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    Pacific Medical Supply Company Hiring‚ Motivating‚ and Retaining Good Salespeople Jim Shine had some big problems on his hands as the owner and sales manager of Pacific Medical Supply Company. Jim’s problems involved his most junior salesperson‚ Nicole Landis. Nicole’s impact on Pacific Medical Supply’s sales was huge‚ despite the fact that the company hired her right out of college. The specific problems Jim faced as a result of Nicole’s extraordinary sales efforts involved professional jealousy

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    The american dream is the ideal of people making goals and dreams that they want to accomplish in their life. Some people accomplish the dreams and goals they make for themselves.The american dream has changed throughout history.In the 1840’s there were many feminist fighting for womens rights. Some feminist are Elizabeth Cady Stanton‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ and Hillary Clinton. All three of these feminist have accomplished their american dream. Stanton and Anthony fought for gender equality. Hillary

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    When mentioning southern expansion in the years prior to the American Civil War‚ what places come to mind? While most people think of the west as the closest and quickest place the southern states could have expanded the institution of slavery‚ one does not typically consider Cuba as a likely location. The island of Cuba served as a valid choice for many southern expansionists in the name of slavery‚ not only because its land was well suited and had been exposed to slavery‚ but also it was believed

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    The problem of slavery in the territories created tensions that contributed to the breakup of the Union in 1860-61. The main explanation for the origins of the American Civil War is slavery‚ especially when it came to Southern anger. The Southern anger was based on the Northern attempts to avoid further slave expansion‚ which lead to numerous acts‚ and essentially caused the war against Mexico. The United States was a nation divided into two different regions separated by the Mason-Dixon Line

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    Presidents 1796 1840

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     William Henry Harrison‚ James  Madison‚ and Andrew Jackson were all elected to be President of the United States of America  between 1796 and 1840.  Those men all were a bit different in their political views and the main  issues that they stood for.  The first of all these men to be elected president was John Adams in 1796.  He served as  president from March 4‚ 1797 to March 4‚ 1801.  He was affiliated with the Federalist Party.  The main issue President Adams stressed was civic virtue and to set an example for Republican 

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    A number of notable technological innovations have taken place between the years 1860-1870 in the United States. In the sphere of communications‚ a major development was the completion of the first transcontinental telegraph line across North America by Western Union in 1861 (Western Union 2009). Moreover‚ in 1866‚ after several failed attempts‚ the Transatlantic Cable was laid that connected Europe and North America. Before this landmark event‚ the fastest communication between the two continents

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    Satire: The Exposure of Southern Life Mark Twain wrote the renowned nineteenth century novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as a humorist‚ with intentions solely entertain the reader. Although the author warns at the start of the book‚ “persons attempting to find a moral in this narrative will be banished”‚ he submerses the reader into Southern society to evaluate their values (Notice). Satirists seek to find motives behind people’s actions and by dramatizing the contrast between

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    SOUT H ERN RURAL SOCIOLOGY‚ 23(2)‚ 2008‚ pp. 226-251 Copyright © by the Southern Rural Sociological Association AMISH VICTIMIZATION AND OFFENDING: A RURAL SUBCULTURE ’S EXPERIENCES AND RESPONSES TO CRIME AND JUSTICE* BRYAN D. BYERS BALL STATE UNIVERSITY ABSTRACT This article addresses several areas as applied to the rural subculture of the Amish. First‚ the Old Order Amish will be introduced to the reader. Distinctions will be made between the Old Order Amish and other‚ cousin‚ groups. Second

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    1860 Dbq Analysis

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    In 1860‚ the United States was primarily a land that contained small towns and farms. At the time‚ Americans had discovered that living on farms were more beneficial than factories‚ since the amount of land was immense‚ affordable‚ and labor was high-priced due to its insufficiency. However‚ in a matter of forty years‚ the nation had made an evolution and became the greatest industrial country in the world. Ever since the rapid increase production of raw materials‚ farm laborers had departed to work

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    In 1860 and 1861 eleven of the southern states declared their secession from the Union creating the Confederate States. This act caused widespread conflict and the Civil War followed quickly after. The Southern states were led to secede from the Union by many different factors‚ including the question of slavery‚ the election of Abraham Lincoln‚ and the “right of self government.” In 1850‚ John C. Calhoun asked the question‚ “What is it that has endangered the Union?” in his speech "The Clay Compromise

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