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- 4191: Life with Bureaucracies
- ... basis. That is why the government incorporated the use of bureaucracy, where everyone would be treated equally, and would be taken care of by using particular routines. If all of the population did organization, the world would be in chaos and confusion. That is what bureaucracies set out to prevent. That is why bureaucracy seems to be better for some tasks than others. An example of bureaucracy being applied to a ... written rules, regulations, and procedure. Another example of a bureaucracy is the school system. It places emphasis on secondary relationships. The bureaucratic schedule that it operates on teaches children what to expect in the business world and the government, where they will spend most of their lives. Bureaucracy seems to be the best way to process large numbers of students into the impersonal, competitive career world than any other form of organization. It has a division of labor such as students and workers. The hierarchy is as follows: student, teacher, principal, president, superintendent, government. There are written rules and regulations ...
- 4192: Daycare: The Effects And What To Look For
- ... a woman in the work force is a growing trend. A study done by Wildavsky in 1997 stated that nearly 65% of women with children under the age of six are participating in the working world. Wit this many mothers working this means that about half of young American children spend time in the care of a non-parent for at least part of most work days(NICH, 1997,p. 16 ... below the state ratio allowing the child to form a secure attachments to their parental stand ins according to Talbot. This attachment is critical to the child to allow him to feel comfortable in his new environment. Once the parent feels that the child is comfortable and adjusted to their new place they may begin to wonder about things. Like what would happen if my child got sick at school, or a fire broke out the worries go on and on. The policy of the ...
- 4193: The History of the Pony Express
- ... April 3rd, 1860, the Pony Express started. The first rider named Henry Wallace left St. Joseph, Missouri. On April 13th the last rider reached Sacramento, California. To become a rider you had to be a brave young man, and an orphan, because it was a dangerous job. They had to be very good riders, and able to shoot good. And they must not fear Indian attacks. Every rider had to ride ... the Pony Express left St. Joseph, Missouri, on April 3, 1860. The stations where the riders could stop were 10 to 15 miles apart from each other. At some stations, a rider could get a new horse. Each rider had to ride about 75 miles before the mail was passed on to another rider. The schedule allowed eight days for mail to be carried from Missouri to California. The Pony Express ... the Civil War. The Pony Express helped keep California in the Union. The completion of the Transcontinental telegraph line ended the Pony Express in Oct of 1861. Hawgood, John. American Western Frontiers. Alfred A Knopf: New York. 1972 The Pony Express was born on April 3, 1860. It took only mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in under ten days, at the cost of $2 to $5 an ...
- 4194: Comparing Americans and Filipinos
- ... are known as Filipino Americans. In America, they have their differences in language, religion, and transportation. I believe that differences between the Philippines and the United States have not caused any severe problems to our world today but instead, has filled it with more variety and diversity. Filipino Americans are residents of the United States who track their ancestry to the Philippines. Many different nationalities move to the United States and ... second largest group of Asian Americans after Chinese Americans. There have been more than 1.4 million Filipino Americans in the United States. A majority of them are living in California, with smaller populations in New Jersey, Hawaii, Illinois, and New York. I, myself, am a Filipino American. The language of the Philippines is very different from the United States. There is an assortment of languages spoken between the Philippines and the United States. English ...
- 4195: G. Carter Bentley
- ... to look at experiences people go through we have to distinguish between the different domains of experience and social practice. Analysis of different domains will tell us how they influence people s perception of the world, of their place in society as members of a group. Because this process involves interrelationships, it is important to focus on the experience of interaction. Secondly, there must be an analysis of discourses by the ... between social structure and ethnic consciousness" (Bentley 1987: 40). Hence the need to focus on the objective context and subjective conscious of identity. Bentley also focuses on how ethnic identity and ethnicity in the modern world have become important as a medium for collective action. These forms, according to Bentley, cannot be accounted for by shared sentiment (as described by the instrumentalist approach). Rather, ethnic groups are "products of complex social ... Bentley 1987: 43) A breakdown in such regimes (as a result of leadership, for example), will necessarily lead to a crisis in ethnic identity. Symbolic domination, then, requires " sufficient integration of preconscious assumptions about the world to maintain a functional complementarity of perception and motivation among leaders and followers" (Bentley 1987: 44). If such functional complementarity breaks down (i.e. as a response to political or economic changes) leading to ...
