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- 1731: Lewis and Lewis, P.C Accounting Firm
- ... television and VCR. The seating is limited to fourteen people. Task and Job Description Tasks are distributed on the basis of specialization: auditing, tax, government and consulting. Very few tasks are performed by routine; each day may include new procedures for each employee. Jobs in this accounting firm are created by the customers' needs, and therefore vary greatly from client to client. Each employee does most of his work based on ... new obstacles. All the employees and partners at Lewis & Lewis feel that the firm is very flexible on most issues that are important to the staff. Employees are able to schedule dentist appointments during the day and make up time on the weekends or after hours. Several members of the staff are currently enrolled in classes that meet during the day. While Lewis & Lewis attempts to be flexible on these matters, they are not willing to allow the clients' work to suffer; employees are expected to maintain specified work loads. This same flexibility has created ...
- 1732: Humans Soon to be Extinct... Say it ain't so!!
- ... Business Week (iss.3489), n.p. (Cd Rom), Infotrack access # 029934198 Harding, G. (1995) ***Broecker's Warning PP 1-9 access on 11/07/96 at http://members.aol.com/trajcom/private/broecker.htm McLean, D. (August 13,1996) ***Dinosaur-Greenhouse Extinction Theory pp1-5 accessed on 11/6/96 at http://www.vt.edu:10021/artsci/geo...saur_ Volcano_Extinction/index.html McLean, D. (1995) ***Greenhouse Vertebrate Killing Mechanism PP1-2, accessed on 11/7/96 at: http://www.vt.edu:edu:10021/artsci/geo...r_Volcano_ Extinction/killmech.html McLean, D. (1995) ***Holistic Earth Causal Loop Diagram pp1-2 accessed on 11/07/96 at http://www.vt.edu:10021/artsci/geo...r_volcano_ Extinction/Earthcau.html Smith, R. (Nov 26,1994) ***Doctors and Climatic ...
- 1733: Guy Fawkes
- ... caught, tortured and executed. Guy Fawkes and his friends had rolled 36 barrels of gunpowder into the cellar and covered them with faggots under the House of parliament(Encyclopedia Americana 91). These days Guy Fawkes Day is also known as Bonfire Night. The event is commemorated every year with fireworks and burning an effigy of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire. The effigies are simply known as "Guys." Some of the English ... associates, nearly all of whom were killed on being taken or were hanged along with Fawkes on January 31, 1606. The Gunpowder Plot is commemorated annually in the United Kingdom on November 5; on this day it is the custom to burn Guy Fawkes in a ragged effigy. The slang work guy is derived from these effigies. In 1593 Guy Fawkes enlisted in the Spanish army of the Netherlands and became ... he was chosen by Robert Catesby and the other Catholic conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot to execute their plan to blow up Parliament when it assembled to hear James I on Nov. 5, 1605. The day before the gunpowder was to be detonated, the plot was discovered. Fawkes was taken into custody and later executed in 1606(World Book 99). November 5 was made a day of thanksgiving, and it ...
- 1734: Maya Angelou 5
- ... off. By 1934, two fifths of home owners lost their houses, and New York listed 100 deaths from starvation. About 37% of American had irregular eating habits, and generally did not get three meals a day. Only about 8% were getting only one meal a day, and this was not stolid food. Day after day, people lived off of bread, potatoes, macaroni, spaghetti, canned soups and thin gravy. Meat and vegetables were rarely served. A common response, often heard, when children were asked if they had eaten ...
