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- 4851: Labor In America
- ... their organizing efforts to include employees of federal, state and local governments as well as other professionals. Organizers have also waged long campaigns to unionize and win better conditions for such diverse groups as public school teachers and seasonal farm workers. By the early 1990s, the work force was changing. First. the pool of workers was no longer expanding as rapidly as in the past. And, second, the composition of the ...
- 4852: Human 2
- ... Human condition is brought up here, where humans have to do more than just reproduction. Gods they control life, and learn, and as part of such, Humans must too. Humans now a days, go to school and college to learn. Shakespeare, in Hamlet, believes that humans move like angels. The mind of a human should be of the gods type. We have knowledge, technology, and man made things waiting and ...
- 4853: Literacy
- ... 42 million adult Americans cannot read; 50 million can recognize so few printed words they are limited to a 4th or 5th grade reading level; one out of every four teenagers drops out of high school, and those who graduate, one out of every four has the equivalent or less of an eighth grade education. The number of functional illiterate adults increases by an alarming two million people a year. If ...
- 4854: Oliver Cromwell
- ... affairs, had been a member of one of Queen Elizabeth's parliaments. Robert Cromwell died when his son was 18, but his widow lived to the age of 89. Oliver went to the local grammar school and then for a year attended Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After his father died he left Cambridge to go care for his mother and sisters but it is believed that he studies at Lincoln's ...
- 4855: Language Conflict In Canda
- ... accompaniment to the French version. Bi-lingual education in Quebec was the area that caused the most concern. According to Bill 101, if a town has an English speaking population of less that 51%, the school will teach exclusively in French. This effectively eliminates the bilingual model that most English Canadians presume is part of their national culture. The language issue is not confined to Quebec province. In retaliation for the ...
- 4856: Land Ethics In Our Communities
- ... things are not getting any better as time moves on. A possible addition to the small amount of education currently being done in this country, is the teaching of basic conservation science classes in elementary school; maybe if we start now, their generation will be brought up to mother the earth that has nurtured them. Other helpful additions include the passing of new city ordinances which would make it mandatory that ...
- 4857: Learned Optimisim
- ... change of mind, not names, and change our life not clothes were needed. African Americans need to learn it is not where you live but how you live where you are. Attending a white private school does not change the history of a minority race, neither does it close down any prisons. Driving a luxury car with no place to park of your own is just as bad as buying a ...
- 4858: Leadership The Human Vessel To
- ... others to voluntarily commit to his or her vision of where the company is going and how it will get there? Robert Rosen, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the George Washington School of Medicine tells us that Americans are hungry for new leaders; emotionally intelligent leaders with vision and character who can guide their downsized organizations back to health and high performance. However, before they are willing ...
- 4859: Malcom X
- ... from the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm's mother suffered a nervous breakdown and the eight children were taken by the welfare department. Malcolm was sent first to a foster home and then to a reform school. After the eighth grade, Malcolm moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked at various jobs and eventually became involved in criminal activity. In 1946 Malcolm was sentenced to prison for burglary. While in prison, Malcolm ...
- 4860: Michelangelo, Renaissance Man
- ... several generations been small-scale bankers in Florence; his father failed to maintain this status. He had only occasional government jobs. At an early age his father recognized his intelligence and sent him to the school of a master, who taught grammar. His mind however, was on art not his studies. Painters and sculptors at work fascinated Michelangelo. He made friends with a student who encouraged him to follow his own ...
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