Over the years television has been a major source of entertainment for people of all ages. Many children end up watching television well before they've began school and even infants and toddlers watch up to 2 hours of TV a day1. It is known that television can be a major source of education in the l...
Instead of being a time of growth and opportunity for these children, the hours immediately following the end of the school day are the most dangerous. These are the hours when children are most likely to commit or be the victim of crime. How do kids spend their time after school hours? ... Unsupervised afternoon hours are simply a period of idle and wasted time. ... Other barriers include availability, inadequate facilities, transportation, high staff turnover, hours of the program operation, and lack of resources. ...
They also wanted laws controlling work conditions and hours, and they desired labor unions to be recognized. ... Historians argue that the intense work hours and the unregulated conditions were healthy because it provided a backbone for America. ... Many worked seven days a week, twelve hours each day, some enduring 24 straight hours of intense labor every other Sunday on what was known as the "long turn". ...
In many factories and mines employees worked long hours for low wages while operating unsafe machinery. ... The opponents to child labor argued that long work hours deprived children of the opportunity of an education, which would prepare them for a better life. ... The illnesses ranged from high work-related accidents due to hard work and long hours to tuberculosis caused by working in the mines. ... From the vigorous battle, Illinois banned children under the age of fourteen from working and also limited the workdays to eight hours. ...
In the book, the author clearly describes the dangerous and unsanitary working conditions that employees had to deal with, and the cruelty that was given to workers with cheap labor and long hours without having any benefits given to the employees. ... Many factories owner felt that they were doing a good deed for humanity by providing immigrates jobs so when someone complained about their wedges or long hours, they were simply layoff. ...
The reason the quality of court-appointed attorneys is so low is the attorneys" pay: in most states, court-appointed attorneys given capital cases will lose twenty to thirty dollars an hour if they perform an adequate job. In Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, court-appointed attorneys are paid a flat rate of $1,000, which translates to about five dollars an hour to defend in a capital case ("Five"). ...
American Native Family Therapy Introduction "Ethnicity is deeply tied to the family, through which it is transmitted. The two concepts are so intertwined that it is hard to study one without the other- (McGoldrick, et al. 1982). The view of culture, while not specifically related to a group's ethnicity or race, is the same. A family is a small cultural group with its own set of beliefs, values, mores, and rules. Ethnicity remains a major form of group identification and a major determinant of these family patterns and belief systems. ...
In the following hours at school and for the rest of the day at home I learned from the news broadcast more about Osama Bin Laden and his terrorist organization in Afghanistan, the El Quaeda, than I could imagine. ... Thousands of lives were lost in less than an hour, but they will never be forgotten. ...
According to the New York Daily News, the average American over the age of 2 watches 34 hours of television a week. 34 hours of programming opens the viewer up to not only a great deal of entertainment, but also a great deal of propaganda chiefly from advertisements. ...
The Introduction to radio caused many changes for the mass media world; radio was faster then the newspaper and could add more up to date news by the hour instead of by the day. ... Children keep their eyes glued for hours on end to the magical box. ...
The factors that led to rapid industrialization in the United States between the years 1860 through 1900 are remarkable. They represent a population that strived vigorously for financial success and security. The incredible influx of European immigrants to the New World provided the backbone fo...
Some miners used gunpowder to broaden the shafts and tunnels where workers would work grueling hours to pick the loose silver-bearing rocks and carry hundreds of pound of sacks of ore above the ground. ... The silver mine workers had to work in damp underground tunnels with poor ventilation for long hours. ...
America is a land made by many diverse faces all with the similar history of segregation and discrimination that cannot by forgotten. Through A Different Mirror, Ronald Takaki makes clear the life of each ethnic that makes up America from the period when the Viking settled to today. The stories of t...
In the entertainment industry, most of us don't have a problem when it comes to finding music by minorities. Whether it's rap, or the sultry sounds of Shakira, even the rhythem of Gloria Estevan. But, if you take a deeper look, especially when it comes to movies, the people who perform in th...
To be able to see importance of the organizational behavior I will concentrate on one issue. I will try to show importance of the loyalty between employee and employer. Very often we are asking question is there any employee loyalty or is it already dead? The closing of the twentieth century marks...
Many women as young as six years old often base their image of the ideal look, size and weight on pictures of models seen in magazine advertisements. The average American is exposed daily to anywhere from 400 to 600 advertisements, which includes newspapers, magazines, television and radio. Out of...
The modal speed limits on rural interstates were 70 and 75 miles per hour (mph) for small passenger vehicles during the day, with lower limits set for larger craft and nighttime or poor weather driving or conditions (Peters, 1995). ...
Because I agree with immigration policies, I negate the resolution, which states resolved: the United States immigration policy is inconsistent with American ideals. The United States was built on the basis of several ideals: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The sanctity of life is a u...
The Second Great Awakening was a religious impulse that swept through the nation post-1790s. The churches of the nation began to reject the Calvinistic belief of, "Pre-Destination," – the belief that one's salvation or damnation was predetermined at birth. Rather than preach "Pre-Destination" they emphasized individual responsibility for salvation and they preached that people could improve themselves and society. This led to a pursuit for perfection. The Second Great Awakening placed religion in the forefront of politics. ...
Workers often died in such environments and the wages and hours could be miserable. ... Some of them would work as much as sixteen hours a day and lived in tenement houses, often becoming seriously ill or dying from disease. ...
In one study mentioned in Aven's article stated that "obesity was highest in children who watched four or more hours of television per day these children also tended to consume more calories per day... In this day and age, the majority of Americans do not have the ability to just take hours out of their schedules to workout, especially if it has a negative connotation for them. ...
XM limits commercials to six minutes per hour (down from 20 minutes that some terrestrial stations offer) and has 35 channels that are completely commercial free. ... As long as XM continues to limit stations to six minutes per hour so that the advertisements remain sporadic and unobtrusive, XM can provide a valuable boost to their financial position, and in turn, continue to offer a lower price than Sirius. ...
