1. What were the strengths and weaknesses of workers unions? By the end of the nineteenth century‚ workers unions had become major forces influencing wages and working conditions. In 1886‚ when successful strikes on some western railroads attracted a mass of previously unorganized unskilled workers‚ the Knights of Labor grew to a peak membership of a million workers. They bargained with employers‚ conducted boycotts‚ and called members out on strike to demand higher wages and better working conditions
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motives for invading and expanding are examined as we examine our successes throughout the New Era and the World Wars. America had wanted to expand outward and was imperializing surrounding countries for economic and political domination. There were three major terms of U.S. foreign relations. The first is the Monroe Doctrine of 1823‚ which expanded hemispheric relations and created an agreement of not invading European countries as long as they don’t invade
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The new deal had many different features‚ but an underlying foundation beneath the entire idea‚ was the idea that the federal government had and should thus use its power to actively intervene in the economy and do what it could to improve the standard of living in America. It was a break with the past and an end to the previous Republican belief‚ that if income of tax revenues fell‚ then expenditure must also be cut to immediately balance the budget. Roosevelt’s idea was one very dissimilar‚ he
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Department to corner off areas in which people who were considered dangerous to the government would be imprisoned. The order had a special target; to imprison all Japanese Americans. It ordered people of Japanese descent to evacuate the west coast and relocate into one of ten internment camps. After the attack on Pearl Harbor‚ the treatment of Japanese Americans revealed the widespread racism the United States felt towards Japanese people during
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The Headmaster and his Assistants‚ Members of Stuff‚ Outgoing Prefects‚ Seniors‚ Fellow Student. I deem it very distinguished to stand before you at this instant to present my manifesto as an incoming school prefect for this grand institution of the Tescans. "Prefects are birds of passage" Seniors‚ kindly permit me to go on a memory lane. Last year in an occasion like this our outgoing prefects stood before us to read their manifestoes as the term of office was due to be handed over to them. As
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as the electric light bulb and phonograph. He was born on 11 February 1874 in Milan‚ Ohio and the youngest in his family. Thomas’s father was an exiled political activist from Canada and mother wan an accomplished school teacher. His mother was the major influence in Thomas’s life as well. Thomas had hearing difficulties in both ears cause by the scarlet fever as well as ear infection since he was a child. He went to official schooling for only three month as his mind was often wander and his teacher
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“Before You Were Mine” by Carol Ann Duffy "Before you were mine" is a poem written by a daughter about how she imagines her mother ’s life ten years before the daughter was born. The author describes the photo of her mother with two of her friends. They “shriek at the pavement” and seem to be sharing a joke‚ young and lightsome (line 4). She knows that the thought of having a child one day doesn ’t occur to her mother when she was young and had a lot of dreams. Now remembering her own childhood
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India’s leading cellular company Bharti Tele-Ventures has bagged the "Asian MobileNews operator of the year" award in India and the subcontinent.The award is part of the annual Asian MobileNews Awards 2004‚ a company release said here on Thursday.Commenting on the award‚ group Chairman Sunil Mittal said "It is heartening to know that Bharti’s efforts in enabling faster and more affordable communications is being recognised not just in this country but across the world."The award comes close on the
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First and foremost‚ the Southerners were fighting a defensive war on their own soil. They knew the terrain and the most efficient ways to transverse it. At the outset‚ the South seemed to have great advantages. First and foremost‚ Southerners were
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or the Americans‚ and so he made that decision‚ which I think was right because we hadn’t started it. We were simply defending our country and sending a message. Japan was not backing down. Germany had surrendered but the Japanese were raging on in the Pacific. Japan also was trying to find a possible way to successfully invade America and bring a negotiated peace. What other Alternatives were there for the United States? America at first had planned to invade Japan which was to begin on November
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