This book is about relationships and different personalities, veiws, or emotions and how they effect each other. ... I think the movie we watched in class does a nice job at capturing the mood of The Great Gatsby. One example of the movie showing the mood described in the book were Gatsby's partys. ... I think the movie did a great job by showing everyone happy and cheerful, going from one group to another laughing over the roar of people. ... One thing that bothered me were the changes made to the movie "The Great Gatsby" from the book. ...

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There are many arguments on the topic; ranging from job security to increase in crime, the debates never seem to exhaust. ... For work you can find easily in America, you have to pay corrupt officials to get a job. ... These statistics show that immigrants are willing to take the lower paying, undesirable jobs that some Americans won't take. This is made evident in Holmes book Fresh Fruit Broken Bodies, in chapter three; he gives a vivid account of the farm work, and also the medical and social issues that are accompanied with the farmers. ... These farm jobs are the jobs that other Ame...

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How the Other Half Lives Book Report I think that the introduction did a very good job of preparing the reader for the stories about the tenements in New York. ... The introduction also did a good job of introducing us to the author. This book was influenced strongly by the writer's perspectives and opinions. ... Without the advances this book would not have been as powerful. ... I could use this book very effectively in the classroom. ...

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This is most evident during the Industrial Revolution period, when mill workers only knew how to do a job by learning hands on and not by sitting in a classroom listening to some other educated individual or studying it in a book of some kind. ... Take two great philosophies from two influential African American men; for example, one, Booker T. ... Learning a skill in these times would better prepare one for a job in the world but not a progressive job. ... Dubois and Booker T. ... However, robots still have been known to replace the jobs of nine men, leaving one to fix the robot if it stalls ...

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#2a I do not know of anyone who suffered like Job. I believe the book of Job offers both comfort and confusion for people trying to make sense out of meaningless suffering. Job proved he was dedicated to God throughout all of his sufferings. ... D Job lost his whole family, he lost all of his wealth, and almost lost his life. ... Like Job, I believe the Jews were true to God and now they can be rewarded...

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• Grade Level: High School

Causing many to loose their jobs. ... The major arguments and the main idea altogether in this book is definitely the way that communism was introduced into the United States leading to the use of blacklists and having many loose their jobs. ... People lost their jobs. ... People feared tremendously the loss of their jobs. ... This book actually bored me to death. ...

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In this book, Ehrenreich, explores what it is like to work for very low wages in America. ... Many, who have turned to drugs, are unable to get jobs, and if they do get a job, it is very hard to keep. ... The "working poor" in this book are not just characters portrayed by an author. ... I personally have worked in many places similar to the ones discussed in this book. ... So what does this book show about our great country. ...

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New enterprises and jobs came about also after the American Revolution ended. ... Women started getting jobs as well because there were many new opportunities. ... All of these technical changes provided Americans for new jobs. ... The new jobs like this were all formed because of the Jefferson beliefs. ... I think that Appleby's book does monograph my understanding on the post- American Revolution. ...

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The book is based on the life of the 'one minute manager' who never seems to have time for himself. ... The book attempts to point out a number of ways to deal with these monkeys and management. ... The book offers a four step procedure to accomplish this. ... Robbins also touches on issues such as dealing with change, designing jobs and evaluating performance. ... The "Inside Job" is a documentary directed by Charles H. ...

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This book tells about his life growing up in America, and it tells a lot about the discrimination he dealt with growing up. ... It was the type of job his parents had specifically warned him about. ... It was a job mainly of shoveling, raking, and sweeping. ... I think his book did a good job of portraying to the reader how it actually was for him and his family. ... Through reading this book I understand somewhat more of what minorities in our country have to go through. ...

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In spite of the many difficult obstacles, leaders of the African American community such as Booker T. ... Unfortunately, for African Americans these jobs were limited to whites only. ... Booker T. ... Booker T. ...

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Fehrenbacher is very qualified to write a book on Abraham Lincoln. He is a history professor at Stanford University, and has done a great job explaining Lincoln's life. ... This book was more of a book that concentrated during his pre-presidential life then a biography of his life. A lot of the material in this book was scattered and hard to find, I think this book was a little difficult to follow. ... He didn't quote anybody for his book....

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Every worked who was recently arrive found a job without a problem. ... If workers got injured in the job and they didn't come back in the same conditions as they first arrived they were fired and were not able to get a job at any other place. ... Capitalism was seriously criticized in this book and was shown as something inhuman. ... The author purpose on the book is clearly understood, Sinclair was disagreed with the ideas of capitalism and he wanted to convince people that the Socialist movement is better. ... He clearly states that socialism is the only solution in the book to all the...

