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- 801: THE GRAPES OF WRATH
- ... better pest control, productive machinery, public investments in irrigation and transportation, and better management will increase farm output. The resulting oversupply of farm products, which creates a low profit margin, drives smaller farms out of business. Smaller farms lack the capital and income to buy the machinery they need to compete with larger farms (Long 85). Many see this tendency towards consolidation and mechanization of farms to be harmful to the ... benefits hurt the small farmer. Marketing orders and tax breaks hurt small operators by giving more money to bigger farms. Big farms can then overproduce and undersell using advanced machinery, driving lesser farms out of business (Fox 28). Subsidies also allow foreign markets to become competitive by artificially raising market prices (Long 91). Artificially raising market prices create a surplus that would normally be solved by the free market system. In a theoretical free market, overproduction would drive excess farms out of business, until equilibrium would establish itself for both price and quantity of farm products. Subsidies allow inefficient farms to continue to exist, which creates an inefficient economic system. Subsidies also increase the cost of other ...
- 802: Civil Rights
- ... SCLC The greatest contribution of the SCLC was their protests in racist Southern cities. These protests were intended to create such public disorder that the local government would end segregation in order to restore normal business activity. The demonstrations needed many devoted protesters who were willing to protest as long as necessary to achieve their goal and who were also willing to be arrested and sent to jail. Their first campaign ... of the world was shocked by the events in Birmingham, and the reaction to the violence increased support for black civil rights. In Birmingham white leaders promised to negotiate an end to some segregation practices. Business leaders agreed to hire and promote more black employees and to desegregate some public accommodations. More important, however, the Birmingham demonstrations built support for national legislation against segregation. Southern Colleges get Desegregated In 1962 a ... Rights Act of 1964, passed in the Kennedy/Johnson era, was by far the climax of the civil rights movement. With this act, Jim Crow laws in any shape or form, by any person or business, were now illegal. Completing the civil rights legislation passed in the 60's was the Civil Rights Act of 1968. It aimed chiefly at ending discrimination in the sale or rental of housing. One ...
- 803: Geoffrey Chaucer
- ... or poor, happy nor sad. Rather, it was the intermingling of these, a mixture of splendor and poverty, displaying both worldly desire and spiritual purity. Chaucer¦s travels through it, mostly on ¦the King¦s business,_ or civil service, shaped his writing, offering the readers of today a brief glimpse into the world in which he lived. Chaucer lived from approximately AD 1340 to 1400. The world in which he lived was not one of peace or stability. Born the son of a London vintner, he remained a Londoner for most of the rest of his life, leaving the city only on ¦the King¦s business_. The city of London was thus Chaucer¦s environment for most of his life. Aside from brief visits into other countries or areas of England, he remained in the city, and it¦s affects on ... age of fourteen, a page in the household of the wife of Prince Lionel, the second son of Edward III. He held this position for some time. Chaucer¦s first appearance into the king¦s business appeared in October of 1360, when he carried letters from Calais to England during peace negotiations there. For this service he held the official title of clerk of the king attached to the person ...
- 804: Henry Ford
- The Success of a Man To say that Henry Ford dilly-dallied around before finally establishing a serious car company would be invalid. The 40 year old man had been acquiring valuable knowledge regarding business, engines, management, and most importantly cars. Now it was time to take a leap of faith. In 1903 the Ford Motor Company came to be. Ford, along with other investors including John and Horace Dodge ... 1913 he had established assembly plants in Canada, Europe, Australia, South America, and Japan. At this point, the Ford Motor Company was the largest manufacturer of cars in the world. In 1914 Ford astonished the business world by more than doubling the minimum wage for his workers, raising it from about $2.50 to $5. He argued that if his employees earned more, the company would sell more cars to them ... It was only two years later in 1943 when Henry Ford s son, Edsel Ford died at age 49, and the president of the company. Henry himself was incapable of running the plants and managing business. He died in 1947 at the age of 83 in his hometown. He died a rich man; his fortune ranged somewhere between $500 and $700 million. Yet more importantly he died an accomplished man, ...
- 805: Van Gogh
- ... Gallery. He was very content working there. He was in the world of art, "a world full of paintings gorgeously framed and temptingly hung. "(Elizabeth, Lawrence Hanson 16) He was encouraged to learn how the business ran, furthermore he was encouraged to acquire knowledge. One may ask, how does a person learn about business? The first thing is to watch and observe how your boss deals with clients. Also ask questions such as, how much do you clear after selling a painting? How much do you have to pay for rent? By asking questions and observing one may learn very fast on how to run a business. Van Gogh showed much promise at the art gallery. "Everyone likes to deal with Vincent said his boss"(Wilkie Kenneth 32) On his spare time Van Gogh would leave early in the morning and " ...
