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Sweatshops 2
Number of Words: 1078 / Number of Pages: 4
... prompted the federal government to take action and establish control over the industry.
In 1938, major legislation passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Fair Labor Standards Act, (FLSA) guaranteed a $.25 an hour minimum wage, prohibited child labor, and required that employers keep adequate time and payroll records.
In 1958 the largest nationwide strike in history, with 100,000 union members walking out of factories occurred. They won more holidays and higher wages. Conditions were at an all time high for the workers. This soon came to pass, however, as many manufacturers and retai ...
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Philosophy Of Quality
Number of Words: 539 / Number of Pages: 2
... also has a “14-Step Pan for Quality Improvement.” Crosby’s main focus is first evaluate the quality system and make improvements on the current system. Another of Crosby’s main concerns is defects. Crosby emphasizes that the performance standard should be “zero defects.”
The most recent of the philosophers is Joseph M. Juran. In the late 1980’s Juran founded an institute to consult and train management in quality. In addition to Deming, Juran also visited Japan to assist their industry at the end of World War II. Juran’s most famous theory of ...
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Mp3 Argument
Number of Words: 1304 / Number of Pages: 5
... technological terms, but a brief
explanation is necessary in order to understand arguments surrounding the issue. MP3 is a
new way to save, copy, and play audio files on a computer. The audio files are near
CD-quality and take up very little space on a computer’s hard drive. Previously,
high-quality audio files were saved on a computer in WAV format, which takes up much
more hard drive space than MP3. For example, a three-minute WAV file would use about
30 megabytes of disk space. But in MP3 format, the same song would use only two
megabytes, leaving much more hard drive space available ...
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Playstation Vs. Nintendo 64
Number of Words: 354 / Number of Pages: 2
... Playstation. Some games for the Playstation take up to a minute to load. This is due to the fact that the system uses compact discs for software. On the other hand, Nintendo 64 uses cartridges. These load instantly. If you have no patients for waiting on a game to load, then Nintendo 64 is the better choice.
Accessorizing the systems is a minor point, but it is still there. The Nintendo 64 comes with four controller ports, so no additional purchase is necessary (besides the actual controllers). The Playstation, however, comes with only two controller ports. If additional ports were wanted, a multitap w ...
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Society Points Guns And Finger
Number of Words: 1283 / Number of Pages: 5
... and beating each other to a pulp). These kids are looking for more out of life. Many are artists - musicians, poets, or actors. What artist doesn’t stray a bit from the norm? Is there anything wrong with that? I don’t think so. The “gothic” people that I have met are not violent. In fact, violence is one of the reasons that these kids have chosen to exclude themselves from the other activities. Most of these kids are peaceful and are openly loving of each other.
When a closer look is taken at the Littleton Killers, we learn that they were heavily into Nazism and guns. ...
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Etrade
Number of Words: 1611 / Number of Pages: 6
... a unique and compelling online experience;
*providing the broadest range of high value-added tools, products and services;
*enabling "anytime, anywhere, anyway" access, worldwide, to actionable information;
and
*integrating a broad-based digital financial media strategy with existing product and service offerings
(10 K report)
Growth Strategies
expanding global coverage by launching new sites in four additional countries (France, Sweden, the UK, and Japan) to complement our existing coverage in Australia, New Zealand and Canada; the acquisition of TIR in August 1999; and in Janua ...
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Cigarrette Advertisements
Number of Words: 1222 / Number of Pages: 5
... ad that is attached is that promoting Winston cigarettes. This ad, taken from Mademoiselle magazine, is predominately targeted towards women. It is a two-page advertisement that reads, “I wanted a light, not his life story.” Below the quote there is a round, black “No Bull” stamp imprinted. On the opposite page there is a black and white picture of a woman smoking her cigarette. She is listening to the man sitting next to her incessantly talking. From the expression on her face the reader is able to assume that she is completely uninterested in what he has to say. Obviously annoyed, she is thin ...
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The Old Testament Myth Or Trut
Number of Words: 2718 / Number of Pages: 10
... and then we may draw our conclusions. If we trace back to the first appearance of the Bible in written form, in its earliest translation, we arrive at approximately 450 B.C. Two texts, components of the Pentateuch referred to as J and E texts, can be traced to around 650 B.C. The J texts refer to Yahweh texts, characterized by the use of the word Yahweh or Lord in accounts; the E texts refer to Elohist texts, which use Elohim, in its references to God. But 650 B.C. isn't our oldest ...
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Practices And Winning In Sports
Number of Words: 682 / Number of Pages: 3
... achieved
then anything else that I would want to achieve or the team wants to
achieve, will follow. Other objectives would be to make everybody on the
team a team player and not an individual, this would go back to the main
objective which is to make the team play as a team. Nothing can be
accomplished if the team doesn't play as a team.
Nobody has influenced me to make me the person I am today except
for my parents and the rest of my family.
There are many things a coach would expect from his team. Such as;
doing his/her own job, picking a player up instead of putting them down
when they make a mist ...
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How The KKK, Anarchists, Phreaks Compare To Big Brother
Number of Words: 1696 / Number of Pages: 7
... 1984's government and the Brotherhood.
The Ku Klux Klan people haven't gotten out of the idea the black people
and other foreigners are evil, which they call, "alien outsiders". These
"outsiders" are "all non-Protestants, aliens, liberals, trade unionists and
striking workers". (Microsoft Encarta 1995) Their traditions have been
pasted down from generation to generation since 1865. Lately, Klansmen
have been running for office and other government jobs like that. Although
the Ku Klux Klan and the Brotherhood have nothing really outstandingly in
common, they are both considered evil by th ...
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