Congress of Industrial Organizations

Sage Gurney WWW.CIA.GOV The website, www.cia.gov, is all about the Central Intelligence Agency. On the website, it states that their “primary mission is to collect, evaluate, and disseminate foreign intelligence to assist the president and senior US government policymakers in making decisions relating to the national security.” I would like to (1) explain what this website is about, (2) discuss the different types of information available on www.cia.gov, (3) share what I personally learned from…

effects. The most significant movement of the late 19th to 20th century was the progressive movement. Progressives came from literally every walk of life and all political parties. Several distinguished things defined progressivism. Concern over industrial effects and conditions, optimism for human nature, an entitled mindset to intervene in other’s lives, frequent calls to authority to enact their reforms, indentifying with Protestantism and the sciences, and the reach to effect the entire…

Kollontai’s ideaologies led to the formation of The Women's Bureau, also referred to as Zhenotdel. Led by Alexandra Kollontai and backed by Lenin and Trotsky, it aimed to rally women to the support of the new regime (Malone, 2015). Lenin described how industrial development was a progressive step because it pulled women out of the home and the patriarchal relationships and instead made them an independent part of society. Lenin said in 1918, “comrades, in a certain…

WHAT IS NEW URBANISM? New urbanism is a technique for designing our built environment and reforming it in such a way that it leads to a better standards of living for us and improve the quality of our life in the places we live. It primarily focuses on reducing the urban sprawl which arises because of the low rise development in some areas. New urbanism promotes the idea of high rise development in areas so that there can be a planned development and we could make the best use of land…

Genetically Modified Organisms Genetically Modified Organisms, (GMO), definitely raises some concerns when it comes to health and if it is actually safe to consume, since the US still allows the use of GMO, we should at least be aware of which foods contain it and which ones don't. We as the consumers should have the right to decide what we put in our bodies and especially know exactly what ingredients are in the foods we are buying. I certainly don’t want to be feeding my children and my family…

“Vertical Ingratiation” was a key component in “America 's industrial Growth.” This growth resulted in very important positives and negatives for the United States. It skyrocketed our national wealth and standard of living, but unfortunately not for everyone. Those who had wealth, had a lot of it and those who were…

also impacted Western Culture by providing different perspectives and sides of paintings. Art movements like realism, cubism and post impressionism which rejected traditional forms of art, literature, and social organization as outmoded in the wake of the Enlightenment and the Industrial…

settlers. People have been enslaving one another since the birth of humanity. Southerners, though, felt that their very way of life would be compromised if they remained members of the Union. Strong disagreements about tariff rates were perpetuated in Congress. Also, the issue of states’ rights could not be resolved; Southerners believed that it was up to new states to decide their…

African Americans ventured to set up public assistance like that Freedmen’s Bureau who provided shelter, medical assistance, and food; however, was shut down by congress and left African Americans without anything. Without education or mobility, and lacking capital or any legal tender at all, many found themselves tending to whites without pay. A more insidious bondage was that of terror, fostered by the Ku Klux…

raised children and cooked food for their spouse. The 19th Amendment gave American women the right to vote, the right known as women’s suffrage, and was passed on August 18, 1920, resolving almost a century of protests. Before the 1920s, many organizations and movements were created to protest for Women's Suffrage but the expectation for Women were still very different and unfair. For example, “Most women were prohibited from voting or exercising the same civil rights as men during this time…