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17 Th Century Indentured Servitude
438 wordsEven as Europeans staked their claims to the lands of the Americas, discoveries forced Europe's intellectuals to rethink the geographical, cosmo graphical, and spatial categories in which they had conceived of their world. Print helped to diffuse these novel concepts, although it also sustained older traditions of picturing lands and their inhabitants. Nevertheless, by the 16 th century, the new geographies created by Europeans had begun to attain wide circulation. Slavery was caused by economic...
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Miami Dade County U S Department
1,690 wordsKnown as the major international trading hub of the Americas, Greater Miami's business community, people, neighborhoods, schools and architecture all exhibit a cosmopolitan character. The proximity of the Caribbean, Central and South America plus superior seaport and airport capabilities provide this area with a distinct advantage as a global trading center. Long acclaimed for its physical beauty and advantageous climate, Greater Miami also continues as a prime tourist destination. Greater Miami...
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National Cap On Foreign Hire Is Maxed Out
716 wordsWith unemployment at its lowest and the demand for skilled and unskilled workers at a high where do business owners turn to fill the empty positions. A large percentage of them hire foreigners; most of which have a H- 1 B visa. But to the surprise of some high-tech business owners the National cap on foreign hires is maxed out. 115, 000 H- 1 B visas are accepted each year and that number has already been reached. 74, 300 have been approved and 45, 000 are still pending approval. Stephen Days, an...
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Collective Bargaining Work Force
325 wordsThe past or current tendency of unionizing or not, is the proof of the diversity of our working environment. Some factors are therefore influencing or refraining workers from joining an union: Strong craft unions: unions such as IGMETAL, are achieving job-related goals, since they benefit from substantial memberships. Therefore, they are able to defend crafts demands. Work force s protection: in a competitive context, employers are prone to implement their own policies, despite workers rights. T...
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Bureau Of Labor Statistics Technological Progress
1,722 words... used goods grows and remains high, employment in the secondary sector remains high as well. There is also a third, or tertiary sector of employment comprising such activities as the service trades, teaching, administration, scientific research, medical care, art, and tourism, as well as other pursuits that are not carried on in factories. Technical progress in those areas is slight, compared to that in the primary and secondary sectors, and so the activities in the tertiary sector require a ...
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School District High Tech
1,262 wordsOver the past ten years billions of dollars have been spent on computers for our nations schools. The goal was to improve and update our educational system but there is very little evidence of change through the years and taxpayers that have been paying for these upgrades in the schools want to know where the payoff is. A small Bridge school district in Mckittrick, California was proud to be the first and only in the state to provide every student with two Apple In computers, one for school and ...
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Million A Year Iron Ore
1,461 wordsMauritania is a poorly developed country with a low GDP (gross domestic products), which totally depends on agriculture's and livestock, which have been lately demolished by droughts. It has a purchasing power partly of $ 2. 8 billion, a GDP real growth rate of 4 %, which is also low, and a GDP per capital of $ 1, 200. Mauritania makes $ 390 million a year on iron ore, fish, and fish products. Mauritania imports $ 335 million a year and its commodities are foodstuffs, consumers goods, petroleum ...
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Factory Workers American Students
884 wordsWhat is wrong with American schools? Thats the million Dollar Question, or should I say the Multi-Billion Dollar Question. In the past, Americas solution to our abysmal public school situation has been to throw money at the problem. But that obviously isnt working. American students are consistently scoring less on standardized tests than other nations children. Personally, I believe the problems are more complex than a simple budget problem. The truth is, American culture is to blame. For some ...
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Teenage Parents Teen Mothers
1,275 words... trusted to reward individuals who step outside the normative schedule. This may lead her to center all of her energies on motherhood in an attempt to reap some of the benefits given to women in her same cultural status. According to Keith Scott, author of Teenage Parents and Their Offspring, "among mothers aged thirty-five to fifty-two, those who were fifteen or younger at their first birth have an average of three children more than women who were at least twenty-four when they became mothe...
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Human Resource Management Training And Development
527 wordsFUNCTIONS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT The functions of Human Resource Management (Gary Dressler, 1984, 1, pg. 7 - 8) are as listed below: - These include job description, manpower planning, selection tests and interviews. These take into account of employee orientation, employee evaluation for development activities and employee appraisal including career progress. This function determines the relative worth of each job, incentives and packages of benefits and pay. This helps to maintain a heal...
