As demand for ready-made clothing increased in the 1820s, shop owners found they could reduce their labor costs by cutting the cloth themselves, farming out the simple sewing tasks to women working at home, and paying them 25 to 50 percent less than male journeymen tailors. ... Although many garment workers came to the United States with some tailoring experience, most entered the industry unskilled or with only the sewing skills they had learned at home. ... Some immigrants began working in small shops, eventually owning large clothing firms. ... A day in the sweatshops was ten hours long and...

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Three out of four teens come from homes with two working parents or a single parent raising the family. ... Obviously, teenage girls have the time and the money to shop. ... US teens shop at a variety of retail outlets, headed by discount-chain stores, supermarkets and shopping malls, all of which are frequented by at least 70% of teens in a given month. ... JCP is the most shopped-at chain store, followed by Sears. ... In May 1997, 10 million children ages 2-18 were online either at home, school, or in the community, with the number expected to grow five times by the year 2000. ...

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The percentage of US residents over the age of five who speak a language at home other than English is actually on the rise. ... Despite the increase in immigration and foreign languages spoken at home, marketers who take existing general market advertising and translate it verbatim to the target consumer language, are treading on shaky ground. ... In an article by Rebecca Gardyn and John Fetto (Race, Ethnicity And The Way We shop,) I found that not only are Asian consumers the most frequent shoppers of all racial and ethnic groups, they seem to also be the most brand-consciou...

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His dad Jacob Johnson, and his mom, Mary Johnson, both worked hard to maintain the home by working for Casso's Inn, which was a popular inn and stable. ... The resident of the home threatened to call the cops, so Johnson left the town and deserted his apprentice job at the tailor shop. ... But Selby was no longer the owner of the tailor shop and did not need an apprentice anymore. ... They settled in Greeneville, Tennessee and established a tailor's shop by nailing a sign over the door stating, "A. ... The tailor shop improved, and it soon became a gathering place for political di...

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To what extent is Slovakia influenced by the American way of life An American travelling in Europe nowadays, could easily get the impression that he or she never left home. ... Moreover we do the shopping in supermarkets where we can buy all kinds of food. ... I personally like wearing jeans, shopping in a supermarket where I can get almost everything. But those who hate them still have the possibility to go to small shops as they are available here in Slovakia. ... But despite that at home we still eat the traditional meals The American lifestyle can also be observed through the televisio...

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While doing so she also taught us to appreciate our home, and use its natural resources. ... My mother only shops for groceries at the Co-Op or the farmers market and has made me quite aware of issues involving the use of pesticides on crops, and the genetic engineering of foods. ... On account of my mom beginning to shop locally and organically, I became much more aware and concerned as to what was in my food and where it came from. ...

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I was also able to experience just how different a simple shopping day can be. ... Back home in Virginia we usually have high temperatures with humid air. ... I can't imagine back home having to use the restroom and just walk to my backyard and act like its normal. ... I was feeling very homesick, only 3 hours into being in El Salvador and I was ready to head back home. ... The day was finally here and it was time for us to come back home to the United States. ...

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Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog, had written in reference to immigrants in America, "Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' ... She wouldn't feel at home in America until she was accepted for who she was and met a person who didn't look at her as if she was a roach and alien. ... Moscovitz shop where she had to make paper flowers, she was exploited by the manager because of her gender. ... For example, in the book, he had invited her to come to his shop at nighttime and get her pay, but thin...

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As a teenager, Hosseini and his family immigrated to the United States as a result of war outbreak in his home country of Afghanistan; arriving poor and without any belongings, his formerly noble and professional parents were forced to take unfit, low-paying jobs. ... Their large home is filled with marble floors, custom furniture, and gold-stitched tapestries. ... Taking over their country, war forces father and son to abruptly flee their home and desert all belongings. ... Baba's business suits are forgotten for old rags suited for work in a machine shop. ... Waiting, Amir flips through...

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Twenty-one thousand Japanese were not only relocated from their homes on the coast of BC to the Interior or prairies, all of their belongings left behind, including homes, shops, furniture, etc were sold at auction. ...

