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- 1971: Dandelion Wine The Effects
- ... of the main and supporting themes that intertwines throughout the book. Friendship can come in all shapes and sizes, but when you lose a friend there are many affects. People can t imagine surviving high school and adolescence without their friends. John the best friend of Doug moves away, the aspects of losing his best friend were devastating bringing a turning point in to Doug s life with many affects. It ... they both looked at it (Bradbury 103). With this type of situation kids are forced to make decisions to cope with the environment around them. Whether they re gossiping on the telephone or huddled in school hallways, teen-agers are constantly reaching out to their friends. They can t imagine surviving high school and adolescence without them. The very word of friendship is complicated in the world today. When someone leaves you for any reason you are going to miss him or her with many affects. As ...
- 1972: The Government's Spending Plan To Reduce The Budget Deficit
- ... says Zeisler, the low-tax lobby and the small-but-powerful interests that profit from lower taxes are largely to blame. In "Can We Limit Taxes to 25 Percent?," former dean of Harvard University Law School Erwin N. Griswold argues against a proposed constitutional amendment to limit income taxes, estate taxes, and gift taxes to 25 percent. With Congress constitutionally prevented from levying taxes, Griswold theorizes, the possibility for a balanced ... says Zeisler, the low-tax lobby and the small-but-powerful interests that profit from lower taxes are largely to blame. In "Can We Limit Taxes to 25 Percent?," former dean of Harvard University Law School Erwin N. Griswold argues against a proposed constitutional amendment to limit income taxes, estate taxes, and gift taxes to 25 percent. With Congress constitutionally prevented from levying taxes, Griswold theorizes, the possibility for a balanced ... says Zeisler, the low-tax lobby and the small-but-powerful interests that profit from lower taxes are largely to blame. In "Can We Limit Taxes to 25 Percent?," former dean of Harvard University Law School Erwin N. Griswold argues against a proposed constitutional amendment to limit income taxes, estate taxes, and gift taxes to 25 percent. With Congress constitutionally prevented from levying taxes, Griswold theorizes, the possibility for a ...
- 1973: Effects of Working Shifts
- ... 25). Psychologically, there is considerable suffering in the shift workers life. The afternoon shift, 4:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m., has the most negative effect on the employee's family life. Baseball games, school plays, and quality time in the evening spent with children are all lost when working this shift. In reality the household becomes a one-parent family that week. There is also a high incidence of ... continuous two-shift rotation. This rotation requires me to work 6:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. one week, and 3:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. the next. Only since returning to school six months ago have I worked a steady shift, which is the 3:30 p.m. - 12:30 a.m. shift. I am currently working a daylight shift for the duration of my summer classes ... because I convinced my employers that the classes were only offered at night. My experience with a shift schedule has been very positive; in fact it is one of the major reasons I returned to school. One of my biggest problems I have incurred since working shifts is irregular sleep patterns. Rising at 5:00 a.m. one week, and then not retiring until 2:00 a.m. the next ...
- 1974: Lbj
- ... was born near Johnson City in southwestern Texas on August 27, 1908. He wasn*t born to a rich family, so he attended public schools in Blanco Country, Texas, and graduated from Johnson City High School in 1924. For the first year after college, Johnson taught public speaking and debate in a Houston high school. In 1931, Johnson campaigned for Richard M. Kleberg and was rewarded with an appointment as the new congressman*s secretary. During his four years as a congressional secretary, he met Claudia Alta Taylor, a young woman from Texas known to her family and friends as "Lady Bird", who later became Johnson*s wife in 1934. In 1935, he spent one year at Georgetown Law School, and in August, and became Texas administrator of the National Youth Administration. He served in the navy as a lieutenant commander during World War II, and he had six terms in the House. Later ...
- 1975: The Life And Times Of The Man
- ... brothers died of tuberculosis, Melville Bell took his remaining family to the healthier climate of Canada in 1870. From there, Aleck Bell journeyed to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1871 and joined the staff of the Boston School for the Deaf. The following year, Bell opened his own school in Boston for training teachers of the deaf; in 1873 he became a professor of vocal physiology at Boston University, and he also tutored private pupils. Bell's interest in speech and communication led him ... on things that interested him, things that brought attention to him. He was always willing to try out an idea no matter how farfetched. He didn’t do as well as we might think in school, because of the fact that he literally did what he wanted to do. This upheld throughout his life. I believe that it was his pursuit to the ideas he liked which led him unconsciously ...
