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2 days ago · The 20th century saw an explosion in plastic production and integration into everyday life, fueled by fossil fuels, but also raised concerns about waste accumulation and environmental impacts. Recent advances in bioplastics and the three types of recycling technologies offer hope for a more sustainable future. The Birth of Synthetic Plastics
5 days ago · British Columbia - Early 20th Century: Once the construction of the Panama Canal was ensured, British Columbia experienced its first economic boom since the heady days of the gold rush. The boom was based on the assumption of investors that the province’s raw resources would soon be able to compete in the markets of the Atlantic countries. Forest tracts were allotted to eager American ...
2 days ago · The broad seam of sexual embarrassment in 20th-century British comedy, for example, suggests that embarrassment was an important influence restraining many people from putting ideas into words. Perhaps Szreter and Fisher’s positive language about couples and privacy gives insufficient emphasis to this.
3 days ago · The network's studio coverage originated from the Fox Television Center in Hollywood, California, later moving to the Fox Network Center (located on the 20th Century Fox backlot in Century City) by 1998.
5 days ago · Texas experienced profound change throughout the middle of the last century. A fast-growing population, vast sums of new wealth and changing expectations about the ways people of all races would live together all played a role. And with these seismic shifts came new kinds of buildings – more ...
3 days ago · The discipline of Chinese architectural history formally came into being in the late 1920s. Founders of the subject, Liang Sicheng and Liu Dunzhen, had done a great deal of work. They incorporated the building industry, which had been despised consistently by literati and officialdom for thousands of years, into the academic sphere, thus laying ...
5 days ago · Individualized study online with eText. Delivered via Brightspace. SOCI 337 is designed for students who have already taken introductory courses in sociology and who are, therefore, familiar with some of the basic concepts and methods of sociology. This course introduces students to a range of ...
