...John Edgar Hoover: The War Against All of the Presidents John Edgar Hoover once said, “No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to family,” played a key role in his success (A-Z Quotes). He was willing to keep to put in his best time to be in the FBI before he died (“Wikipedia”). He worked with everyone there and they got it done when Hoover was there (“Wikipedia”). Dedication and attention to detail led to his success at the FBI (“Wikipedia”). From improving the FBI, to his controversial leadership tactics, and his war on the FBI itself, these were some factors of his achievement (“Wikipedia”). The FBI was his favorite job because he fought crime and brought them to justice (“Wikipedia”). J. Edgar Hoover was the first...
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...of great economic boom, not many people took the future into consideration. Many people bought expensive luxury items using money they did not have. Installment buying allowed people to make a monthly, weekly, or yearly payment on an item that they wanted or needed. Buying on credit and installment buying left millions of people in debt. Also, the continuous scamming in the stock market caused a loss of a lot of money. Buying on margin was a problem because people would only pay 10% and borrowing the rest from the bank. In 1928 Herbert Hoover was elected for president, when the Great Depression hit he did nothing about it. He thought it wasn’t the government’s problem and the people had to deal with it themselves. His approach was “rugged individualism” which means just waiting the depression out, he was a proponent...
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...woman suffrage. First incumbent U.S. senator and first newspaper publisher to become president. Teapot Dome Scandal-bribery incident that further destroyed public reputation of Harding administration Calvin Coolidge-republican lawyer, conduct during boston police strike of 1919 gave him reputation of a man of decisive action. Soon after elected as 29th president to succeed Harding in 1923, gained reputation as a small-government conservative, and also a man who said very little. Herbert Hoover-republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929, promising Americans prosperity and attempted to deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community. “rugged individualism”-moral stance, political philosophy, ideology, or social outlook that promotes the exercise of one’s goals and desires and so independence and self-reliance. Republican Decade-The decade after WWI where there were 3 Republican presidents: Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. Laissez-faire-the type of economy where government does not interfere because the businesses are supposed to know what’s best for the economy; businesses do their own thing and government does not interfere. Great Crash-book written by John Kenneth Galbraith depicting the economic lead up to the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Argues that the market crash was able to be seen by the rampant speculation in the stock market,...
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...Commercialization of Culture Advertisements, mass production, sacrificing quality for time and quantity, the desire for bigger and better, these are the problems of commercialism. Commercialism has been advancing nearly unnoticed by most consumers even since Babylonian times. But, what makes it harmful enough to be explained in a paper? Everyday we sit in our homes desiring goods and services that we do not need or may not even want, and discussing issues that have little or no importance to our lives other than to make small talk. Everyday we work hard to buy stuff that is better or at least equal to what society considers normal. As our former president Herbert Hoover even stated prior to the Great Depression, what he would have liked to see in every American household is "Two cars in every garage" (The American President: Herbert Hoover, 2002). We are fashioning ourselves to be boringly equal cogs in one giant corporate machine, and in turn, are losing our culture to business and propaganda. When a new "hipper" culture appears, commercialists explode the culture across the United States like a plague. What average adult would not know what a skateboard is, what reggae music is, or what Middle East tension is. We have all been commercialized by the news. Few sources indicated a way to prevent or end commercialism, because our lives revolve around it, it is hard to vision a world without economy, advertising, and commercialism. Communism, at its purest form, when are working as equals to...
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...The 1930’s was a period of transformation in the political, legal, and social status of African Americans in the United States. Despite dramatic developments, many economic and demographic characteristics of African Americans at the end of the 1930’s were not that different from what they had been in the previous decades. It was for difficult for Blacks to make a living during the Great Depression. Living conditions were unreal and most people lived in extreme poverty. While these conditions affected all segments of society, African Americans were far worst off. Most of the country's Black population lived in rural areas and worked on farms owned by white landowners. For African-Americans, the depression was hard to distinguish when poverty was always a way of life. Living conditions became more horrendous when some landowners lost their properties during the Depression. However, there were many African-Americans who continued to make their living doing hard manual labor or working in dangerous areas such as in foundries, while others worked as domestic servants for whites. A smaller number worked for the railroads, steel mills, coal mines and school boards. There were some African-Americans who made fairly reasonable living operating small businesses. Around this time, the government began to get involved with the social statuses of African Americans. At the start of the decade and throughout most of his first term, neither President Franklin Roosevelt nor the Congress paid...
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...the stock lost value, you had to pay back the borrowed money. This lead the stock prices to rise really high. So when investors realized that, they started selling their stock making the prices drop. The Stock Market crash was not the only factor in the Great Depression. Banks were failing because they had lost a large amount of money. This money came from savings accounts which was bad because people were left with no money. Factories begun to overproduce consumer goods because the demand fell. People were not purchasing much after the crash and started to hold on to their money in fear. President Hoover’s first thing in response to the crash was he called business leaders to Washington to try to pressure them to keep wages high. Hoover did a lot in response to the...
