitation or ... a severe diarrheal disease, kills over half of the people who contract it. It thrived in the newly industrialized and poorly sanitized urban cities of the 19th century. Advances in the control of thi ...

(4 pages) 106 2 4.8 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Effects of the first 5 Year Plan

there was a decline in working conditions and mood. The Five-Year Plans made Russia into an industrial powerhouse with dramatic increases in production, such as a five million ton increase in ... economic value of the Five-Year Plans; inflated numbers aside, there were indeed more factories and industrial centers being built. However, focus on production in heavy industry, i.e. capital goods l ...

(1 pages) 44 2 3.5 Nov/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

The Results of Stalin's first 5 Year Plan

ng heavy industries which could make the USSR develop faster, was needed in order to catch up other industrialized countries such as Germany, Japan, the US, the UK etc. He successfully increased coal ... sfully increased coal and steel production by six-fold and four-fold respectively. In addition, new industrial centers such as Magnitogorsk and Gorki were set up. Especially, Magnitogorsk, in south ea ...

(2 pages) 54 0 2.7 Nov/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

The Harlem Renaissance Period

tellectual and social freedom of the era attracted many Black Americans from the rural south to the industrial centers of the north - and especially to New York City. There was a variety of publicatio ... seemed a necessity due to the more and more intolerable hiring conditions for blacks in the south. Industrial expansion and jobs left open by whites now serving in WWI saw many blacks moving into the ...

(2 pages) 95 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History