...Imagine one man and his army taking over your whole entire life. They’re trying to kill you and your whole race because of how you look and what you believe in. What would you do? Would you be able to survive? Ever since losing World War I, Germany has had economical problems.The Germans had to pay back seventy billion to the countries they vandalized. Therefore, to blame someone for their own mistake, the Germans blamed the Jewish people. Subsequently, on January 30th, 1933, Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi parties, made a critical turning part in his plan to kill all Jews, and had started what is now known as the Holocaust. During the Holocaust, more than six million innocent people, including children, were murdered. They faced hardships...
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...Micro-Econ Spring 2011 5 May 2011 Unions in America Over the past century in America the labor movement has played an important role in the shaping of this country, for better or worse. The influence of unions has ebbed and flowed through the bas century in a struggle for power in the workplace. The status of the labor movement has always been precarious due to the love-hate relationship America has toward unions. Today, just as one hundred years ago, some Americans feel that unions are crucial to the continuing development of our country, and others believe that they are the opposite, that unions will eventually drag the country down. Unions are just about as old as America itself. There were primitive unions of carpenters and other groups in colonial America but it wasn’t until the 1820’s that national labor unions started to gain strength. It was during this time that workers banded together to reduce the hours worked in a day from 12 to 10, and then in 1866 the National Labor Union persuaded Congress to drop the workday to the current 8 hours. Labor Day is a creation of unions as well. The first Labor Day celebration was on the 5th of September, 1882. Labor Day is now held on the first Monday in September. The American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed in 1866 and made many contributions to the cause of protection American workers. The AFL lobbied to create the US Department Moles Pg. 2 of Labor and the Children’s Bureau in the 1890’s. They were also instrumental...
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...How the Industrial Revolution Transformed American Transportation of products Christopher Lewis Writing Assignment 1 HIS300 American History 30 October 2015 How did the Industrial Revolution transform America? The answer to this question will vary from person to person but, the truth is that it transformed America in many different ways to include urbanization, immigration, transportation of materials and goods, changing role of women in the home and workplace, and the education of middle and working class people. The Effects of urbanization during the Industrial Revolution Prior to the Industrial Revolution families worked together on farms as well as doing the chores around the home. Men who were the head of the household did their trade and trained their older sons...
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...takes over a smaller nation or colony for political, social, and/or economic reasons. Imperialism has been a major force in shaping the modern world. The effects of Imperialism have been interpreted from a variety of viewpoints. This major Imperialism occurred during the late 19th Century and early 20th century. It had more negative effects in the modern world today then positive effects. A positive effect is seen in document one called "Modern Progressive Nations," it shows how the larger nations gave to the smaller colonies. The nations built them roads, canals, and railways. Showed them the telegraph, newspaper, established schools for them, gave them the blessing of their civilization, and overall made them economized. They were part of modern culture after this occurred. Another positive effect is seen in document three called "Colonial Governments and Missionaries. " It shows how the colonial governments introduced improved medical care, and better methods of sanitation. There were new crops; tools and farming methods, which helped, increase food production. These changes meant less death to smaller colonies, and overall improve the state of living. They now could live longer and have better sanitation compared to the earlier imperialism. A negative effect is seen document two-called "Colonization." In the picture you can see that the colonies doing the mother countrys hard work did not civilize the smaller colonies. They were put to work as cheap labor. They...
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...Development Worldwide of the Emancipation Laws in the Nineteenth Century Nannette Porter HIWD – 370: Comparative Civilization Instructor Katie Stewart October 13, 2015 Slavery had been a part of civilization since villages, and small communities began to form. The topic of slavery is an important part of our heritage, knowing how it began and what humanity has done to control it. It is interesting to see how Christianity can change the heart of one person, who can affect the change in a country. One small adjustment, thousands of miles abroad, can affect any civilization and history of many countries. During the 19th century many countries developed laws to gradually or immediately shift civilization away from slavery. This paper explores the religious influences motivating this shift in the legal system as well as the consequences of these laws on work civilization. Slavery was found worldwide and came in many different forms. The most common was the Slave, treated as chattels and wild animals, having no rights and endured harsh physical abuse. The Slave was known more and referred to as the ‘Western Slave’ more commonly found in America. Serfdom, a Russian repression, was a different form of slavery. Serfs were not a legal person, had no property rights, no right to credit transactions and not protected by custom. However, a serf had his own land and property, unlike in slavery. Serfdom was found in China, Japan, India and elsewhere...
