Evening Standard Award

Main Concept The Progressive Era saw several acts of legislation that would change the way American society operated. Sherman-Anti Trust Act In 1890 big business controlled much of the American economy. The Sherman Act allowed the United States government for the first time to investigate a business. The government would look for "artificial raising of prices," or, a monopoly. Any company who was hurting the economy by driving up prices would be broken apart. The government would attempt…

John D. Rockefeller was born on July 8. 1839 in Richford, New York. His father William Avery Rockefeller, was a “pitch man”-- a “doctor” who claimed he could cure cancer and charged up to $25 per “treatment.” His dad was gone from month to month traveling around the West from town to town and would return to wherever the family was living with substantial sums of cash. His mother Eliza Davison Rockefeller, was very religious and disciplined. She raised John to work, save and give to charities.…

The “Summary of Assessment Items” that is listed on pages 158 and 159, contain the percentage score for each of the seven categories (Fisher, 2004). The scores are compiled from the homeland security assessment that was performed by the designated assessment teams. These assessment scores are derived from information outlined, and based on the Baldrige Criteria for homeland security. The focus of the scores from the Summary of Assessment Items is to determine where an organization’s strengths…

Standard Oil Court Case In 1911 the biggest oil industry was being tried for going against the Sherman Antitrust Act. The Sherman Antitrust Act is a law forbidding contract, trust, or conspiracy in limitation of interstate and foreign trade. The case was between Standard Oil of New Jersey and the United States. The United States Supreme Court was the one trying Standard Oil. In the court case the actions of Standard Oil and the owner John Rockefeller were being reviewed. These actions are what…

Analysis BASE-6 Analysis Jacobson-Truax Classifications. The first step in analysis was to classify each participant according to the Jacobson-Truax framework. Descriptive statistics resulting from this process can be seen in Table 5. According to this framework, the majority of clients either recovered or did not significantly change. Those in the improved class began on average with the highest score (representing most severe symptoms) but also improved the most on average, even slightly more…

Introduction In this study the effectiveness of counseling methods was tested in a group of 20 middle and high school students at an alternative school. These students from a Southeastern metropolitan area were selected as a direct result of their inability to appropriately interact with peers and staff in their home school. This study classifies fights as; arguments, and or physical acts of aggression towards staff or other students. The study analyzed males and females between the ages of…

Date: 11/14/12 Header: Leadership Style at Applied Research Technologies, Inc. LEADERSHIP STYLE AT APPLIED RESEARCH TECHNOLOGIES, Inc JOHN SMITH Dr. VALERY SHUMATE BUS 518, ASSIGNMENT #1 STRAYER UNIVERSITY Header: Leadership Style at Applied Research Technologies, Inc. 1. Determine the leadership style that Peter Vyas exhibited as he considered the group’s proposal and provide examples of his behavior. As a general manager of the Filtration Unit of Applied Research Technologies…

The Mesosystem focuses on functional abilities. Functional abilities can be measured using rating scales, questionnaires, and other self-measuring scales. The Macrosystem measures external conditions. External conditions can be measured through standards of living, life expectancy, employment rates, etc. This methodological method is used to determine the…

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a key cause of global warming and other environmental damage according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A green tax is an excise tax that could provide considerable environmental pollution relief by promoting environmentally sustainable practices via economic incentives. As part of President Obama’s administration’s Green initiative, a policy implementation of a green tax on carbon would greatly benefit the United States’ environment and economy…

that chains of historical events were fortuitously coincided. However, his opinion did not consider the repeatability of recession and the similarity of economic issues. Also, others claimed theories based on banking crises and failure of the gold standard. The book, The World in Depression 1929-1939 by Kindleberger, stated the reasons that the global Great Depression became a long term event. Britain lost their guarantor position in the global economy and currency system. Thus, the United…