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- 12241: The New Deal
- ... guarantee minimum living standards, and prevent future economic crises. Many economic, political, and social factors lead up to the New Deal. Staggering statistics, like a 25% unemployment rate, and the fact that 20% of NYC school children were under weight and malnourished, made it clear immediate action was necessary. In the first two years, the New Deal was concerned mainly with relief, setting up shelters and soup kitchens to feed the ...
- 12242: Labor Unions
- ... that their price rises substantially as more units are employed. Fourth, the ability of these factors to substitute for union labor should be highly limited; it would be hard to substitute for workers with very high skil! ls or skills that are highly specific to a single employer. Numerous studies have been made to estimate the extent to which unions in the United States have raised the wages of their members ...
- 12243: America As We know It Includes A Vast Network Of Representative Governments
- ... residents of a particular land would make laws that were meant for them. This was democracy at its earliest stage in America. Everywhere one goes today in America, there is democracy. Whether a church council, school club or the state general assembly, a representative group is always present. Democracy shapes America. One could view the first democratic group responsible for today's freedom. This was the assembly formed by George Yeardly ...
- 12244: The Writing of the Constitution
- ... all very well-educated. Over half the delegates had collage degrees, which was rare in the North American continent at that time. They also had experience in governing . More than forty of the delegates held high offices in state governments , including three who were governors. The founders believed in the idea that the purpose of government was the protection of individual life, liberty and property. Following the election of George Washington ...
- 12245: The History of Coca-Cola
- ... after the new Coke was introduced, the old Coke was brought back in addition to the new one. This was greatly due to dropping market share and consumer protest. The market share fell from a high of 15 percent to a low of 1.4 percent(Miller 38). Roberto Goizueta and Donald Keough took full blame for this failed product launch. Don Keough, Coca-Cola president, said in response to the ...
- 12246: Overview of the 60`s
- ... the deluge of disorders made it harder and harder for most americans to keep events in perspective. they tended to forget that most of the nation's 6,700,000 collegians were studying hard at school and not causing trouble. an underlying pattern emerged in the american university. The university suddenly became a political arena. the students wanted to address the national problems of war, race, and poverty. as a result ...
- 12247: For Another Man's Freedom
- ... am sure that at that time they did not realize that this would be an ongoing struggle even three-hundred years after their existence. The soldiers entered this battle with great pride, holding their flags high, hoping to make a difference. They did make a clearly substantial impact on their society , but this quest for equality is still being pursued. This fight was not considered the only option at the time ...
- 12248: The Great Depression
- ... factories made no money (Drewry and O'connor 559). Another major cause related to farmers. Farmers weren't doing to well because they were producing more crops and farm products than could be sold at high prices. Therefore, they made a very small profit. This insufficient profit wouldn't allow the farmers to purchase new machinery and because of this they couldn't produce goods quick enough (Drewry and O'connor ...
- 12249: Watergate Scandal
- ... Nixon accepted the resignation of Haldeman and Ehrlichman and announced the dismissal of Dean U.S. Attorney General Richard Kleindienst resigned as well. The new attorney general, Elliot Richardson, appointed a special prosecutor, Harvard Law School profesor Archibald Cox, to conduct a full-scale investigation of the Watergate break-in. In May of 1973, the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Activities opened hearings, with Senator Sam Ervin of North Carolina as ...
- 12250: The Power of the Situation
- ... apathy is the situational cost of helping Denny. Perhaps bystanders felt that, yes the two men were going too far, but they did not do anything because they felt that the cost would be too high, in this case, their own safety. They simply did not feel responsible for the well-being of Denny in the new social reality they were absorbed in. Perhaps the best method to analyze the behaviors ...
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