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...Essay response to: Why did Stalin implement forced Industrialization, Collectivized Agriculture, and the Terror in the Soviet Union? Why did many Soviet peoples cooperate in this “Stalin Revolution,” despite the violence, cruelty, and tremendous sacrifices involved? Joseph Jughashvili (1878 – 1953), later known as Joseph Stalin believed that industrialization was necessary in order to create a true proletariat class so a true communist revolution could occur. Stalin and true Marxists believed that only through a modern industrialized economy could a true proletariat class be developed. Additionally, Stalin believed that the Soviet Union was “backward” and behind in the times and had to catch up with the rest of the world, otherwise the Nation would be conquered. Stalin made this clear when he said, “we are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. Either we do it, or they crush us” (Perry, 193). In doing so, Stalin brought about sweeping changes of economic reform. While Vladimir Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP) was successful in returning agricultural harvests to prewar levels, by the late 1920’s, Stalin sided with the critics of Lenin’s NEP in that the Soviet Union could not catch up with other industrialized countries by relying on taxes from peasant farmers (Coffin/Stacey, 908). In 1927, Stalin implemented the first five-year plan, which he referred to as the “revolution from above” and called for a command economy (McKay et al., 907). The five-year...
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...Alienation occurs when a worker feels his labor is external to him. He feels outside of himself while at work and feels as himself when outside of work. This means that the worker does not feel at home while at work, he feels disconnected. He only feels at home with himself when he is not at work. A worker becomes alienated from his labor and the commodity he is producing when he feels he has no say in the work process. As the worker puts more of himself into the commodity he is making, the more power the commodity begins to have over him. The commodity gains this power because it becoming more valuable, at the same time it is devaluing the worker. The worker puts so much of his time and effort into this commodity that he does not have enough left for himself at the end of the day. The less a worker has for himself, the more animal he becomes. Not only does the worker become more animalistic, there are other ways that a worker can become alienated. Karl Marx identified four aspects of estrangement that come from a worker being alienated. The first two forms deal with the labor process and the object itself. The latter two deal with the worker as a person and his relations. Marx identified the first type of estrangement as the worker being alienated from the work process. This type of alienation comes about when the worker feels he has no say in how his is able to or allowed to work. He is forced to work on his part of the object in a set time frame and is required to do this task...
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...Labor strikes in the 1800s and 1900s began when employees went on strikes for various reasons such as, wage cuts, new machinery, and longer work hours with less pay. A strike is a group of employees who organize a work stoppage to put pressure on their boss or company until their demands are met. Countless smaller strikes were all due to the same reasons listed above or a few other reasons. The first nationwide strikes were the railroad strikes. Many workers were upset due to their wages being cut, they were already struggling with money and now they are getting even less than before. The strikes began to spread and it became known as a General Strike. In some of the labor strikes military and militia were sent in to help stop the...
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...compliance of its code of conduct for suppliers, problems still occur. Apple being the largest U.S. Corporation makes them a target because other companies are envious of their success but this is not the sole reason they have earned the reputation of an evil, profit mongering corporation. Human rights activists, media outlets and various other groups believe the company has no sense of social responsibility because of the way they disregard the environment and violate human rights with poor work conditions. Their use of child labor is an example of this. Environmental, labor and other social responsibility advocates have been aware of allegations of forced overtime, child labor and other miserable working conditions at the Chinese factories that make Apple I-toys. Disregard for human life is alarming in itself but American patriots also criticize the company for poor American job creation because Apple has created over a half of million or more jobs in China but only a few thousand in the U.S., in addition to low pay of American workers at the company’s chain of...
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...Introduction Karl Marx (1818 – 1883) was born the son of a well-known lawyer, in Trier. He was a German philosopher, economist and historian whose ideas played a major role in the development of the social sciences and the socialist political movement. During his lifetime Marx wrote and published many articles and books, most notably; The Communist Manifesto and Capital. Admirers of Marx work have drawn from what he wrote, taking his ideas one step further and created grand theoretical viewpoints which are known to us as Marxism. Marxism is a theory of economics and history and the basic explanation for how societies go through the process of change, Marx believed that capitalism was evil and created increasing disproportion so wealth in society, since the worker would become poorer the more wealth he created for their employers, this was because a worker becomes a cheaper commodity the more commodities he produces. The central theme of Marxism is public ownership and control of all means of production. Marxism thus calls for abolition of the capitalist economic system where chief means of production are privately owned. According to Marxism, supporting the development of a classless society would have led to prosperity and freedom for all. Marxist Ideas One of the basic ideas of Marxism is that of Dialectical Materialism. This outlook is referred to as dialectical materialism because its approach to the occurrences of nature, its method of studying and apprehending these...
