loss of their sons‚ husbands‚ fathers‚ and brothers to the overseas war‚ women were forced to make up for the lack of manpower on the home front. With so much new production needed to support the war effort and with a gross shortage of men to staff factories‚ propaganda was distributed through print‚ film and radio to encourage women to take over jobs for the duration of the war.
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This led them into the workplace; first in more clerical positions as the stereotype dictates‚ and then beyond. Rosie the Riveter became an icon in the call to action‚ drawing women from their homes and desk jobs‚ to the factories. Former housewives began to aid their men not only with rations and care packages‚ but with B-29s and ammunitions. Those women followed in the footsteps of a generation who entered the workplace during World War I. Yet‚ unlike their predecessors
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Social insects such as ants‚ bees‚ termites‚ and wasps‚ provide us with a powerful metaphor for creating decentralized problem-solving systems composed of simple‚ interacting‚ and often mobile‚ agents. The emergent collective intelligence of social insects lies not in complex individual capabilities but in networks of interactions that exist among individuals and between individuals and their colonies. The daily problems solved by a social insect colony include the following: finding food‚ building
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Corps followed. In the Air Force‚ the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots‚ or WASPs‚ were the first women to fly American military aircrafts. “They ferried planes from factories to bases‚ transporting cargo and participating in simulation strafing and target missions‚” (American Women‚ 2010). They’ve accumulated over 60 million miles in flight distance and relieved thousands of male U.S. pilots for active duty. At least 1‚000 WASPs served‚ and 38 died during the war. In total‚ around 350‚000 women served
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professions which were sewing‚ typing‚ and stay at home mothers raising their children. When war began‚ “quickie marriages became the norm” as teens were getting married before their men went overseas. When the soldiers left‚ there were many openings in factories and office jobs that women took. The percentage of females in the workforce increased and the majority of workers
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How honey bees do their job What are honeybees? Bees are flying insects‚ and close relatives of the wasps and ants. They are found on every continent on earth‚ except for Antarctica because it is so cold there. Bees of all varieties live on nectar and pollen. Without bees‚ pollination would be difficult and time consuming. One-third of the human food supply depends on insect pollination. Bees have a long‚ straw-like tongue called a probiscus that allows them to drink the nectar from deep within
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specifically‚ from the anther to the stigma. Pollen grains are completely different and unique for each flower‚ they carry the male and female genetic information and it is split exactly 50/50. The transfer is carried out by pollinators‚ which include bees‚ wasps‚ flies‚ butterflies‚ moths‚ several species of birds‚ the wind‚ beetles‚ water‚ ants‚ bats‚ certain mammals‚ and finally humans. The pollinator depends on the type of flower‚ its structure‚ and what it attracts. Once the pollinator completes its job
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On the eve of the World War I‚ no country was prepared for using aircraft or would have even thought about making an effective weapon of war. Several had experimented with dropping bombs from aircraft‚ firing guns‚ and taking off and landing from aircraft carriers‚ but no country had designed or built an aircraft specifically for war functions (Century of Flight). During World War 1‚ they had made many changed to the aircraft to make it create havoc on the enemy’s. They would add many weapons to
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cellular Services with his Airtel SIM; 1.21 “Service Users” shall mean any Airtel On Net customer who receives‚ participates in‚ accesses or makes use of the VAS Services; 1.22 “Service Launch Form” shall mean the form stipulated by Airtel for the WASP to complete and return indicating proposed launch date‚ peak capacity requirements‚ advertising schedules‚ projected service uptake and such other detail as Airtel may specify. 1.23 “SMS” shall mean a Short Message Service message‚ a mobile data
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witnesses two wasps beginning to make a nest in her mailbox. The speaker however chooses not to kill them‚ not out of fear‚ but out of a mutual respect for the time and devotion the wasps take to build their home. This moment encompasses the overall theme concerning the amount of love and dedication it takes for even a venomous wasp to create a “fragile citadel” of love in an “alien and gigantic universe.” “a stranger‚ building the fragile citadels of love on the edge of danger.” Wasps are normally
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