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- 941: The History of Phamaceutical Compounding
- ... The advise they are now called on to give to their patients and doctors are drug action, the use of drugs in treating certain diseases and drug-induced side effects. Neighborhood Compounding Pharmacy The Industrial Revolution had a major effect on how the art of Pharmacy was practiced. The making of medications by hand almost became extinct when scientific developments through the use of machines developed. Phytochemistry and synthetic chemistry created new derivatives of old drugs and new chemical entities of medicinal value that strained the capacity of the individual pharmacy. The result of the Industrial revolution was Pharmaceutical Companies. These companies were founded to manufacture drugs in mass quantities. Pharmacies then worked with companies such as G.D. Searle, which by the late 1880's listed 400 fluid extracts, 150 elixirs, 100 syrups, 75 powdered extracts and 25 tinctures and other drug forms. With the increase number of pharmaceutical companies being formed patents were created during the industrial revolution. The industrialization of the medical industry had an impact in every aspect in the medical community. First, it led to the creation of new drugs. These new drugs could not be created by pharmacists ...
- 942: Colonial Impact On The Indian
- ... century was undoubtedly one of the main centers of world trade and industry. This status of India was completely destroyed under colonial times. Its beginnings can be traced to the after-math of the industrial Revolution in England. The machine made cloth of England began to replace the indigenous manufactures. India's artisans were forced out of production. The number of weavers also declined. It was this pressure from the British ... Dewani rights was remitted by the Company to England. (Bagchi, Page 185) This monopoly plunder and exploitation by the Company continued till the end of eighteenth century when England moved from mercantile capitalism to industrial revolution and the emerging industrial capitalists in Britain started demanding the end of Company rule in India. Besides the external drain theory, the Indian nationalists argued that British rule led to the de-industrialization of India ... the East India Company, representing the British mercantile class, took over the Indian control. During the same period a fundamental change was taking place in Britain by a series of inventions leading to the industrial Revolution: for example, the spinning-Jenny of Hargreaves in 1764, Watt's steam engine in 1765, water frame of Arkwright in 1769, Crompton's mule in 1779, and Cartweight's power-loom in 1785. Before ...
- 943: Keeping Things Whole
- ... controversial at first, slowly over the decades people began to accept them. Kate O'Flaherty Chopin was raised in St. Louis in the 1850's and 1860's. Chopin had a close relationship with her French grandmother which lead to her appreciation of French writers. When she was only five Chopin's father, Thomas O'Flaherty died leaving her without a father figure. Eliza O'Flaherty, Chopin's mother, was from there on the head of the household. Chopin ... wholesome human note" (Taylor 163). It is notable that later Chopin's talent and style were to be compared to the works of these women whom she admired. The greatest influence on Chopin was the French writer Guy de Maupassant. Chopin describes Maupassant by writing, "Here was a man who escaped from tradition and authority ... looked out upon life through his own being with his own eyes; and who, in ...
- 944: A Brief History of Clocks: From Thales to Ptolemy
- ... to accurately represent the motion of the heavens. According to Prof. Derek Price, the mean period of Saturn can be mechanically represented by a gear ratio of 30 to 1. In other words, for every revolution of the sun around the earth, Saturn will only accomplish 1/30th of its revolution around the earth. The mean period of Jupiter can be represented by a gear ratio of 12 to 1, and Mars can be represented by a gear ratio of 2.5 to 1. An interesting ... when it reappeared in a globe clock designed by Jobst Bόrgi. The differential gear later became a critical component of the cotton gin, a late 18th century invention that marked the beginning of the industrial revolution. However, devices such a the Antikythera Mechanism were quite rare. The celestial sphere was the most common form of celestial representation, prompting a number of structural modifications. Because of the difficulty in imagining the ...
- 945: Kate Chopin: Adversity And Criticism
- ... loved ones, facing critical abuse and public denunciation as an immoralist, Kate Chopin is considered among the most important women in the nineteenth-century American fiction. (Scarsella) Katherine (Chopin) O'Flaherty was born of Irish-French descendants. There is some controversy over the actual date of her birth. Kate stated her day of birth as February 8,1851. There was another listed date, July 12, 1850. Most biographers listed Kate year ... Cath", at the O'Flaherty home. (Toth, 24) Therefore, the actual date of birth is unclear. Her father, Thomas O'Flaherty, was Irish immigrant who became wealthy. Her mother, Eliza Faris O'Flaherty, was of French-Creole heritage. Eliza, at age 16, became Thomas second wife. From Thomas' first marriage was born George O'Flaherty, Kate's half brother whom she loved with all her heart. Also living in the home ... focusing on religion. She enrolled Kate in the St. Louis Academy of the Sacred Heart. It is here that Kate discovers literature and the joys of reading (Hoffman). Her great-grandmother taught her to speak French and play the piano. She also delighted Kate with stories that made a vial impression on her. One of which was the story of how her grandmother, had run a ferry service on the ...
