Daniel Boone was a hunter‚ farmer‚ explorer‚ and outdoorsman who contributed to the expansion of America during his lifetime by navigating through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. Daniel Boone was born on November 2‚ 1734‚ near Reading‚ Pennsylvania. Boone was sixth of eleven children born to Squire Boone‚ a land speculator and farmer‚ and Sarah Morgan. He was the son of Quaker parents who valued hard work. He learned some simple skills including blacksmithing but had very little formal education
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Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States. She became a leading public health activist during her lifetime. Elizabeth Blackwell was born on February 3‚ 1821‚ in Bristol‚ England. As a girl‚ she moved with her family to the United States‚ where she first worked as a teacher. Despite widespread opposition‚ she later decided to attend medical college and graduated first in her class‚ thus also becoming the first woman to receive her M.D. in the United
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1. Cost of goods manufactured will usually include: A. only direct labor and direct materials costs. B. some costs incurred during the prior period as well as costs incurred during the current period. C. only costs incurred during the current period. D. some period costs as well as some product costs. 2. During the month of August‚ direct labor cost totaled $13‚000 and direct labor cost was 20% of prime cost. If total manufacturing costs during August were $88‚000‚ the manufacturing overhead
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and Contributions Armand Feigenbaum was born in 1922. Feigenbaum was the first to define a systems engineering approach to quality. Feigenbaum’s concept of total quality control‚ known today as total quality management (TQM)‚ combines management methods and economic theory with organizational principles. Feigenbaum’s career initiated his significant contributions to total quality management. He began his career with General Electric (GE) in 1937 as an apprentice toolmaker and management intern
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For many decades insects were and still are considered enemies mainly for farmers. In the early 1900’s there was a woman biologist who devoted her entire life to saving nature. Her name was Rachel Carson and she changed the whole idea of what people thought was the right solution for getting rid of insects. At that time‚ scientists discovered pesticides that would kill the insects and end the war between farmers and insects that attacked their crops. Rachel Carson introduced her point of view from
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Barb: Jimmy Hoffa was born in 1913 in Indiana. His father died when he was seven‚ and he quit school in his early teams to work at a grocery store to help support his family (Jimmy Hoffa Biography). He actually organized a strike at that grocery store to get a better contract for the workers. “He used a newly arrived shipment of strawberries as a bargaining chip” (Jimmy Hoffa Biography). “The workers wouldn’t unload until they had a new deal” (Jimmy Hoffa Biography). He started his official
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RAMANUJAN He was born on 22na of December 1887 in a small village of Tanjore district‚ Madras. He failed in English in Intermediate‚ so his formal studies were stopped but his self-study of mathematics continued. He sent a set of 120 theorems to Professor Hardy of Cambridge. As a result he invited Ramanujan to England. Ramanujan showed that any big number can be written as sum of not more than four prime numbers. He showed that how to divide the number into two or more squares or cubes. when
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I. Introduction A. Background The contribution to the idea of sexism manifested through belief of Confucianism and aids the identification of the controversial need to identify gender roles and the Chinese perspective of women’s rights in modern China. II. Identification of Gender Roles A. Taboo 1.Assignment of a Functional Role 2.Allocation of Roles B. Why a Woman Can’t Be More Like a Man? 1. Vive la Différence
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CSO CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF CAMBODIA 2011 A Report Commissioned by The Cooperation Committee for Cambodia March 2012 Disclaimer: © The opinions expressed herein are those of the author and of the various informants and they do not necessarily reflects the views and opinions of the Cooperation Committee for Cambodia (CCC). Reprints or reproductions or portions or all of this document are encouraged provided due acknowledgment is extended to CCC and the author. CSO Contributions
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margin for product O11W is: A. $4‚651.80 B. $1‚688.10 C. $17‚934.00 D. $3‚956.10 5. Iacopi Corporation is a wholesaler that sells a single product. Management has provided the following cost data for two levels of monthly sales volume. The company sells the product for $172.50 per unit. The best estimate of the total contribution margin
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