...Germany. They travelled for many different reasons including better working and living and working conditions. According to AP U.S. History Notes “Between 1870 and 1900, the population of U.S. cities tripled. By 1890, New York became the second largest city in the world with 3.5 million residents, while Chicago and Philadelphia claimed more than one million city dwellers each. By 1920, nearly half of the nation’s population lived in urban areas. The diverse needs of the swelling population forced drastic changes to the physical and social make-up of the American city.” By the end if the 19th Century, bridges and roads would connect cities throughout the United States. The introduction of many technological advances and modern conveniences including indoor plumbing, telephones, electricity, and the Brooklyn Bridge would attract many people to the city. As the cities grew so would the school systems that would include both teenagers and younger children, while millions of adults were excluded, by 1874 that would change in New York and adult education would be offered by the Chautauqua movement. The courses offered would include staged public lectures, home studies, these would often be held in tents by some famous speakers such as Mark Twain. “By the early 1890s, more than 100,000 adults were enrolled in Chautauqua classes.(AP U.S. History Notes 2014) Many of the downtowns were considered business districts, with insurance companies, banks, and...
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...Functional Areas of Business Managment 521 May 4, 2013 Functional areas of business Technical assistance has become one of the most important aspects of business over the past ten years. More and more companies are implementing and or improving their technical use within the company. Whereas technical support is important, incorporating supportiveness throughout the business helps to make the work environment tranquil. Employees, no matter what age, who are comfortable and happy to come to work, are going to work effectively, efficiently, and diligently. Thus, helping the company excel and strive for greatness. Even though the older generation needs more training and support to gain technical knowledge, the importance of technical support within a business and management because technical support is needed for the advancement of a company and technical support is needed for running the business's day-to-day operations. Technical support is one of the major growing areas across a majority of businesses in the world today. There are an abundance of companies trying to implement new and advanced technology into their field. “According to statistics Canada (1996) less than one quarter of employed people used computers at work during the early 1980s; this figured increased to 48% in 1994” (Methot, 1998). Take the medical field for example; they are rapidly trying to change from actual paperwork to electronic paperwork. Not only to make the searching of data and information...
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...Kari Moore Unit 6 – Final Research Paper AC504 April 19, 2013 Abstract In the history of the world, there has never really been a dominate, widely accepted set of ethical standards, unless you count the ten commandments, and as we all know, they didn’t end up widely accepted either. The world is in an ethical tail-spin, trying to be the best, the most profitable, the most dominant, and it is leaving its ethics in the dust. In this paper I will discuss the importance of an ethical system, a global set of ethics, and discuss the pros and cons on a global system. Global Ethical Standards In a perfect world, there would be a single set of standards for everything, taxes, banking, business, accounting, etc. We don’t live in a perfect world, period. We live in a world where ethical decisions stare us in the face every day, some of the decisions are easy, and some aren’t. It is how we deal with them that defines us, and makes us who we are. In the United States history, mainly in the last decade or so, we have made some very bad ethical decisions that have cost many people their jobs, their livelihoods, their retirements, and most importantly, their faith in the system that is supposed to protect them. You might ask yourself, “Shouldn’t these people know better?” The answer isn’t so clear, we hold the men and women in charge to a higher standard because, simply, they are in charge. The truth is, that just like people, every ethical decision is different, and everyone...
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...History 105Dr. Patrick Graham | Industrialization after the civil war | | | Marcus Williams | 11/3/2014 | | This paper will discuss the effects the Industrial Revolution had on the American economy, society and politics. Also this paper will talk about many different groups affected by the revolution as well as the influences it had on the average working American. The Industrial Revolution was an influential era, it changed the lives of many American citizens, transforming numerous of jobs, businesses and traditional American culture. This period altered the way of life in America thru innovative but dominate business practices, intense working conditions and alterations to political indifferences. Although the nation was on the verge of modifications after the civil war this revolution made a dramatic change throughout America, The focus was on transitioning America’s economy from unadventurous human and animal power to new imaginative mechanical power. Businesses quickly turned into large corporations, helping to improve access to food, material wealth and new technologies ultimately developing a more powerful economy (Shultz, 2014). Society was another aspect that changed through the Industrial Revolution; many Americans left farming and even had to shut down their own small businesses to find work in factories since the creation of machines made less people needed for farming (Shultz, 2014). Politics were also affected by the industrial Revolution, many...
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...Civil Rights In United States history, rights of citizens have always been a key debate throughout our foundation. This issue is better known as the concept of Civil Rights. Over time, many Civil Rights that had been brushed aside were finally given to all citizens, regardless of color or gender. The equalization of Civil Rights for all citizens came from great efforts of many radical ideas from great leaders. Two well known advocates for Civil Rights are Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X. While both of these inspiring men worked to break down racial barriers, they had unique and different views on how this goal should be accomplished. To begin with, Martin Luther King Jr. strongly believed in the power of nonviolent protest. King advocated for nonviolent marches and boycotts of businesses of all varieties that refused to hire negros. I personally find this as the best form of peaceful protests fought against the shackles of...
