when comparing the cost of an item over time. Scoring/Grading rubric: Each question is worth 10 points. Introduction: Everyone has heard someone say something like: “Back in my day…a cup of coffee cost only a quarter.” In this activity‚ we are interested in calculating how many current dollars that cup of coffee‚ or batch of cookies‚ or hourly wages would be equivalent to. 1. Suppose a winter jacket costs $80 in 2003 and inflation was measured at 27% over the period from 2003 to 2013. If
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There are countless disputes about what truly was at fault for the Confederate secession of 1861‚ from the weighted morality question of slavery to the differences in social structures. However‚ the Civil War was not about agreeing on societal customs or the abolishment of slavery. Freeing the slaves was an advantage but certainly not the goal. Like so many circumstances pertaining to American interests‚ the internal strife was due to the dynamic shift in the economic and governing power the states
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Throughout the 1800’s‚ up until about 1860‚ the North and South had an immense amount of struggles‚ both economically and socially‚ that led them to the Civil War. The main difference they fought over was their opinions on slavery. These problems led to years of conflict and misery among the states. The North and South were extremely different when it came to their economy. For instance‚ the North had more so factories‚ unlike the South‚ which relied on farming. The immense amount of railroads
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Intolerable Acts triggered outrage in the Thirteen Colonies‚ leading to the First Continental Congress and eventually the Revolutionary War. Many argue that rebellion was justified‚ however. Due to the Quartering Act‚ the Administration of Justice Act‚ and the general violations of the colonial rights by these laws‚ the rebellion was justified. The Quartering Act specified conditions for housing British troops in all of colonial North America. This forced quartering of troops created resentment among
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Trade union is an important aspect in protecting workers rights and improving their working conditions. According to Sidney and Beatrice Webb (1920)‚ trade union is “a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their working lives” (Sidney and Beatrice Webb‚ 1920). For many years‚ trade unions in most advanced market economies like UK‚ US‚ German‚ Italy‚ have been on the decline and faced increasingly challenging conditions in representing
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Opportunities‚ choices‚ failures‚ and consequences and what was the character’s conflict? As we can interpret from the book‚ John Purcell had always been very distant from the rest of his family. He rarely attended church‚ was in the war etc. John was given a chance to redeem himself by attending a very important ceremony/banquet with his son. All night his son had been constantly giving the impression that he would rather be at the banquet with anyone other than his father. John had started to
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To what extent was Germany to blame for the start of World War 1? During the beginning of the 19th Century Europe was crossing a period characterized by great technological advancements and scientific optimism‚ but it was also subject to hostile relations between many of its main powers. These hostilities transformed into war on the 28th of June 1914‚when a 19 year old terrorist‚ Gavrilo Princip‚ assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne‚ creating the cause of war that one month later
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Assess the advantages and disadvantages of a Eurozone breakup. In the past few months‚ the likelihood of a Eurozone breakup has been escalating due to increasing tensions in the monetary union. The departure of problematic periphery countries like Greece from the Eurozone would have many implications onto Europe and the rest of the world. If the Eurozone were to break up‚ whether partially or completely‚ it would send the rest of the world into panic and economic turmoil. The countries departing
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"Slavery was the Cause of the Civil War." Although the North and the South were part of the same Union they were very different in many ways. The Southern states believed in slavery while the northern states were against it. Eventually it would lead to the War Between the States or the Civil War. There other reasons that left to the Civil War as well but slavery was the main cause of the war. The South had always been slave states. They wanted them to include the new states as slave states so
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TO WHAT EXTENT DID THE RESULTS OF WW1 INFLUENCE THE OUTBREAK OF WW2? INTRO: World War 1 ended with the Versailles Treaty in 1919. The peace-making process was extremely complex and even now it is doubtful whether any perfect solution to organising the post-war European order could have been found. After the settlement many international matters still remained unresolved and many countries were dissatisfied. To what extent did the results of WW1 determine the outbreak of another‚ big war ~20 years
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