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    The article "Some Lessons From the Assembly Line" by Andrew Braaksma is a rollercoaster ride that takes the reader through the lessons that taught him to take nothing for granted. This is accomplished by primarily showing the reader the life of an assembly line worker, but then will take jumps to show the life he has at college. To take nothing for granted seems like such a simple and common lesson that it really should be known by people long before they start working. This however is not the case

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    "Some Lessons from the Assembly Line" by Andrew Braaksma is an article trying to encourage continued education rather than a lifetime on the assembly line. Braaksma paints a picture of harsh life behind clunky metal machine in his summers away from school. All the while pointing out his other classmates don't understand the hard life so many have in the manufacturing. In A. Braaksma’s article, his claims of an easier life through continued education is a better option than many long, hard, and unstable

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    The Henry Ford Assembly line, it was invented in the year 1913. Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile, the model T. His innovation reduced the time it took to build a car from more than a half a day to make a single car, to about 2 hours. He believed that there was certain principle in order to better his production, which was interchangeable parts, continuous flow, the division of labor, and reducing wasted effort.Using interchangeable

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    The question that I will answer is, How did Henry Ford and the development of the Model T and the assembly line transform American culture? Henry Ford was a extraordinary business man. He could arguably be viewed as one of the most important people of his time. Ford did not always succeed in business. His failures were his early business and early car models that could not run more than a few minutes. However, his luck turned around with the start of current day Ford Motor Company and the eventual

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    Though the assembly line started over a hundred years ago, it is still revolutionary today. It has majorly impacted the industrial world so greatly that businesses that did not gain the practice soon became extinct, and it was also one key factor that assisted creating the automobile into American society. Henry Ford’s assembly line system was one of the most powerful changes that has affected modern America and is still recognized today. Not only did he achieve developing the middle class so anyone

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    The national assembly declared it would not break up until a new constitution was in place for France. The declaration of the rights of man and of citizen was approved by the national assembly of France on August 29, 1789 and drafted by Marquis de Lafayette. The constitution contributed to the feeling of nationalism by creating a constitution that made everyone equal. This was a constitution that the majority of the population fought for. That was the first step toward writing a constitution for

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    great innovator who made the automobile reliable,affordable and he helped development of the assembly line. The Model T was the first top selling automobile. The Model T had a reliable powerplant. Back when it was introduced in 1908 The Model T cost 950 dollars. Then with the assembly line around 300 dollars. Henry is a true pioneer. One of America's foremost industrialist Henry Ford revolutionized the assembly line. He was born on July 30th 1863 near Dearborn Michigan. Henry created the Model T Ford

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    Lessons From the Assembly Line", by Andrew Braaksma, tells the story of the author during his time in college while working within an automotive plant in southwest Michigan, and the lifelong lessons in which he learned from his experience and coworkers. In this article, the author addresses his time attending college, majoring in French literature, while working back in his hometown over the summer, working a job that is best described as "torture." Some Lessons From the Assembly Line's theme of learning

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    developing a new process. This report will detail the construction of an assembly line simulation within the Witness software package. The simulation will have the following attributes: Three categories of pan will be produced on an assembly line (type A, type B and type C). These pans will be available in a pre-determined variety of colours (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Magenta). Following the pressing, colouring, coating and assembly processes the pans will be organized and arranged according to colour

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    When I revisited “Some Lessons from the Assembly Line”, the author 's goal has changed for me. It has expanded and became broader. Because I see now that the author is trying to show the readers, the lessons he learned while working his summers away on the factory floor.Adjacent to that propose the author wanted to show the readers the different ways he learned the lessons, which made him appreciate his opportunity to go to college. My evidence for this is when the author refers to, “These lessons

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