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    My mother would tell me how my grandparents worked for hours in the burning heat of the fields‚ picking fruit and vegetables and attaining little compensation in return. How they would work in the canneries all night long during winters in dangerous working conditions to pay the rent that month. How my grandmother would be harassed constantly because of her broken English‚ and my grandfather would never be taken seriously by “real” Americans because of his immigrant status. For decades my grandparents

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    Shoe Polish

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    leather; however‚ it did not impart shine. It was made from natural wax‚ oil‚ soda ash and tallow. As leather with a high natural veneer became popular in the 18th century‚ a high glossy finish became important‚ particularly on shoes and boots. In most cases‚ a variety of homemade polishes were used to provide this finish‚ often with lanolin or beeswax as a base. In the 19th century many forms of shoe polish became available‚ yet were rarely referred to as shoe polish or boot polish. Instead‚ they were

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    As an Immigrant‚ there were many challenges I faced whether it’s related to language or understanding the culture. My family moved to United States of America when I was in 6th grade. I was always told by my parents that building a successful career is very important. This idea of building a successful career never stuck in my mind until the junior year of high school when I all sudden all the teachers and counselors started talking about going to college build a career in a field that you were interested

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    I. Statement of the problem "Unnoticed morale leads to wrong motivation" - The problem that arises for me is that the owner of the company made a mistake that he did not noticed the attention of the morale of his employees will be affected and so employees of this company lead to wrong motivation. II. Areas of Consideration - To know the cause and effects of problem this are the factors that I have been seen base on my research. 1.) Giving commission incentive 2.) Employees’

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    was only a mere child. He had been a victim to an immense amount of it through such innocent eyes. These actions brought upon him would make sense for King to fight full-time for the reason that no one would dare want to endure the violence that he did firsthand and against his own race. Finally‚ in ‘The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.‚’ it reads‚ “A Negro child in Atlanta could not go to any public park” (King 8). This quote shows that King‚ as well as other black children‚ could not even

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    given by the polish government to Dell. With the subsidy the Dells cost of production falls so it is profitable for them to go to Poland. With the subsidy “S” will shift to “S1” as shown below. Price of computers D S S1 Quantity of computers Another possible reason for such relocation could be lower wage costs and tax advantages in Poland. Lower taxes and lower wages will reduce Dell’s cost of production. However the impact of wage costs in Poland compared to Ireland depends on how far Dell depends

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    of their past history‚ origin and culture is like a tree without roots (Garvey1). Polish culture plays a big part in the United States today. Most people think of Poland as always being one country but in actuality Great Poland was founded first in 966. Later on Little Poland was founded in 1047. By 1366 Great Poland and Little Poland finally decided to merge together to become Poland as we know it today. The Polish first immigrated to America in the 1800’s‚ mainly to seek independence because they

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    catastrophic destruction and mass murder of European Jews by the Nazi during World War II‚ between 1933 and 1945. It began with the discrimination‚ slowly evolving to the segregation and persecution of the Jews‚ and eventually incited to become a bloodbath. These phases had progressively violated the rights of Jews in the Holocaust. Phase 1 (1933-1938): Discrimination Hitler have gone to great lengths to have all the Nazis convinced that they detest the Jews. His first attempt was on April 1‚1933

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    Miracle Polish is a story about a man who buys a bottle of “Miracle Polish” from a salesman who goes from house to house. From the moment the narrator begins using the Miracle Polish to clean one of the few mirrors in his house‚ his obsession for his own reflection – and his girlfriend Monica’s – led him to buying more mirrors. This goes on up to the point when Monica gets fed up with the narrator‚ for he is more appealed to the Monica in the mirror rather than the real Monica. The narrator then

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    vegetable nail polish. - we hope that customers will patronize the product. - we want the customers to use this natural and safe product rather than the chemical one. - we want to create a nail polish by the help of radish.     Scope and Limitations     This is the investigation of our group. We will make a cosmetic product (nail polish) in a natural way‚ using radish as our main ingredient.We will replace the henna powder into radish. We would like to fabricate a nail polish  without using

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