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...1, One of the readings that was significant to me was “Estranged Labor” from Karl Marx. This reading discusses how under capitalism, society is divided into the wage workers and the capitalists who have misappropriated the means of production from the workers, thereby making them suffer alienation in many different forms. The first form of alienation is where the worker grows to see the object of his work as foreign and hostile to himself. Although the worker invests his entire life into this object, he doesn’t own the means of production and gains nothing out of his work other than a mere paycheck that’s just enough for him to survive and continue working. The more he produces the more alienated he becomes. This alienation is where the worker is estranged from the product. The second alienation is where the worker is alienated from the actual activity of working. This is because this work doesn’t come from his natural desire to express himself creatively but instead he is only working as a means of survival. He is forced to work, not for himself, but for someone else benefit. Which means that typically the working is doing a job that is demeaning to him, or he finds to be lesser than himself, because he’s forced to do this work he loses his sense of self and dignity in the process. The third kind is alienation from his species...
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...documentary tells of how slavery was brought to America, and of the conditions under which these slaves were forced to live. The trade that began in Africa was not initially focused on trading humans, but rather on gold. Gradually, the British took control and started trafficking Africans to their colonies in America. The conditions slaves lived under changed drastically from the original conditions when they first arrived to America compared to years after the slave trade had been functioning. This documentary re-examines the appalling social injustice that existed during this time period and how race was associated to such injustice. The African men and women had no idea what their life in America would be like. When the British colonies were first established, white indentured servants were typically relied on to cultivate crops. This labor force consisting of white people soon changed, and the English definition of who could be enslaved changed from non-Christian to non-white individuals. The Portuguese sailed to West Africa seeking gold. Over time, the British took control of the trade in Africa, and the trade shifted from gold to humans. Africans were needed on the plantations in America. The Europeans built factories on the West African coast to hold captives until they were shipped across the Atlantic ocean to America, the voyage called the Middle Passage. Not everyone survived the harsh conditions of the Middle Passage. The surviving Africans lives did not get any better...
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...Native American lives. Bartolome de Las Casas claimed that the Spaniards Christians were the most violent. Columbus and all of his men were most likely the reason in which Bartolome de Las Casas wrote this. The Spaniards believed that the Taíno were the problem, but thought their inhumane acts were in some way justifiable. The Spaniards would often torture Indians for their unChristian religious beliefs, mostly because of Ferdinand’s letter. They believed that their torture methods were simply manual labor. By that time, the Taíno were seemingly slaves....
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...Publication: May 2010 Peer Reviewed? Yes What words did you use to find this article? Abuse What type of article is this (research, summary, reflection, essay, etc.)? Summary Did this article include an abstract? Yes Summarize the article (75 to 100 words) Childhood sexual abuse is a social problem in the healthcare arena. A lot of children who have endured sexual abuse in their lives, usually have long term psychological, behavior, or social effects. The National Child Abuse Data estimates that at least over 700,000 children were victims of abuse or neglect in the U.S. A national survey conducted during the periods of 2001 to 2003 documented that 1 in 15 adults in U.S experienced forced sex in their lifetime. In women sexual abuse is related to poor health, gynecological and gastrointestinal symptoms. But for men physical health and functional impairment is what seem to be underlining issue. Childhood Sexual Abuse is usually associated with anxiety, depression, and mood swings. While tackling the effects on the Childhood Sexual Abuse, begin to make changes in the way they parented their in order to protect them abuse. Source 2 Author: Coleman Smith, Virginia Date: 2/2/13 Title: The Reluctance of Women to Respond to Preterm Labor Publication: 4/2012 Peer Reviewed? Yes What words did you use to find this article? Infant What type of article is this (research, summary, reflection, essay, etc.)? Research Did this article include an abstract? Preterm birth occurs...
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...Rwandan president, Juvenal Habyarimana, and the Burundian president, Cyprien Ntaryamira. Every person on board died that day, and after the crash, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State warned everyone about the risk of violence breaking out. Most people thought that the Tutsis shot down the plane, so the death of the president created a feud between the Tutsi and the Hutu, and in just a few hours, the Hutu protesters surrounded Kigali, the capital, and took over the streets so they could get revenge. From this, you can see that the Hutus acted fast, and they didn’t waste any time, because then, within a day, they got rid of Rwanda’s balanced leadership and control, or in other words, authority. Also, all Tutsis, and people suspected of having any link or connection to a Tutsi, were killed…….OR…….. and took over the streets. From this, you can see that the Hutus were out to kill, and they wanted to get rid of the Tutsis. You can also see that they wanted revenge because they acted fast and they didn’t waste any time, because then, within a day, they got rid of Rwanda’s balanced leadership and control, or in other words, authority. Also, all Tutsis, and people suspected of having any link or connection to a Tutsi, were...
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