…birth, was the single most important factor in promotion and appointment. A court noble could expect to become a general officer by age 39, a provincial noble by age 58, regardless of their talent. With this system little could be done to promote professionalism. Officers preferred to stay at home…

…Farming, merchandising, domestic service, railways, factory work, canneries, dairying, plant nurseries, fisheries, and clerical tasks claimed most of the new immigrants. However, by 1920, there were also more than 350 Japanese-Americans employed as professionals (Leathers, 14-15).

Most immigrants were men between the age of 20 and 40. The imbalance of…

…percent of coal miners belong to unions and only 19.5% of truck drivers (Hacker 47). Despite all of the downsides of unions they do have their benefits. Here are a few examples of salaries secured through collective bargaining by highly trained professionals: Pilots with only fifteen years of service at…

…suffering from mood disorders to receive prompt treatment because early onset places children at a greater risk for multiple episodes of depression throughout their life span. Until recently, adolescent depression has been largely ignored by health professionals but now several means of diagnosis and treatment exist. Although most teenagers can…

…has cross-cultural verification it means that it is part of human nature rather than a result of cultural conditioning. Females are most often the perpetrators in spousal violence in all cultures that have been studied to date. That leads many professionals to conclude that there is something biological about violent…

In E.L Doctrorow’s novel, The Waterworks, Mr McIlvaine suggests that some stories were, "not… reportorially possible… that there are limits to words in a newspaper" (page 201). The character Mr McIlvaine like Truman Capote the author of In Cold Blood are both journalists who have found stories to which they…