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- 6381: Sweatshops 2
- ... garment workers perished in the fire. Days later, 80,000 people participated in a funeral procession up 5th Avenue. This tragedy, and its enormous public response, prompted the federal government to take action and establish control over the industry. In 1938, major legislation passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Fair Labor Standards Act, (FLSA) guaranteed a $.25 an hour minimum wage, prohibited child labor, and required that employers keep adequate ...
- 6382: Swaziland
- ... retain their native pattern of warfare and political integrity without interference from the outside world. This is due to their isolation in a remote corner of the Amazon. They have remained sovereign and in complete control of their own destiny up until a few years ago. The Swazi people live in a small land locked country border on three sides by South Africa. They have a wide range of ecological zones ...
- 6383: Subliminial Messages
- ... smokers (www.embedsevery). The positive effect of embeds is that the advertisers themselves believe that they are helping them sell their products. The negative effect of embeds is that they stimulate one's mind without control. If the viewer looks hard enough, he/she can see some arguably suspicious objects in all sorts of unlikely places. " Anyone who has ever looked for images in the clouds knows the technique" (www.subl ...
- 6384: The Rise Of Starbucks
- ... carafe, which keeps the coffee fresh and hot for five hours without an external heat source (200). Features of this revolutionary brewer include the 40 ounce thermal insulated stainless steal carafe; a soft touch programmable control pad; a top filling, removable water tank; a soft grip carafe handle; a specially designed, easy to operate lid which ensures optimal flavor retention; and a two year limited warranty. The company got the best ...
- 6385: Sportsmanship
- ... ceases to exist, it will not bethe same game. Insofar as fighting is part of the show, we certainly sell it. We do not promote it.We tolerate it and we bring it under disciplinary control which we believe satisfies the public (Snyder201). Its better that the violence take place between two willing combatants such as in sports than ina situation involving spousal abuse where the majority of the times the ...
- 6386: Some Tips On Car Restoration
- ... in either direction, the main bearings should be replaced. As far as the other components in the front as well as the back, a visual inspection for breakage is all that is needed. A-arms, control arms, and pivots should all be re-packed with a high quality lithium grease, and detailing the undercarriage with some rubberized undercoating and flat black paint will impress people at the car shows. The shock ...
- 6387: The Road To Independence
- ... This sudden insight came at the moment she discovered she was a part of a loveless marriage (Hurt 439). Nora's entire life is completely dependent on a predominant male figure. She begins to grab control of her life, along with finding independence, the moment she makes the decision to leave her family and start a new life. Nora's Victorian upbringing is responsible for her attitude toward life and her ...
- 6388: Social Stratification
- ... feudalism, castes, and classes. Slavery was practiced in Africa, and in earlier civilizations of Greece and Rome. Feudalism was a rigid division between the mobility and the peasantry. It was based on their access to control over land. This form of stratification dominated in medieval Europe for centuries, but existed in other parts of the world. Stratified societies developed from egalitarian societies. These societies have no great differences in wealth, power ...
- 6389: The Simpsons - A Cartoon Portr
- ... p.48), Groening's writers tend to make their sharpest points quickly, matter-of-factly. For example, when Bart's teacher thanked the little antihero for bringing in a deadly looking, American-made "neural-disrupter" gun for show-and-tell. "Don't thank me," says Bart with grand fake sincerity, "thank an unprecedented eight-year military buildup." (Groening, once asked if his politics weren't left of center, said, "I like ...
- 6390: Snowboarding
- ... small skis on the bottom. Called the Swingbo, it was easier to carve and turn on packed snow. Now that problems with steering and friction were solved, real bindings needed to be built for better control. Jeff Grell built the first bindings with a back spoiler to hold the legs on back-side turns. This allowed the snowboard to take off in public. This was the beginning of the standard snowboard ...
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