in 1844‚ female workers in New England textile mills had changed their methods of resistance to deteriorating working conditions. What new method were they using? a. They organized a nationwide product boycott. b. They called for the passage of state legislation to shorten the workday. c. They engaged in sabotage against the machines. d. They organized and went on strike. 2. The development of a national railroad system was hampered by which of the following? a. The absence of a national standard
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During the nineteenth century‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson was able to efficiently influence people from his poetry and essays to his lectures. Born and raised in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ Emerson shared the same beliefs as other intellectuals in the area. He was characterized as an idealist philosopher whose new ideas changed the way people thought about and comprehended reality. Over the time of his career‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson formed many notions shown in his work based upon his independent learnings from
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If I had the chance to live in the twenties I would because everything was developing so fast‚ there was no more war‚ and lastly I would of liked to of have discovered these new ideas and things as they came out newly. Living in the twenties I would imagine that it was a war free time with jazz music and the radio on just relaxing in your car going to the theaters with a flapper. One reason why I would live in the 1920s is because the urbanization and that more young people were going to school
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2. Which do you think would be the easiest to measure—the attention level of a class‚ student interest in a poem‚ or participation in a class discussion? Why? Which would be the hardest to measure? The participation of the students in class is hardest to measure as the perception and liking changes with the passage of time and it is not feasible or easy to think about this. Poems and the other such actions are easy to measure that liked or not by the students so it would not be the issues in that
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What Would You Do? Scenario 1- Della the Delinquent Cat Lady As the president of the board of directors of the cat shelter‚ I am faced with rather or not Ms. Della should remain as part of the staff at the cat shelter. There are several problems that have been brought to my attention and I feel that now is the time to figure out exactly what should be done regarding the matter. After‚ evaluating the situation and giving it a great deal of consideration‚ I have come up several solutions to
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In many works of literature‚ both fiction and nonfiction‚ the death of a character profoundly affects one or more of the other characters in the work. In his memoir Night‚ Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel describes how he watched his father die an agonizing death in a Nazi concentration camp‚ near the end of World War II. Elie also describes how his father’s torment and death affected him‚ transforming him into a hollow shell of a person. When Elie and his father arrived at the camp‚ the older
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influence and a great role model for other prisoners. Also‚ he has formed a bond with the victim’s family‚ who has forgiven him for what he has done. The victim’s family would like to see him get out on parole because they feel that he has changed his ways and feels that he is very remorseful for what he did as a teenager and would not be a threat to society. Is this enough for him to become eligible for parole? Is he really a threat to society? Psychologically is he ready to re-enter society? Do the
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United states medical Choose one of the formal sub disciplines of Medical Sociology in your text and explain how it has influenced the overall concept of health in the United States. Several decades medical sociology has became a big major sub discipline of sociology‚ at the same time assuming an increasingly conspicuous role in health care disciplines such as public health‚ health care management‚ clinical medicine‚ and nursing. Many courses and texts‚ rather than using the term sociology
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The Halo That Would Not Light presents a theme of maturing and the way one rushes through childhood‚ but no one realizes the true meaning of childhood until they can no longer return to it. “As certain and indivisible as red scarves silking endlessly from a magician’s hollow hat and the spectacular catastrophe of your endless childhood is done.” Red scarves are sure to come from a magician’s hat during a magic show just as your childhood is sure to end one day. Your childhood is spectacular yet catastrophic
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| Victory in The North | A synopsis on the outcome of the U.S. Civil War | | [Type the author name] | 11/6/2010 | | Since the final battle of the American Civil War was fought in 1865‚ scholars have debated the reasons for the Union’s victory over the Confederacy. Historians have attributed the war’s outcome to many factors‚ some of which include Lincoln’s superior leadership‚ the South’s failure to diplomatically secure foreign intervention‚ emancipated slaves enlisting in the
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