Imagine working 14-16 hour days in a dark factory where you were tightly packed together with your fellow co workers and factory machinery. ... Factories would hire children to work in their factories as long as 12-16 hours for a third of what everyone else would get paid. ... Child labor was not enforced during the time so children as young as 6 could work 17 hour days for a third of the pay, sometimes no pay at all. ...

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The reason why women and teenage girls are affected by the media the most is because they expose themselves to the advertisements more than men and boys do, teenage girls in North America spend nearly 31 hours per week watching television, 10 hours online, and 4 hours looking at magazines. ...

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Over the years television has been a major source of entertainment for people of all ages. Many children end up watching television well before they've began school and even infants and toddlers watch up to 2 hours of TV a day1. It is known that television can be a major source of education in the l...

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Abstract In this paper I talk about the top 10 stress busters for teen that I read on Psychology today. Teens have a higher stress level than adults, which is not good. Teen should remember to live their childhood because it only come around once. Reason for teen being so stressed some of the time,...

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At $ 7.25 an hour it might not be worth it, but at $15 a computer that doesn't take bathroom breaks, or gives friends free shakes sounds good. ... Nonetheless, if you take two individuals, one who makes $30,000 a year ($15 an hour * 40 hours * 50 weeks) and one who makes $300,000, the $30,000 will be forced by consume much of their income on food, water, shelter, clothing, utility and health care. ... And if that were the case then the minimum wage today would be about $22 an hour." The push is not for the full $22 an hour, instead, it is for only $10 to $15 an hour. ... As Senator Warre...

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It is pretty quiet at that time because everybody is still sleeping and also because my body has been well prepared for a whole day of working from eight hours of sleep. ... Furthermore, I will stay for some more minutes after class to ask the professor about the lecture and go to his or her office hours as much as I can. ...

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Academic achievement falling in children's work of children that watch ten or more hours of television per week, and studies prove that children that watch excessive television achieve lower on written expression, reading and mathematic achievement tests. The number of hours spent watching television has increased sharply and now the average American child spends more time watching television that they do at school. The average youth spends an average of nine hundred hours at school and fifteen hundred hours watching television in an average year. Children need to stop watching so much te...

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Growing up I never really looked at religion as a huge thing. My family isn't very religious, and we just never really talked about it. I don't really know what I would call myself, but for the most part I don't know what to believe and honestly don't really believe in anything at all when it comes...

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The two main things that were associated with the working conditions were long hours and low pay. In 1910, 70% of all American industrial laborers worked an average of 54 hours a week. The 10 hour, 6 day a week became the average working period in U.S. and European factories. It wasn't till the 1930's that the 5 day, 40 hour work week came into effect. ... Progressives also fought for an 8 hour work day, minimum wage, an end to child labor and overall better working conditions. ...

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At times, children have been treated harshly, many hours, and for little pay. ... Having to work a certain amount of hours allotted to you, this caused children to lose much wanted and needed recreational time. ... As shown in the chart, there are regulations on maximum hours and the maximum days per week for a working child. ... In 1842 the there was a limit placed on the amount of hours worked by children. ...

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Instead of being a time of growth and opportunity for these children, the hours immediately following the end of the school day are the most dangerous. These are the hours when children are most likely to commit or be the victim of crime. How do kids spend their time after school hours? ... Unsupervised afternoon hours are simply a period of idle and wasted time. ... Other barriers include availability, inadequate facilities, transportation, high staff turnover, hours of the program operation, and lack of resources. ...

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.), and was about six hours long. ... My next flight was an eleven-hour flight from J.F.K. to Moscow. ... We boarded the train at eleven o"clock P.M. and looked forward to the seven-hour train ride with our friends. ... It was a twelve-hour flight but the longest hour of my life. What a coincidence, quickest two weeks I've ever had fallowed by the longest hour ever. ...

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Luckily they didn't have long to worry about these problems because work hours consisted of 14 hour or more shifts for wages that barely covered their house payments. ... The money wasn't the only bad aspect of the long toiling hours in machine rooms, coal mines, or glass factories. ... Some of these people began forming guilds for skilled workers to demand more pay and unions where all workers from a specific job type could band together and demand higher wages or shorter hours and such. ... These unions fought for, and in most cases, won the battles over working hours and condit...

