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- 2111: A Look At Cheap Amusements 2
- ... turn of the century? Peiss argues initially that young women experimented with new cultural forms in terms of sexual expressiveness and social interaction with men, linking heterosocial culture to a sense of modern individuality and personal style. Creating this style was an assertion of self. Peiss quickly discounts these assertions by saying that without economic independence, such freedoms are hollow. Peiss s essay claims to focus on the role of working ... the working woman was quickly refusing household work and moving to the factory or office position. More specifically, a study of 370 working mothers showed 70 percent of them to be employed in domestic and personal service while the vast majority of their daughters worked in stores, offices, and factories (Cheap Amusements, 39). The significance of this change lies in the resulting change in attitude about leisure time. Now, a clearer distinction between time spent at work and personal time could be made. Prior to this shift in the workplace, domestic workers would catch small breaks to gossip while still caring for their employers children. Now, with set times of arrival and departure ...
- 2112: A Comparison Of Two Network Op
- ... consider visiting the local library to research the particular subject. It will be difficult to find current unbiased literature. But a determined manager or QM student should be able to separate the important information from personal preferences. Most of the older books are concerned with theory using Unix as a guide. For current information, periodicals are the best source. But as stated earlier, much of it is very biased one way ... of instructions for large mainframe computers in order to control the hardware resources of the mainframe. Thereafter, they have been developed to run on smaller and smaller computers, first mini computers then on the new personal computers (PC). But, the main job of the OS was the same, a layer between the hardware and the user. The main reason for having an OS is for the application programmers to have a ... NOS's that through extensive research and controlled comparison, an undisputed, clear choice would emerge. But the fact is that the optimum NOS is dependent upon the particular information system. Many professionals have their strong personal opinions about their choice of NOS. Deciding which NOS is superior is not the key to making the correct decision. The most important determination will be system requirements. Analyzing current and future information system ...
- 2113: Changes To The Bill Of Rights
- ... by the Florida courts. RIGHT TO BE SECURE IN PERSONS, HOUSES, PAPERS AND EFFECTS AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES: A new law goes into effect in Oklahoma on January 1, 1991. All property, real and personal, is taxable, and citizens are required to list all their personal property for tax assessors, including household furniture, gold and silver plate, musical instruments, watches, jewelry, and personal, private, or professional libraries. If a citizen refuses to list their property or is suspected of not listing something, the law directs the assessor to visit and enter the premises, getting a search warrant ...
- 2114: Richard M. Nixon
- ... was traced to officials of the Committee to Re-elect the President. A number of administration officials resigned; some were later convicted of offenses connected with efforts to cover up the affair. Nixon denied any personal involvement, but the courts forced him to yield tape recordings which indicated that he had, in fact, tried to divert the investigation. As a result of unrelated scandals in Maryland, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew ... on August 8, 1974, that he would resign the next day to begin "that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America." Nixon retired from public life for some years and concentrated on writing a series of books on political affairs. Nixon eventually began to make public appearances at home and abroad, in person and in the media, and near the end of his life he attained something of ...
- 2115: Analysis Of Karl Marx And Comm
- ... Engels was the one who gave Marx and his family money to survive on during these years. His only other source of money was his job as the European correspondent for The New York Tribune, writing editorials and columns analyzing everything in the "political universe." Marx published his first book on economic theory in 1859, called A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Marx's "political isolation" ended when he ... but was personally opposed to him because Marx had an "ethnic aversion" to Russians. Bakunin believed that Marx was a "German authoritarian and an arrogant Jew who wanted to transform the General council into a personal dictatorship over the workers." Bakunin organized sections of the International for an attack on the "dictatorship" of Marx and the General Council. Marx didn't have the support of a right wing and feared that ...
- 2116: Omar Khayyam The Enigma
- ... tract he wrote on Algebra won him the patronage of a rich and influential Doctor in Samarkand. Later he obtained a position in the court of Sultan Malik Shah, which included being the Sultan’s personal physicist. By his mid twenties Khayyam became head of a astronomical observatory and authored many works on mathematics and physics. He also played a leading role in the reformation of the Persian calender5. After the ... reflect all that FitzGerald claimed in his very brief biography to be false. The true Omar Khayyam was devoutly religious and even though he was a scientist and a rational thinker he had no problem writing about the limits of science and the importance of religious faith. I found Omar Khayyam to be the most interesting author I have ever researched because it almost seemed like doing detective work. When I ...
- 2117: Orwell And Marx
- ... all of his proceeding works. In an essay published in the summer of 1946 entitled "Why I Write,² Orwell claimed to have been motivated over the preceding ten years by a desire to "make political writing into an art.² In the essay, he states that "in Animal Farm he had for the first time in his writing career consciously tried to achieve this goal ‹ to harmonize political concerns with artistry² (Twayne, 17). Orwell, however, for reasons such as the omitted portion of his preface and misreadings of his novels, has been mislabeled ... speech about a dream he had the previous night. In his talk, old Major tries to explain the animals' place in nature and how they can get out of it, very much like Marx's writing on the social consciousness of the proletariate in A Contribution to the Political Economy and the evil practices of bourgeois-controlled capitalism in The Communist Manifesto. "It is not the consciousness of men that ...
- 2118: Land Of Desire
- ... Leach extensively goes into many of those things. There were many things that went into this ranging from specific poeple and incidents to outside places and things. Leach shows each individual ordeal and explains the personal effect that it had on the industry, as well as how society accepted, or in some cases condemned such things. All of this comes from his own education and understanding of the situation. He shows ... up and was a prime model in that area. He did many moral things for the community like set up youth groups and the such, but when it came to business, his goals changed to personal gratification. Although a few poeple still thought it possible, more thought that the "split perspective reflected a division in public and personal goals and undercut the ability of religion to deal with the crucial public issues of the day" (p195). And so it usually went. Mind curing started up soon after the rise of consumerism through ...
- 2119: Benedict Arnold
- ... people. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. Arnold felt that his services were not properly rewarded. In 1777, Congress promoted five officers, who were junior to Benedict, to major general. Only a personal plea from General George Washington kept him from resigning. He did receive a delayed promotion to major general, but he was still angered that he was not promoted to a rank above the junior officers ... he was assigned to military commander of Philadelphia. Life in Philadelphia was pleasant but very costly. Before he knew it, Arnold was deeply in debt. In 1779 he was charged with using his position for personal profit and charged with using the soldiers in his command as personal servants. A court martial cleared him of most of the charges, but had General Washington reprimand him. Washington issued the reprimand, but softened it with the promise of a high promotion in the future. ...
- 2120: Ernie Pyle
- ... but before he could finish his training an armistice was declared in Europe. After that he attended the University of Indiana to study journalism, but left before he graduated. Ernie Pyle persued his love for writing, and became a cub reporter for “LaPorte Herald.” For months later he was offered a $2.50-per-week raise to work for the “Washington Daily News.” He wrote the countries first daily aviation column ... s better than a million dollars. It’s a new job, the best job in the world. Just think! No more sitting behind a desk! No more sticking to the same old office! No more writing headlines of editing other people’s stories (Wilson 66). The six years he was a roving reporter for “Scripps-Howard he crossed the continent some 35 times. He wrote about all kinds of things: mountain ... Africa, Sicily, Italy, and France. Pyle’s column during WWII reported on the life and sometimes death of the average soldier to the millions of the American home front. He had a simple, warm, human writing style. He was widely popular, especially during WWII. Pyle’s columns covered almost every branch of the service from quarter-master troops to pilots. He saved his highest praise for the common foot soldier, “ ...
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