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are in need of financial assistance, are unable to work, or whose circumstances mean the income they require for basic needs is in excess of their salary.” Welfare was established under the President Franklin D. Roosevelt, by Social Security Act of 1935, and administered by individual states and territories for the government to help poverty. President Roosevelt implemented this program because of the Great Depression. When the Great Depression

The Portuguese Neurologist Antonio Egas Moniz is said to be credited with inventing the Lobotomy in 1935, for which he shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1949. (Official website of the Nobel Prize, http://www.nobelprize.org/) Before the procedure was tested on humans, it was actually tested on chimpanzees by a Yale Neuroscientist John Fulton and his colleague Carlyle Jacobsen in 1935. Because of certain behavioral and personality issues, the procedure was sought to adjust the way

unemployment rising, hunger spreading across the country, and bank failures. Some of these problems did have solutions though. For example, one of the attempts to solve the problem of unemployment was creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA) of 1935. The WPA set out to create as many jobs as possible so people could get back to work and provide for their families. Another program that was put into place was the National Youth Administration (NYA). The NYA provided jobs and job education for high

This report aimed to replicate Stroop's (1935) experiment. Using the repeated measures design and a sample of 20 students, differences in verbal reaction times on two tests were observed. The one-tailed hypothesis predicted that it would take longer to say words in the Cc, this is the conflicting condition where the colour of the word differs from the colour that the word describes. It was found that, using the t-test for related data, this hypothesis could be accepted as

LABOR-MANAGEMENT RELATIONS MINI CASE IMPORTANT EVENTS IN AMERICAN LABOR UNION HISTORY WEBSTER UNIVERSITY SONI VESTAL   Abstract In labor as in all things there is strength in numbers it is this strength that American labor unions provide. Labor unions provide a collective voice for those who had not previously been heard. As the professor in the “Frustrated Labor Historian” Dr. Horace P. Karastan is left with the dilemma what are the three most important events in American labor union history it

started the process in secret. To reinforce this, he made a great public display of his desire not to rearm Germany – claiming that he was only doing it because other countries refused to disarm. Hitler also left the League of Nations after Japan. In 1935 Hitler staged a massive rally in order to show the world the German armed forces. In 1936 he also introduced conscription to the army. Although this was a risky move, Hitler guessed right, in thinking that he could get away with rearmament. Many other

For centuries, governments dreamed and had an almost universal hope, about the raise of inter-state systems, to preserve peace amongst potentially antagonistic states; Unfortunately, what statesmen had not imagined was that the world had to witness to the slaughter of the First World War to achieve such dream. However, precisely because of the the devastation and chaos caused by the war, the establishment of a general association of states was crucial, and needed to be constructed as quickly as

addition, AAA and similar acts made income generated by 50% higher than it was in 1932 (Rasmussen18). The last program that provided attempted to provide immediate relief to farmers during the Depression was the Resettlement Administration, created in 1935. However, unlike the FCA and AAA, the RA did not provide relief to struggling farmers. Aiming to relocate rural families to communities operated by the federal government, the RA was met with much opposition as it threatened to appropriate land. Only

Beginning in 1929, in unison with the stock market the American economy would dwindle for a decade resulting in the Great Depression. As consumer spending and stock investments lessened, businesses were forced to dismiss employees, rendering a large section of the American population unemployed, starving, homeless, desperate and humiliated. Republican President Herbert Hoover would maintain that the federal government was not responsible for job creation, or widespread relief for citizens as conditions

be it concrete (e.g. pizza) or abstract (e.g. freedom of speech), be it things, persons, groups or abstract ideas. Attitudes can encompass affective, behavioural and cognitive responses, as summarized in the Tripartide model of attitudes (Allport, 1935) An environmentalist might strongly believe that air pollution destroys the ozone layer, which increases the risk of cancer(cognitive); it might get angry or sad about the extinction of endangered species (affective) and it might use public transportation