Chester Carlson The Man of Xerox The history of xerography has no beginning without the man known as Chester F. Carlson. His life started out rough‚ he was born February 8‚ 1906‚ in Seattle‚ Washington to a Swedish immigrant father and a mother who both contracted tuberculosis. Their illnesses were the reason the family moved to Mexico for a short period of time and also why Carlson was stuck with the role of supporting the Family financially. Although he was under significant strain for the beginning
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Gilded Age - The Gilded Age lasted from the 1870s to the early 1900s and was an era of rapid economic growth‚ especially in the North and West. As American wages were much higher than those in Europe‚ especially for skilled workers‚ the period saw an arrival of millions of European immigrants. However‚ the Gilded Age was also an era of wretched poverty and discrimination as millions of immigrants‚ many from impoverished European nations‚ flooded into the United States‚ and the high concentration
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guaranteeing the right of citizens to compete for federal jobs without regard to politics‚ religion‚ race‚ or national origin. The new law covered only about 10 percent of the positions in the federal government‚ but nearly every president after Chester A. Arthur‚ who signed the bill into law‚ broadened its scope. By 1980 more than 90 percent of federal employees were protected by the act. The Pendleton Civil Service Act classified certain jobs‚ removed them from the ranks‚ and set up a Civil Service
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Politicians during this time period worried more about ensuring their own financial success‚ securing votes by any means‚ granting jobs or favors in return for votes‚ and remaining popular. They were not concerned with social issues‚ but supported or crushed these issues in accordance with the decision that would benefit them personally. If politicians were judged to be good personally‚ they were automatically viewed as good politically. Changes were made for personal benefit‚ not the good of the
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James A. Garfield was born in 1831 in a small place called Cuyahoga County‚ Ohio. He was born and raised fatherless‚ so he grew up strong-willed as the man of his house. When he became of age to start going of to college‚ Garfield chose the prestigious Williams College in Massachusetts in 1856. Garfield studied to become a politician and his hopes and dreams came true as he was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1859 as a Northern Republican. Garfield was well known as a loyal Unionist and kept his ways
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The clocks seem to speak for time‚ but in fact they represent the human marking of time. Time exists as a continuum‚ but clocks take the concept of time and force a structure on it. In this way‚ the clocks speak for time far less than they speak for society’s rules and conventions.The formatting of the poem reinforces this notion. The rhyme scheme is an abcb defe pattern that demonstrates the dichotomy between the constant flow of time and the structure forced upon it by society. The unrhymed lines
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Chapter 7: Immigrants and Urbanization Section 1: The New Immigrants I. Through the Golden Door A. Immigrants wanted to escape famine‚ land shortages (pop of Europe doubled in 100 years)‚ religious‚ and/or political persecution (Russia drives out Jews)‚ and some intended to earn money and return home (birds of passage) 1. Old immigrants: 1800 – 1880 10 million immigrants came from northern and western Europe (GB‚ Ireland‚ Germany‚ Scandinavian countries)
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Global Sustainability Eastman Kodak Company 2010 Annual Report TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 Report Scope 3 Leadership Message 6 Company Profile 10 Goals 12 Performance Data 14 Compliance 15 Sustainability Framework 21 Governance 26 Innovation 31 Stewardship 41 Engagement 50 External Recognition 51 About the Photographs SCOPE OF REPORT SCOPE OF REPORT Kodak is pleased to present our fifth annual Global Sustainability Report‚ as well as our 21st public report to include health‚ safety and environmental
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Chester A. Arthur He was born on October 5th 1829‚ In Fairland Vermont. He had nine siblings‚ and was the eldest of the three sons in the family. Being the one of the elders of his many siblings‚ he acquired a desire to lead. His father was a preacher. Like any preacher kid at that time‚ his family was often transferred various villages in Vermont and upstate New York‚ which widened Chester’s view of politics in diverse locations. Also being a preacher’s kid‚ he had to have some admirable ethics
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you look at. It is the reason good deeds have always been praised and bad deeds punished. The same may be applied to any facet of life. The pain felt when left in the absence of a loved one‚ the subject of the lyrical poetry found in the Papyrus Chester Beatty I. Expressed in these lyrics are emotions that readers today can relate with although being written in 1500 B.C. Egypt. The poem consists of seven stanzas‚ alternating between a man and women‚ expressing their feelings for the person they love
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