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...Dubai is a city in the middle-east where culture and history meet to form not only a city, but a new world of amazement. It has evolved tremendously with time. In the mid 1980’s Dubai was nothing but a big empty land looking at the Arabian Gulf. By the mid 1990’s Dubai started evolving into a business capital. It has progressed dramatically over the years starting from scratch and evolving into becoming one of the largest growing cities. The progression that is taking place in Dubai shows the world a new dimension of modern civilization and global growth through the hard work of a culture striving for success. Looking at pictures of Dubai from the year I was born is something unbelievable. The city had few roads and not more than five hotels. Actually at that time Dubai had nothing around the hotels that were there. These hotels were only for the unlucky people that could not find any reservations in hotels at Jabel Ali. Jabel Ali is a small industrial city not too far from Dubai and it was considered up until this day one of the main industrial cities in the Arabian peninsula. Even though Dubai was an empty desert looking at the Arabian Gulf it still had a heavenly view. The view of the brown sandy desert meeting the crystal clear blue water of the ocean was an unbelievable observation for professional photographers. However, since the founding of oil in the Arabian Gulf, a lot of shores have been polluted. As a result, that had a very negative effect on them especially...
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...familiar with, the purpose and principle behind business ethics and values was created. Even though no one in this day and age can be 100% sure how businesses were created, and how entrepreneurs were able to provide a sense of stability for themselves and their families, we can see how they evolved; the companies we know today would not exist without the men and women who created businesses throughout history. Over the last several decades, companies have developed a sense of business ethics that have defined the reputation of companies and the mission that drives the company. From the 1960s to today, people have been concerned with different ethical issues and have managed to develop a society where those issues have made them stronger. According to the Ethics Resource Center (2009), the 1960s caused the most strain on people and their ethics, and it grew the society into one of the most significant eras in American history. The dilemmas that surrounded the 60s were nothing short of tension and domination. For example, the Civil Rights issues dominated the minds and hearts of that particular generation, the escalation of drug use, as well as how the tension between employee and employer grew are just to name a few of the problems that had to be dealt with during that time. Because of these personal ethical challenges, businesses initiated different codes of conduct and value statements in each company hoping that this would change people’s work ethics and understanding of...
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...Throughout history there have been many wars in which different parties were fighting for either freedom or territory and in the Spanish American War both Spain and the United States were in conflict for both. The Spanish American War began in April 1898 and ended August 1898 which was a brief rivalry between Spain and the United States that led to the death of three hundred and seventy-nine Americans . The United States found themselves intervening in Cuba’s fight for independence against Spain after President McKinley and the queen of Spain tried their best to keep a war from even happening. This has changed the countries future which some may say that it was a worthy entity or others thought it was a bad thing. As a result, they did indeed...
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...argument: 1. Throughout history, people have disagreed about moral issues. This isn’t true about science, because science is objective, and people can come to objective agreements. If morality is not like science, and science is objective, morality must be subjective. Morality, then, is just a matter of opinion. Main point: If morality is not like science, and science is objective, morality must be subjective. Supporting points: Throughout history, people have disagreed about moral issues. This isn’t true about science, because science is objective, and people can come to objective agreements. Morality, then, is just a matter of opinion. 2. We should help people that are starving in other countries. We have plenty of things that we can share without adversely affecting our own lives, and we are morally obligated to help people who are less fortunate than us if we can do so without giving up anything of comparable importance to the aid that we are giving. Main point: We should help people that are starving in other countries. Supporting points: We have plenty of things that we can share without adversely affecting our own lives, and we are morally obligated to help people who are less fortunate than us if we can do so without giving up anything of comparable importance to the aid that we are giving. Identify the premises and conclusion in the following arguments: 1. Since large corporations make more money than small businesses, we should tax...
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...better known as IBM is an American computer manufacturer that was established in 1911. IBM was formed from the merge of several companies. These companies were known as the Tabulating Machine Company which was used to count the population for the US Census, the International Time Recording Company who produced clocks and other time recorders, and The Computing Scale Company which produced commercial computing scales that provided the weight and price of a retailers products. This product was popular with butcher and dairy retailers. For a few years after the merge the company was known as Computing-Tabulating-Recording or CTR until 1924 when the company changed its name to IBM. IBM has been in many markets throughout its years. Other than taking over the vast businesses and products when the company merged back in 1911, the company has taken advantage and used the technology in earlier products to create new ones. In the 1930’s IBM started producing calculators using the technology from their tabbing machines. In the 1940’s IBM partnered with Harvard University to finance the invention of the first machine to compute long calculations automatically.[i] Although IBM did not create the first computer, by 1953 the company was producing their own line of computers. In the 1970’s IBM introduced the floppy disk which allowed customers to store and save data. IBM created the first scanner that was used in supermarkets that was able to read the price of the items. This was the...
