Fairly recently in our country, anyone who was not a white male had a very slim chance of obtaining a well-paid job or a promotion. ... The most obvious type of sexual harassment is direct, for example, when an employer extends job opportunities, raises, or promotions as a reward for sexual favors. Another manner of sexual harassment is known as hostile-environment harassment, which, the text book states, "occurs when an employee is subjected to sexual conduct or comments that interfere with the employee's job performance or are so pervasive or severe as to create an intimidating, hostil...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Ambrose does a good job including not only the strategy, and also certain flaws that took place during this time, bit he also includes visuals that gave me as the reader something to go with the words. ... The book can be broken down into three major sections before D-Day, during D-Day, and a brief look at the repercussions of Operation Overlord. ... Ambrose did an excellent job in putting the reader at Omaha beach or Juno beach or any one of the places that battling took place day. ... Through out the book Ambrose states key facts that pertain to the reason for such intense battling for the A...

• Word Count: 1075
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Black listing, which was a list that had prevented the people on it to acquire jobs because of the potential communist threat, made many artists whom lost their jobs were unable to acquire any more work; lives were ruined. ... Arthur Miller himself had said that the book was his response to the hectic politics that were involved during the time. Comparisons are quite obvious in both the book and that actual time period, but both hysterias eventually came to an end. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The remainder of the crew are young and inexperienced and also include one Soviet Party member whose job it is to see that all orders are carried out to exactness or to kill those seeking to do otherwise or to destroy the submarine itself. ... A series of thrilling and very technical discussions and explainations of the naval vessals and their design and use is detailed int he book to much effort by the author and far more detailed than can be included in a book report. ... The book ends with the loss of life of one of the senior crew members who desired to see Montana, and now to be buried ...

• Word Count: 1089
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Making Men Moral: Social Engineering during the Great War is a well organized and thoroughly researched book that deals with gender during the First World War. ... Nancy Bristow's book focuses on the Commission on Training Camp Activities (CTCA), the Progressive program that stressed social justice, and morality, efficiency and above all, government control. ... The book shows how that image reverted back from the Civil War... Bristow's book was by far the book that I have enjoyed the most this semester. While the rest of the class may disagree with me, I believe that she ...

• Word Count: 1179
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bergen does an exceptional job at giving her readers an opportunity to explore in depth about the Holocaust even though we've learned about it throughout our education. These four points are the most important parts of the new insights that I have learned from reading Bergen's book about the war and genocide that happened during the history of the holocaust. ... " While reading further into the book, it also appears that Hitler only wanted to control the German race. ... After reading this explanation that was supported by Hitler in the book, I was extremely overwhelmed by the...

• Word Count: 1769
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As a result, Hitler served 9 months in prison for the Beer Hall Putsch and wrote a book titled Mein Kampf (My Struggle) outlining his vision for the future Germany. ... All the while, the Fuehrer built up the German military (challenging the Versailles Treaty without resistance), provided jobs for the unemployed, and restored German Nationalism to all of Germany gaining support Nationwide at the expense of the Jews in many cases. ... Although Jews were being persecuted, many German's did not think it mattered much considering the Nazis were providing jobs for the German people at the ex...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Julie Otsuka's book When the Emperor was Divine tracks one Japanese family uprooted from their house in Berkeley, California and sent to an internment camp in Utah during the World War Two. ... Second, the handsome and polite father has a descent job to support his family. ... His statement seems unreasonable that he plays several roles and does a lot of things across different job functions and industries, such as a cook, a houseboy and a traitor, but he does not give us a detailed explanation. ...

• Word Count: 1101
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Rockwell places the people close together so one can imagine the closeness of the family something which many desire because their loved ones were either recruited to fight in the war or have left home to find a decent job to help support the family. ... The underlying message in this painting expresses that anyone whatever station or job will have a right to express his thoughts and people will listen to his ideas. ... Rockwell also wanted to show the differences between people praying by using different elements such as the rosary beads, the book, the ring, and a hat. ... The power drill sym...

• Word Count: 1928
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Nation Anderson in his book, "Imagined communities," goes on to try to define the impossible by describing nation as an "imagined political community - and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign (Anderson 1991: 6)." ... Industrial capitalism being the traditional "job for life" deal where the "bread winner" in the household went to work every day to the same job, then came home to a family and community with strong social bonds where each individual knew what was expected of them within their social role, and worked to maintain that image. ...

• Word Count: 1928
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As a whole the author discusses the goals of Germany which one of the main ones was to decrease the number of British and other enemy soldiers in the European battlefields to make German soldiers' job easier. ...

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• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Both governments dealt with poverty and mass unemployment by combining direct relief by implementing federal public works programs to create jobs. ... However the camps were designed to keep young men out of the labor market, thus they did not employ industrial workers who had lost their jobs, instead they employed enrollees at forestry and similar projects to improve the countryside. ...

• Word Count: 2776
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

An important topic in international politics today is if Iraq has the ability to politically succeed. Judging by their present democratic and military standing; Iraq seems to be headed in the wrong direction. The westernized view of political success or democracy is still in reach but Iraqi citizens...

• Word Count: 3028
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

However, Earl stayed on at General Motors, and as the nation returned to better times, Earl would get his way with design: "dazzling colors reappeared, embellished by two-tone paint jobs (Kelly green bodies with beige hardtops) " and "inspired by fighter planes, he introduced tail fins, clearly derived from the p-38 airplane, which first appeared on Earl's 1948 Cadillac design. ... John Keats, in his book The Insolent Chariots (1958), attacked the automobile industry stating that their products were "overblown, overpriced monstrosities built by oafs to sell to mental defectives." ...

• Word Count: 7127
• Approx Pages: 29
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate