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August 31, 1910. Thus president Theodore Roosevelt became a conservationist. After becoming president in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt used his authority to protect wildlife and public lands by creating the United States Forest Service (USFS) and enabling the American Antiquities Act of 1906. During his presidency, Roosevelt established five national parks and protected approximately 230 million acres of public land. President Theodore Roosevelt conserved many natural environments of the…

evenly between them. My main field study project was working with Benjamin Scott Blake, the head labor archivist, on the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) records. The AFL-CIO is the largest federation of unions in the United States. It represents fifty-six unions, both American and international, working together as a national trades union center. Together the unions represent more than 12 million active and retired workers. The AFL–CIO engages in…

In the book Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams, Williams argues for the significance of controlling in the improvement of free enterprise in Britain and later for the part of early modern private enterprise as an essential component in the repeal of the slave exchange. The author defines the historical backdrop of the relationship between the financial additions to be made in the sugar exchange that spurred the British and West Indians to create and renew subjugation. Subjection was…

these craft guilds to protect their wages and to resist unsafe working conditions and long hours.” (Domhoff, 2013) With the increase in the U.S. of industrialization after the Civil War, there was an increase in labor unions. One of the first national…

“To an Athlete Dying Young” & “Ex-Basketball Player” In Both, “To an Athlete dying Young” and “Ex basketball player”, We experience several poetic devices that compare and contrast eachother in these fairly similar poems. In the poem written by John Updike, “Ex-Basketball Player”, Flick a fictional character is stuck in a loop and his daunting past wrecks his current future. In this poem flicks past shows a young basketball player is praised for setting several records and being a country…

A. You go to work every day to make someone else’s dreams come true. Underpaid, unappreciated, exploited and overworked. For years many workers rights advocates have fought for you. You think your work conditions are terrible now, they were worse. One of the most famous and accomplished advocates was John Lewis a devoted workers’ rights advocate who fought for many advancements we take for granted today. B. 1. America is built and founded off labor. A lot of advancement in the workplace today…

The Knights of Labor was a nationally recognized labor organization in America during the 1880’s who sought to achieve things like an eight hour work day, better pay, and ending child labor. These working condition reforms would definitely be things that could help expand the opportunity for people in the working class to gain more self definition or rather gain a higher standpoint in American society where they would no longer be looked at as cogs who have to work terrible hours for terrible…

Leasing Company, in honor of the U.S.S. Enterprise aircraft carrier upon which he served in the Navy. The energy crises of the 1970s hindered Enterprise Leasing Company’s expansion but accelerated growth occurred in the 1980s even though Hertz and National entered the hometown market. According to Tucker and Salamie (2005), “a key ingredient to Enterprises success was the innovative Customer Giveaway Accounts,which allowed any Enterprise employee to charge off items up to a certain amount in…

Johnny is a young African American teenager who is a humorous and hardworking person . He stands at a towering height and is built like a slender boulder. His face sits long and skinny on his head, while his uneven hair stands firm in the air. Growing up, he really didn 't know what he wanted to do with his life. He didn 't have any passion for anything until he was exposed to the love of basketball through his older brother. It was then when he finally realized what he wanted to do for the rest…

My favorite movie is Love and Basketball. The way Sanaa Lathan plays the part of Monica is like they were one in the same. Hearing the name of the movie may have you thinking it is about the love of the game of basketball, when I'm reality it's about the love two high school kids have for each other and the love they share for basketball. Their love for basketball and one another are connected In a way. When they're on good terms they both have good games, but when every thing is wrong it…