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This book has taught me that it is never to late or too early to start saving your money. ... Money is an easy thing that anyone can make as long as you have time to have a job and work efficiently throughout your job hours. ... Some times people have a hard time maintaining an education with a part-time or full-time job. ... After reading this book, figured I'd better start saving or making money as it is stated. ... This book is a book that everyone should read. ...

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In the book, the author, a recently divorced engineer, quits his job and sets out on a bike tour of places in Vietnam that are important to his family's history. ... The book also touches on the effects of American foreign policy on Vietnamese culture today and most strikingly, issues of sexual orientation. ... Herein, the book details how each family member comes to terms with his/her sexuality in the context of the family's assimilation into American society. ... Many sections of the book will resonate with teens, such as the chapters where Pham describes growing up in the United S...

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The change has been to that of a wife who can manage their time by having a job, doing the housework and taking care of their children. ... Women in their hundreds and thousands took on work, some of this was traditionally men's jobs. ... These women were still receiving little compared to men who were do the same job. ... Germaine Greer wrote a very important book in supporting women's liberation. Although this book wasn't published until 1971 it had great impact across Australia and in the united states of America. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The following essay will explain why the subtitle American Hunger of the book Black Boy by Richard Wright is appropriate. Richard, the main character in the book, had two different kinds of hunger. ... He tried to get many different jobs, but when his mother had a stroke and was slightly paralyzed, he lived with his Grandmother who wouldn't let his work on the weekends because of her religion. He went to many different places to find jobs including things like cleaning a white man's house and washing his dishes to selling newspapers, which he later found out were made in Chicago by t...

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Jurgis's father, Dede Antanas, is promised a job by a grubby worker, but only if he pays that worker one third of his wages. He takes the job despite the disgusting working conditions and his low pay. ... Marija, Ona's cousin and Jonas, Ona's step brother, both get jobs, but neither one holds them for very long. ... Working conditions became even worse for Jurgis, and after both his wife and child die, he left his job and family. ... I don't think that Upton Sinclair wrote this book to really set off the meat market (though that what some of the main focus of the ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Orozco wrote a well written, informational book about the rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. The book is full of facts about Mexican American hardships and their battle to become equal. ... Whites always thought poorly of them despite their effort to move to the United States for a better life and job. Many white people believed that they stole jobs from Americans and didn't deserve to be in the country and wanted them all deported. ... There was a small percentage of women that was employed outside the home and most held working-class jobs. ...

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Orozco wrote a well written, informational book about the rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement. The book is full of facts about Mexican American hardships and their battle to become equal. ... Whites always thought poorly of them despite their effort to move to the United States for a better life and job. Many white people believed that they stole jobs from Americans and didn't deserve to be in the country and wanted them all deported. ... There was a small percentage of women that was employed outside the home and most held working-class jobs. ...

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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

People who worked part-time and full-time jobs were eventually laid off due to an enormous lose of income. ... Many were bankrupt, unemployed, and had dead end jobs, the twenties were everything but roaring. ... This book did change my perspective on the Great Stock Market Crash of 1929. It was not until I read this book that I realized how much the depression had influenced American society. ... I had some objections to the book though. ...

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Mahmood Mamdani's book, "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim," reoriented my perceptions of the Muslim world due to his discussion of Afghanistan. ... The majority of this chapter from the book has made me come to an understanding on how messed up our country really is. ... Mahmood Mamdani's book, "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim," reoriented my perceptions of the Muslim world. ... Not only this chapter but, the majority of this book has made me realized how messed up our country is. ... The United States eventually abandoned them when they felt their job helping the US was done and Afghanis...

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However, as her luck decreases it becomes hard for Rose to attain the American Dream and by the end of the book, she never does. ... In the book Ashes of Roses, it was not common for women to get high paying jobs and earn a lot of money. Elsa believed that Rose would not find a job because she was a child and a girl. ... When Rose was able to find a job, she was given opportunities at places where women were subjected to being judged. ... In the book, Rose struggles from the beginning all the way to the end and things never turn out as perfect as they seem. ...

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Fire captains need to complete a college course on fire science protection in order to get the job title. ... When it comes to jobs in 2012 there were roughly 307,000 firefighters active in the nation and it's expected to grow faster than average which means more jobs. ... The job may last from 24 hours to 56 hours as well as working in holidays. ... The second sources that I use is a book called Ferguson's Careers In Focus which list of several other careers that would be called if there is an emergency. The final source that I used was a careers book that I found in the careers ...

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• Grade Level: High School