Garrett Augustus Morgan was born in Paris‚ Kentucky on March 4‚ 1877. At the age of fourteen his family moved to Cleveland‚ Ohio. He was born in poverty and only achieved grade school. Garrett started inventing at the age of twenty. His first invention was a belt fastener for a sewing machine. The invention was sold for $150 dollars. By 1907‚ he had started a sewing machine and repair store (William‚ 2010). Later in 1909‚ he turned his repair shop into a tailor shop. However‚ during a tragedy in
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In 1931‚ The Times of London commissioned the Monotype Corporation‚ under the direction of Stanley Morison‚ to design a newspaper typeface. According to Morison: The Times‚ as a newspaper in a class by itself‚ needed not a general trade type‚ however good‚ but a face whose strength of line‚ firmness of contour‚ and economy of space fulfilled the specific editorial needs of the The Times. Times New Roman‚ drawn by Victor Lardent and initially released in 1932‚ is the result. The Linotype version is
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preservation needs (Apollo Group‚ 2011). The city government sees the immediate need in parks and recreation. Over the past two years‚ the city has invested millions of dollars in the Parks and Recreation Department in continuous improvements. The Stanley Park Project will offer state of the art park and recreation amenities that will meet the needs of all residents; from parents walking through the park with infants in strollers‚ teenagers skateboarding on the skate ramp‚ senior citizens learning
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The Stanley Cup The Stanley Cup originated in Canada after Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley of Preston decided that since the sport was so popular there should be a form of championship between the teams. Lord Stanley donated a silver bowl to the Ametuer Hockey Association of Canada for the prize of the championship. The cup was originally called the Dominion Challenge Trophy‚ but was soon renamed the Stanley Hockey Championship Cup in 1893 after its founder. That same year it was decided that the
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Central to their stories are two men‚ Willy Loman and Stanley Kowalski. Willy Loman believes there is a better America for him; however this America is clearly out of his reach. Stanley Kowalski never complains about the America he lives in‚ instead he claims to be a true American‚ born and raised. As a proud American he claims to be a social leveler‚ refining his current America and getting rid of what he deems unfit. Loman and Kowalski
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J.P. Morgan Chase Case Write-Up I. Case Summary The passing of the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 repealed the Glass-Steagall Act‚ and the rescinding of the 1956 Bank Holding Company Act. “The legislation spurred a flood of mergers and acquisitions” by permitting banking‚ insurance‚ and securities firms to be affiliated/associated with one another‚ as a result it became extremely profitable and advantageous for financial institutions to consolidate and diversify their holdings
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Stanley Milgram ’s Experiment In Stanley Milgram ’s essay Some Conditions of Obedience and Disobedience to Authority‚ the self-proclaimed "social psychologist" conducted a study while working as a psychologist at Yale University. The primary goal of Milgram ’s experiment was to measure the desire of the participants to shock a learner in a controlled situation. The experiment was based on three primary roles: the authoritative figure‚ the learner‚ and the teachers. The authoritative figure instructed
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to try and preserve the rights and privacy of the participants. A list of nine ethical guidelines which aims to prevent unethical behaviour that could cause psychological and physiological harm to the participants. This essay aims to discuss the Stanley Milgram obedience to authority experiment and how it relates to the
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Murdock- George Peter Murdock (1949) wanted to know if the family was not just cultural but universal (he claimed that it was universal). * Common residence * Economic co-operation * Adults including both sexes * At least two have socially approved sex * One or more children * Biological or adopted This he thought was the universal minimum. Which adults had sexual relations depended on the culture. He believed the nuclear family was the universal core of the world’s
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Comparison/Contrast Essay: the Monk & the Parson Geoffrey Chaucer is hailed as the father of English poetry. One of his greatest works is a collection of short stories known as The Canterbury Tales. In The Canterbury Tales a group of people with many different backgrounds and beliefs go on a pilgrimage from London to the shrine of the martyr Thomas a Becket at Canterbury Cathedral. In The “Prologue’’ Chaucer characterizes all the pilgrims that will be going on the pilgrimage. Two of the characters
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