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- 191: Child Labor
- ... Founded in 1904, it was a militant organization made up of men and women who believed that a healthy, happy, normal childhood was the rightful heritage of all children. The NCLC wanted to ban the employment of children under fourteen years of age in most occupations, and under sixteen in dangerous trades such as mining. For all children, the NCLC demanded an eight hour day, no night work and mandatory work ... Throughout the segregated South, mill work was reserved for whites, blacks were seldom hired. Most mill hands were white share-croppers and tenant farmers who had abandoned worn-out farms for the promise of steady employment in the mills. Entire families left their farms to work in the mills. Many of the children, in fact most, quit school at an early age, or never went at all. Their parents, who often ...
- 192: Business Cycle
- ... the business cycle is not predictable, but its phases seem to be. Many economists site four phasesprosperity, liquidation, depression, and recovery. During a period of prosperity, a rise in production leads to increases in employment, wages, and profits. Obstacles then begin to obstruct further expansion. Production costs can increase, helping create a rise in prices, and consumers buy less. Inventories accumulate, causing price declines. Manufacturers begin to diminish; workers are ... and factory shutdowns occur. Unemployment becomes widespread. A depression is in progress. Recovery may be initiated by a reawakening in consumer demand or government action to stimulate the economy. Prices rise more rapidly than costs. Employment increases, and people buy more. Investment expands. A new cycle is under way. (msnencarta.com) (http://www.keystone-web.com/buscycle.html) Business cycles do not always behave as neatly as the model just given ...
- 193: Computer System Analysts
- ... analysts or serve as project leaders" (Computer 1). Because of the highly technical nature of their field, computer systems analysts are one of the most sought after occupations today, both by those seeking to find employment and those searching to employ them. In fact, there is such a demand for computer systems analysts at the moment, that they often make a terrific base salary and are wooed by companies. These companys ... Raymond "Comparing Undergraduate Courses in Systems Analysis and Design." Communications of the ACM, May 1996: v39, 113. "Systems Analysis." Webster's New World Dictionary. (3rd edit.) Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1996. U.S. Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration. "Systems Analyst." Dictionary of Occupational Titles. (4th edit.) Revised 1991 : 44 "What Skills are Needed to be a Successful Systems Analyst?" http://www.coba.wright.edu/msis/mis321/slides/ch1/sld008.htm ...
- 194: Who We Are
- ... build an economic standing community by increasing blacked own businesses, investment, money management, and the reduction of governmental policies that are race specific. In other words the government must provide equal access to quality education, employment for all Americans ( Williamso 332). Our present economic status can be blame on our past if there is blame is to be made. Other races are able to identify with home countries to improve their ... Atlanta Compromise. Another problem that seems to ride in the black communities is the vast unemployment rates. Blacks not being employed like they should clearly puts a damper on the economic situation. In book, Black Employment: The Impact of Religion , Economic Theory, Politics, and Law, Irving Kovarsky explains that: The unemployment rate for Blacks is Twice that for whites. In fact it is higher for nonwhite high school graduates than for ...
- 195: Affirmative Action
- Affirmative Action Despite its intentions to create a country in which every person, regardlless of his or her race, sex, or origin, has an equal oppurtunity to employment and education, the benefits of affirmative action are quicklly coming to an end. Supporters of affirmative action claim that it allows those individuals who have been discriminated against in the past to get the jobs ... discrimination. By highlighting the fact that some groups of people because of their sex, color, or origin, need special rules to advance in our society, affirmative action only increases discrimination. Those people who are denied employment or education at the school of their choice because a certain number of minorities must be admitted, are undeniably hostile towards the groups that they see as "taking their jobs." If we continue to stress ...
- 196: Body Modifications
- ... their mother, father, grandfather, etc. sends out a certain sympathetic message saying that they loved this person dearly and they died. In the world today, people are at a constant struggle with each other over employment. One person is more qualified than the next and employers want to hire the best person for the job. What impression would the employer get if someone came on an interview with piercings and tattoos ... the supervisors noticed and commented on the tongue stud. Being mostly middle aged white guys; their reactions were mostly predictable. One guy actually asked me about the tongue stud, then repeatedly reminded me that my employment was contingent on passing a drug test. I patiently tried to explain to him that the stud in my tongue didn't mean that I was on drugs any more than the color of his ...
- 197: Little Irish Kids, Another Whi
- ... these feelings. The ways at which Swift camouflages his ideas and thoughts throughout this essay brought many readers at the time to think that he actually wanted Ireland to revert to eating their children. His employment of such literary elements of irony, mix cynicism, and pure contextual reaction from the reader help to map the entire essay. Thoughout the work, Swift persistently relies upon the use of irony. It is quite ... children of which Swift writes has more of an impact than that of one in which the writer might actually be profoundly troubled over such a famine. The affect that is risen by Swift s employment of a mixture of sarcasm, irony, and cynicism into his tone is one of clearity. It is his lack of expectations towards a good outcome that exalts the tone of Swift s paper to a ...
- 198: Something Happened! - The Sexual Harassment Suit of the Nancy Hart and the Police of City of Peabody
- ... and four male officers. When the City hired them as Police Officers, all six were informed of one of the conditions the job. One of the conditions would be required to sign a conditions of employment form. If they did not sign the form they would not be hired. The six officers signed the employment agreement not knowing they were required to, because it was not agreeable to the Police Union first. The Pre-emolyment conditions are the following: 1. Pass a psychological exam given by the City 2. Pass ...
- 199: Becoming A Professional Chef
- ... to be adept in the food service techniques, but knowledgeable in business practices. The primary purpose of being in business is what? To make money. There are professionals to handle such obstacles, accountants,tax advisors,employment agencies and lawyers. But the chef has a daily involvement in accounting, wage employment law, and all aspects of running a business. The chef therefore must develop the daily operations of the restaurant. The daily operation will include; menu planning and layout, marketing to the public, organizing the staff ...
- 200: Macbeth - Power Shifts
- ... DISCUSS THE TECHNIQUES USED IN ONE OR MORE PLAYS, WHICH DRAW OUT ATTENTION TO THE POWER SHIFTS BWTWEEN CHARACTERS. The text Macbeth by famous playwright William Shakespeare portrays a dramatic power struggle by the careful employment of various literary techniques. " In the tragedy Macbeth emotive language and soliloquy have been employed to emphasize the struggle for domination between the characters. The main theme of Macbeth, the desire for power and dominance ... to the representation of the main themes of evil opposing goodness. Each detail of Shakespeare's imagery contains important symbols of the play, which aid the further understanding of the text. An example of this employment of light and dark imagery is demonstrated in Lady Macbeth's first invocation to darkness, when she declares: "Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife sees ...
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