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    reference to his book‚ How to Win Friends and Influence People. Carnegie proposes that there are four main ideas that one should use when dealing with people: 1) Know how to handle people‚ 2) Make people like you‚ 3) Win people to their way of thinking‚ and 4) Be a leader. These skills are essential not only in being a good manager‚ but also in dealing with people in day to day life. 1) Fundamental Techniques in Handling People The first thing one must know when handling people is "don’t criticize

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    Bryant HIST 2110 Fall 2014 Second Book Response Essay How the Other Half Lives Please type the Essay below‚ and then print out your response. It should be about 250 to 300 words long. Be sure to include your name and your Eagle ID. Turn the Printed Response in during class on Oct. 28‚ 2014. __________________________________________________________________ How did the Other Half Live? Explain‚ with examples. __________________________________________________________________ Tiffany Robinson

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    that the people that was a part of the Buffalo Creek flood. The people were wounded in spirit‚ children did not act like children because of what the flood had done to their home. The people that lived in Buffalo‚ Creek loved the place they called home. Buffalo‚ Creek is mainly a place where coal mining go on. On February 26th‚ 1972 the place that was a nice honest place as the people from Buffalo‚ Creek would say that statement came to an end on that day. There was cheap coal that was dug up and

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    When you ask immigrants what comes to mind when you think of America‚ most respond with the land of opportunity‚ land of the free‚ and the pursuit of happiness. People living in poverty from all different countries across the world dream about migrating to America for a better life. But how difficult is it to actually become an American Citizen? In the book‚ “The Circuit” by Francisco Jimenez‚ the author puts together short stories of his life from a family of undocumented immigrants of Mexico trying

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    Hurricane season‚ four storms affected Florida which is the only time in recorded history a catastrophe like this has happened. In 2005‚ Hurricane Katrina wreaked havoc in the New Orleans area‚ bringing over one hundred billion dollars of damages; making thousands of people homeless‚ mostly minorities‚ and killing many others. The Federal Government‚ unprepared for this unforeseen tragedy‚ was slow to respond‚ leaving people on rooftops begging for help‚ with no sustenance for survival. Shelby Steele

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    Throughout the past few centuries‚ Latin America created and maintained a split between the center and the fringe of their society which at some points negatively affected them and their potential growth. This split focused on the rural and urban aspects of their countries‚ cities‚ and states and how they interact with each other throughout the 18th century and beyond. During the colonial period‚ the fringe or rural areas were more important than the center or urban areas‚ as the fringe produced

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    What was the role of oil in shaping post war worlds? ”If one commodity can claim credit for the startling advances seen in the world in the 20th century‚ in particular in developed industrialized countries‚ it was crude oil- soon to be dubbed ‘black gold’.” Oil became an influential substance in the post war times‚ economically and also in shaping countries’ foreign policies. Whichever countries controlled oil controlled much of the world’s policies. After the increase in industrialisation and

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    Affluence and Alcohol—the Causes of “How the Other Half” Lived The Gilded Age was a term given to the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Mark Twain. For big business owners‚ gilded was an appropriate term to describe their lifestyles. Yet‚ for those who worked for these big businesses‚ life was anything but golden. Twain named the era to ironically describe life for the laborers. The horrific conditions people lived and worked in are captured in How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis. The author observes

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    “Give Me Liberty! An American History” by Eric Foner is a survey of American history from the earliest days of European exploration and conquest of the New World to the first years of the twenty-first century. In the first chapter of his book‚ “A New World”‚ Foner attempted to explain what were different between the New and the Old World‚ and the origin of the name “The New World” of American continent. At the beginning of chapter one‚ Eric Foner stated “Historians no longer use the word “discovery”

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    History Assessment: How Has WW1 Been Remembered? WW1 has‚ and always will be seen as one‚ if not the most significant war in all of history. One of the reasons for it being such a tragic event was that it was deemed at the time to have been ‘the war to end all wars‚’ however that tragically was not the case. World War One was caused by several contributing factors‚ which resulted on Britain declaring war on Germany. They are: The alliance system‚ Imperialism‚ The Naval Race‚ The Schlieffen Plan

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