Chapter 30: Conservative Resurgence‚ Economic Woes‚ Foreign Challenges ‘74-89 (I thought we were done reading! ) Personal Pursuits and Diversions: Yuppies (young urban professionals) were all about fitness/consumerism: labeled the “Me Generation” for selfishness Jaws‚ Rocky‚ Star Wars‚ disco‚ Disney World‚ Super Bowl‚ cable TV‚ punk rock (SEX PISTOLS!) Stuff like Springsteen’s “Darkness at the Edge of Town”‚ movies Nashville and Chinatown showed problems/corruption Changing Gender Roles
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Nick Mathiason Coach Woodard English 1301-3 9-26-12 Analyzing Text. Thomas Friedman‚ an American columnist‚ journalist‚ and writer for the New York Times writes the passage‚ “30 Little Turtles” to inform a general audience who read the newspaper‚ of the impact of foreign‚ outsourced jobs to the people who receive them. Using clear unambiguous sources of actual people who receive these jobs‚ he creates a personality that he applies to all Indians who receive the call center jobs. A persona
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The Role of Women During the ‘30’s The 1930s were dominated by one of America’s greatest economic crises and during this time millions of Americans suffered. Unemployment was common‚ seniors lost their life savings when banks collapsed‚ schools shut down and children went uneducated. During this time‚ women’s roles were mostly as homemaker and in the workplace remained traditional. Women were viewed as caretakers of the home‚ or working jobs such as nurses and teachers. Only 24.3 percent
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Chapter 30 - America on the World State Portsmouth Conference The meeting between Japan‚ Russia‚ and the U.S. that ended the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the fighting between those two countries. Gentleman’s Agreement An agreement that was negotiated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908 with the Japanese government. The Japanese agreed to limit immigration‚ and Roosevelt agreed to discuss with the San Francisco School Board that segregation
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Genetics Practice Problems‚ book #1 1. In peas‚ the gene for tallness is dominant to the gene for shortness. What offspring phenotypes and genotypes would be expected from the following crosses‚ and in what proportions? a. Heterozygous x heterozygous b. Heterozygous x homozygous tall c. Homozygous tall x homozygous short 2. If blue eye color in man is recessive to all other colors‚ could: i. Brown eyed parents have a blue eyed child
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Appendix Sonnet 18 Shakespeare 1 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? 2 Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 3 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May‚ 4 And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: 5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines‚ 6 And often is his gold complexion dimmed‚ 7 And every fair from fair sometime declines‚ 8 By chance‚ or nature’s changing course untrimmed: 9 But thy eternal summer shall not fade‚ 10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest‚
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Discuss the most effective policy approach during a time of recession‚ and where a country has a fiscal deficit (30 marks) A recession is when an economy experiences two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth measured by real GDP. A fiscal deficit is when government spending is greater than what is received through tax receipts. One policy to reduce the fiscal deficit and attempt to effectively deal with the recession would be to lower taxes such as VAT‚ this is an example of an expansionary
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Chapter 30 The Gorbachev Era Gorbachev became the new leader of the Soviet Union. Perestroika meant only a reordering of economic policy. The most important instruments was glasnost. Soviet citizens and officials were encouraged to discuss openly the strengths and weaknesses of the Soviet Union. Previously banned works were now published‚ and music based on western styles began to be performed openly. Gorbachev called for the creation of a new Soviet parliament. Legalized the formation of other
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30-Crash Course World History Video Notes The Haitian Revolution 1. The _____________ colony in Saint Domingue began in the 17th century as a pirate outpost. Its original French inhabitants made their living selling leather and a kind of smoked beef called boucan. 2. After 1640‚ the boucan-sellers started to run low on beef and turned to robbing Spanish galleons which as you’ll recall were loaded with _____________mined from South America. 3. By the middle of the 17th century‚ many of them invested
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Unit 30 Facilitate coaching and mentoring in health and social care or children and young people’s settings Learning outcome 1 Assessment criteria 1.1 Coaching and mentoring are very similar‚ apart from coaching is short term training and mentoring is more long term based. I have devised a table to show the difference between coaching and mentoring. Coaching Mentoring Working relationship generally has a set duration The working relationship is ongoing and can last for a long period of time
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