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- 2601: Social Security: A Brief History
- ... 74th Congress convened in January of 1935, FDR sent his "Economic Security Bill" to Capitol Hill in Washington. Shortly there after, the Bill was submitted to the Senate by Congress on January 17, 1935. The House Ways and Means Committee held hearings on the Bill from January 21 to February 12, 1935. During a Ways & Means meeting on March 1, 1935 Congressman Frank Buck (D-CA) made a motion to change ... to the "Social Security Act of 1935." The motion was carried by a voice vote of the Committee. On August 14, 1935 President Roosevelt signed the bill into law at a ceremony in the White House Cabinet Room. From 1937 until 1940, Social Security paid benefits in the form of a single, lump-sum payment. The purpose of these one-time payments was to provide some "payback" to those people who ...
- 2602: A Rose For Emily
- ... tied by the last remnants of mystique that surrounded her. They found it impossible to directly confront her - to evict her for not paying taxes - to approach her about the awful stench coming from her house. Moreover, when she went to the drugstore and requested the best poison that exist, arsenic, the druggist asked her why she wanted this poison because " the law requires you to tell what you are going ... father did not like loneliness, therefore he kept her beside him until his death. This fear of being alone was transmitted to Emily, who first would try to keep his father's body in the house and later, she would do anything to maintain Homer by her side. Her father, the dominant patriarch, robbed her of a husband and a female's existence that can find fulfillment only through marriage. Her ...
- 2603: Employee Assistance Programs
- ... EAP councilor has to collect data to evaluate performance. This will decide the value of the EAP services (Myers 74). Once this type of information is in place, it is time to decide how to house the program. There are several ways to do this. There are internal programs and external programs. Internal programs are staffed by actual employees of the company where external programs are staffed by companies that sell ... as accessible. Contractor These are for profit organizations that provide specific EAP services for fees. The client organization provides a coordinator as a link between the contractor and the employees. An example would be Nova House, an outpatient organization designed for the treatment of alcohol and drug rehabilitation. How to Help Gus and Sharon and Other Employees: A Conclusion Now to the point: how do employees like Gus and Sharon benefit ...
- 2604: Analysis Of Voice In Joyce Car
- ... leaves to go to a family barbeque down the street. Connie is left by herself and chooses to wash her hair instead of going to church. When she hears a car driving up to her house, her heart starts pounding, she pulls at her hair and says, Christ. Christ., not in reference to the Lord or religion in general but because she is worried about how bad she looks. This gives ... her when she opens the screen door. Connie replies by saying, Who the hell do you think you are? , a typical response of someone in that situation. If a complete stranger showed up at my house and talked to me as though we were best friends I would respond the same way. Throughout the story Oates continues to use vulgar language to illustrate the story and show how much Arnold Friend ...
- 2605: The Framing of the Constiution
- ... agreement was made. Finally, a solution, the Connecticut Compromise was set forth and accepted. It called for a bicameral legislature. There was to be a senate, in which every state would have two representatives. A House of Representatives, which was to be based on population, was also created. The states were finally all in agreement with this system of representation. The Constitution provides a framework to show how the government is ... right to Congress expending, an objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." This view, that Congress should follow the original intent of the Constitution, was restated even more forcefully on the floor of the House of Representatives two years later by William Giles of Virginia, who condemned a relief measure for fire victims. Giles insisted that it was not the purpose nor the right of Congress to "attend to what ...
- 2606: Kurt Cobain
- ... drummer", Dave Grohl. His drumming style was exactly what nirvana needed. Two months before Kurt's high school graduation he dropped out. This move made his mother angry so she kicked him out of the house. He lived with friends, and for a time he even lived under a bridge of the Wishkah River in Aberdeen. A few years later, in June of '89, Nirvana's first album was released, entitled ... their album with bands such as Pearl Jam and Red Hot Chili Peppers. In 1992 Nirvana kicked off their first world tour. That's when Nirvana started getting huge. A friend of Kurt's, Daniel House said, "When Nirvana started catching on he was sort of bewildered. His music was so personal it amazed him when people came out in droves to hear it." Around the same time Kurt decided to ...
- 2607: A Rose For Emily 6
- ... from the title symbolizes this absent love. It symbolizes the roses and flowers that Emily never received, the lovers that overlooked her. The domineering attitude of Emily's father keeps her to himself, inside the house, and alone until his death. In his own way, Emily's father shows her how to love. Through a forced obligation to love only him, as he drives off young male callers, he teaches his ... of men's clothing, including a nightshirt". However, Homer disappears when his work is through, leaving Emily once again without a rose. Within a couple of Adams 2 weeks Homer, is seen entering Emily's house late at night. Emily realizes that Homer has no plans to stay, so she demonstrates her love the only way she knows how, by killing him. In her own way, she forces Homer to love ...
- 2608: Teddy Roosevelt's Contribution to Natural Resources
- ... of President McKinley in 1901, Roosevelt took office. The first work he started as President was the work of reclamation. Before Roosevelt even had the chance to move into his new home at the White House, his old friends, Pinchot and Newell, called upon him at his sisterΉs house. There Pinchot and Newell laid before him their plans for National Irrigation of the WestΉs arid lands, and for the consolidation of the forest work in the Bureau of Forestry, which Pinchot was presently ...
- 2609: Government Spending & Budget
- ... include a tax increase, but most cuts would not take effect until he is out of office, in the year 2001. Although Clinton is sometimes criticized for producing a stalemate in budget talks, the White House points out that the debt has gone down since Clinton took office, with unemployment also falling. Republicans are quick to state that Clinton originally increased taxes in 1993 and cut defense programs, but his overall ... plan to reform Medicare called Medical Savings Accounts, unless his programs are left intact (Hager 752). Under Federal law, the President is required to submit budget requests in 2 forms: Budget This years White House budget was a 2,196 page document that the GOP struck down immediately for not cutting taxes enough and neglecting to downsize the government (Hagar 752). "There is little or no change at all in ...
- 2610: Of Mice And Men 3
- Everyone has a dream, whether it be earning a degree at some prestigious university, or having a stable job in order to own a house and support a family. In John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, he exhibits the fact that no matter how extreme or reasonable one's dream is, every person has the right and ability ... social ladder. Society has driven these two men to believing in the idea that they "ain't got nothing to look ahead to." Even though George and Lennie have a dream about owning "a little house and a couple of acres an' a cow and some pigs and rabbits"someday, their own individual faults hinder their dream from ever coming true. George's fatal flaw is that he puts to much ...
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