- 806: The Recent Negative Effect of Technology on Society
- ... amount of workers needed and improve output, then they can reduce the price of their product. If the company in New York doesn't follow in their footsteps then they could be forced out of business. In this case the company is forced into buying the machines just so they can stay in business. This has a negative effect on the employees who will be replaced by the new machines. When a city wants to attract tourists by building better roads to lessen traffic there is a mistake because ... there will be severe counter-effects on society if all of these modes of transportation are taken away. Humans take for granted these modes of transportation. Humans often live miles away from their place of business. No transportation means there is no way to get to work unless you switch to a job within walking range of your house. No transportation means no money and eventually no food. The reliance ...
- 807: The Republic
- ... is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind. Where then there is such a difference as that between soul and body, or between men and animals (as in the case of those whose business is to use their body, and who can do nothing better), the lower sort are by nature slaves, and it is better for them as for all inferiors that they should be under the rule ... but, as a general rule, private; for, when everyone has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business. Also, we see that there is much more quarreling among those who have all things in common, though there are not many of them when compared with the vast numbers who have private property. Socrates ... this is not permitted in Sparta and Crete. It would seem also to be a bad principle that the same person should hold many offices, which is a favorite practice among the Carthaginians, for one business is better done by one man. The legislator should see to this and should not appoint the same person to be a flute-player and a shoemaker. In the legislation of Charondas there is ...
- 808: American Foreign Policy Towards Cuba
- ... country for many years, often through puppet presidents. In 1944 Batista lost the election and stepped down. Batista went to lived in Miami but was convinced to return to the Cuban political scene by American business and Mafia interests. He was brought back to power by a bloodless coup in 1952 and canceled elections scheduled three months away. Washington quickly recognized Batista’s new government. On December 2, 1956 Fidel Castro ... the three oil refineries. In response on July 3 the US congress passed the “Sugar Act” completely eliminating Cuba’s remaining sugar quota for the US. On July 5 Cuba retaliated by nationalizing all US business and commercial property. On October 19 the US imposed a partial economic blockade of Cuba that excludes food and medicine, and on October 24 Cuba passes the Urban Reform Law that nationalized more properties owned ... to Brothers To The Rescue resulting in the death of four exiles. The downing of the two planes causes the passing in congress of the Helms-Burton Act. It imposes penalties on foreign companies doing business in Cuba, permits US citizens to sue foreign investors who make use of American-owned property seized by the Cuban government, and denies entry into the US to such foreign investors. The European Union, ...
- 809: Charles Lazarus and the History of Toys R Us
- ... time in his father's bicycle shop when he was young. When he grew older, he helped his father fix the bikes and serve customers, as well as give input on how to improve the business. Charles didn't understand why their store didn't sell new bikes, and his father explained that larger stores could buy the bikes cheaper in large quantities and therefore could sell them at discounted prices ... of his ambitiousness and hard work ethics, Charles decided to go into retailing. It was his father's example as well as his years spent in the bicycle shop that gave him much of his business training. II. The History of Toys "R" Us During the post war years of the late forties and early fifties, Charles Lazarus anticipated the baby boom because many soldiers were being discharged from the Army and were beginning to start families. In 1948, he borrowed $2,000 and started his first business, selling baby furniture. His first shop was 40 feet by 60 feet, filled with cribs and baby furniture. After two years of operation, Lazarus realized that many customers had been asking if he stocked ...
- 810: Birth Of Nazism
- ... the devastation of World War I, and the Bolshevik Revolution. Fascism a philosophy or a system of government that advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of aggressive nationalism. It celebrates the nation or the race as an organic community surpassing all other loyalties. This right-wing philosophy will cal for violent action to assure total ... ideal government would be fashioned around the good of the community or nation. Everyone would work solely for the benefit of the nation. Regularly this would take place with the merging of the state and business leadership, with concern only of the nation. In this, the nation will also take care of its members if the need should arise. This could be in the form of money, shelter, food, or any ... the future of the National Socialism, nor where he intended to take Germany. (Bullock, 1962). Nazism did not gain wide support throughout the nation until the Great Depression in 1929, which began with a worldwide business slump. Discontented Germans turned to Nazism in increasing numbers, drawn to it by the promises of economic help, political power, and national glory. Finally in the elections of 1932, the Nazis emerged as the ...
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