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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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. ...

• Word Count: 1965
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• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1295
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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. ...

• Word Count: 1894
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• Grade Level: High School

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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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. ...

• Word Count: 2291
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• Grade Level: High School

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 ...

• Word Count: 1601
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• Grade Level: High School

Another instance where Bradstreet spoke her mind like this presents itself in, The Author to Her Book. ... Though this line seems harmless at first, that is simply due to the fact that Bradstreet did a far better job at hiding her sarcasm within her words. The offspring she speaks of is none other than the book she wrote, and she states this because even though people may think her book is crap because she is a woman it is still her book and she loves it much like she would her own child. Although Bradstreet did a better job of hiding her sarcasm, she still went against what a typical Puritan...

• Word Count: 1702
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Another reason for foreigners to move to is the better job opportunity in the US. Being unable to find a job after finishing school can be a frustrating experience. ... Although it seems like job opportunities are diminishing here in the US too, finding a job is more challenging in other countries. ... (Tian) Erika Lee is the first scholar to write a book named "At America's Gates" against the act. The book gives detailed information about the motives and methods of immigration officials to pass an excluding law against the Chinese community. ...

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In a booming economy, job stability and job security have deteriorated. ... When they do find work, their new jobs pay, on average, thirteen percent less than the job they lost. ... This program provides funds for basic skills and literacy instruction, job training, and job search activities ("Homeless"). ... Ann Braden Johnson argues this point in her book Out of Bedlam: The Truth About Deinstitutionalization, "the homeless people who do work tend to be eligible only for non-skilled, low-paying jobs- jobs that often do not pay enough for rent" ("Introduction"). ... Also, a decline in manufact...

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Many black American activists became increasingly popular during this time period, Booker T. ... Booker T. ... (Out of Many, 557) Progressives helped bring about state modification that required safety precautions in factories and allowed workers to collect money for injuries suffered on the job. ...

• Word Count: 1668
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Almost all jobs wanted unskilled laborers, which mean many foreigners could easily get work. ... Many people from many different countries came to satisfy the high want for jobs. ... The need for Russian wheat didn't exist anymore, so many came to America for jobs. ... Madison Grant wrote a book titled The Passing of the Great Race. ... Very scared that some other race would take over the colonial native Americans, he wrote that book. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

(McNall 70) The fist book in the novel is titled "The Shimerdas". This book introduces the main character Jim Burden, and his love, Antonia. ... By examining this quote, one can see that Antonia's mother, a immigrant, was a poor girl who had a poor job. Throughout the novel, the immigrants are the ones who are stuck with the lower class jobs. ... Willa Cather does a good job getting the point across that there is nothing Jim can do to change what is going to happen to him or to anyone. ...

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The book puts the spotlight on the lived experiences of 20 transgender participants struggling from different forms of workplace bullying, violence, and discrimination. ... All five chapters of the book focus mainly on transgender issues, with minor and considerate glances on controversies affecting the LGBTQ spectrum. ... Additionally, the range of policies and cases were limited, as the book is mainly focused on nondiscriminatory categories of state laws in the United States of America. The first part of the book starts with a story of a retired U.S. ... As studies frequently stated in the...

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In this book, the authors explain to us why they believe American higher education is in deep trouble. ... One of the concepts discussed in this book was sustaining and disruptive innovation. ... After reading the book, I too believe that American higher education is in fact at a crossroads. ... In the book, the author used a great example to explain the threat of disruptive innovations. ... As said in the book, the tendency to emulate Harvard is widespread, but not universal. ...

• Word Count: 2146
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The book "Catfish and Mandala" by Andrew Pham relates a lot to include stories and situations throughout my childhood that I can relate toand young adult life. ... Reading the book I see Pham and the situations he is put in, also seeing myself, but the only difference is the way he and I handle the scenarios given at hand. ... I don't remember any reference to Pham losing his job from a recession - he quit his job for his Vietnam tour. Use an example or quote from the book to support this last sentence or delete). ... Whereas Aall of my cousins went to the best high schools and colleg...

• Word Count: 1978
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• Grade Level: High School

In the book, The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans as Told by Themselves, many of those issues were addressed. ... For example, when the Lithuanian man lost his job because someone else had paid for it, he was incredibly homesick and couldn't find a job yet he continued to search and not to give up hope. ... In my first job I got $5 a week. With the improvement of his job and wages, also came an improvement in his quality of life. ... He soon moved to Chicago and got a job working for a man who would not teach him English. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

As an adult, he wanted to hear his father's story and make it into a book. ... Art turned his book about his father's life in the Holocaust into a comic book, using mice to represent the Jews and cats to represent the Nazis. This book, "Maus" (mouse in German), took 13 years to create and finish. When "Maus" hit the book stores, many people had mixed feelings about a book that told the story of one man's life through the Holocaust in the form of a comic. ... Across America, propaganda was spread blaming the Jews for everything, including the depression because they took so m...

• Word Count: 2087
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• Grade Level: High School

That is far from the truth, some of the so-called "lazy" people do have jobs, but most are stuck with low-paying jobs. Yet these people with the low-paying jobs have troubles supporting themselves because of how little that they make, but they still try to benefit all that they can to our society. ... (Medicaid Web Page, www.hcfa.gov, 1999; Legal Information Institute, www.law.cornell.edu, 2002) Book Views The New Class War by Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. ... What I learned from this book is that the United States has gone through a major change since the 19th Century. ...

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"Even people making $60,000 can't afford many colleges, " says Beth Shulman, a former union official and author of the 2003 book The Betrayal of Work (A. ... However outsourcing has provided even a cheaper way of filling low paid jobs. ... Unfortunately, more middle class jobs are not in the foreseeable future. ... These jobs have lower wages than the average manufacturing job, and benefits are poor. The amount of jobs projected for financial services, technology, and other high income jobs stands under 5% (T. ...

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For years women could not make as much as a man and to this day still are not making as much as a man on average in the same job. ... As David Leonhardt brought up in his article "Wage Gap Between Men and Women Shrinks", in the Book of Leviticus it is said "the value of a man's life was put at 50 shekels and a woman's at 30 shekels." ... It must also be brought up that maybe these minority groups simply do not take certain jobs due to nonpecuniary job characteristics. ... An example would be a lot of women would not take a job as a football coach even if it was offered to them due...

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This means that when manufacturing jobs are moving abroad and products are more popularized, jobs in maintenance and support open. ... Jobs in service, design and marketing are professional jobs that demand an education, and hence better paid workers lead to a better standard of living. ... Rapid advancement in technology led to a shift in the job demand. ... Economists assure that the number of jobs sent offshore is a fraction of the overall jobs available in America, and cannot affect the skill balance. ... Most of the jobs that have been sent overseas were in manufacturing; however, the tre...

• Word Count: 2253
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