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- 1691: The Twenties And Thirties
- ... All of the thirties were known as The Great Depression. It was probably called that because of the stock market collapse and the millions of people without jobs. In the twenties, industry took a very big step. The automotive industry was the largest industry there was. The assembly line made mass production possible, and the industry boomed. Henry Ford’s assembly line, located in Detroit, Michigan, was the largest one in ... buy a car because of all of the banks going under. Millions of people lost whole fortunes. Since no one had the money for a car, the cars were not being sold. This caused a big problem. The dealers were very optimistic. They continued to make cars hoping that sales would go up. The new credit law was a wonderful idea. It allowed people to purchase items like a television or ...
- 1692: Providing Jobs For The Disabled
- ... at Woolworth and its good to have your customers appreciate the workers and vise versa. Why would Woolworth encourage other businesses to hire disabled just as they do? Those other businesses may very well be big competing businesses. Never the less there is still plenty of ways Woolworth can benefit from it. Since they are encouraging others they look like a leader, or the superior Corporation that others follow. Those that ... have the easier time finding more employees and can pick the better workers rather than whoever comes along. To sum it all up, if you set a lead by example it makes that company look big and other companies follow in the footsteps. Though outweighed by benefits, there are definitely costs and drawbacks for hiring disabled. For example, a mentally disabled individual may be great at stocking shelves or something that ...
- 1693: Television Violence and Children
- ... the television, and the children who view it are often pulled into its realistic world of violence scenes with sometimes devastating results. Much research has gone into showing why children are so mesmerized by this big glowing box and the action that takes place within it. Research shows that it is definitely a major source of violent behavior in children. The research proves time and time again that aggression and television ... of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Young children cannot seem to get enough of these fictional characters and will portray them often. Another reason why television violence causes violence in children is apparent in the big cities. Aggressive behavior was more acceptable in the city, where a child’s popularity rating with classmates was not hampered by his or her aggression. (Huesmann 166). In the bigger cities, crime and violence is ...
- 1694: Capitalism: The Cause Of Slave
- ... treated. The founders of the Carolina colonies were not only interested in the use of slaves in the solution of their labor problems of too much work not enough workers, but they had a very big material interest. The use of slave labor, was a coerced, cash-crop system of labor from which slavery became an economic necessity because for a person who owned land they needed workers, and these workers ... one crop oriented, cotton or tobacco, and this lead to cash crops rather than supplying for the colonies themselves. The plantation gentry or Masters as they were called by the slaves, never thought of the ‘big picture’ involving cash crops, only their own well being and how much money they were going to make whether physical force was used or not. Slavery and the plantation system led to agricultural methods that ...
- 1695: History Of Rap
- ... in rap on the song “Rapper’s Delight” by Sugarhill Gang. “I said a hip hop, hippie to the hippie, the hip, hip a hop, and you don't stop, a rock it to the bang bang boogie, say, up jump the boogie, to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat.”. In addition to rap music, the hip-hop subculture also formed other methods of expression like break dancing, graffiti art, a ...
- 1696: The Gilded Age
- ... fearful kind of work, that began at four o’clock in the morning, and that wore out the most powerful men in a few years”(Sinclair101). The gap between rich and poor had grown so big, in fact that bosses only cared about success, and not the means necessary to achieve success. By allowing such blatant problems in working condition for the workers, the employers and aristocracy in many cases displayed ... unbiased if forced to. American government had become an aristocracy. One example of the manipulation of government by individual enterprise was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The Sherman Anti-Trust was originally meant to restrict big businesses from merging and forming trusts. The act was also passed in order to avoid monopolies. This act, as well as the Interstate Commerce Committee were both toothless regulatory acts which were ultimately turned on ...
- 1697: The Computer
- ... during the year 1945 by the Americans to help them decode enemy secret codes during the Second World War. At this time the computers were huge and only used by governments because they were as big as room. This was because the main thing they used were vacuum valves which made the computer enormous. They also never had anything to hold any memory so they couldn't actually be classed as a true computer. The introduction of a way to store a file was brought around in the year 1954. The computer did not have a big impact on the community until about the year 1985 Commodore released a gange of computers called the Commodore 64 and also another Commodore computer called the Vic 20 which was released in the year 1982 ...
- 1698: Telecommunication
- ... From letting you call John in Calgary to letting you make a withdraw at your friendly ATM machine they control the flow of information. But today's complicated and expensive networks did not start out big and complicated but rather as a wire and two terminals back in 1844. From these simple networks to the communication giants of today we will look at the evolution of the network and the basis ... Other CCITT standards that followed were the V.32 (9600 bps), the V.32bis (14400 bps), the V42 (error control), and the V42bis (data compression). Virtually all modems today conform to these standards. The next big computer invention was the fax modem. It uses the on-off data transmission just as a modem but for the purpose of creating a black and white image. Each on-off signal represents a black ...
- 1699: To Be Or Not
- ... of this decay. Questioning the state of the world keeps us awake at nights, a sure recipe for burnout and loss. So, the tendency is to settle into one’s corner, and forget about the big questions. Nevertheless, we keep returning to a basic truth. The way things look; civilization is likely, during the coming of the century, to suffer greatly, unless things change. Humanity could even become extinct together with ... This was a triumph for destruction, a massive virus having much potency today. The unwillingness of world powers in the early-1990s sends a message that the New World order cares only when there is big money involved. This suspicion encourages a world culture of self-interest, which is ominous for the future. The abrupt comfort and fake inability of those in a position to affect the situation was a classic ...
- 1700: 1950’s Youth Culture
- ... style spawned off of this belief. I watched the movie "Grease" to see how teenage Greasers lived and where they hung out. Places like the drive- in movie theater or the soda pop stand. Another big style was that of the surfers on the west coast and in Hawaii. The sport became open to the public for the first time in this decade. Everyone had a surfboard, or should I say ... brought into just about everyone’s homes, making the radio programs obsolete. Many people believed that TV brainwashed your mind. Shows like "Leave it to Beaver" and "Superman" were common shows of entertainment. On the big screen rebels like Marlon Brando and James Dean were influencing young minds. Ed Sullivan was showing the world so many different talents from all sociaties. This is an interesting little story that I have to ...
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