- 4196: Teenage Violence: A National Plague
- ... present a scenario that will hopefully open your eyes and give you a sense of how extremely troublesome violence is among our children. Please picture this: A 14 year old boy has moved to a new city in the middle of his school year. He is very upset because he has left all his friends behind and he disregards the fact that he could probably meet new friends if he would only try. He is in the 8th grade and he feels afraid of the other boys at his new school. He acts tough and has been in two fights in the last week. Because he is getting a reputation for as a (quote) "tough kid" he thinks that carrying a knife will make ...
- 4197: Ancient Egypt
- ... Egypt approximately 7,000BC. Humans were finally able to use the rich silt brought by the yearly flooding of the Nile River which annually flooded since 60,000 years ago. The Nile River is the world's longest river , it is approximately 4,160 miles long and flows from the highlands in Central Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. It is the main reason why the Ancient Egyptians were such a successful ... that the pharaohs were descendants of the sun god, Amon-Ra. A "dynasty" is a government where the right to rule passes father to son. Occasionally these dynasties were overthrown or died out and a new dynasty is formed. The first dynasty was said to have been establish by King Menes who united Upper Egypt with Lower Egypt. There are about 30 dynasties that ruled Egypt, historians and archeologists have divided the history of Egypt into three parts based on these dynasties. The Old Kingdom(2,700BC to 2,200BC), the Middle Kingdom(2,050BC to 1,800BC), and the New Kingdom or Empire Age(1,570BC to 1,090BC). With every ancient society we have seen a unique religion, the Egyptians are no exception. Egyptian mythology or religion did not influence their culture as ...
- 4198: Jewish History
- ... however, led to four major conflicts between Israel and the Arab countries. One of the most meaningful wars was the Six-Day War. Events such as the holocaust have also had a dramatic effect on world history and whose mysteries are still being unravelled. For twelve years following 1933 the Jews were persecuted by the Nazi's. Jewish businesses were boycotted and vandalized. By 1939,Jews were no longer citizens,could ... engage in practically any business or profession, own any land, associate with any non-Jew or visit public places such as parks and museums. The victories of the German armies in the early years of World War II brought the majority of European Jewry under the Nazis. The Jews were deprived of human rights. The Jewish people were forced to live in Ghetto's which were separated from the main city ... died in the gas chambers of the Nazi concentration camps. This has put a psychological strain on Jewish survivors or no longer having family and friends with them for support. This event has awaken the world up to the needs of the Jewish people. It has given them political power and a justification for some of their actions. On May recognised,1945 ,the end of World War II was seen. ...
- 4199: Comparison Of Nicholas I And Nicholas Ii
- ... and soldiers who had fought in Europe during the Napoleonic wars and favored reform in Russia. This uprising occurred in the month of December and the rebels became known in Russian history as Decembrists. The new czar ordered the principal leaders killed and the rest exiled to Siberia. He felt there was something wrong with the government of the country, and he thought that Russia needed more discipline rather than liberal ... reformed finances, and attempted to set limits to serfdom. He made the censorship of newspaper and all opinion even stricter than before, and set up a secret police organization with spies throughout the country. These new measures made him and his government unpopular to say the least. Nicholas foreign policy was directed towards the east. He increased Russian territory at the expense of Persia soon after he came to the throne ... Greece, Egypt, India, and Japan before he became czar. In 1849, he received the crown and married the German princess Alexandra of Hesse, who bore four daughters and a son. Russian liberals had hoped the new czar, who was a pleasant and friendly young man, would grant badly needed reforms and lift his country to a position among the free, progressive nations of the world. Nicholas was wholly unsuited to ...
- 4200: Jewish History
- ... however, led to four major conflicts between Israel and the Arab countries. One of the most meaningful wars was the Six-Day War. Events such as the holocaust have also had a dramatic effect on world history and whose mysteries are still being unravelled. For twelve years following 1933 the Jews were persecuted by the Nazi's. Jewish businesses were boycotted and vandalized. By 1939,Jews were no longer citizens,could ... engage in practically any business or profession, own any land, associate with any non-Jew or visit public places such as parks and museums. The victories of the German armies in the early years of World War II brought the majority of European Jewry under the Nazis. The Jews were deprived of human rights. The Jewish people were forced to live in Ghetto's which were separated from the main city ... died in the gas chambers of the Nazi concentration camps. This has put a psychological strain on Jewish survivors or no longer having family and friends with them for support. This event has awaken the world up to the needs of the Jewish people. It has given them political power and a justification for some of their actions. On May recognized,1945 ,the end of World War II was seen. ...
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