- 946: Darwinism
- ... good example of extending microevolution to explain macroevolution is the peppered moth. So what is a peppered moth? This moth lives in England and it can either be black or speckled gray. During the industrial revolution, the trees that the moth is rested on during the day changed from lichen covered gray to soot colored black. The population of gray moths which dominated before the industrial revolution decreased as the population of the black moths increased. The cause of this change was linked to predation by birds. Before the revolution, the grey moths had a selective advantage because they blended in with the grey lichen. Birds had a difficult time seeing these moths. After the revolution, the black moths had a selective advantage, because ...
- 947: Will the Global Economy Help or Hurt The Next Generation of Americans?
- ... be able to compete and succeed in the global economy. A second position as to why the global economy will hurt the next generation of Americans is due to the arising and already prospering information revolution. due to the changes in technology, the next generation of Americans, "the people presently in their teens and 20's, will be the first generation in America to have a lower standard of living than ... the time I get home all I have time for is a shower, dinner and a little sleep and then it's time to do it all over again."19 Another change that the information revolution has caused is the growing number of people working at home. "Home based businesses employ roughly 14 million people nationwide. Nearly 2/3 of these businesses employed, 5.6 million were full time and 8 ... overworking will result in a lower standard of living for Americans which in turn can only hurt the next generation and the global economy. Yet an objection to this argument would be that the information revolution does not play a major role in our global economy. The unemployment rate is the lowest its been in five years and downsizing "increases productivity or output per worker hour that has helped make ...
- 948: Trudeau: The Politics of My Way
- ... shape the many. This single-warrior syndrome explains many shifts and patterns in the Trudeau character. Diefenbaker revelled in the democratic panorama; Diefenbaker failed to keep urban Canada aboard his carousel and never really got french Canada aboard in the first place, but the Chief's strengths and weakness flowed from the ordinary people who loved him and the sophisticates and big city people who hated him. P.E.T. never ... 1919. Pierre wasn't the sort of person that you think would become one of Canada's longest in office Prime Ministers. At home Pierre's mother spoke mainly English, although she was fluent in french. His mother provided the English balance. Charles-Emily Pierre's father taught him sports as Pierre was very good at them. Pierre practised the art of KARATE and soon became a brown belt, one below ... put together a franchise of gas stations that grew to include 15,000 members and filling $1,400,000 for his stations. As a boy, living in Montreal, he favoured the English instead of the French and when his friends were unhappy of the French losing, Pierre was celebrating. Many of his teachers in primary school said that Pierre was a headstrong individualist who involved himself frequently in fights and ...
- 949: The Steam Engine
- In the never-ending search for energy sources, the invention of the steam engine changed the face of the earth. (Siegel, Preface) The steam engine was the principal power source during the British Industrial Revolution in the 18th century. The steam engine opened a whole new world to everyone. The steam engine maximized production, efficiency, reliability, minimized time, the amount of labor, and the usage of animals. The steam engine ... the steam engine was used to mine coal, and because England had large deposits of coal to fuel the new steam engines, it enabled people to use more machines and to build larger factories. (Industrial Revolution. Earth Explorer). More machines and factories using the steam engine meant more production, more reliability, and cheaper prices. The steel industry was also revolutionized through the use of the steam engine. Steel, smelted from iron ... distance and time had lost their old links with wind, terrain, and hurrying horses hooves. To the dizzied onlookers, it must have seemed that the world was shrinking as they watched (Sproule, 56) The industrial revolution that started in about 1770 in England revolutionized several aspects of life, as we know today. The reason to most of this revolutionized life can be credited to the steam engine. The steam engine ...
- 950: Multimedia
- As A Technology, It Is Called Multimedia As a technology, it is called multimedia. As a revolution, it is the sum of many revolutions wrapped into one: A revolution in communication that combines the audio visual power of television, the publishing power of the printing press, and the interactive power of the computer. Multimedia is the convergence of these different professions, once thought independent ... years, education can no longer be something that one aquires during youth to serve for an entire lifetime. Rather, education must focus on instilling the ability to continue learning throughout life. Fortunately, the information-technology revolution is creating a new form of electronic, interactive education that should blossom into a lifelong learning system that allows almost anyone to learn almost anything from anywhere, at anytime. The key technology in future ...
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