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Wall Street Journal Hewlett Packard
1,430 wordsThe term the glass ceiling first came into use in 1986 when two Wall Street Journal reporters coined the phrase to describe the invisible barrier that blocks women from the top jobs in corporate America. In the article, The Corporate Woman, the authors described a corporate world in which access to the top for women was blocked by corporate tradition and prejudice. They wrote that the executive suite seemed within their grasp, but they just couldnt break through to the top. Among the reasons cit...
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Lack Of Education Sexual Harassment
992 wordsWhen I was first asked to choose an elective for Fall 2000, Managing Work Force Diversity caught my eye because I am a Work Study Intern/ Manager for Gap Inc. and I thought that this class might have some relevance to what I actually do at work. A lot of the topics that we covered in class, such as sexual harassment, stereotyping, multi-cultural workplace, and gender related issues relate a lot to my work environment. The topic that I think made me think differently was stereotypes and prejudgme...
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Cinco De Mayo Racial Diversity
2,814 wordsThe idea that "diversity" is one of the country's great strengths is now so firmly rooted that virtually anyone can evoke it, praise it, and wallow in it without fear of contradiction. It has become one of the great unassailable American ideas, like democracy, patriotism, the family, or Martin Luther King. The President of the United States glories in diversity. In May, 1995, in a message recognizing the Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo, William Clinton said, "The Fifth of May offers all of us a c...
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Blacks And Hispanics State And Local
2,816 words... rse discrimination cases, acrimony over quotas and affirmative action, and the proliferation of racially exclusive professional organizations. Every good-sized police department in the country has a black officers' association devoted to explicit, racially competitive objectives. In large cities, there are associations for Asian, Hispanic, and even white officers. Many government agencies and private companies hire professional "diversity managers" to help handle mixed work forces. This is a...
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Communications Technology Global Information Infrastructure
2,384 wordsIntroduction We are in the midst of a global information revolution driven by the convergence and proliferation of information and communication technologies. The telecommunications sector is changing at warp speed, driven by technological innovation that results in new equipment and services, and also by new entrants and alliances between companies with experience in a wide range of information industries from telecommunications to broadcasting to computer hardware and software to publishing. T...
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Negative Effects Work Place
492 wordsSince the 19 th century, industrialization has had positive and negative effects on the live of workers. Industrialization is the process of modernization and mass production of most goods. This also includes but not limited to mining and the forging of iron. An area where industrialization had a massive effect was in Eastern Europe. It emerged as a need to modernize and unify Europe. Although Britain led industrialization at first, it quickly exploded from Spain all the way through Russia. Earl...
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Women In World War Ii Far From Dormant
1,685 wordsWhen the war across seas broke out in 1939 Canada was called to the front as a part of the British Empire. Canadas work force was now severely depleted. Everyone remembers the prestigious men and women of Canada for their effort in the war helping the Allied side defeat the German enemy. We must remember though that the soldiers were not a self sufficient army, navy, and air force but rather part of the larger war machine that was Canada. When Canadians think of the war they must remember the co...
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Feel Safe Change Society
1,838 wordsThe whole idea, man governing man is simply ridiculous. What gives any man the idea that he is in some way more powerful than any others? Man just has to realize that government is pointless. However I am not a fool and understand that in the society we live in government is essential. Man always needs to feel that everything just peachy. A government is just people who want to be apart of something. They live in the same society so they feel as though they share the same ideas. When in fact no ...
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Medium Sized Airline Industry
2,140 words... Southwest, regardless of the size of the community served. In addition, the established airlines' transition to hub-and-spoke systems following deregulation has increased competition at many airports serving small- and medium-sized communities. By bringing passengers from multiple origins (the spokes) to a common point (the hub) and placing them on new flights to their ultimate destinations, these systems provide for more frequent flights and more travel options than did the direct "point to...
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Mandatory Safe Nurse To Patient Ratios
1,962 wordsMandatory Safe Nurse to Patient Ratios There is a constant conflict within the medical community regarding appropriate nurse to patient ratios. (Tieman, 10) By this moment, California has been the first state to pass the Safe Staffing Law (A. B. 394) mandating minimum ratios was enacted in October 1999 in response to legislators' concerns that quality of patient care is jeopardized because of staffing changes implemented in response to managed care. Now, the whole country may learn from the Cali...
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