What is as remote to kathleen as "cavemen and dinosaurs"? what had the "little field" swallowed? what had the field embodied for tim, for the last 20 years? what did tim bring to the field to leave behind? what is the change brought about in tim by his action in the river?

the growing interconnectedness of the world through communication, trade, and the exchange of ideas is an important theme in the history of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

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before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.