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- 3721: Vincent Van Gogh 2
- ... boarding school, and the next year he started working at The Hague for his uncle who was an art dealer. While working, he realized that he was more interested in literature and religion than a business. Then he worked for awhile as a preacher among poverty miners in Belgium. Vincent worked really hard for the poor since he was very much dissatisfied with the way people made money. His experience as ...
- 3722: America's involvement in World War Two
- ... 1930's. American investments in Germany increased by forty per cent between 1936 and 1940 ( Wilson 291). America was steadily regaining the prosperity that had diminished during World War 1. The real concern of American business was not the rights or wrongs of trading with fascism but the fear that commercial rivals such as Japan and Germany would exclude American goods from Europe and Asia altogether (273). It is very easy ...
- 3723: Ulysses S. Grant 2
- ... sent to the Far West. In 1854, while stationed at Fort Humboldt, California, Grant resigned his commission because of loneliness and drinking problems, and in the following years he engaged in generally unsuccessful farming and business ventures in Missouri. (Grant Moves South, 18) He moved to Galena, Illinois, in 1860, where he became a clerk in his father's leather store. At the outbreak of the American Civil War, Grant was ...
- 3724: Work Satisfaction
- ... human beings and as employees, (Sinetar, 1987) Nobody has to take a job they truly do not want. Society has certain obligations to improving the nature of work. Our institutions, especially the media,, education and business, need to do more to value the intrinsic rewards derived from work instead of glorifying the outer ones like money, security, etc. Too many people wind up or stay in jobs they dislike because "I ...
- 3725: Conflicts Between The North and The South
- ... to the North and the South. Economically, politically, and socially the North and the South clashed with opposing opinions of each other. The North and the South had opposing ways of how to handle their business. The North believed in a urbanized, industrial way of life, and the South's equivalent of factories were plantations, living in a spread out physical environment that was distant from others and had very small ...
- 3726: The Great Depression and the "New Deal"
- ... help stimulate the economy. This theory became known as Keynesian Economics. In terms of the Great Depression the economy was at a serious imbalance because the public sector was saving more than usual and the business sector was not investing at a typical level. Therefore the government needed to step on and stimulate the economy. This stimulation was seen in the actions of the government in the "New Deal." Slowly but ...
- 3727: Aerospace Engineers
- ... and parts and guided missile and space vehicle manufacturing industries. The Department of Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and other Federal Government agencies, provided more than 1 out of 7 jobs. Business services, engineering and architectural services, research and testing services, and electrical and electronics manufacturing companies accounted for most of the remaining jobs. States with large aerospace manufacturers, like California, Washington, Texas, and Florida, have the ...
- 3728: The North American Free Trade Agreement
- ... this topic was hotly debated. Many people vehemently argued that job loss and low wages would plague the United States and Canada inflicting more damage on these two already struggling economies. The pro-NAFTA big business sector reportedly coughed up between 20 and 30 million dollars for lobbying. This seems to make sense considering that 86% of the companies listed on Fortune magazine's top 500 list has operations in Mexico ...
- 3729: William Mackenzie King
- ... the slogan King or Chaos ,and was returned to office with a comfortable majority. King called a snap election early 1940 and his government was returned with an increased majority. Cooperation between the government and business and labour leaders shifted Canadian industrial production to wartime footing. The remarkable industrial expansion involved special Financial arrangements with the US and economic planning on a continental scale. To Placate Canadians who feared the return ...
- 3730: The Steam Engine
- ... because of the steam engine. The steam engine allowed people to travel from one place, to another, and start a new life, but also return to their old dwelling to perhaps visit family, to do business, or to do whatever that may be needed. It wasnt until the early 1800s that one of the greatest inventions caused by the steam engine was invented, the railroad. Since several entrepreneurs saw ...
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