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- 681: Immigration and Its Effect on the Economy of the U.S
- ... on the Economy of the U.S The 1990s have brought the largest influx of immigrants into labor force of the United States of any decade in this nation's history. A panel of social science scholars concluded their assessment of U.S. society with the observation that "America's biggest import is people" and determined that "at a time when ... nation to allow others to enter or to work, in fact, most nations do not admit immigrants for permanent settlement Mass immigration has played a significant role in the economic history of the United States, nevertheless the harsh fact is that what may be necessary and beneficial at one time, may not be so at another. The demand for labor is ... affected by "restructuring forces stemming from the nature and pace of technological change; from the stiff international competition the United States that now confronts for the first time in its history; from major shifts in consumer spending away from goods toward services; and from the substantial reduction In the national defense expenditures brought about by the end of the Cold ...
- 682: Fairness And Equality In Ecuad
- ... equal treatment is last names. Last names can be good or bad it just depends WHAT your name is and what does it represent to society. Last names have a history attached. To have a good name means tons of thing, means you come from a family known to every one because it’s been around in Ecuador at the least ... proper ladies, hard working, table manners, politeness, noble, and most of all it says that you can be trusted. While that person can be the biggest thief in Ecuador’s history. A lot of the politicians use their last names to project an image of truth and honesty to the people just so they can get a vote. A lot of ... same weigh in society as a good with the difference that a bad name only produces negative effects on their daily lives. Bad last names as well also carry a history attached to them. They are supposedly known for the exact opposite of a good name, they are very corrupt, dishonest, gritty, cheaters, no politeness, no manners, no table manners, ...
- 683: The Business Life of Ancient Athens
- ... cinder collections. However, it is not known how silver was extracted from the stones, how they were crushed and how they eventually made silver objects from the mined silver. The history of this can not be reconstructed. The way this author approaches this topic is in a supportive way. He is very Greek favoring and states many comments about how many people do NOT give the early Greek people the credit they deserve. For instance on page 82 the author states……"many students of economic history have not yet given Greek banking the attention it deserves [in banking]. " and the author proceeds in telling of all the wonderful things the Greeks have done about banking and ... filed has changed. I thought that all these business people were so great to come up with all these ideas, but they are truly just taking the basics of early history in business and applying it to modern ways. I think the author's purpose of writing this book was to make me confused! No, I really think that the ...
- 684: Cleopatra
- ... I began my report, I knew very little about Cleopatra, except that she was the mistress of both Julius Caesar and Mark Antony of Rome. I wondered what impacts on history Cleopatra made on her own. I feel that Cleopatra was a very significant woman in history because she was very aggressive and assertive, characteristics that have always been considered unfeminine. At the same time, however, Cleopatra has been remembered by some as somewhat of a sex ... throne. In the middle of all this turmoil, Julius Caesar left Rome for Alexandria in 48 BC. During his stay in the Palace, he received the most famous gift in history: an oriental carpet . . . with a 22-year-old Cleopatra wrapped in. She counted on Caesar’s support to alienate Ptolemy XIII. With the arrival of Roman reinforcements, and after ...
- 685: Greek Theater Within Their Vas
- ... use them in that way as aids to a modern imagination" (Green 1995, p.13). Green's statement brings to light the importance of cautious research into this area of history, especially keeping in mind the context in which the vases were made and used. Certainly, vases exist which are, as Green explains it, "inescapably" linked to the theatre. A sample ... above his head. Even the most cautious historian is swayed to believe that this vase is theatrical. Although the reliability of most of the Greek vases as sources of theatre history is debatable, as is the reliability of the historians reporting on those vases. Eight vases examined in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston are discussed here with respect to what ... the small sample size of this research, that possibility is highly unlikely. What is likely is that all sources that deal with Greek vases, especially in the context of theatre history, contain misleading data and should be handled with some discretion. Unfortunately, false and misleading information will always be present in some form in the body of research, and the ...
