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    Equal Opportunity Employment

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    EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT Definition: Equal Employment Opportunity guaranties employees a fair treatment. This means that employers cannot discriminate against employees on the basis of age‚ race‚ sex‚ creed‚ religion‚ color‚ or national origin. Equal Opportunity applies to employment practices such as hiring‚ upgrading‚ demotion‚ transfer‚ recruitment‚ advertising‚ layoff‚ termination‚ rates of pay or other forms of compensation‚ selection for training‚ job assignments‚ accessibility‚ working

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    Why Was Matisse Important

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    Henri Emile Benoit Matisse was born December 31‚ 1869. Matisse was known for his revolutionary effects during the early twentieth century which are his expressive use of color. Examples of his revolutionary and expressive work are of portraits‚ landscapes‚ nudes‚ and interior views causing him to be the very influential. Matisse was inspired by post-impressionists Paul Cezanne and Vincent van Gogh when he lived in Paris. Henri Emile Benoit Matisse was raised in the northern part of France. Matisse

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    Jackson was a protector of democracy for "Equal protection and equal benefits" for all men. He wanted to be rid of any organization or institution promoting specific privilege to anyone. Jackson felt that over time‚ the offices of the federal system had grown mold to a uniform party. He proceeded to seek diversity amongst officers‚ and while he removed no more officials than Jefferson‚ he succeeded in diversifying the system. Since he believed that the power belonged to the people‚ Jackson instituted

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    of wartime deaths. After the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan on December 7‚ 1941‚ it became clear that a mass amount of penicillin needed to be produced in order to win the war. The U.S. was able to produce 2.3 million portions of penicillin in order to prepare for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Penicillin soon was known as the “miracle drug” of the war‚ curing diseases and saving the lives of millions. The discovery of penicillin changed the lives of everyone on the globe‚ but it also changed the

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    Why Was Wifi Important

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    days because‚ almost everything is done online.Wifi was invented in 1940 by Hedy Lamar who was a model.. yes‚ everybody has this question when they first hear about the invention of wifi. It was invented by a model. Wifi is one of the most important inventions ever made. Wifi is really important for everybody. As of me‚ I think wifi changed my life the most. One of the reasons that wifi is really important in people’s lives is if there was no wifi people wouldn’t be able to do certain jobs

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    Why Was Atlantis Lost

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    Atlantis is a legendary city that was first described in the work of a Greek philosopher named‚ Plato. Many people believe that the city became lost or some might say it disappeared or sank. This being said‚ Atlantis still remains as a mystery 2‚000 years later and many conspiracy theories were created. A few theories are‚ Atlantis was mid-Atlantic‚ Atlantis was Antarctica‚ and Atlantis was the legendary Minoan civilization. Overall‚ Atlantis did once exist and can possibly be ‘till this day. First

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    Why Was Clayton Wrong

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    Clayton Was Wrong About Japan Clayton was born in a middle-class household to two White parents and raised Protestant. His Great Grandfather served in World War 2 fighting against Japan in the Pacific Theater. Coming from rural Indiana‚ he was not often exposed to people who weren’t also White Protestants of a similar class. Clayton was an American through and through. You could say that he bled red‚ white‚ and blue. He was very nationalistic about the United States‚ often saying things such as‚

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    17th Amendment

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    17th Amendment The Seventeenth Amendment made it so there would be two senators from each one of the states‚ voted in by the people. The senators would be given a six year term and have one vote each. They added an article to the amendment so when vacancies happen in the senators seat the state legislation would assign someone until the people voted a senator in. The old way of picking state senators was by state legislatures choice. This way was used to make sure that the federal government

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    Why Was Slavery Abolished

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    Slavery was the trade that during the 18th and 19th centuries provided the West Indies and places like it with males and females to do work on the plantations. The slaves were wanted to make the plantation owners work a lot easier. They were split into three groups known as gangs according to their health and physique. The first gang consisted of the strongest and healthiest and they cleared‚ holed and planted the ground before crop time and cut the canes‚ fed the mills and attended to the manufacture

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    16th Amendment

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    16th Amendment- Status of Income Tax Clarified. Ratified 2/3/1913 What it is- The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes‚ from whatever source derived‚ without apportionment among the several States‚ and without regard to any census or enumeration. Reason for ratification- In 1895‚ in the Supreme Court case of Pollock v Farmer’s Loan and Trust (157 U.S. 429)‚ the Court disallowed a federal tax on income from real property. The tax was designed to be an indirect

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