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    for farmers was complicated in 1932‚ because there was a surplus of commodities in the market. The depressed state of the world food market caused the purchasing power of farmers to dwindle. As a result‚ the U.S. government passed the Agricultural Adjustment Act in hopes of restoring purchasing power to farmers by reducing surpluses in crops‚ livestock and giving farmers cash payments for controlling how much crops they would grow. The Agricultural Adjustment Act proved to be successful because the

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    : Homestead lockout U.S. labour strike at Andrew Carnegie’s steelworks in Homestead‚ Pa.‚ in July 1892. When the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers went on strike following a wage cut‚ the company’s manager‚ Henry Clay Frick‚ hired strikebreakers‚ with Pinkerton Agency detectives to protect them. A gun battle resulted in which several people were killed and many injured; the governor sent state militiamen to support the company. The broken strike represented a major setback to the

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    Bryon McCoy 2/8/99 Less Than Zero Analysis Less Than Zero‚ written by Brett Easton Ellis‚ is almost as much about Blair as it is about Clay. Further more‚ the relationship of clay and Blair is the underlying theme that nits the fabric of this book together. As we look at the book we see several characters. Each of which is‚ to be blunt‚ screwed up. There are five characters that could be successfully argued as the main ones. There?s Trent‚ conniving and conceded who is a ?male model? and ?won?t

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    delivering the same NMI effect as a handheld Taser gun. Creating a device small enough to fit into a shotgun shell casing but powerful enough to incapacitate a subject was no easy task. The development team at Taser had to find a way to balance power with size. Not only did they need the device to travel farther than a standard Taser‚ but also to have the right amount of mass. If it had too little mass‚ it wouldn’t travel far enough. But if it

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    to be better at organizational matters‚ rather than the White Army officers who displayed a lack of initiative and adherence to routine. They were ultimately divided on what to replace the Bolshevik regime‚ as they were an amalgam of separate ethnic groups united only by their desire to eject Bolshevism out of Russia. Furthermore‚ Pipes states that their administrative structure ‘rebounded in the Communists’ favour’‚ in that‚ whilst the Red Army was simply a military wing of a civilian government

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    Less Than Lethal Weapons For many years law enforcement has faced controversy about officer involved shootings. The use of non-lethal force has alleviated a lot of these occurrences. Law enforcement now has many options other than firing there guns. Some developments in the less than lethal weapons include the taser which is a stun gun that incapacitates a human target by generating a series of powerful electrical output pulses across first and second space apart output terminals in response to

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    Bismarck was more successful at unifying Germany in the years 1848 – 1849 than the revolutionaries because Bismarck was the chief architect of the German unification‚ and he had Prussian support and the Prussian army. The revolutionaries were divided and had different aims for Germany. The revolutionaries were deeply divided over the national question; should Germany be unified or not? They were also divided on social issues and constitutional grounds. The revolutionaries also had disputes over

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    arrived‚ President Lincoln has finally got the Homestead Act passed‚ and it will be great for this country that Congress is granting land owned by the federal government proving farmers with the opportunity to own land out west. We need to ensure our stockpile of gold reserve is on hand; because we don’t need any setbacks with the currency: we must have the ability to provide loans to these farmers and former freed slaves. (The Homestead was widely successful because it helped the west develop as a consequence

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    ‘Détente was a failure’ How far do you agree with this assessment? In the period of the 1970s‚ the policy of Détente is often viewed as a failure because the main themes of the Cold War remained present‚ for instance Soviet Expansionism continued and new advances for nuclear production came about despite laws capping old types of nuclear weapons. In addition‚ not all agreements were taken seriously‚ such as Helsinki which was deemed by Soviets as ‘just a piece of paper’. However‚ the term Détente

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    Homestead Strike of 1892

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    The Homestead Strike of 1892 By: Industrial Relations Homestead is located on the Monogahela River eight miles from Pittsburgh. In 1892 the town had a population of about 12‚000 people. In 1880 it had a population of about 600 people. The town evolved around the Carnegie mills. With out the steel mill the town would have little existence. The mill property covered 600 acres of the 600 acres 37 of that is covered with varies buildings. The mills facilities were lighted by electricity which

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