- 686: Cause And Effect Of Wwi
- ... support of its ally, Germany. Such support was forthcoming in the form of a telegram to the Emperor Franz Joseph on 6 July 1914. The telegram has become known to history as the "Blank Check". In order to balance the power, France and Russia signed an alliance. Russia saw itself as the 'protector of Slavs' in the war, and immediately mobilized ... modern weapons and new technologies such as machine guns, bunkers and railroad systems that allowed to bring troops quicker into defensive positions. This was the first war in the human history where the weapons of defense were superior to offensive. The First World War is also known as a war of attrition. In order to protect themselves from modern weapons, men ... cost of the French Army, and it is often compared to a sausage machine, because 315,000 Frenchman died. The human kind had never sees such battles throughout the whole history, with so many losses, which was quite shockfull experience for the soldiers who fought the First World War. This war resulted shortages in practically everything, and rising prices. By ...
- 687: Education System After The Revolution
- Education System After The Revolution The Post Revolutionary Period from 1776 to the 1830's in American history, was an important time in the development of the political ideas of the new United States of America. It was a time when great leaders rose to the occasion of ... Spring p.59) So let's look at how Jefferson wanted to go about educating the common individual. Jefferson combines the ideological, political and economic factors into the teaching of history. Morals also an ideological idea, were thought to be a virtue that all individuals are born with and this quality will allow people to make their own decisions. With this in mind Jefferson felt that teaching people reading and writing skills and most importantly history would allow for a greater ability of free thinking. History being the leading to the key political and economic factors in the plan would educate individuals on the past. "... ...
- 688: A Touch Of Jazz
- ... syllable you wish to stress. This combination of pitch and timbre in African language is what the philologists call 'significant tone'. It has had the most profound effect on the history of American Negro music. It seems likely now that the common source of European and West African music was a non-hemitonic pentatone system. Although the diatonic scale have been ... baroque and rococo tended to exist side by side for a while, so the same two principles coexist in jazz to a certain extent. Because of the shortness of jazz history the perspectives are shortened and aren't always easy to disentangle. The strictness of form in baroque has its counterpart in the blues where ( despite the improvisatory freedom) more or ... jazz that rococo elements may be preparing the way for a new and rich blossoming of the music's innermost genius. Many jazz musicians are now famous figures in the history of the 20th -century music. Joe "King" Oliver, Edward "Kid" Ory, Sidney Bechet, Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, Louis Armstrong and the first great white jazzman, Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke, were ...
- 689: Study on Juvenile Psychopaths
- ... years, the population of 14 to 17 year olds will grow 23 percent, and the current generation of juveniles has already brought us the worst juvenile crime rates in recorded history. * Since 1965, the juvenile arrest rate has more than tripled, and over the last ten years the homicide rate has more than doubled among 14 to 17 year olds. * During ... of status offenses, and five times for felonies. He comes from a dysfunctional family; and in 46 percent of cases, at least one of his parents also has an arrest history. He has received long-term and continuing social services from as many as six different community service agencies, including family, youth, mental health, social services, school, juvenile, or police authorities, and continues to drain these resources for years before he is finally incarcerated as a career criminal. The typical SHO's family history follows a classic pattern of social pathologies: 53 percent of his siblings also have a history of arrest; and in 59 percent of these cases, there is no father ...
- 690: How Athens Took Over The Leade
- During the period of Greek history from the last years of the Persian Wars till the beginning of the First Peloponnesian War, the primacy of Sparta declined whileAthens was gaining increased influence in Greece. The Athenian ... Greek naval power. This gave Athens the opportunity to create, in the years to come, an extensive empire over the newly won territories which had no parallel in earlier Greek history. A new political order emerged among the Greek states centred on the two great powers of Athens and Sparta that was to have a profound effect on later Greek history. Soon after the end of the Persian Wars, the Athenians started rebuilding the walls around their city previously destroyed in the war. According to Thucydides, when Sparta heard about ...
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