- 1735: Corporate Development During the Industrial Revolution
- Corporate Development During the Industrial Revolution The Standard Oil Company founded by John D. Rockefeller and the U.S. Steel Company founded by Andrew Carnegie. The Standard Oil Company and U.S. Steel Company were made successful in different ways due to the actions of their different owners. The ... cost too much and were inefficient. By doing this he was able to undersell his competetors because they had to pay the competitors they went through to get the raw materials. Unlike Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller integrated his oil business from top to bottom, his distinctive innovation in movement of American industry was horizontal. This meant he followed one product through all its stages. For example, rockrfeller controlled the oil ... refining process turning it into gasoline. Although these two powerful men used two different methods of management their businesses were still very successful (Conlin, 425-426). Tycoons like Andrew Carnegie, "the steel king," and John D. Rockefeller, "the oil baron," exercised their genius in devising ways to circument competition. Although, Carnegie inclined to be tough-fisted in business, he was not a monopolist and disliked monopolistic trusts. John D. Rockefeller ...
- 1736: Unions
- ... reduction in wages, at this time they boasted a membership of 700,000. 1886 was a troubled year for labor relations. There were nearly 1,600 strikes involving 600,000 workers, with the eight-hour day being the important item for all of the strikes. Failure of some of the strikes and internal conflicts between the skilled workers and the unskilled led to a decline in the Knights popularity and influence ... printers, the merchant seamen, steel workers, carpenters and local units of the Knights of Labor. One of the most important items in the constitution created by the FOTLU recommended that the legal eight-hour work day be an objective for every union to achieve. The FOTLU thus accelerated a strong national push for a shorter work week. The AFL grew from 140,000 in 1886 to nearly on million by 1900 ... often preferred striking over political action. The struggle for workers rights, wage increases and protests against wage cuts were often unsuccessful resulting in violence and death. Chicago workers were agitating for the eight-hour work day for months. On May 1st and 2nd 1886 were eighty thousand workers went on strike, bringing most of Chicagos manufacturing to a standstill. On May 3rd a fight between hundreds of strikers and ...
- 1737: The Lottery
- ... at the end leads us to think of where the sanity of some human beings lies. The story begins with the establishment of the setting. To begin, Shirley Jackson tells the reader what time of day and what time of year the story takes place. This is important to get the reader to focus on what a typical day it is in this small town. The time of day is set in the morning and the time of year is early summer. She also describes that school has just recently let out for summer break, letting the reader infer that the time of ...
- 1738: Creatine
- ... body. About 95% of creatine is found in your skeletal muscles and the leftover 5% is found throughout your body mostly your heart, brain, and testes. Your body makes about one gram of ceatine a day and you eat about one gram a day making your total intake about two grams per day. Creatine is formed in the liver, pancreas, and kidneys, but the main source is found in the food you eat the food you eat mostly meat and fish. What exactly does it do? Well ...
- 1739: A Job At UPS
- ... and accidental death and dismemberment insurance. The driver also constantly moves about and can enjoy the scenery changes in the weather. The individual is not under continual supervision and uses personal judgment in pacing the day. A typical work week usually consists of a 5-day 40-hour schedule. The driver strive to keep the workday at 8 hours, but since the parcels must be delivered on time to maintain the company reputation, overtime work is occasionally is necessary. Also, the ... traffic, starting and stopping to deliver, and the repetition of duties may become tiring. The weather also plays an important role in working conditions and environment because one is exposed to it many times a day. The workers also must wear brown uniforms which aren't the best looking uniforms I've ever seen. Most companies provide the worker with free uniforms. Since the worker spends a lot of time ...
- 1740: Turkey Vultures
- ... smells given out by the bacteria that develop in meat change with the age of the carcass. Thus, vultures do not even bother to fly down to old carcasses as often as they do to day-old carrion. Only turkey vultures can locate food by smell; black and king vultures lack this ability completely. Once the scavenging birds find something dead in the wild, another set of unique abilities comes into ... fact, the infamous scavengers are actually finding themselves appreciated by some people. Each year, for example, thousands of people jam the town of Hinckley, Ohio, on one Sunday in March. The occasion is called Buzzard Day. This is the day that the vultures are scheduled to drift in from their southern wintering grounds. People from all over the area gather to watch their beloved birds reappear. Vultures are large birds of prey closely related ...
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