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- 12341: Labor Unions
- ... in the effectiveness of unions over the course of business cycles. On the average, unions have raised the wages of their members as compared to nonmembers by about 15 percent, somewhat more during periods of depression and somewhat less during periods of prosperity. Empirical studies have also indicated that the productivity of union workers has been higher than that of nonunion workers, largely because union workers have tended to have more ...
- 12342: Daily Life of the Aztecs
- ... Life of the Aztecs Jacques Soustelle was an anthropologists that specialized in pre-Columbian civilizations in Mexico. The author used a collection of references in writing this book. The author did research his material in great depth. He used many quotes, including some from Cortez. This book covers the life of the Aztecs. The daily life as well as religion is wrote about. This book tells of the governing of this ...
- 12343: Rome
- ... around 800 BC. Most of the streets in the time of the Roman Empire were narrow and crooked. Some were very dirty. Some parts of the city were wide and beautiful with white marble buildings, great columne d pourches, and triumphal arches. Anciant Rome had the population of modern Rome. The centers of Roman life were open places where public meetings were held. Such a meeting place was called a forum ...
- 12344: Mongolia
- ... people are indigenous Mongolians; 75% Khalkha Mongols. The church was suppressed in the 1930s; at that time Tibetan Buddhist Lamaism was predominant. Only one active monastery remains. Governmental power is vested in the People's Great Khural of Deputies, elected every three years by universal suffrage. From this body is chosen a nine-member Presidium to exercise state affairs. Under Genghis Khan in the 13th century, Mongolia conquered most of Asia ...
- 12345: Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers." In his speech Dr. King hopes to persuade the "Great America" to abolish all racial prejudice. Dr. King uses many different but effective methods to convince the reader of his point. King uses the words from an old Negro spiritual, the famous line, "Free at ...
- 12346: Japan: A Changing Society
- ... independence, and democratic liberties and privileges Japan's government soon began the executive, legislative, and judicial branches seen in America seen after the war.13 These changes all became possible soon after the war with great financial aid from the Us.14 Japan's progress in America's modernization program was so fast, we had to begin recognizing Japan as a world power.15 After Japan's modernization program, Japanese life ...
- 12347: Jamaica
- ... trends in the international aluminum market. Programmes have been instituted to the increased development of Jamaica's other natural resources, especially limestone which is abundant throughout the island. The vast reserves of limestone pose a great potential for foreign export. Deposits of marble, clay, gypsum, & silica are also found and mined. Since the 1950's, manufacturing in Jamaica started with the establishment of the Jamaica Industrial Development Corporation (JIDC). Implementation of ...
- 12348: The Ivory Coast
- ... elected to serve a seventh term in 1990. Plus, there is a National Assembly comprised of about 120 people who help to govern the country. The nation has a tremendously stable economy because of the great amount of products that they produce for exporting. The Ivory Coast is the world's largest cocoa producer and the third largest coffee producer. These products alone bring in more than half of all export ...
- 12349: Central America
- ... none for the common people. The military is responsible for enforcement, which includes death squads, torture, and public execution. The big businesses who are able to extract an endless supply of 'minimum wage' labor, amass great wealth but instead of reinvesting it locally, most invest overseas or in capital intensive labor whereby local jobs are eliminated. Taking all this into effect and the fact that social classes and living conditions of ...
- 12350: The Good Earth: Wang Lung's Character
- ... novel The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck depicts a humble farmer and his obedient wife O-lan. The Nobel Prize winning classic, set in late eighteenth century China, begins with Wang Lung going to the "Great House of Hwang"(49) to collect the wife that was betrothed to him by his father. Wang Lung lived with his father, wife, and five children, one of whom is mentally retarded. Although Wang Lung ...
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