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    described the assembly lines effectiveness no matter whether the factory is turning out 1000 or 2000 cars per day the time of building an individual car is in no way affected … When it’s desired to build more cars, more conveyors are put into operation, or those in service are run a greater number of hours each day, that’s all (Wilson 5). Ford believed that his assembly line was revolutionary and would bring great change to the way jobs get done. Little did Ford know that his assembly line…

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    slowly gained the characteristics and values ,which made him so successful. His innovative, conflict-free approach at life allowed him to brand his successful company that changed America forever. Henry Ford's invention of the automobile assembly line tremendously transformed the 20th century ,and continues to shape our world today. Ford used his abilities and talents to invent a product that will greatly affect our daily lives. Ford was a master innovator. By age 33 he invented the first…

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    Why People Have 12 Hours

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    Who would want to work a whole 12 hours a day? Maybe for the money, yes. But for other things, I am not so sure about. In average you are awake through the day for 12 hours; so why spend all that time working? Ford seen an increase in his employees and profit, when limiting work days to eight hours a day. That goes to show that people actually want to work within that time frame. Now bumping it down to 6 hours a day, is a bit much. I am sure the employees would be ecstatic for that drastic…

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    Henry Ford is recognized world-wide as one the most popular figures in history. Ford was an American industrialist and inventor who developed the assembly-line process for automobile manufacturing. In 1903 Henry Ford founded Ford Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan. The Ford Company is a multinational American automobile company based in Dearborn Michigan, united states. In 1911 the brand expands outside the United States exactly towards England. In 1978 the brand had more than 40 manufacturing…

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    Many poets use enjambment as a tool to get the audience interested, keep them tantalized with each line, until the final gasp of words at the very end. Enjambment is the continuation of lines, usually without punctuation marks, and can be used to surprise the audience with the turn of the next line. It can give a poem a natural and unpredictable flow that can be quite alluring. In Sharon Olds’ poem, “Poem of Thanks,” there are multiple enjambments and great examples of the craft for the purpose…

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    revolutionized America Henry Ford’s cars revolutionized America by being affordable for most people and was easy to create when he made assembly lines. His first model T car was widely used across America in the early 1900s and even was being made in Germany during WWII. he made a lot of money because of his great design of a car. He made his assembly line of cars in 1908 and revolutionized the industry. His Childhood Henry Ford was giving a pocket watch at the age of 13 by his father, he…

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    Henry Ford is commonly associated as the man who invented both the automobile and the assembly line, however, the actual inventors of these devices are Karl Benz and Ransom E. Olds, respectively. Nonetheless, Ford can be attributed with the modifications to the production of the car and the assembly line that made them successful. Unsatisfied with a life of farming, Henry Ford became an apprentice to a mechanic and his career as an engineer only grew from that point on. In the 1940’s, despite…

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    The idea of the assembly line has many parents. In the scientific revolution of the eighteenth century, scientists, especially mathematicians tried to quantify what made an industry productive and tried to find ways to make industries more productive. The goal was to create an industry that functioned without human labor. The most important people of the time for the development of the assembly line were the Americans Oliver Evans and Eli Whitney and the Frenchman Gaspard Monge. Evans is known…

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    March 31, 20Y0? Case 2: Assembly Lines Incorporated (ALI) is a public company with a calendar year-end. In its current fiscal quarter, ending September 30, 20X9, it entered into a sales agreement with Candy Maker International (CMI). Under the sales agreement, ALI is selling an assembly line system to CMI that consists of the following three components: • Mixer Segment • Molding Segment • Packaging Segment ALI will install the assembly line system at CMI’s Chicago manufacturing…

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    Breann Powell is an eighteen year old female and she is currently an Occupational Therapy student at Worcester State University. For this profile she filled out a “time study” that she recorded her activities for four days, an interest check list that she labeled different activities as a casual interest, a strong interest, or no interest, and she took a life balance inventory which gives life balance scores based on what she is interested in and how often she gets to do those things. Roles and…

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