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A lack of job opportunities could also be due to the cultural shift of the large cohort born between 1946 and 1964, also known as ‘baby boomers’ who are working longer than previous generations. This is backed up by Mermin, Johnson and Murphy (2007), who concluded that “the mean self-reported probability of working full time past age 65 among workers aged 51 to 56 increased from 27% to 33%” (p. 293). Although job insecurity can be detrimental to one’s mental and emotional health, longer careers…

Tim O’Brien was born in Austin, Minnesota on October 1st, 1946. His mother was an elementary school teacher, his father an insurance salesman, and he had a younger sister and brother. His mother taught his the mechanics of writing while his father encouraged reading. His father was an alcoholic, and mercilessly teased young O’Brien. O’Brien found comfort in baseball and in performing magic. In the article “Tim Obrien (1946 - )” it states, “O’Brien… moved at the age of ten with his family to…

Colonialism in Kenya turned out to be both bad and good. Kenya was a very secluded area of Africa. Many Europeans thought it to be uninhabited but in fact it was home to at least twenty seven different ethnic groups. But Europeans came and ignored this taking control of the territory as is new leaders. In the nineteenth Kenya was created by Europeans at the Berlin Conference. The Berlin Conference did not welcome any of the ethnic groups from that area. The Europeans ignored the original…

Historically, the current Nigeria used to have a number of kingdoms, empires, caliphates and chiefdoms, local land lord, among others before the arrival of European colonialism in western Africa. Those kingdoms and empires had traded with outside the world independently particularly with Europe. This extreme diversity in terms of culture, tradition, norm and religion resulted to have a complex system of governance (Musa and Hassan, 2014). The Kanem-Borno Empire (with known history of more than a…

Freshmen 9- India SocoMUN 2015 Nuclear Proliferation Summaries 1. Title: The development of nuclear weapons Adress: Date: Background On October 1939, after World War II the United States had begun a secret project called “The Manhattan Project.” This project was taken place after the suspicion that Germany had already begun working on an atomic bomb, that Hitler would eventually use to gain control over the entire world. By July 16, 1945 the first nuclear powered bomb was tested in a…

The US Government has a multi-tiered governing system, known as federalism. This governing system separates federal, state, and local governments, by power and level of authority, in particular the economy. The President and Congress have the federal economy, states have their own and within those states are local governments over towns and cities. This paper will take a look at the roles of federal, state, local government in the economy and the Presidential reasonability in the economy. Also,…

After WWII, the United States and Soviet Union rose as two superpowers. This eventually lead to the Cold War because the two countries were both competing to advance ahead of each other. The Soviet Union took control of the communist countries and the United States did not tolerate the ideology of communism. On the other hand, the Soviet Union did not appreciate the United states occupying and taking control over European countries. From 1945 to 1991 the Cold War was exploding in the dispute of…

in institutions. When Norma Jeane turned 16, to avoid being sent to another foster home, she got married to James Dougherty, her 21 year old boyfriend at that time on June 19, 1942. Unfortunately, the marriage did not last long and they divorced in 1946. In 1945 Norma Jeane tried modeling and her photographs…

In the beginning, it was established that Japan that was in control of Korea from the annexation they made in 1910. April 1945 the Yalta Conference agreed to make a four power trusteeship for Korea near the end of World War two. Korea was split into two pieces, North and South Korea. The United States had control of the southern part of Korea below the 38th parallel, and the Soviet Union occupying the northern area. Later on in that year it was settled that the country would be reconnected and…

The world was forever changed when on February 15, 1946 the first digitalized computer the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was introduced. ”Designed and built for the United States Army to calculate artillery firing tables,” (“What is ENIAC) it was however the sheer power of ENIAC’s power and general-purpose programmability that thrilled the public’s dreams. When it was publicized in 1946, ENIAC was referred to in the media as a “giant brain.” Seventy years later and a…