... transformed by the use of the industrial materials. "One of the first cotton mills with a complete internal skeleton of iron appeared in New York, The Haughwout Building was divided on each floor by two ranges of cast-iron columns carrying a grid of cast-iron ceiling beams running to the walls. They supported segmental brick faults that were leveled to the above lying floor ... ...

• Word Count: 1959
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... average of over .400, and produced baseball's first left-handed pitcher, Bobby Mitchell. The Red Stockings' success against the amateur teams provided incentive to create America's first professional baseball league, the National Association of Baseball Players in 1858. It was formed by representatives of twenty-five clubs for the purpose of codifying rules and establishing guidelines for organized ... Louisville in 1876, Hubert, Spalding, and representatives of the St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Louisville baseball clubs designed a set of guidelines for the new league, named The National Le...

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... for high standards and accountability, demands for employee involvement to facilitate improved organizational performance, and an increasingly diverse student population require teachers to develop and maintain high levels of professional instructional skills, as well as management and leadership roles within schools. Despite its advantage (fairness, equity, and ease of administration), the single salary schedule does not focus ... knowledge and skills needed for today's schools. These changes in schools and society suggest the potential for another wave of teacher compensation reform, w...

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... had never worked on a theatrical production, and relished the opportunity to creatively design without the constraint of creating clothing meant for daily usage. A friend of mine who "makes beats " for professional hip-hop artists, and had developed a reputation in the club scene as being a kind of wunderkind D.J., composed the music for the production. He, likewise, had never worked in theatre, and ... her area is not true. However, her perception may be rooted in the possibility that there is a lack of quality theatre in her area. The disparity between the number of professional theat...

• Word Count: 10314
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... aim enabled her to meet. With no such facilities from extended acquaintance and gradual entrance upon the work as subsequently favored Mrs. Lozier, she found a "blank wall of social and professional antagonism facing the woman physician which formed a situation of singular loneliness, leaving her without support, respect, or counsel." The title had been appropriated by such a class, that the sign was ... the elder physician, and for some reasons the more prominent, the special subject of our notice. In our further statements, however, we shall find them so thoroughly identified in their...

• Word Count: 1922
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Scientific Awards, and on the Council of Representatives. He is also a past-president of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy. He has been on the editorial board of several professional journals, including the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Behaviour Therapy, and Cognitive Therapy and Research. John M. Neale, A Canadian, received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1965 and his ... the disorder, and the effects of life stress on health. He is a consulting editor for the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. In addition to being a reviewer and an active co...

• Word Count: 303
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... laid the foundations of his what would be tremendous fortune. One of these investments was the purchase of stock in the Woodruff Sleeping Car Company. In 1864, Carnegie entered the iron business, but did not begin to make steel until years later. In 1873, he built the Edgar Thomson works in Braddock, Pennsylvania, to make steel using the Bessemer Process, a new ... ...

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... and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served as shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck-. He was also a fragile schoolteacher who ... ...

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America's Revolutionary War is a subject that engenders perpetual curiosity. By any sensible reckoning, Britain should have won the war. England's army was the strongest professional fighting force in the world, supremely confident, and led by experienced, gifted commanders with a long and storied history of military success. She had the largest, most nimble navy the world ... ...

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... white ones. Before the World War II, many Jews, blacks were excluded from society, but after the WWII they came to the attention of the Americans, especially blacks that joined professional sports. Intermarriage also occurred among people of different nationality. On the road toward pluralism and cosmopolitanism occurred many conflicts that resulted with many loss of lives; this event is also ... ...

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... on money, as servers should focus on doing their job well. Server's motivation should come simply from doing a good job the same way that everyone is, and being successful and professional in doing the job. The author gives a sarcastic example when someone sees his doctor and asks her if she would do a better job if she got a tip from her patient ... ...

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... involvement in academic student activities. After taking my first management class last semester, I realized the importance of the concepts that were being presented and how they can apply to both professional and personal events that I may encounter in the future. By being accepted to the Management program, I feel I will have a strong foundation for my future goals and the successes I wish to ... ...

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... the scale of government." Davis" argument is basically in favor of a stronger administration system, but simply looking at the d! iversity and the needs of municipalities can reduce his argument. A more professional administration seemingly greatens or government, but participation is essential in sustaining a democracy. E.E. Schattschneider studied the area of political parties in more up to date history and as well defends the ... ...

• Word Count: 1919
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... widespread agreements among both criminologists and law enforcement officials that capital punishment has little curbing effect on crime rates. In a recent survey of 70 current and former presidents of three professional associations of criminologists (the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the Law and Society Association), 85% of the experts agreed that empirical research on deterrence ... ...

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... education classrooms and to promote collaboration between educators in regular and special education. Since its evolution in the late 1980s, inclusive education has increasingly challenged the legitimacy of virtually every professional and institutional practice of twentieth-century schooling. The structural implications of inclusive education are quite clear: it requires fundamental changes of the most basic structural features of schools as organizations ... ...

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... these notebooks that the wide difference between reforms desired by the market women and those desired by bourgeois and noble women becomes evident. The market women demanded protection of their professional rights through the reestablishment of medieval trade guilds, complained about their work conditions, filthy hospitals, and the social injustice of making a living through hard daily work, while others earned money ... ...

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... ; (for example, individuals who repeatedly violate traffic laws). 2) Payoffs to police by individuals who continually violate the law as a method of making money (for example, prostitutes, narcotics addicts and pushers, & professional burglars). 3) "Clean Graft" where money is paid to police for services, or where courtesy discounts is given as a matter of course to the police. "Police officers have been involved in ... ...

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... : consequently, it is Beaufort's failed business dealings which cause society to condemn him, not the affair which he has with Fanny. For men, it is essential to succeed in their professional life, whereas for women, maintaining their personal moral standards is seen as more important. Social codes are transmitted from generation to generation, and never questioned, which makes it extremely difficult ... ...

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... -, as indicated by author and independent scholar, Harold I. Gullan. This paradoxical article was a collective memory of the "upset- election of 1948. According to Gullan, by 1948 Harry Truman had been a professional politician for twenty-six years. With the death of President Franklin Roosevelt in 1945, Truman took office and, as quoted by author and history professor Fred L. Israel, told reporters, "I feel ... ...

• Word Count: 554
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... , New Jersey. Three caucasians was killed inside the Lafayette Bar and Grill and a black tavern owner on the other side of town. Twenty nine year old Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a prominent professional boxer, at the height of his career, along with John Artis was arrested and charged with triple murder. Despite the lack of credible witnesses, evidence, motive, and contradictory information presented ... ...

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... that they create. In November 1980, 70 million Americans turned on their televisions to learn the murderer of J.R in the Dallas series, and after the show, 150 TV stations, 3,500 professional and 2,500 amateur radio stations announced the murderer in the news headlines and broadcasted commentaries about the issue. During the specific episode of the series, a one minute commercial was sold ... ...

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... ). Nancy Kline explains male physicians trying to put women back in their traditional places as housewives. Throughout the 1800's, male physicians were still making speeches about how it was their professional duty to redeem woman from the bondage of her education and restore her to wifehood and motherhood (Kline 177). The House of Commons contradicts this statement. The House said that ... ...

• Word Count: 2886
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