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- 1731: Labor And Unions In America
- ... decision was widely accepted. For many years following this decision, unions did not have to fear conspiracy charges. UNION STRUGGLES In the next two decades, unions campaigned for a 10-hour working day and against child labor. A number of state legislatures responded favorably. In 1851, for example, New Jersey passed a law calling for a 10-hour working day in all factories. It also forbade the employment of children under ... day, laws establishing a minimum weekly wage, the use of arbitration rather than strikes to settle disputes, laws to protect the health and safety of industrial workers, equal pay for equal work, an end to child labor under 14 years of age and government ownership of railroads, telegraphs and telephones. It was impossible for the Knights to operate in complete secrecy. Rumors of their activities reached the press. Newspaper stories usually ... than before. Employers are adapting to this work force diversity in several ways. Some sponsor education and training programs for potential recruits. Many, in an attempt to attract and accommodate women workers, provide on-site child care, and flexible hours. Others make special arrangements so they can hire more handicapped workers. One hotel chain, for example, uses lighted telephones and vibrating beepers so they can hire more hearing-impaired people. ...
- 1732: Mark Twain
- ... concoction of aloe, rhubarb, and a narcotic cost him most of his savings and money soon became tight (Paine 34-35). The family soon grew with the birth of Pamela late in 1827. Their third child,Pleasant Hannibal, did not live past three months, due to illness. In 1830 Margaret was born and the family moved to Pall Mall, a rural county in Tennessee. After Henry’s birth in 1832, the ... a successful business with her husband. Clemens was born on November 30, 1835, in the small remote town of Florida, Missouri. Samuel’s parents, John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens never gave up on their child, who was two months premature with little hope of survival. This was coincidentally the same night as the return of Halley’s Comet. The Clemenses were a superstitious family and believed that Halley’s Comet ... Innocents Abroad. Young novelist and editor William Deam Howells said the book contained an abundance of “pure human nature, such as rarely gets into literature...”(qtd. in Lyttle 110). Following the birth of their first child, Langdon Clemens in 1870, Twain set out to write Roughing It, a story recounting his early adventures as a miner and journalist; and The Gilded Age. The Gilded Age was an immediate hit with ...
- 1733: Oliver Twist: Summary
- Oliver Twist: Summary I Content - Characterizations Oliver Twist - A loving, innocent orphan child; the son of Edwin Leeford and Agnes Fleming. He is generally quiet and shy rather than aggressive. Oliver's affectionate nature, along with his weakness and innocence, earn him the pity and love of the ... naval officer. She left home in shame and died when her illegitimate son was born. Mr. Sowerberry - An undertaker; He accepts Oliver as an apprentice mourner. He is forced by his wife's cruelty to abuse the boy until Oliver runs away. Noah Claypolea - Charity boy. He torments Oliver. He is employed by Fagin, under the alias of Bolter, and spies on Nancy. He ends up as a police informer. Charley ...
- 1734: Ozzy Osbourne
- ... can mean hell on this earth, hell is on this earth.” As Ozzy grew with His music it changed in many ways because of the fact that his life was getting better and his drug abuse was slowing down His music started to take a different approach. It started to change from a lot of depression to things that were going on in the era he was in or things that ... and how they aren’t stopping the wars and how the people try with protests but the wars still go on with or without them. Ozzy becoming a father helped him realize that his drug abuse should come to an end. In the late eighties Ozzy went completely sober. He had previously been addicted to coke Cain and had a serious alcohol abuse problem. Ozzy had been heavily-drinking since he was thirteen. November 1984 Ozzy admitted himself into the Betty Ford clinic for rehab of drug and alcohol addiction. After getting out of rehab Ozzy becomes ...
- 1735: The Effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- ... million copies in its first sixteen months. What makes this accomplishment even more amazing is that this book was written by a woman during a time in history women were relegated to domestic duties and child rearing and were not allowed positions of influence or leadership roles in society. Legend holds that when Abraham Lincoln met Stowe in 1682 he said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book ... for profit or necessity, in different directions sometimes never see each other again. In her novel one mother, Eliza, bravely escapes the south by crossing the icy Ohio River to guarantee the safety of her child while another, Cassy, commits infanticide rather than force her child to endure the indignities of slave life. A third mother, Lucy, commits suicide when her ten-month-old son is sold away from her. Stowe uses the Victorian sanctity of the family to appeal ...
- 1736: Lord of the Flies: Characteristics of Children
- ... at times seem like little mischievous devils. Children enjoy having fun and causing trouble but under some supervision can be obedient little boys an d girls. Everybody, at one time in their lives, was a child and knows what it is like to have no worries at all. Children have their own interests and react to different things in peculiar and sometimes strange ways. For example, children are enchanted with Barney ... of young children. Children would choose to play and have fun rather than work. When children need to look for leadership and there are n o adults around to provide this, children look for another child who has adult-like qualities for leadership. Children are disobedient, violent and lose their innocence when there are no adults to supervise them. A child's life is a long and winding roa d in which they can be sidetracked quite easily.
- 1737: Changes To The Bill Of Rights
- ... juries refused to indict Bjornson, but the government is still penalizing him. TWICE PUT IN JEOPARDY OF LIFE OR LIMB: Members of the McMartin family in California have been tried two or three times for child abuse. Anthony Barnaby was tried for murder (without evidence linking him to the crime) three times before New Hampshire let him go. COMPELLED TO BE A WITNESS AGAINST HIMSELF: Oliver North was forced to testify against ...
- 1738: Lord of the Flies: Success of Golding's Portrayal of the Children
- ... at times seem like little mischievous devils. Children enjoy having fun and causing trouble but under some supervision can be obedient little boys an d girls. Everybody, at one time in their lives, was a child and knows what it is like to have no worries at all. Children have their own interests and react to different things in peculiar and sometimes strange ways. For example, children are enchanted with Barney ... of young children. Children would choose to play and have fun rather than work. When children need to look for leadership and there are n o adults around to provide this, children look for another child who has adult-like qualities for leadership. Children are disobedient, violent and lose their innocence when there are no adults to supervise them. A child's life is a long and winding roa d in which they can be sidetracked quite easily.
- 1739: Changes In Society From American Revolution To Modern Times
- ... close relationship with their parents. Education is one other area which needs "refining." In past decades and centuries, school teachers were allowed to punish the children physically for misbehavior in the classroom. Since the whole child abuse bandwagon was boarded, corporal punishment has been abolished. Since then behavior and respect towards teachers has been on the decline in public schools. Also, in education, there have been standardized tests set up for each ...
- 1740: Analysis Of An Essay On Aborti
- ... able to have children at all in the future or she will have complications becoming pregnant because of her weak uterus not being able to hold the baby. This may cause the death of the child as well as her life while having the baby. Maybe it was the way my family raised me when I was a child that causes this to be such a sensitive subject to me. My mother always told, “ If you play with fire, you are going to get burned,” whenever the subject of sex came up in our ... the abortion. Would she not rather have the baby and know that it was living a great life with a family that would take care of it, other than taking the life of her unborn child? Sometimes I wonder if people have a conscience or not.
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