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    their success. When Animal Farm was released in August of 1945, Stalin was credited with halting and pushing back the seemingly unstoppable Axis Powers and had the respect and support of the majority of his people, as well as fellow Allied Powers. It was not until long after the wrath of Stalin until the truth behind his administration was exposed, as well as its surprising…

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    The Leading And The Blind Animal Farm is a politically satiric novel that is a fable as well. George Orwell, which is an alias for his actual name, Eric Blair, wrote the novel. Animal Farm, involves an irresponsible farm owner named Mr. Jones who is a symbol for the Czar who spends most of his time unproductively and intoxicated instead of taking care of his dependent animals. Eventually, a boar named Old Major sparks the animals into planning a rebellion against the lazy farmer. After Old…

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    In the early 1900s, labor issues in the United States were becoming more of a problem that people acknowledged and began to respond against. During this time, the western part of America was flowing with business; including many labor intensive jobs such as mining and laying railroad tracks. Although these jobs were often dangerous and exhausting, desperate men were willing to work under poor conditions just to care for their families. Eventually workers began to stand against their companies…

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    black workers, the workers had to take it upon themselves to free themselves from the major exploitation and repression. Black workers were the ones that had the absolute worse conditions and compared to white workers, they worked for the lowest pay, were placed in the most dangerous environments and had the most back breaking work. There were many instances where workers were injured or worse but no one seemed to care about the issues they brought up or thought needed to be fixed. Workers were…

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    help support five hundred thousand peoples’ jobs instead of losing their job. For starter, construction worker has more work and payment by building wind turbines. Another benefit is the market of wind power is increasing from the support of the president and the government that has been making a huge investment in wind power. Wind power is the largest source of renewable energy in the United States of America and has provided two percent…

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    Polyface Farm is successful due to its complex system. At first the farm was a wreck. Then the farm started to thrive. Pollen states in his essay 'The Animals: Practicing Complexity ', "but polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than leaving it alone"(373). Organic farming will reach wonders and sooner or later, other farmers will be taking on the Polyface Farm system. There are many problems that this model can take on. Its a…

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    There are certain characteristics that distinguish older workers from other groups of workers. The Sloan Center report that was availed in the year 2009, for example, indicates that the older workers are more productive compared to their young counterparts (MAERTZ, WILEY, LeROUGE, & CAMPION, 2010). The report also states that older employees are more reliable than the young and they have a high degree of loyalty. It has also been noted that job performance usually becomes better with age, and…

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    Did you there are 29,440 megawatts of wind energy that are installed in the United States and about 6,000 megawatts are being built are now. The United states has the most wind energy in the world and are approximately 2,000 megawatts ahead of China. Not only does the United States have the most wind energy in the world, they also create the most new jobs which was around 35,000 of them. There are a lot of good things that can come from using wind energy. Also you might wonder why we use wind…

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    Although Animal Farm is quite a short book, there is time for George Orwell to develop characters in a manner that makes them appealing (or appalling) to the readers. His greatest success in this area is Boxer, with his mottoes, "Napoleon is always right" and "I will work harder". On the symbolic level, Boxer represents the Russian workers who trusted Stalin and made enormous sacrifices to ensure the success of the October Revolution. In the book he is one of the most sympathetically drawn…

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    Cesar Chavez: A Big Hero

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    need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.” (Cesar Chavez). In the political career Cesar Chavez, a man known for sacrificing the rights for farm workers, a labor leader and a civil right activist became a big hero to many farmers in California especially to many Latinos. The education Chavez got was no enough so he served in the Navy during WW II for a couple of years. In 1952 Cesar then met…

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