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Workforce Participation Rates

riveter). But with the war, the demand for workers grew, and "everyone" agreed that women would work; they also agreed that the jo...

William Bradford: History of Plymouth Plantation

the light of the gospel in our honorable nation of England...what wars and oppositions ever since, Satan hath raised, maintained a...

Shortcomings of Social Security

Act provided only retirement benefits and only to workers (Steinbrink and Cook 209). One of a multitude of little known facts pert...

Ancient Greek Tyrants

2005). In the case of a dictator this individual ruler is elected, and a tyrant is not elected. "A tyrant is a person who came int...

Hoover Dam

after the agreement was made, and Congress finally came up with the money for the project, there was a bidding war (Ward, 1994). ...

The Region of Calabria

peninsula is separated from the rest of northern Italy by Basilicata; the Ionian Sea and Tyrrhenian Sea serve as nautical east/wes...

Modern Asia, A History

to cure the problems the colonial power fell from its colony. A separate electoral formula was introduced with the 1909 Government...

Sport of Horse Show Jumping Overview

direction. The goal is to jump cleanly over a complicated course within a specific amount of time (Show jumping). This can be over...

Blues Music History

The blues, in all its glory, is truly a black American phenomenon but it is also an American phenomenon. Davis (2003) writes: "The...

Forensics

While initially only visible fingerprints were collected and analyzed, the collection techniques quickly evolved so that fingerpri...

Women in the Church: A Historical Overview

embraced by the church. Although it is true that some denominations do not allow women to run things, many denominations such as t...

The Iroquois and their War with New France

to wage the most effective fight they had to ally themselves with one or more of what in actuality was the enemy. Interestingly, ...

Deciphering Gertrude Stein

reputation as a modern writer, and her influence was extensive. Stein was profoundly dependent on her brother Leo after their par...

Correctional Psychologists

each town adopted their own ways of dealing with criminals (Meskell, 1999). Punishment was swift, nearly as soon as the crime had ...

Society

for its own good, or the good of the world. The American society is the largest consumer society in the world and they have gene...

Panama and the U.N. Security Council

come under intense scrutiny. Some critics suggest that it is weak and even that it is not needed anymore. Others applaud the work ...

2 Feminist Books/Domesticity

womens movement, describing how, at first, the purpose of the womens movement was secure the right of women to speak in public. Th...

New York Attorney General's Office

to the time before there was even a United States of America. In New Netherlands, a schout was appointed and reported directly to...

What is a Real American?

of the good things the nation stands for and the good things that the nation does in the world. But, a good or real American is al...

Stewart Enterprises, Inc.

customers to see itemized price lists and to provide price information to the consumer over the telephone (Stone, 2000). Federal ...

Overview of Superconductors

The next important discovery in the field was made in 1933 by "German researchers Walter Meissner and Robert Ochsenfeld, [who] dis...

A Civil Engineering Overview

understanding of scientific principles, knowledge of materials and the art of analysis and synthesis. It also requires research, t...

The American College of Surgeons

create such programs (The American College of Surgeons, 2006). There is the Committee on Trauma which "works to improve th...

Human Services/African AIDS Orphans

sub-Saharan Africa, the number of AIDS orphans has reached desperate proportions (Roby and Shaw, 2006). In a region plagued by "ci...

Sound Recording's History and Evolution

by reversing the process. As it turned out Duhamel was on the right track to recording sound. Although he was unsuccessful...

History of the Voice of America

probably resulted in more long-term and far-reaching socio-political and socio-cultural consequences than any other war in history...

Overview of Prolog Programming Language

Phillippe Roussel went to Montreal and consulted with Colmerauer on natural languages and in a report he issued that September Col...

Stock Options

as the options trading capital allows. The purchase of a stock option contract does not necessarily obligate the buyer to purchas...

Computers in Classrooms

To raise test scores? To make children computer-literate? 2. Which software is best used for the different objectives, for English...

Nationalism and Composers Mendelssohn, Chopin, Brahms, and Dvorak

In four pages 4 important composers are considered in terms of their musical history influence with elements of each examined in a...