business choices‚ the drought and peoples financial choices. Choices businesses made affected the great depression deeply. Businesses made choices that made the great depression as severe as it was. They made choices that put themselves into much more debt than needed. By over producing and buying their equipment they uses in their factories on credit. Firstly‚ businesses overproduced and over produced. Since the war had just previously been fought assembly lines had already been formed from when
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transformed. The Fluorescent Republic’s military budget alone was 13 Billion watt dollars per year! Over 71‚000 support personal were employed during the war. The lines were said to cover 2.6 miles long throughout the fighting. No bulb truly knew what caused the Lightbulb war‚ though many credited it to a Fluorescent
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1933‚ the unemployment rate had climbed from 3% to 25%. By 1932‚ over 13 million Americans had lost their jobs.” The great depression caused many hardships for millions of Americans. There were multiple events that sparked the great depression‚ but the most notable would be the stock market crash of 1929. The stock market crash of 1929‚ or black Tuesday‚ was caused by a huge drop in the stock market. The stocks were worth far less than they were valued at. “The stock market lost over 16 million shares
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Less IS More In “The Gospel of Consumption”‚ Jeffrey Kaplan touched on the Kellogg controversy regarding their temporary experiment with a six-hour workday. This hot debate brought up the question: Which is better? A larger income or a chance to rest? It is without hesitation that I say we should have stuck to the six-hour workday. Although our current eight hour routines allow us the opportunity to earn more money‚ Kellogg’s experiment proved that those with shorter hours were happier and healthier
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COMPLEXITY’’ IN ORDER TO CREATE VALID AND VITAL WORKS. ITS ARGUES ARCHITECTS TO LEAVE THE TENETS OF TRADITIONAL MODERNISM BEHIND IN PURSUIT OF “TRUTH IN ITS TOTALITY’’. THIS MEANS THAT POSTMODERNISM IS A COMPLEX SET OF TRUE NATURE OF ARCHITECTURE AND IT IS MORE REAL THAN OVERLY PLANNED‚ HYPPER-LOGICAL MODERNIST CONSTRUCTIONS. POSTMODERNISM BEGAN AS AN INTERNATIONAL STYLE IN AROUND 1950’S AND CONTINUES TO INFLUENCE ARCHITECTURE TILL THIS DAY. POSTMODERNITY IN ARCHITECTURE IS SAID TO BE HERALDED BY THE RETURN
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The American Revolution was the war between the colonists and the British. It was seven years from 1775-1781. There were many very important events that caused the American Revolution. Three important events that caused the American Revolution were: the Boston Massacre‚ Paul Revere’s famous ride along with the Battles of Lexington and Concord‚ and The Declaration of Independence. The first important event‚ was the Boston Massacre‚ which occurred on March‚ 1770. The colonists had already been mad
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Paul Chung Transition English Four April 21‚ 2011 Essay No more Guns The year 1774 was pivotal in the history of the United States. It marked the beginning of the Revolutionary war‚ which lasted thirteen years and claimed thousands of lives. Fighting against the British‚ the Americans had to rely on individual citizens because they did not have a well organized army. As famers and hunters‚ many citizens already owned guns. These rifles proved indispensable in defeating the British. After the
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A SLAVE NO MORE For my final project I chose to do a review of the book “A Slave No More” written by David W. Blight. In his book‚ Blight tells the story about two men‚ John M. Washington and Wallace Turnage and their escape from slavery during The Civil War. Blight provides us with copies of the narratives of both men. In my review I will break down Blights book regarding the stories of John M. Washington and Wallace Turnage. In my paper I will share a critique of the book and give my opinion
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solutions‚ which are still reflected in our world today. Some examples include‚ Better building codes resulting from the Chicago fire and saw steel and concrete come to use because of its fire resistance. Increased vehicle manufacturing called for more up keep because of rough muddy roads. Formation and establishment of the NAACP and Martin Luther King’s legacy resulted from racial discrimination in the south. Another increase and stricter building codes for infrastructure of dam and reservoir construction
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Revolution was an armed struggle that began in 1910. Although there were many factors to the start of the Revolution‚ it was mainly caused by tensions over land reform‚ wage disparities‚ and political oppression. The revolution was in part caused by unfair land reform policies. One policy that caused outrage among the indigenous peoples was the Ley de Terrenos Baldios‚ which caused 50 million hectares of land to be taken from indigenous farmers. One reaction to this was revolutionary leader Zapata’s Plan
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