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...wondered what Black History Month is? We all have that question sometimes. It is a big tradition for mainly the U.S. It is the celebration of Black history. Black History Month is a month with amazing history, great reasoning behind why we have it, but it still has its challenges. Black History Month has a lot of history behind it that has affected everyone. Author: Bernardsays. “African American history is American history. American history is part of world history. Black history is world history.” African American history has affected our world history throughout time. Everything that has happened in Black past is now our world history.Grant also says, “Each February, countless people across the nation attempt to teach and learn aspects of largely forgotten U.S. history.” Black past is a thing most schools just skim over. They don’t realize the impact on world history that Blacks have. Overall, Black history has a major effect on all of our history, whether we know it or not....
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...Many natural disasters happen in America and around the world. One of the most common disaster is a fire. There are a variety of fires, including wildfires, liquid fires, gas fires, and material fires. Different types of fire do different damage as well. For example, the Great Boston Fire was a catastrophe to the city of Boston. The Great Boston Fire became one of the worst fires in Boston’s history due to the destruction and damage it did. The effects of the Great Boston Fire can be understood from the beginning of the fire, the destruction of the fire, and the future changes in the city. November 9, 1872, on a Saturday evening, a police officer noticed smoke coming from a building at the corner of Kingston and Summer streets (Boston Fire). In the building was flammable...
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...the impact of the two (2) or more major historical turning points selected on America’s current society, economy, politics, and culture. The Women’s Suffrage movement had a major impact on society, economy, politics, and culture. In 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was passed and women won the right to vote (Schultz, 2012, pg.342). The enfranchisement of women was the largest expansion of the voting population in American history, significantly increasing the American electorate. This movement opened many doors for women; they now knew that they had a voice and the right to speak on political issues within the government and allowed them property rights. The stock market crash of 1929 caused fear and panic throughout the country and resulted in the beginning of the Great Depression. All aspects of the economy were affected by this downward spiral in the stock market; it caused many banks and businesses to fail and have to fail for bankruptcy. Unemployment increased, which created a decrease in purchasing power for consumers and that led to businesses having to lower prices on merchandise. Many laborers were forced to choose between wage cuts and pink... [conti Progressive...
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...the world is influenced money. Huge cooperation are the ones with the big money. The government decides through taxes who pays more, and who pays less. The government would benefit far more from huge cooperation, adding jobs and benefits the BNP positively. This makes the conditions for small businesses unsustainable. Small businesses build by passion and hard labour are insignificant for the government. Passion doesn’t provide profit. Profit which the huge companies hungers for. Huge cooperation’s competition is also too though for small private businesses. “I started the shop because I believe working from the bottom up is a good idea. Verde can’t tackle Tesco round the corner, nor can it change the fixed supply chains and discounting that make it so hard for small shops to compete with big business.”(page 10 line 249-255). In the beginning of her essay, she talks uses an historic view to tell the story of her shop. She starts by telling that she opened her first veg shop in Spitalsfields in 1805. This is clearly not true, but she explains that it is because of her townhouse age and history. Her house was built in the 1790’s and has almost ever since been a shop. She uses the history of house as a shop to paint a picture of how the shops in the neighbourhood used to be. ‘’My shop is right opposite Spitalfields Market, now full of chic shops and funky stalls, but formally the fruit and veg market for London, just as Covent Garden was the flower market, Smithfield the meat...
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...represents a Mexican holiday that is celebrated in some parts of Mexico; it is a much bigger holiday in the United States than in Mexico especially in the western and southwestern states. Businesses prepare for this day and use all their marketing techniques to reach as far as possible and correlate the American and the Mexican culture together. Almost any type of business can increase sales or get benefits from this holiday; most businesses adopt the Mexican pride and show empathy by decorating and having Mexican themed stores that stimulates potential buyers to be even more flexible when swiping the credit cards. Mailing is one of the main resources marketers and small businesses often use, they spend time living their customers lives by compiling data which then helps them identify their needs, problems, desires and motivations to finally create a great offer. Events held every May 5th are called fiestas (parties in Spanish), world-record-breaking attempts and other fun-filled activities can increase sales and enhance branding efforts and generate publicity for the company, specially, if your business is related to alcohol distribution or bar environment since the holiday concept is nothing but celebrate like in other part of the world which is drinking. Although the beer businesses get the most monetary benefits, this holiday has drilled American society becoming a popular shopping day, now almost every retail store and restaurants prepare months before to coach customers...
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