Ellen Gates Starr

Fraternity on the Frontlines: Fictive Kinship and the Great War Noting how “[i]n every combatant country there emerged groups of people whose business it was to help each other recover from [the First World War’s] traumatic consequences,” Jay Winter borrows anthropology’s idea of ‘fictive kin’ to denote close relationships between “particular groups of survivors, whose bond is social and experiential…as opposed to those linked by blood bonds or marriage” (47, 40). Winter argues for a link that…

Meghan McCain, daughter of former presidential candidate and Senator John McCain stated, “This is the worst election ever” (Hensch 1). Alan Abramowitz a PhD and a political scientist at Emory University says, “A lot of voters are angry. Very angry” (1). Polls of Americans show that an upward of sixty-two percent of citizens think that the country is on the wrong track. People are mad at the political system. They want to see major change. The voters are tired of hearing a new candidate preach…

Bill Gates is the face of the company not Paul Allen. More of the people don’t even know him. This research paper will talk, why Bill Gates is the face of the Microsoft. What did he do to become the face of the Microsoft? Why Paul Allen is not…

The Lincoln Electric Company is considered as one of the top best managed manufacturing companies on Earth. Out of all companies, what makes Lincoln Electric stand out of the crowd? The answer lies within the paragraphs of Arthur Sharplin’s, Lincoln Electric Company Harvard Case Study. He shares his knowledge of the company’s pay, bonuses, and management policies and ideals. This allows the audience to understand what makes a company great. To begin with, Lincoln Electric has…

The movie “ Triumph of the Nerds: Riding the Bear” may sounded funny when you first heard it, but in fact it is a documentary about how Microsoft rise as a major company that produces Operating System (OS) that is used worldwide until this day. The key of Microsoft success can be seen from the title “Riding the Bear”, where at that time Microsoft was still a small company that has a very smart business strategy. The business strategy that Microsoft employed is the utilization of a powerful…

background was as follows. Timothy Tiah attended an all boys school, St. Xavier's Institution when he was younger and then moved on to study at University College London after college. He lived a very typical student life as he grew up, going to cyber cafes and playing games such as Counter Strike and Starcraft for fun. He had a knack for table tennis as he used to play it really well and represented his school and eventually, his university when he studied in London. After finishing college,…

Anyone can become successful without a college education, but it involves a large amount of motivation and a passion to pursue their dream. People like: Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and many others are perfect examples of people who did not graduate from college but were still able to become very successful. What they all had in common however was a burning passion to succeed in life. They did not drop out of college…

Your thoughts and the way you think attracts everything in your life including success. The most successful people of all time were interviewed to detemrine what it was that made them wealthy and these are the 21 charecterisitics of a millionaire mindset. 1. Have A Big Reason Why Without a big reason why YOU are ROADKILL! There has to be something inside of you that continues to drive you everyday powerful enough to overcome all the distractions of life. 2. Pick A Few Personal Targets That…

Which college are you attending? What degree are you going to be majoring in? What do you mean you're not going to college? These are questions all high school students are asked constantly. American society focuses on college like it’s a plague. “If you choose to attend a college, spectacular! If you don’t, you’re destroying your life.” That is how people today think of going to college. Personally, I will be attending college as the career I want to pursue requires a college education. That…

Introduction: Chris Collibee is a boy born in New Hampshire. Right now, he is a freshman in the University of Arizona. His major is computer science, he is friendly and honest to everyone. For this draft, I introduced the process for his first job interview – to be a shop assistant in a Stadium when he was 16 years old, and he got this job by his He found this job by a coincidence. Summer vacation always long and boring. One day, he was walking on the street with his friends, they would go to…