Papers 1241-1250 of total 3969 found.
Category: /Literature/English
…of the foreshadow of the shortcut as being an “ill chosen route” as being true. Irving continued his description of key scenes in the story. “On the bark of the tree was scored the name of Deacon Peabody, an eminent man, who had waxed wealthy by driving shrewd bargains
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Category: /History
…seemed to be a good bargain for the ex-slaves. The arrangement offered some freedom to work independently, and they frequently got half the crop. The system quickly proved to be disastrous for both poor Blacks and Whites. Sharecroppers needed more than land…
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Category: /History
…competition," with presidential approval, that regulated prices, wages, working conditions, and credit terms. Businesses that complied with the codes were exempted from antitrust laws, and workers were given the right to organize unions and bargain collectively…
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Category: /History
…to bargain through unions of their own choice. The Social Security Act of 1935 was the New Deal’s “supreme achievement”, according to Roosevelt. Before the Great Depression, progressives proposed aid to elderly, disabled, and unemployed, but America was intent…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…to happiness. Thus, the film and the novel explore the true importance of love and its role our lives. Both characters experience different stages of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance in their quest to define their lives and learn the fact…
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Category: /Literature/English
…, and hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions…
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Category: /History
…candidacy had failed, Clay threw his support to John Quincy Adams, whom the House early in 1825 elected as the sixth president. When Adams named Clay secretary of state, his Jacksonian opponents yelled out, "corrupt bargain!" This accusation was unfair; however…
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Category: /History
…that the workers in a capitalistic system had their own bargaining power and were equal to management. As a result, the Massachusetts Legislature did not pass into law the provisions outlined in the petition. Around this same time poor immigrants started pouring…
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Category: /History
…their control was entirely based on terror and intimidation, some Nazi controlled companies and workplaces provided workers with cheap holidays, bargain prices for skiing or cruise ship getaways. This was done to make sure that leisure time was used…
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Category: /Literature/English
…to bargain for peace with diplomacy, but we should not get involved militarily in internal disputes of other countries. Republicans who oppose military action say, “American soldiers’ lives would be needlessly risked in a local war between two peoples who have…
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