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Benjamin Franklin Ben Franklin was one of those people you can admire, he did just about everything.Ben was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America.He signed the declaration of independence, invented many things we use today, established the first library and countless other things I cannot begin to list.Ben was born in boston Massachusettes in 1706.In his early life he began an apprenticeship at his brother James" printing shop.At age 17 ben left to Philidelphia but he soon left again, this time all the way to London to study printing.After spending 2 y...

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Not long after returing home Clark died and Lewis became Govenor of the Missouri Territory. ... There are a lot of interesting things to do in the Midwest such as casinos, zoos, museums, shopping, and amusment parks. ...

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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. ...

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More people were owning there own homes, this led to the mass production of suburban homes. ... With the huge numbers of veterans returning home home to start families. ... These towns mass produced homes of only two or three different designs to created fast and cheap homes for families. Home ownership made a drastic jump from 47.8% in 1940 to 55% in 1950.3 These suburbs were extremely profitable. ... Suburbs became very popular and with then came smaller shopping centers, and more schools and hospital which all lead to new jobs for many men and women. ...

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Home, for me, isn't just walls and doors. Home, for me is where my loved ones are. ... Home is a place where I also feel comfortable to be who I am. ... The sense of being comfortable is one of the biggest attributes of a home. ... However, I was happy with what I had since I spent most of my time on campus, studying and working in a small shop to make a living. ...

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The Middle East country I visited for 7 days was Iraq. Although research and articles did not suggest that Americans go there, I took a plane that landed in Baghdad, which is the capital of Iraq. Once I arrived I took a taxi to a home in the city. I stayed with a family. This was arranged through an...

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Prior to the 1950's people move into the cities from rural areas, after WWII people were moving out of the cities and into the suburbs, 85 percent of the new homes that were built in the 1950's were built in the suburbs. ... Levitt was able to allow young couples to buy affordable home by cutting cost by making all of the he built the same. ... This also led to shopping centers like, Northland, with a hundred stores opened near Detroit. ...

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Mary maintained the home by working for Casso's Inn, a popular inn and stable. ... He started his own business in Greenville, Tennessee a small Tailor shop. ... Andrew Johnson held group discussions in his Tailor shop. ...

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It is so culturally diverse that you could walk down the street, got to the movies, go shopping, and go to the bank and hear six different languages in one day. ... On the other hand, you could walk down the street, go to the movies, go shopping, and to the bank and see people of subcultures walking and talking like the average WASP culture shock is "the feeling of disorientation tat can occur when one encounters a new or rapidly changed cultural situation"(Anderson, 84). ... I was brought up in a typical Indian home, but the family life was totally different. ...

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Planet earth, which man calls home, is approximately 5 billion years old. ... Due to rapid, unrestrained growth, housing, shopping, and entertainment construction has spread across the surface of the planet like an oil slick. ... The "American Dream" of owning a home and land is something almost all Americans aspire to. ... Single family homes or detached dwellings, cost much more to heat than apartments. The paved area around all homes reduces rainfall percolation back to ground water tables. ...

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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...

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Abstract An exploration of the aging boomer and how they will age differently from their parents, creates a powerful new epicenter of marketing in America. This Internet article analysis will address a significant sales management trend in the domestic marketplace and its interrelationsh...

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My father sent money home once a month to keep us going, but it wasn't much. ... The village and villagers being so poor, on my father's last visit home he knew that he didn't want to see his family going through this, he was going to move us all to the United States. ... Just shopping for the American clothes made us feel rick. ... Just remember it will always get better as long as they work hard to get where they need to go, even if it means giving up their belongings, their home, or most of all their homeland. ...

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When he reached his new homes, he learned that his trouble had begun. ... Sometimes he couldn't eat lunch because of tiredness, at this time he missed his home a lot, and decided to give up and go back. ... They wanted to raise their daughter as a Myanmar, let their daughter spoke Burmese at home and taught the religion as a Buddhist. ... The community where they lived in was predominantly white people and white people operated most of grocery stores and other shops. ...

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One day on my way back to school I got a call from my mother to come home fast. ... I come home and my mom makes me make a phone call to these Mortgage people and they told me to impersonate as my father. ... My mother was at the mall one day and after having her shopping spree she came back to the car and it was broken into. ... After all these incidents that happened in my life it made me strive to make my parents English better by numerous ways such as, speaking English at home, watching American TV shows, and reading the newspaper. ...

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