economic front in America when she joined the war in 1916. The need for industrial production on a massive scale to provide arms for the war effort‚ gave rise equally to employment. With most able bodied men away at the war in Europe‚ it fell to women and African Americans to fill those jobs and meet the rising demands. (As a direct result of this‚ Wilson‚ president of USA during this period‚ recommended and supported that woman be given the right to vote). With all the work opportunities‚ “African
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In life itself women are the household care takers‚ they bore the children‚ raise the children‚ cook‚ and clean‚ that is the role of the women. The 21’st century has made an exception to that rule‚ today the average woman has a career‚ a family‚ along with rights that were not equally given to them only 62 years ago. After World War II was over in 1945‚ American’s were overwelmed with the amount of soldiers returning home to their girlfriends‚ families‚ and jobs. Women were responsible for taking
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During the two decades from 1920 to 1940‚ the number of American women working outside the home increased slightly. In 1920‚ women made up 23.6 percent of the labor force; by 1940‚ this percentage had risen to 25.4. Some advances were made in working women’s rights‚ but during the Great Depression‚ many female workers lost their jobs or were forced to accept severe cuts in pay. Despite the economic difficulties of the period‚ some outstanding businesswomen achieved great commercial success. In the
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Running head: AMERICA AND THE MOVIES OF THE 1920’S February 13‚ 2012 US HIS II ABSTRACT The movies of the 1920’s provided one of America’s most forms of entertainment after World War One. Americans were able to spend a little extra and enjoy such events as they were not devastates during with war. The movies for the American people began soon after the invention of automobiles. The movies provided communications and entertainment and soon began to open the American people to ideas
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Compare and contrast Crosby’s‚ Juran’s‚ and Shewhart’s perspectives of quality management. What are the major similarities and differences between their perspectives? Crosby‚ Juran and Shewhart are the renowned expertise on quality management‚ who had made significant contributions on this aspect. The first two have possessed distinct definition on the word “quality”. To Crosby‚ quality refers to conformance to requirement”. To Juran‚ he described quality as fitness for function. In this essay‚ I
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Changing attitudes in the 1920’s came about through progressivism‚ and the divide between country and urban life. Women were becoming more and more independent. Depression was beginning to sink its claws into the American economy first by way of rural towns and farms who felt the blow not with the stock market crash in 1929‚ but with the decline of agricultural prices in 1920. Most rural Americans still held to old traditions‚ and found how life was in the city offending to their beliefs and customs
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without getting caught and were not afraid of anything or anyone. Although the Mafia is still around today their prime years were from the 1920’s to the 1970’s. Beginning in the late 19th century organized crime rose in popularity among American people. The Mafia and its following depended on family ties‚ secrecy‚ and loyalty as they participated
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Jazz flourished widely in the 1920’s‚ which was considered the Jazz age. In the 1920’s Jazz was a lifestyle to most people. Some fell in love with Jazz‚ while others hated it. People who liked Jazz were the passionate and urban people. Many white young boys and girls fell in love with jazz. Jazz was a way for them to be freed from the rural America. Jazz had originally come from New Orleans but job opportunities had opened up elsewhere causing many musicians to move out of New Orleans. This is what
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There has been many changes in the equality of men over the years. Just like women‚ some things are right. Men usually don’t get much said about them when it comes to equality. It’s usually the women. Well now it’s time to talk about the men. In the Puritan age‚ the men were the more dominant sex when it came to gender roles. Men were more in control in the house. They were not involved with raising the children unless they became problematic. They also farmed and controlled the land that they
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illegal. This created an era in time which is known as prohibition‚ this was from 1920 to 1933. Even before the 1920’s people’s dislike towards alcohol was evident. Such as in 1773 the founder of Methodism preached to people that drinking alcohol was sinful against god. Even in the early 1800’s movements were founded that were against drinking and having anything to do with alcohol. In the 1820’s through the 1830’s there was a movement that captured the nation called religious revivalism. This
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