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...solutions commensurate with the problems of the day. It has not always been this way. On Friday, May 1, 1931, James Truslow Adams, a popular historian, was putting the final touches on the preface to his latest book. It was a curious time in the life of the nation. Though the Crash of 1929 had signaled the beginning of the Great Depression that was to endure for years to come, there was also a spirit of progress, of possibility. On the day Adams was finishing his manuscript, President Herbert Hoover pressed a button in Washington to turn on the lights of the newly opened Empire State Building at 34th Street and Fifth Avenue, which, at 1,250 ft., was to be the tallest building in Manhattan until the construction of the World Trade Center four decades later. High hopes amid hard times: the moment matched Adams' thesis in his book, The Epic of America, a history of the nation that was to popularize a term not yet in the general vernacular in those last years of the reigns of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Adams' subject, he wrote, was "that American dream of a better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank which is the greatest contribution we have as yet made to the thought and welfare of the world." It was not a new thing, this abiding belief that tomorrow would be better than today. "That dream or hope," Adams...
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...On November 18, 1978, Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples Temple cult, ordered all his followers living in his Jonestown compound to drink poisoned grape-flavored punch in order to commit mass suicide. On that day, 912 people (including 276 children) died in what has become known as the Jonestown Massacre. How could one person convince over 900 others to commit suicide? Well, Jim Jones had been planning to carry out this "revolutionary act" of mass suicide for quite some time. To ensure full compliance, Jones had staged practice runs, called "White Nights," in which he would order everyone to drink what he told them was poisoned punch. After everyone had stood around for about 45 minutes or so, he would then tell them that this had been a loyalty test. The Dots in Pac-Man When the Pac-Man video game was released in 1980, it quickly became an international sensation. As kids and adults alike moved the pie-shaped Pac-Man character around the screen, they tried to eat up lots of dots without themselves getting eaten by ghosts. But how many dots were they trying to eat? It turns out that each level of Pac-Man had the exact same number of dots -- 240. Lincoln Logs Created by Frank Lloyd Wright's Son Lincoln Logs is a classic children's toy that has been played by millions of children for decades. The toy usually comes in a box or cylinder and includes both brown "logs" and green slats for roofs, which children use to build their own frontier house or fort. Despite playing...
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...During the postwar decade, the social isolation that was facilitated enabled individuals to not pay attention to the minimalist approach the government took towards capitalism. This allowed society to be eased into a false sense of security in not scrutinizing business practices, moving away from regulatory measures, and silencing the workers’ movements such as the IWW that participated in strikes to bring attention to these realities. Also during this time, African Americans and women struggled for their rights and equality in society. Zinn argues that while there was such an emphasis on social reality, the government was able to use this advantage for political and economic affairs that encouraged the business community. This materialized in a recoil against workers and ethnic minorities, something that Zinn believes is essential in understanding the rise of the Klan and other issues in American society. Howard Zinn also argues that the Great Depression, brought upon by the stock market crash, uneven distribution of wealth in society, and other factors that helped aid the Great Depression, brought out more social activism such as the Bonus Army and the establishment of “Hoovervilles” as a way to bring back the social and political activism that raised the affairs of unfair capitalism to the publics’ interest. This called for Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal policy, elements that helped to recover, reform, and provide relief to those who suffered in the 1920s. During...
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...Russ Britton Mrs. Watters English 400 9/8/14 John Deere and the Company John Deere was born in Rutland, Vermont, on February 7, 1804. He was raised by his mother basically his whole life. Growing up, he wanted to be a blacksmith. He fulfilled his dream at age 17 as a blacksmith’s apprentice. A few years later, he was doing it on his own. His next twelve years were very busy after that. In 1837, Deere moved west to Grand Detour, Illinois. As he was there he opened up his own blacksmith shop. As a blacksmith, he experienced working on other plows that had been created for farming. John quickly realized that these plows needed to be remade. Here he began to start creating his own plows and he sold three plows by 1838. He had produced ten more plows by the next year. and even forty more by 1840. The demand for these plows were high, therefore he partnered up with Leonard Andrus to produce even more. In 1846, they sold close to one thousand plows that year. A few years later, Deere noticed that Grand Detour wasn’t good enough for him. As a result, he packed up and moved to Moline, Illinois. Moline is located by the Mississippi River, which gave him access to even more opportunities. He was able to offer cheap transportation and water power. John started to get british steel because it is sturdy. That immediately sped up his operation. His company made around 1,600 plows in the year of 1850. In 1858, he transferred his leadership of the company to his son, Charles, who was turned...
