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Technology Revolution Making sense of information about events such as the Twin Towers, the death of Michael Jackson or the economic crisis, it's downright questionable. His reading is fun and its interpretation in the most useless, written just after the fact, rarely see the events in the same way they appear in history. If we allow the trial to see the events set in the future, you may be really important, not the accumulation of information that are submitted and that the story speaks of the technological revolution. . . Computer. . . or something, as we talk today about the French Revolution. As in the Revolution liberal / bourgeois and Industry of the century the events generated from widespread access to computer and internet technology beyond the scope of its impact on individuals, their way of relating in society and the formation of this complex as human. To begin the concept of Nation State, which is created historically by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648 ending the old feudal order, leads to territorial organizations and population defined around a government, which establishes and who is recognized spatial boundaries, and therefore of power, creating a new liberal social order, bourgeois and capitalist. The first major technological change that radically changed the way people live occurred 12,000 years ago with the agricultural revolution, allowing them to settle in a place and build cities and civilizations. With the second big change of the industrial revolution, the machines and engines shortened distances and originated the phenomenon of large cities as a center of national power. Today we are experiencing the third great technological revolution, we connected through global networks such as the Internet, interactive media, virtual reality and other advances in the area of information technology, radically transforming our sense of time / space and...
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Food Technology The woman's body begins to social values, using clothing to highlight. a In the XV-XVIII centuries are following with great appreciation to the plump woman with big hips and breasts. He even put pillows under their clothes to accentuate these attributes. (Similarly see: Eliot Horowitz). Being a big woman was synonymous with wealth and health, the men were proud to have a wife because meant that he could maintain. a In the eighteenth century is at its peak in the French fashion having great influence in European society. It is governed by the use of the corset (to differentiate social classes) and the crinoline a (to emphasize the hips). Eat light was a sign of distinction. a With the Industrial Revolution improved the media and with them, there is a greater ability to disseminate the aesthetic: the corset to be wasp waist, to emphasize the buttocks and bustle skirts that taper to the knee as siren. a We report the first cases of disease in low birth weight: Anorexia nervosa. a In the twentieth century began to teach and appears legs short skirts and skirt pants, so much so that by the end of the sixties: the phenomenon arises Twiggy. a Twiggy was an English model of very thin 17 years caused a furor at the time and was imitated by many young women of the world when introducing the fashion of the miniskirt and hot pants. a Up today: The stereotype of extremely thin women continues to widen. The major clothing designers hired women only high and very low weight. In the 90s, social pressure echoes this thinness and beauty contests are full of women with no muscle mass or fat mass secondary to eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia. Deaths are reported around the world of models and...