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He also postulates that as for "IT spurred industry transformations, most of the ones that are going to happen have likely already happened or are in the process of happening." Although industry and markets will continue to evolve and some will still undergo fundamental changes, Carr suggests that the buildout of IT is "much closer to its end than its beginning." To support his position, Carr states that: IT's power is outstripping most of the business needs it fulfills; the price of…

lead to the improvement in the standard of living among working people. Now with this new class, population started to increase, and with that a need to improve transportation. Subway rails would be the first new technology to come from the industrial revolution. The first subway trains or similar underground rail systems were opened in the 1860 's. This greatly improved travel speed in cities. The first flight would eventually be developed at the start of the 20th century and the first…

Breaking Home Ties Critical Analysis Breaking Home Ties is one of many paintings by Norman Rockwell. It was created in 1954 and since then has been a well known painting to artists and art critics. The detail in the scene and expression on the two men’s faces make this picture a true masterpiece. With the expressions on the characters, one can clearly tell there is a story behind this one framed moment. The man on the left looks over worked and rather numb in the face, while the younger…

Canadian National Railway Company, also named CN, is a modern combined company that merges many middle and small railroad companies, which is the biggest railway company in Canada and the fifth biggest railway company in the North America. Established in 1919 by the Canadian government, the CN company is the first railroad line that links the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. It was a state-owned business since its establishment for up to 76 years, and it carried out…

o Discuss your perspective on the information/advice shared in these two articles. Be sure to cite which article you refer to as you respond. In the article Making a Successful Transition from College to Career, I thought their first reality check point was spot on. When I transferred to DePaul, I became a commuter student. Therefore, I skillfully manipulated my schedule so that I would only have class twice a week. I was taking 5 classes, but I fit them in online and just Tuesday/Thursday,…

Honolulu Rail Transit Project Hawaii’s biggest development has created a huge impact on commuters on the island of Oahu. Driving town bound from the Leeward side, people can’t help but notice the large cement pillars holding a railway high up above the farm lands in the Kunia area. Former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann who won the 2004 election, announced that construction of a rail line is a priority. Now building the largest public works project in Hawaii’s history, the Honolulu Rail Transit…

In the first chapter in Railway, George Revill opens his volume on the history of the railway with a recounting on the associations between the landscape and the railway and the emergence of tourism geared to railroad travel . Revill traces this history from the establishment of the public steam-powered railway between Liverpool and Manchester which opened in 1830 to the proliferation of railroads in America , and due to the spread of this technology, greater travel distances became more…

operating at 1964, has totally 2,615.7 km of lines with maximum speeds of 240–320 km/h. The Shinkansen network link most of large city on the island of Honshu and Kyushu, such as Tokyo and Osaka. Shinkansen means new trunk line, referring to the high-speed rail line network. The other name of Shinkansen is Superexpress, was used for Hikari(means “light”) trains and was changed in 1972. The trips of Shinkansen is intensive. The line between Tokyo and Osaka, the two largest city in Japan,…

Westward expansion in the US started mainly because of money. The west became a home for agriculture. Mining, a new money maker, first started there. The two industries drew people to work either in them, or in the towns where these workers resided. However, all this wouldn’t have been possible without the recently developed railroads. Railroads could transport product and people in a fraction of the time old wagon trains could. This new technology was what really made western expansion possible…

Populist DBQ The Gilded age is a term coined by Mark Twain to describe the period after the Civil War, specifically the period of 1865-1900. The Gilded age was a time of great change in the United states, it was dawn of new technology, government policy, and economic status, and changed the conditions of the American life for everyone. On paper, this Post-Civil War era seems like a period in the U.S. that was fueled by selfishness, corruption, and government misconduct, but in reality there…