The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region in the Twentieth Century” Provide a complete Book Citation here Imagine a time when life was simpler. Imagine a community that comes together‚ where everyone knows each other and very possibly all work together. This was the scene of the Pennsylvania Anthracite coal region at the beginning of the twentieth century. The discovery of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania in 1900 led to the development of a robust coal industry in the eastern part of Pennsylvania that
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The Pennsylvania Society of Physician Assistants (PSPA) is an example of one of these organizations.5 For members‚ the PSPA is to represent physician assistants that practice in the state of Pennsylvania. Also‚ the PSPA strives to improve the quality of health care within the state. Improved quality of care can be accomplished through continuing education
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A. Farley Abstract This paper explores compares and contrasts the Pennsylvania Correctional System and the Auburn Correctional system and explains why the Auburn Correctional system most closely explains our modern day prisons. “In the early decades of the nineteenth century there arose two competing models of prison discipline in the United States; one was the “separate” or “solitary” system employed in Pennsylvania‚ and was kept as much as possible in total solitude. The prisoner would
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to date with changes being made that will effect our profession. The biggest concern nationwide seems to be the number of patients that a nurse can safely care for and while some states have regulations on that nurse-patient ratio many do not. Pennsylvania is going through a transitional period where two bills are being purposed and both can change the way we provide care. While safe staffing is an issue nationwide it recently became a resolved issue locally at Heritage Valley Beaver. Other political
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Jersey‚ New York‚ and Pennsylvania to their colonial counterparts. These states have grown in natural resources since their colonial days. Pennsylvania in the 1700s had a lot of natural resources. Back in colonial times coal and iron were Pennsylvania’s natural resources. Today Pennsylvania has a great mine that produces most of the country’s coal and has expanded into mining limestone‚ natural gas‚ petroleum‚ and sand. In the agricultural department‚ the colonial Pennsylvania has grown corn‚ wheat
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being against slaveholding. Quakers became important members of the American Anti-Slavery Society‚ the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society and the Female Anti-Slavery Society. They were also fundamental role players in the underground railway in Pennsylvania and the Midwest. The Quaker society was very much supportive of slaves learning how to read and write. During the Reconstruction‚ 1865-1877‚ they raised large amounts of money to provide relief for slaves and to establish schools for freed
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amount. Although colonies such as Virginia and Massachusetts had little to no religious freedom‚ there were colonies such as Pennsylvania and Rhode Island that had a certain degree of tolerance for other religions. With Virginia being Anglican with its laws‚ Massachusetts having puritans and separatists‚ Rhode Island having Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson‚ and Pennsylvania having William Penn along with Quakers‚ it was inevitable for religious tolerance to be expressed in different directions.
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military actions in Pennsylvania over the duration of the whole war. Over the war the Confederation had shown some interest in Pennsylvania. The majority of the military actions in Pennsylvania were raids who were tasked with attacking strategic targets. One of these raids‚ Morgan’s Raid‚ which was orchestrated by the Confederate General John Hunt Morgan for more than a month right after the Battle of Gettysburg‚ came dangerously to Pittsburgh before it was stopped in Ohio. Pennsylvania was a target for
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Katie Schlagenhaft English 105 Laura Moran 2 December 2014 Fracking in Pennsylvania Hydraulic fracturing‚ also known as fracking‚ is damaging our watersheds and for some of us‚ fracking sites are in our own backyards. The Environmental Protection Agency seems to have a few holes in it‚ as you will see in my research. First‚ we need to understand how fracking works. It is a means of extracting natural gas and oil that lies within a shale rock formation thousands of feet below earth’s surface
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rape is not a crime of passion or the need for sex‚ but is manifested by the need to show dominance‚ rape is about power” (Peele‚ 2009). According to statisticians‚ almost all rapes are committed by males; especially in my home State of Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Coalition against Rape reports‚ “an estimated 91% of victims of rape and sexual assault are female” and “nearly 99% of the offenders they described in single-victims incidents were male” (Greenfield‚ 1997). In fact‚ Pennsylvania’s Megan’s
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