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Americans are notoriously materialistic and the extra hours are put in so that they could purchase something iconic of their job status. ... Americans are much more prone to becoming burnt-out' from working excessively leading to less quality work hours. ... Maybe because of the large taxes individuals pay discourage longer hours and degrades the work ethic of the entire nation. According to the Sunday Business Group, Germans are working seventeen percent less hours, down to 1400 hours annually, than they were in 1980's while Americans keep rolling at forty hours per week or 180...

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Today, more than ever before we have mothers that are working and love to at the same time, but only those that are not at working forty to fifty hours a week. ... Working husbands and wives can invest heavily in their own jobs, putting in long hours, while their spouses have, at most, full-time or even reduced-hour work involvements. ... Having wives in two-earner families scale back their hours and aspirations reflects both socialization and structural forces perpetuating gendered strategies. ... The idea of a man going off to work for 10-11 hours a day, while the woman just works $7-8 an ...

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In America, statistics show the average teenager spends per week about 31 hours watching television (Hinckley, 2012), 17 hours listening to music, 3 hours watching movies, 4 hours a week reading magazines, and 10 hours online; which is 10 hours and 45 minutes of media consumption per day (MissRepresentation.) ...

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There seems to be an increasing trend to work an increasing amount of hours. ... Since the influx of increased work hours many Americans may be starting to value their free time more. ... Many Americans will demand time off from their job instead of thanking their boss for the extra hours of overtime. According to Schor (1992), "Excessive hours are unhealthy and antisocial, and ultimately erode the quality of life"(p.141). ... Long work hours put many different strains on the family. ...

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Pollution increased, working conditions were harmful, and capitalists employed women and young children, making them work long and hard hours. ... The women were called "spinsters" and were often times unable or allowed to maintain social activities due to long hours worked. ... The factories were dark, hot and people were expected to work 15 - 16 hours per day, as there were no labor unions established to protect workers from such treatment. ... By the end of the 1700's, laws were introduced in Parliament to limit working hours and forbid the employment of very young children. ...

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According to the surgeon general, American children spend, on average, more than 4 hours a day with television, whether it is computers, videotaped movies or video games and the average amount a child that is nine to fourteen years old sleeps about 9 hours a day. This means that out of the 8760 hours of the year, 3285 is spent sleeping, so that gives you a total of 5475 hours a child is active. ...

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Minimum wage is currently $5.15 per hour. ... At that rate, a 40 hour work week will only gross $206.00. ... Is ix Dollars an hour about right? ... Even at ten dollars an hour there will still be problems. ...

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Protective legislation was passed when middle-class reformers pushed for lower working hours for women, for their reproductive health. Now that the hours were shorter the working-class girls had more free time then ever for leisure. They also started to join unions and enjoyed the 8 hour work day. ...

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The story is described for the reader in an hour-by-hour account of the four-day battle by hundreds of different soldiers. ... Instead of marching for hours through enemy territory with a heavy pack, a solider could be flown via helicopter to any battlefront with in minuets. ... The first eighty soldiers had to face an enemy of sixteen hundred strong alone for a half hour. ... The assault began at 0830 hours with helicopter reconnaissance and American artillery firing on the LZs. At 1030 hours Company B of the 7th cavalry landed unopposed at Landing Zone X-Ray. ...

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Television-Free America, a website of television statistics, shows that the "number of violent acts the average American will see on T.V. by age 18 [is] 200,000." also proven by this website is that the "number of murders witnessed by children on television before age 18 [is] 16,000." these are disturbing statistics considering that another statistic TV-Free America shows is the average American youth watches 1,500 hours of television each year and only spends 900 hours in school." ... So on an average developmental day between the ages of l-18, a young person sleeps 8 hours, spends 10 waking ...

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After that, we were just waiting for the result and waited almost an hour and checked the school's website. ... After a six hour driving, we got to capital and stayed all the time at my cousin's house. ... Consulate and wait for hours and hours. ... By the way, we waited too longer more than 3 hours, chairs were so uncomfortable, I was sleepy and no phone, literally there was nothing to do. An hour later they called our number that was on the sheet that they gave to us before getting into the consulate. #896 I still remember clearly. ...

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Speaking of time differences, there is a nine-hour difference from California's Pacific Standard Time. And, the time frame from which they eat dinner, and close their businesses is about a 2 or 3 hour difference from our time frame. ...

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