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This paper explains that the art of puppy breeding began shortly after World War II when the US Department of Agriculture encouraged farmers to raise puppies as crops because traditional crop-growing had stalled. The author points out that an owner purchasing a puppy raised in a mill is much more likely to purchase a sick animal, or worse, an animal with a personality disorder resulting in the dog being given up to a shelter for adoption or worse. The paper relates that proponents of puppy mills argue that the USDA has enacted legislation requiring licensing for certain breeders; however, there is much evidence indicating that, currently, the USDA does not have enough inspectors to enforce laws requiring minimum space and standards for puppy breading.

From the Paper
"Commercial breeders are one problem, breeding several types of puppy with profit as the primary motive. Many of the dogs raised in such kennels are not adequately screened for genetic illnesses. Also problematic are so called backyard breeder. Puppy mills however, are among the worst offenders, who breed puppies with little or no attention to their health care needs, socialization practices and placement protocols. USDA inspectors typically fail to inspect such mills."

Tags:usda, standards, behavior, crop, breeder

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This paper provides an analysis of two service encounters, an excellent one and a deplorable one. The paper uses concepts related to customer service management to explain the reasons why each one is categorized as either excellent or deplorable.

From the Paper
"The worst service I encountered was my experience interacting with customer service at AOL. When broadband came out I contacted AOL and ordered their product raising my monthly rates ..."

Tags:customer satisfaction, loyalty, service expectations, recovery, adaptability, coping, critical incident, spontaneity

Abstract
When the camera was invented, photographers learned that they no longer needed oil paint and brushes to capture a scene or a person. On film, they could now record the life and times of the period in which they lived, either from a sense of mission or simply to leave an accurate version of their life and times for others. This paper provides an in-depth look at the lives, times and works of several photographers who captured America's history on photographic film. The paper discusses Matthew Brady who documented the realities of the American Civil War, Jacob Riis who condemned the deplorable conditions in New York City at the end of the 19th Century and the unobtrusive Dorothea Lange who photographed the plight of the American people during the Great Depression and went on to become the first woman awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. The paper also discusses the works of Walker Evans who was hired by the Resettlement Administration to photograph the Depression and Lewis Hine who educated the American public on the plight of children working under deplorable conditions.

From the Paper
"The most poignant and moving photographs from Lange's trip convey a mood rather than describing circumstances or activities: a man squatting at the edge of the field, a mother and child in the tent opening, a group of men staring at the photographers. The photographs are character studies showing the textures of skin and clothing with an artist's eye and depicting posture, gesture and gaze with an ethnologist's.
When the Depression came to an end with World War II, Lange changed subjects rather than give up her documentary photography. Three months after Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the relocation of Japanese-Americans into armed camps in the West. Soon after, the War Relocation Authority hired Lange to photograph Japanese neighborhoods, processing centers and camp facilities.
However, now Lange's feelings about what the government was doing gave her much discontent. She was not prepared to witness the disturbing racial and civil rights issues raised by Japanese internment. Lange quickly found herself at odds with her employer, the United States government."

Tags:slums, How, The, Other, Lives, Roosevelt, Dust, Bowl, FERA

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This paper focuses on the business ethics of a packing company described in the famous novel titled "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. The paper applies the philosophy and theory of Martin Friedman to this company to see what justifications can be given for the deplorable work conditions present in the meatpacking company. In capitalist system, Friedman maintains that the primary responsibility of the employer is to the owner of the corporations and therefore he cannot work for the society or sever any social causes.

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A paper on the revitalization of a small city, which is riddled with several problems. Some concrete measures are suggested to improve the current deplorable social and economic conditions.

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This paper reviews Friedrich Engels' book "The Condition of the Working Class in England", which explores the social issues that arose out of the creation of the proletariat by the industrial movement and which predicts that oppression by the bourgeoisie will eventually lead it to the inevitable "Revolution". It examines the social problems that Friedrich Engels identifies namely the deplorable living and working conditions in the 'Great Towns', the influx of Irish immigrants, the particular difficulties of the factory system and the mining and agricultural. It also looks at the proletariat, the Cottage system, the Truck system and the New Poor Law together with the attitude of the bourgeoisie toward the proletariat's suffering. It evaluates some of the solutions that Engels provides in trying to avoid the inevitable 'Revolution'.

From the Paper
"This unhappy condition was further worsened by the influx of Irish immigrants who "had nothing to lose at home, and much to gain in England" (Engels, 101). In the hope of finding employment and making money, many Irishmen made their way to the English towns, bringing with them their crude habits and simplistic lifestyle. The Irish settlers did not need much to sustain their livelihood, and as such, required and were willing to work for less wages than any others. They became a strong competition for employment, and in branches of the industry where they competed with the English, wages were forced down further and further. Also, as they were accustomed to lack of cleanliness, the filth of their living quarters did not bother them, and to the ever-present garbage and dirt-heaps they added their own."

