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    During the progressive era people tried to change the working conditions, cities, and consumer protection. How would you feel if your meat was left out all night? If my meat was left out all night it would be spoiled and attract bugs and maggots. If other left other products out all night or even months and they would forget and they would prolly eat the leftover meat from the night and they can die from it. It affects the environment for spoiling food because people will have no food. It can be…

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    provides multiple examples of how it displayed America’s progressive advancements. The exhibitors of the exposition proudly displayed all the wonderful advancements the country had made so far, flaunting America’s faith. Some examples of the technological and scientific advancements included new types of machinery and transportation methods. Rosenberg also discusses the ideology of liberal-developmentalism and how it contributed to the progressive period in the…

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    Poverty is a common social issue that any nations have. The United States of America is not an exception; she also faced and fought to poverty for over years. As Ronald Reagan said “We fought a war on poverty and poverty won” (Edelman, 1), a struggle with poverty is that never ended. President Lyndon Johnson attempted to make sure that there was no more poverty in the U.S. He proposed a lot of policies to aim at fighting the poverty in our nation such as Social Security Amendments, The Food…

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    This research paper is going to cover several different topics on what Republicans are against and for. The main topics that will be covered is abortion, taxes, immigration, military spending, and gun control. Do you know if you are a Republican or Democratic? If not after this paper you will know if your a Republican or Democratic. Are you for abortion? Do you like strict tax laws? How do you feel on immigration? Do we need protection or any military spending? Do you want to be able to feel…

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    Taxes Pros And Cons

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    Throughout history, The Republican Party have been in favor in tax cut, while The Democratic Party have been in favor in raising in taxes for those in the top of the income ladder. The wealthy are seemingly generating more assets, as they own more than 20 percent of all the household wealth of the country compared to the 1970s, where they only controlled 7 percent of the population. Upper income wealth has increased 101 percent; it was $318,000 in 1983 and increased to $639,400 in 2013. While,…

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    Q (a): An investor recently purchased a corporate bond which yields 9%. The investor is in the 36% combined federal and state tax bracket. What is the bond's after-tax yield?(b): Corporate bonds issued by corporation currently yield 8%. Municipal bond of equal risk currently yields 6%, At what tax rate would an investor be indifferent between these two bonds? Thanks in advance .a- 9%(1 ' 0.36) = 5.76% or 5.8% b- Corps Bond Yield=(Municipal Yield)/(1- Taxation rate)get an answer of .25 or…

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    Achievements in the technology of the gilded Age gave the opportunity to scientists throughout the Progressive Era to make new discoveries. For example, in 1878 physicist Albert A. Michelson first measured the speed of light; this later played an important role in Albert Einstein’s 1905 development of the “The Special Theory of Relativity”. In 1907, Albert…

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    known as “The progressive era” which was was a time of rapid economic and industrial growth. The progressive era was defined as “a broad, loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about significant change in American social and political life” (544). Progressives mostly consist of middle class men and women, who “believe” that the government should support the people for the people. To President Roosevelt, the central lesson of the Progressive is that you…

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    The Progressive Era Changes Introduction into industrial society turned out to be very beneficial to the American way of living today, but it had to undergo a series of changes to become the success it is presently. The time period in which these changes in society, economics, and politics were pushed, in hopes to solve the problems created by The Industrial Age, was The Progressive Era. The Progressive Era approached many issues on a large and small scale to create change but did not…

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    Progressive Era DBQ President Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson have contributed in adverse and gainful reforms to the Progressive Era. Theodore Roosevelt, a true conservationist yet a pro-war, have served his nation in many different ways. During the Spanish-American war, he served our nation as a Rough Rider, then he served as the governor of N.Y., and then he came to his most notable post, the president of the USA. Throughout his time as the president, he kept his love for wars aside…

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