- 1976: MkIS Support For The Marketing
- ... marketing efforts. Later discusses the opportunities for these types of operational MkIS sub-systems. Content Indicators: Readability**, Practice Implications**, Originality*, Research Implications* Acknowledgements The authors are deeply grateful to Professor Markku Sääksjärvi of the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration for his invaluable support and critique in this endeavour. Introduction More and more, companies are faced with the need to control an ever larger and rapidly changing marketing environment. The ... efforts is a most critical step in this process – a moment of truth. Empirical survey Research methodology This article is part of a larger and cumulative research project on IS in marketing at the Helsinki School of Economics – other reports from the project include Talvinen (1993, 1995) and Saaksjarvi and Talvinen, 1993). The aim has been to obtain an overall picture of MkIS usage in Finland and to gain new insights ... of marketing information systems”, European Journal of Marketing , Vol. 27 No. 1, 1993, pp. 64-79. Talvinen, J.M. (1993), The Usage and Impact of marketing Information Systems in Wholesale Companies (partly in English), Helsinki School of Economics, B 134, May, Helsinki. Talvinen, J.M. (1995), “ Information systems in marketing – identifying opportunities for new applications”, European Journal of Marketing, forthcoming. Townend, R. (1989), “How BICC turned a deluge of replies ...
- 1977: Kurt Cobain
- ... started to spend the nights sleeping below a bridge (immortalized in the song "Something in the Way") at the end of his road. Here, Kurt's time was spent writing his earliest lyrics("The Life"). School life was not much easier on Kurt Cobain either. Unlike most boys, Kurt had little interest in such things as football and other sports. Instead, he enjoyed painting and Puhek 2 singing. Therefore, much of his time at school was spent with the girls("Biography"). For this, Kurt did not have many friends at school. Many thought he was either strange or bisexual, so he alienated himself from other people("The Life"). Kurt Cobain was not always alone though. Before he was famous, Kurt lived with Tracy Merander (immortalized ...
- 1978: To Kill A Mocking Bird
- ... Cunningham's are very respected by the citizen's of Maycomb county. The Cunninghams took nothing, unless they could pay it back. Walter the youngest in the Cunningham clan was in the same class at school as Scout Finch the daughter of Atticus Finch. While in school, a fresh young new school teacher known as Miss Caroline did not know the reputations of the predecessors of these two children. In what looked like a good day for the rookie teacher quickly turned into complete disarray and ...
- 1979: A Drunk Bus Driver And A Bad Accident
- Sometimes, even from the most unsuspecting people wonderful and profound messages can originate. This is the story of one such incident when much could be learned from a person like that. On the way to school one day, this kid named Patrick went around telling everyone that he had some beer in his lunch box. Now in the 9th grade, this topic of conversation is new and exciting. He was the ... Patrick was sprawled out still unconscious, as we started moving again. Bertha kept nursing the bottle, and pretty soon it was gone and so was her mind. She got on the freeway headed away from school, when sirens started up behind us. She was all over the road, and the cops weren’t happy about it. As if things couldn’t get any worse, Bertha had to pull out a gun ... car. Bertha was driving, and Patrick was talking. My parents didn’t believe a word I said, they only insisted I tell them where I had been all day and why I wasn’t at school. As I got on the bus the next day, there sat Bertha sober now, and visibly changed. She had her hair done up, she was in casual clothes, and she had an expression I ...
- 1980: Ku Klux Klan 4
- ... in their place". At first, the Klan would ride around on horses, and with their white robes, and white pointed masks, try to scare blacks. They would try to act like ghost with their white uniforms. Unfortunately, the Klan quickly moved to more violent pranks. (Ingalls, 12) The Klan would now suppress blacks. The Klan leaders proved unable to control their followers. Although the violence was often random, there was a ... if white, associated with the hatred of the Republican party. The Klan had fear of black equality and sparked attacks on schools setup for freed slaves. The Klan would warn the blacks not to attend school, and would scare the teachers, most from out of state, to leave town. (Ingalls 12-13) Many groups started forming around the south called the Ku Kluxers. The Klan was being noticed as "The Invisible ...
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