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    Tlingit Education History

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    There have been infinite control policies over the course of the Tlingit people’s history that effected their schools and educational system. Before Alaska was purchased by the United States, formal education came primarily from the efforts of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian-American Company. The Russian Orthodox Church through Bishop Innocent (Veniaminov) created the first alphabet for the Tlingit language and developed a Tlingit literacy program. Additionally in the nineteenth…

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    Texas City Explosion

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    Texas City, Texas also known as toxic city is a booming industrial area surrounded by the most significant ports in the Galveston Bay for the shipping community, and is surrounded by oil refineries and chemical plants (Ferling, 1996, p.48). Additionally, it is a city all too familiar with industrial accidents. However, nothing will ever compare to the most devastating industrial accident the state of Texas and America has ever seen; the 1947 Texas City Explosion. An article entitled “Texas City…

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    Civil War Racial Tension

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    Despite its contradiction, racial tension was an indirect consequence of the abolishment of slavery during the Civil War. The Ku Klux Klan was a direct consequence of this racial tension. The prolific organization had three rebirths throughout its history in the United States, still existing today. It began in 1866 in Pulaski Tennessee, during the era of Reconstruction, following the Civil War. An ex-Confederate officer by the name of Nathan Bedford Forrest founded it as a white supremacist…

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    The New Deal itself created millions of jobs with its laws created specifically for decreasing the amount of people unemployed in the nation. With the help of the Civilian Conservation Corps, a program enacted by Congress to bring relief to young men between 18 and 25 years of age, jobless young men were enrolled in work camps across the country. These young men were able to earn a living through participating in a variety of conservation projects that also proved…

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    generating devices. These agencies inform their policy with reports and recommendations from a number of organizations, including the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP). The NCRP is a longstanding organization that strives to provide guidance on all matters related to radiation protection. The organization is semi-governmental that was officially chartered by Congress in 1964 and independent from federal control. In this capacity; the NCRP has heavily influenced…

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    Antitrust Laws Dbq

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    information about products to consumers. The regulators of this act consisted of five board members from a few different political parties, to regulate total control of one party. The new act also helped cease trusts and changed “the face of U.S. industrial organization” [4]. “The FTC has made many hundreds of rules governing many aspects of business behavior,” butt his act primarily focuses on truthfulness of advertising and product warranties refund agreements between the customer and the…

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    Public Sector Unions

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    teachers, police officers, or firefighters rather than steel workers, electricians, or autoworkers. Union’s effect on the economy is not a short story. They have shaped the economy and the industrial complex that we both have enjoyed and grown to dislike. Unions have brought about changes in the organizations we would see as unethical and morally corrupt. Nevertheless, corporations were engaging with the best practices of that particular time. Unions increased wages, benefits, workplace safety,…

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    extensive organizations to separate their corporate sheets similarly in the middle of laborers' and administrations agents, multinationals like Siemens, Daimler, and BMW have kept their most exceptionally beneficial and best-paid occupations at home. Just where companies have been allowed to structure globalization to their laborers' impediment in the United States has it prompted enormous union…

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    corruption because of wealth and power, causing American people to respond with unions to help enforce the evils of big corporations. **During the market revolution, immigrants from the northern states were coming into the United States for a more industrial life. An increase of factories and advancements in transportations were beginning. This is similar during the gilded age while immigrants arrived in hopes to begin a new lifestyle. Many interventions boomed from the market revolution such as…

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    With the start of the Industrial Revolution, large numbers of workers began moving from the country to urban areas in order to take wage jobs at these factories. European immigrants also moved to cities seeking factory jobs. These workers faced harsh, unhealthy conditions. They…

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