The Second Industrial Revolution changed American in several different ways. It introduced new technology that improved existing products‚ and created new ones. It also featured improved manufacturing processes that decreased the production cost of items and therefore increase the size of the market. New technology‚ such as improvements to the railroad‚ made it easy to get raw materials to the cities and get finished products to other markets. Overland mail used to take 180 days‚ but with the completion
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How the 1950s and 1960s changed the United States Your grandparents or great grandparents were obviously hormone filled young men and women. As many men were coming home from war‚ so were a ton of hormones. There were 76.4 million babies born from 1946 to 1964‚ with the greatest overall numbers coming from 1954 through 1964. By 1964 those babies‚ known as “baby boomers”‚ accounted for almost 40 percent of the United States population. Along with the growing population came a growing need for more
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September 11 2001 Narrative8:30 AM. I am in a meeting with Alliance Consulting CEO ’s in Building 1 World Trade Center. We are all discussing booming businesses in the NYC region‚ getting very excited about a little computer chip processing company that has been getting very high marks on their last quota. All of a sudden‚ there is a loud whipping sound and the building begins shaking. Just a blink later and my hearing is gone‚ and I am lying on the ground trying to understand why the only color
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The air was filled with smoke; slowly I made my way through the enormous building. Not knowing where to go. But feeling the building rumble and shake in my fear of claustrophobia. I remember hearing “GET DOWN! RUN!” That was the dreadful day of 9/11 September 9th 2001 “I have to go to work” As I told Michael (my son). Our apartment wasn’t much; we still had a rent problem. But since I’ve got accepted to my new job at the World Trade Center‚ I don’t think we’ll be having too many problems
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Hip Hop has had an inundating influence on the black community in America‚ as well as society holistically. Hip Hop is more than music‚ Hip Hop is a culture. Over the past three decades‚ Hip Hop has influenced and uplifted America‚ verbalizing up for generations and providing a voice to a group of people endeavoring to distribute a message. However Hip Hop does have some major imperfections. The relationship between rap music and women has always been a tricky one to digest. Although misogyny and
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In regards to the speech in figure 11-9 I would improve the style of the speech in a different way. In addition after reading about oral reports I get a clear understanding the importance of business communication and the manner in which an individual is been treated by their colleagues in a facility or company. The manner in which I would improve the style of Ethanol in Fuel speech‚ I would begin with a greeting depending on the type of day such as Good morning or Good afternoon‚ several of these
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When I was 2 years old‚ my mother and I were waiting for my father to get off a long-delayed flight. This was before 9/11 when entering the terminal without a ticket was permitted. An irate passenger waiting for the next flight to depart demanded that the crew let him board the plane immediately‚ apparently undeterred by the lack of an aircraft on the other side of the plate glass window. He filled the area with tension as he stomped around the seating area‚ ranting vociferously into a cell phone
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This week included much activity with meetings‚ rain and the storm that never happened. Monday began with a Right on Crime communications meeting. It was interesting to sit through and hear what all was going on throughout the RoC organization. Then I went back to my desk to try and finish out the TPPF communications project I had been working on since Thursday. After lunch‚ I was informed about another weekly meeting with RoC‚ the policy call was also informative and I learned about what some of
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Afghanistan (/ʌfˈɡʌnɪstɑːn/; Listeni/æfˈɡænɨstæn/; Persian: افغانستان; Pashto: Afġānistān)‚ officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan‚ is a landlocked sovereign state forming part of South Asia‚[8] Central Asia‚[9] and to some extent Western Asia. It has a population of around 30 million inhabiting an area of approximately 647‚500 km2 (250‚001 sq mi)‚ making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world. It is bordered by Pakistan in the south and the east‚ Iran in the west
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radical drama was as thing of the past. Then I realized that there’s plenty of it out and much of it I have even seen. One of the clearest and most recent examples of radical drama‚ which I felt dumb for not remembering‚ would have to be Fahrenheit 9/11. Although I have not seen this movie‚ I do know that the maker of that flim‚ Michael Moore‚ created it with the intentions of getting George. W. Bush out of the office at the end of his first term. If
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