Tags:bourgeoisie, proletariat, industrial

Abstract
This essay compares the novels of George Elliott, Elizabeth Gaskell and Benjamin Disraeli and their works, respectively: "Felix Holt", set in the coal mining areas of Loamshire, "Mary Barton", in the power looms of Manchester and "Sybil", the collieries and the metal-working foundries of Mowbray. The novels describe the deplorable conditions that existed for the workmen: malnourishment, often starvation, lower wages and death due to preventable and curable diseases.

From the Paper
"From the perspective of workers, the main characters in the novels are Felix Holt (Felix Holt), John Barton (Mary Barton) and Walter Gerard (Sybil). They are honest men, passionate about the rights of workers, and possessed of a charisma that lets others gravitate to them.

"They belong to trade unions and workers movements entrusted with the task of improving working conditions and increasing worker wages. In all three novels, workers seek redress by taking their grievances to the Members of Parliament in London. Each time however, their delegations, met with stonewalling and apathy, return "empty-handed." These frustrations are the forerunners to the riots."

Tags:industrial, revolution, working, trade, union, class, conditions

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This paper takes a look at the experiences of black slaves in the United States. It examines two personal stories - one of a man and one of a woman and compares the experiences from a gender-based perspective. The stories told are those of Frederick Douglass in his work "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" and Harriet Jacobs in her account of slavery entitled "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl".

From the paper:
Slavery in America during the 18th and 19th centuries is universally thought of as a deplorable institution based on degradation, hate, and injustice. The horrors visited upon the slaves by their fellow man (masters) were unquestionably appalling. Keeping this in mind one might wonder, was the experience the same for male slaves as it was for females? Both sexes were subject to the same dreadful conditions and revulsions assigned to slavery but the experience was definitely different for men vs. women. "
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Tags:experience, degredation, compelling, biography, imprisonment, authority, court, justice, liberty, plantation, master, Douglas, Frederick, Harriet, Jacobs, freedom, beating

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This paper analyzes how George Orwell's book "Nineteen Eighty-Four", written in an era after only thirty-five years in which there had been two world wars, a communist revolution, a host of fascist dictators and a frenzy of slaughter, imagines a world yet darker than that which already existed, a world in which the voice of authority had triumphed absolutely and in which individual human needs and desires were no more. It shows, through analysis of the novel, how Orwell may not have been entirely accurate in the way he pictured the world in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" even though he was amazingly prescient in foreseeing many of the problems that would arise in future years. He understood that the evil actions of Joseph Stalin, Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Francisco Franco had inspired in the West a response that was in many ways no less deplorable and it was the collapse of the traditional ethical and social framework of the West that had first brought both communism and fascism into being.

From the Paper
"It is no surprise that George Orwell should imagine a world in which the State has taken complete control of every aspect of the individual and of society, for such a thing had already happened, albeit not so completely. Clearly, the Soviet Union was the chief model for Orwell's Oceania. In the years since the Russian Revolution in 1917, the Communist Party, and in particular, Joseph Stalin, had created a world that could be considered a prototype of that described in Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the Soviet Union, the entire old order had been overturned, weeded out and replaced by a form of government and society that had never really existed before in any time or place."

Tags:communism, fascism, world, war, stalin, revolution, big, brother

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This paper provides a brief history of slavery in general and the different types of slavery that have evolved over the years such as agricultural slaves to farmers and domestic slavery. It discusses the rise of slavery in the Muslim world during the time of the Byzantine Empire and how in Islamic life, owning slaves was a sign of wealth. Slaves were used as soldiers, concubines, cooks and entertainers. It examines the facts that slavery still exists today in some third world Muslim countries such as Sudan and Mauritania and the issue of slave-child-soldiers, children that are kidnapped at an early age to fight as soldiers. The slave trade in the Muslim world is indeed a deplorable institution that is long over due for reform. However, it has existed for centuries and efforts of recent have only led to perpetuation.

From the Paper
"There is much concern regarding the fact that slavery still exist in several Muslim countries. The Koran deals directly with "the issue of slavery " states that subjected or conquered people should be given the option of converting to Islam if they refuse, only then may they be taken as slaves and Muslims should never be enslaved by other Muslims? (Schindler 2001). When Christianity was born, the Roman Empire spanned the globe, so the question of newly conquered people never arose. Christian conversions were voluntary, thus slavery was not a religious issue, although it was obviously practiced contrary to Christian belief (Schindler 2001). However, slavery in the Islamic East developed differently."

Tags:koran, byzantine, Sudan, Mauritania