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Remembering The Depression
... because they were always worried about the money situation. The family did everything to keep what they had going. Their family earned money in different ways. For instance, my grandma’s mom had to take in Washing and Ironing to support the family. She started a business of making Pumpkin Tarts and selling them to everyone. It was a big hit out there in Arizona. They would even take the tarts out to the fields to sell them to the labors (workers). My Grandmas Brother helped out to support his family; everyday after school he would work down at the grocery store. Mostly everyone in the family had some type of job to help keep the family going and wor ...
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Effects Of Working Shifts
... In conclusion, this report intends to focus on the negative aspects of shift work; however, hopefully it will give some insight as to the reasons for working shifts and provide some interesting facts and details.
Introduction
Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Bhopal, Exxon, Valdez, Space Shuttle Challenger, all familiar names that have some interesting similarities. First, all were major man-made disasters, second all occurred due to human error, and third, they all took place on the night shift.
Working shifts, an unsteady schedule, can present many different problems for the men and women who work them. This report is going to highlight some of these problems, and ...
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The American Dream Is Based On Success, Happiness, And Money
... through fifth grade. These years you are taught lot of math, reading,
writing, and also penmanship in script. You also get a taste of history. When
you get to middle school you learn more in depth about everything you learned in
earlier years. Finally in High School, everything you have learned is
intensified, and you get prepared for collage, and learn more of everything.
Then you have to make a decision, If you want to be Successful and make Lot of
MONEY you have to go to collage, for a nether four years, at the end of that
ordeal you can settle in with Bachelors degree, or a nether one or two for a
masters. This will bring a decent income. But if you want the ...
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The Unemployment Rate
... economic problems. For
example, the number of people who commit suicide is increased. It is because
more people had lost their jobs for a long time. It is a serious threat to the
lives of the poor. The unemployed people may also feel that it is unmeaningful
to live. As a result, they will commit suicide to solve the problem. Moreover,
the high unemployment rate results in the increase of the rate of crime. There
was an unemployed man who stole rice because he was too hungry and he did not
have money to even buy food! We can know how serious the unemployment rate is.
By the way, higher unemployment rate causes lower purchasing power of people. A
lot of kinds of busi ...
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Historians
... millions Jews died in the Second
World War. The reason history gives us is anti-Semitism. The Nazis were a group
that had as a goal to purify the world of what we call minorities and so to keep
it a White, straight, Christian world. History explains the evolution of things,
people, beliefs, laws and many more in order for us to understand why certain
things are the way they are.
In this article, we come across a few major points. Each of them is
introduced in a very original way. The author uses a literal journey into the
past as a means of comparing it to the present. One of the many points is an in
depth definition of history related profession. What are ...
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Veterinarians
... 63). Unfortunately, most of the schools
established back then closed down because they were so expensive and people
didn't have the money to afford it. However, today veterinary medicine is
very known and common. More people are buying pets and are willing to pay
for their care.
College is a major part of becoming a vet. The average veterinary
student has to take six to eight years of college. The first thing to do
is to decide if veterinary medicine is the right path for you. In the
senior year of college during the basic 4 years, an aspiring vet will apply
to a 4-year veterinary program. The first two years of the vet program
consist of general scienc ...
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The National Debt
... came in. He brought in projects known as Entitlements. Some
of them were known as; WPA. TVA. and CCC. Then social welfare was born and
social security began. This is what put our country into debt. Then came war,
the end of the depression, and the Eisenhower times.
The debt kept on growing so new president Lyndon Johnson developed new
social welfare programs- Medicare, and Medicaid. The U.S. Government came up
with the gold standard and stopped minting silver coins. The coins were then
made from scrap pieces of metal and the cash became paper. Richard Nixon and
Gerald Ford passed the debt and added to it. The first sign of bankruptcy
occured durin ...
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Work
... Puritan attitude toward
work in their book The Americans: A Brief History. Puritans stress the goodness
of working by relating it to religious beliefs. Sloth is sinful, but the
Puritans also pointed out that it was self-defeating. Leisure is even
considered an "evil temptation" (Bedford and Colbourne 235-238). Marge Piercy,
a modern day poet, essayist, and novelist, attempts to explain why work is
desirable on contemporary terms in her poem "To Be of Use." To Piercy, hard
workers who really persevere are admirable because of the fact that the world is
full of temptations to stop working, or to not work altogether. This admiration
for determination is apparent ...
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The Failure Of NAFTA
... For it was actually Newt Gingrich’s aggressive intervention and the Republican vote that made the difference.
Two years after the agreement was put into effect the results came in. The people were right. The business leaders, the economists, the White House, and Newt Gingrich were all wrong. Let’s look at the facts.
President Clinton promised 200,000 additional jobs because of NAFTA by 1995 alone. In fact though over 200,000 jobs were lost because of NAFTA (Morris 22). There is a group called the Public Citizen who sponsored a project called The Global Trade Watch. They reviewed the job creation promises of dozens of corporations. One year after the passing ...
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The History Of Walmart
... into his college days to support himself. Walton began his retail career at J.C. Penney in Des Moines, Iowa in 1940 making just $75 per month. In 1945, Sam borrowed $5,000 from his wife and $20,000 from his wife's family to open a Ben Franklin five and dime franchise in Newport, Arkansas.
In 1950, he relocated to Bentonville, Arkansas and opened a Walton 5&10. Over the next 12 years they built up and grew to 15 Ben Franklin Stores under the name of Walton 5&10. Sam had plenty of new ideas. He liked to deal with the suppliers directly so he could pass the savings on to the customers. He later brought a new idea to Ben Franklin management that they should open di ...
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