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...Technology Management and Strategy (IMEN 301) 目录 1. Abstract 3 2. Introduction 3 1) A creator: James Dyson 3 2) Early products by James Dyson 4 3) A new idea 4 4) The $ 2000 vacuum cleaner 4 5) The first Dyson 4 3. Product 5 1) Vacuum cleaners 5 2) Hand Dryer 5 3) Washing Machine 6 4. R&D 7 5. Marketing 7 1) Evolution of Dyson in the market 7 2) Turnover 8 3) Differentiation Strategy 9 4) Focus Strategy 10 5) Cost Strategy 10 6. Innovation 11 1) The innovator’s challenge 11 2) Fast transition from concept to 3D 11 3) Rapid prototypes from design data 12 4) Computer simulation boosts design accuracy 12 5) Protecting their innovations 13 7. Analysis 13 1) Porter’s Five Force Model 13 Existing Rivalry 14 Bargaining Power of Supplier 14 Potential Entrants 14 Threat of Substitutes 14 Bargaining Power of Buyer 15 2) SWOT Analysis 15 Strength 15 Weakness 15 Opportunity 15 Threat 16 1. Abstract In 1978, James Dyson noticed that the air filter of the workshop where the spraying finishing operations on Ballbarrow models was constantly obstructed powder particles (like a vacuum cleaner bag is blocked by dust). He has designed and manufactured industrial cyclone tower, which removed the powder particles by exerting a centrifugal force 100 000 times the force of gravity. The same principle could he operate in a vacuum? James Dyson began to work. Five years and 5,127 prototypes later, the first Dual Cyclone bagless Vacuum...
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...MAYTAG – BUNGLING A PROMOTION IN ENGLAND In August 1992, Hoover Limited, Maytag’s British subsidiary, launched this travel promotion: Anyone in the United Kingdom buying more than 100 U.K. pounds worth of Hoover products (about $150 in American dollars) before the end of January 1993 would get two free round-trip tickets to selected European destinations. For 250 U.K. pounds worth of Hoover products, they would get two free round trip tickets to New York or Orlando. A buying frenzy resulted. Consumers had quickly figured out that the value of the tickets easily exceeded the cost of the appliances necessary to be eligible for them. By the tens of thousands, Britishers rushed out to buy enough Hoover products to qualify. Appliance stores were emptied of vacuum cleaners. The Hoover factory in Cambuslang, Scotland, that had been making vacuum cleaners only three days a week was suddenly placed on a 24-hour, seven days a week production schedule—an overtime bonanza for the workers. What a resounding success for a promotion! Hoover managers, however, were unhappy. Hoover had never ever expected more than 50,000 people to respond. And of those responding, it expected far less would go through all the steps necessary to qualify for the free trip and really take it. But more than 200,000 not only responded but qualified for the free tickets. The company was overwhelmed. The volume of paperwork created such a bottleneck that by...
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...depression, Herbert Hoover, stood firm in his belief of “Rugged Individualism,” which is the idea that people succeeded through their own efforts. Which greatly prolonged the length of which The Great Depression lasted. Hoover rejected government proposals for government action, but he relied on private charity and local government to take care of the people. He left the people to their own devices and did not help anyone, causing many to perish in poverty throughout the country. In contrast, when president Franklin Roosevelt took command he immediately pushed reform programs into reality to help the American people. Overall the Great Depression was difficult and trying time for the entirety of the American people, but we triumphed with great leadership, initiative, and notably the start of WWII. Important to realize is that The Great Depression did not have just one soul cause; instead it had many that lead to its creation. Some of these causes were the overproduction, uneven distribution of income, stock market frenzy, shaky banking and debt, as well as consumer debt. All of these things played a part in the building of the correct environment for a brutal and devastating depression to occur. This depression struck quickly on October 29th, 1929, and devastated the entirety of America; leaving foreclosures, bankruptcy, failed businesses, and Hoovervilles (named after the president at the time) for the American people to deal with, and president Hoover did nothing to...
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...Arches National Park "The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?" - Edward Abbey, 1968 (National Park Service). Arches National Park located in Moab, Utah, was established in April of 1929 when president Herbert Hoover signed presidential proclamation No.1875. This proclamation reserved 1,920 acres in the Windows and 2,600 acres acres in the Devil's Garden, these boundaries have expanded several times and in 1771 the park was recognized for over 10,00 years of human history that flourished in this now-famous landscape of rock (National Park Service). Today people visit Arches for the amazing views and tails, but those who came before sought wealth, solitude, adventure, or a home. There are the remains of the prehistoric people like the...
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...George Fox is a Christian college located in Newberg, Oregon. Their mascot is the bruin. Tuition is $33,370, room and board is $10,528 and fees are $360. They have a 4,140 enrollment and 1,433 graduate students and 2,406 traditional undergraduates. They have a 301 adult degree completion students. There is a 30.1 percent ethnic minorities and 3.1 percent international. The gender ratio is 54 percent female and 45 percent male. George Fox was founded by pioneers about 125 years ago. The people established Friends Pacific Academy first in 1885, which focused on Christian education. Herbert Hoover was one of those first students of the academy, who later became a U.S. President. On September 9th, 1891 Pacific College opened the doors for students,...
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