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    The American Industrial Revolutions begins a new era for the United States. New assembling was about improving individuals’ lives. Merchandise moved from places to places and items being created by hand‚ in factories. The American industrialists managing this development were prepared to take risk in order to make their organizations triumphant. There will be Political Machines‚ child labor‚ working condition and food safety added to the development of worker’s parties. American people were outraged

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    The Progressive Era The Progressive Era had a profound effect on the development of America. During the Gilded Age the government adopted a “hands off” approach which resulted in widespread corruption throughout America. Progressive reforms began to make headway when these issues became uncontrollable. The federal government began to search for a way to mend the complex issues of the day through reforms and amendments‚ while the state level sought its own solutions. This movement enacted many

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    Experience: Siemens‚ Chart Max‚ Passport‚ Nobel‚ Fastrack‚ AS400‚ Amigos‚ Psi‚ Ncic‚ Envision‚ Bright tree‚ Remit Data‚ Cpsi‚ E Discharge VGM and Microsoft Office. Languages: Fluent in English and Spanish. Professional Experience: •         St Tammany Parish Hospital Covington‚ La 12/2012-Present. Job Duties: Customer Service‚ Medical Billing‚ Collections‚ bankruptcy‚ handling patient outstanding balance helping them with their account‚ answering phone calls‚ taking patient payments‚ working on

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    Oscar Wilde THE CANTERVILLE GHOST "The Canterville Ghost" is a popular short story by Oscar Wilde‚ widely adapted for the screen and stage. It was the first of Wilde’s stories to be published‚ appearing in the magazine The Court and Society Review in February 1887. It was later included in a collection of short stories entitled Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories in 1891. u üSetting The story of the Canterville Ghost takes place in an old English country house‚ Canterville Chase‚

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    Grover Cleveland

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    when local businessmen asked him to run for mayor. Cleveland won as a Democrat and exposed corruption in the city‚ earning the respect of voters. In 1882 he ran and won the gubernatorial race in New York State. Grover opposed the political machine‚ “Tammany Hall‚” in New York City‚ although they supported him during his election. The Democrats took notice and nominated him for the presidency in 1884 (Beschloss and Sidey 3‚ 4). Cleveland‚ at forty-four‚ ran as a reformer for the presidency in 1884‚ strongly

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    INTRODUCTION: The Gilded Age is known as the time between the Civil War and World War I. The term “Gilded Age” comes from Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Twain said it was a period that was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath. At the same time‚ there was an increase in industry and labor unions‚ as well as an inflow of immigrants. All these factors during this time influenced the social‚ economic‚ and political atmosphere of the Gilded Age

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    Many of the laws and regulations set around the workplace were governed not primarily by the US government‚ but more by the political machines that controlled the popular vote. Machines like Tammany Hall allowed for the public to be manipulated and therefore getting their candidates elected‚ giving them the power to control the government from the inside. The Triangle Fire gave a valid excuse for many to reform the machines that led to the many

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    Hurricane Pam

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    southeast Louisiana and storm surge that topped levees in the New Orleans area. This area included 13 parishes in southeast Louisiana-Ascension‚ Assumption‚ Jefferson‚ Lafourche‚ Orleans‚ Plaquemines‚ St. Bernard‚ St. Charles‚ St. James‚ St. John‚ St. Tammany Tangipahoa‚ and Terrebonne. The storm caused more than one million residents to evacuate and destroyed 500‚000-600‚000 buildings. A rough average of 100‚000 people did not evacuate before the storm hit due to poverty‚ illness‚ or lack of transportation

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    During the progressive era (1880-1920) reformers tried to address the problems created by the rapid industrialization of United States in the second half of the 19th century. Many of the problems stemmed from the tremendous disparity in income between the newly enriched industries‚ who ran industry‚ and the workers- poor whites‚ immigrants and blacks-who built the railroads and worked in the factories. Some reformers achieved significant change. Theodore Roosevelt was one of the presidents of the

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    For example‚ in response to the increased activism the political leaders of Tammany Hall of New York‚ Smith and Wagner‚ were forced to alter their position on reform. Eventually‚ leaders of both parties started embracing factory and industrial reform‚ and were now supporting Newman‚ Lemlich‚ and Schneiderman‚ whom they were once

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