In fact, the Department of Labor estimates that more than half of the country's 22,000 sewing shops violate minimum wage and overtime laws. ... Government surveys reveal that 75% of U.S. garment shops violate safety and health laws. ... Over the last five years, The Gap has doubled in size, and along with its other brand names, Old Navy and Banana Republic in the USA, the company opens 120-150 new shops each year. ... Penney and the Home Shopping Network. ...

• Word Count: 2117
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• Grade Level: High School

When our fore fathers realized the need for home land security they started a militia. ... The military also, provides retirement pay and even if you don't enlist again you still continue to receive assistance, shopping privileges and health benefits as a military veteran. ...

• Word Count: 469
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• Grade Level: High School

Are Sweatshops Necessarily Evil? Since the employer's main objective is to sell as much of the product as they can, the factories hire many people to get more of their product produced. The more workers they hire, the less the money they are willing to give their workers. Many workers work at the f...

• Word Count: 1771
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• Grade Level: High School

Freedoms they could not have enjoyed in the countries they formerly called home. ... This curiosity led to many more opportunities that most people would never hear about, such as a butcher shop possibly being for sale. ... George learned about the butcher shop being for sale right around the same time he happened to have a significant amount of money in the bank. ...

• Word Count: 1479
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Do most consumers shop with a "social conscience?" ... Fredrica Rudell, Associate Professor of Marketing and Chairwoman of the Department of Marketing and International Business at Iona College in New Rochelle, on the subject of shopping with a "social conscience." ... Besides the exhausting number of working hours, most Nike employees go home to even worse surroundings. ...

• Word Count: 2348
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Manjari Sharma, a student of Sir Vithaldas Thackersey's College of Home Science who is majoring in photography and freelances as a photographer agrees. ... Work and studies take up much of the time that they would normally use to 'hang out', party or go shopping. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Businesses that were not directly affiliated with GM closed because people could not afford to shop or buy any extras in fact they were having a hard time just keeping a roof over there heads and I mean this literally. ... For instance, the scenes of the persons being evicted out of their homes were very depressing. ...

• Word Count: 1114
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As early as the third millennium BC, the Egyptians planted gardens within the walled enclosures surrounding their homes (Encarta 2). ... The proliferation of shopping malls, new suburbs, cultural centers, revitalized urban cores, and new educational facilities, has given landscape architects in the later decades of this century unparalleled opportunities to refine their art and to create new forms. ...

• Word Count: 1675
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• Grade Level: High School

According to Taylor, "All possible brain work should be removed from the shop and centered in the planning or laying-out department (Braverman 113)." ... His tirade about his children having dirty clothes, no food to eat and not having his sexual needs taken care of is illustrative of the "second shift" that working women are expected to perform once they get home. ...

• Word Count: 1586
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• Grade Level: High School

In America the typical person goes shopping for clothes for a specific brand and sometimes a specific kind of style. ... After a month passed the family expected their son to arrive home, but he did not. ...

• Word Count: 2187
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The New England region was home to many young, single farm girls who might be recruited. ... They saved part of their earnings to help their families at home or to use when they got married. ... In colonial America, most manufacturing was done by hand in the home. Some was done in workshops attached to the home. ...

• Word Count: 5491
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: High School