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    the 1900-1919 period would change history forever. Nursing during this time would change from the traditional bedside nursing at home to a more institutional based nursing within the hospitals (Porter-O’Grady‚ T. 2004). In the Early 20th century most nursing education was hospital based and students learned by doing. Care was now being delivered at the hospitals. Organized medicine begins to emerge with the American Medical Association (AMA) reorganizing as the national organization of state and

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    Germans had declared unlimited German submarine warfare and the Zimmermann note. The German had totally disregarded the international laws protecting neutral nation’s ships by sinking neutral ships. We warned the Germans one too many times and they did not take us seriously so in 1917 we finally had enough and we joined the war. The Germans had decided that they would sink any ship they wanted without warning even if it was a merchant ship. This had upset the Americans because they soon started

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    ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT Introduction Economies grow and develop‚ they expand and advance‚ and they progress and prosper. There are phases when they decline too‚ and there are economies that experience continuous decay. If one considers long stretches of human history‚ one knows that economies (civilizations) disappeared altogether. We will not take into account such long stretches of time. We shall not consider too distant a past either. We will leave them to historians‚ may be‚ economic

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    GDP Growth Rate Let us start by defining Gross Domestic Product “GDP” this is an economic indicator of how the health of U.S. economy rate of growth whether it slowly down or increasing in a positive manner. If the GPD is growing in a positive direction that means businesses will grow and unemployment will decrease. GPD is measured by comparing current and previous quarter U.S. economic output. Now if the GPD slows down this would cause businesses to decrease spending and in future investments.

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    Difference between Economic Growth and Economic Development :- Economic Growth is an issue considered by economically developed countries which have utilized many of their resources and now plan to expand even further by growth. It is a narrower concept than Economic Development as it focuses on the further increase of the national output of a country by increasing the quality of resources‚ the quantity produced and increasing utilization by every sector of the economy. We can also say it is defined

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    Slavery impacted the United States overwhelmingly politically and socially‚ from the Revolutionary War through the Civil War. The most significant effect was to riven American political culture into two progressively opposing parties until the transformations exploded into a Civil War. As a contributory cause to the Mexican American War‚ and ultimately to the Civil War‚ slavery would be impacting federal policies in Westward expansion. Much of the industrial development (structure of factories to

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    The United States is made up of five percent of the world’s population‚ but is comprised of about a quarter of the worlds incarcerated. Approximately twenty percent of the newly incarcerated yearly have violated parole and great majorities are non-violent offenders. In “U.S. Prison Population Dwarfs that of Other Nations‚” Adam Liptak states “The United States has‚ for instance‚ 2.3 million criminals behind bars‚ more than any other nation‚ according to data maintained by the International Center

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    The United States: A Work In Progress On November 5‚ 1768‚ George Washington sent a letter to James Madison‚ which addresses the need for a stronger government. In that period of time‚ citizens of the United States felt a sense of insecurity about what their country was turning into. As Washington says in his letter‚ “We are fast verging to anarchy and confusion... ‘Leave them to themselves‚ and their government will soon dissolve’‚ Will not the wise and good strive to avert this problem?” George

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    mid-18th century Great Britain as world power was in a kind of an economic crisis that demanded new sources of financing. As this was colonizing power with centralized imperial system it was expected from colonies to finance any war or economic losses. This time‚ the case was more complex; The Empire was engaged into The Seven Years’ war which took place on different frontiers in New World‚ Africa and India. In order to overcome the economic crisis caused by the War policy of new taxes was started. This

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    16712 The Relationship Between Unemployment and Economic Growth in Jordan and Some Arab Countries Mahmoud A. Al-Habees and Mohammed Abu Rumman Faculty of Planning and Management‚ AL-Balqa Applied University‚ Jordan Abstract: Unemployment is a negative phenomenon in any human society as it adversely affect in different dimensions and directions. In addition‚ it refers to an economic defect affecting the community structure. Thus‚ the economic and social dimensions of unemployment increase complexity

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