Downsizing, 1860s-Style: Lessons From The Pony Express Created in January 1860, the pony express was the brainchild of a joint effort inthe 1850s by the us Navy and harsh, rocky soil of the American west, and they http://www.libertyhaven.com/politicsandcurrentevents/biggovernment/downsizing.sh
Extractions: Lessons from the Pony Express No image in the 1990s captured the apparent weaknesses of the capitalist system more than that of mid-level managers "downsized" out of their jobs. Here were successful executives with well-paying jobs and solid retirement prospects suddenly told that they had no place in the company and that they had to go. Corporations, cognizant that the news would be portrayed negatively (jobs lost and lives ruined rather than new jobs created and customers served), attempted to "spin" the reports by creating such terms as "downsizing" and, more insultingly, "right-sizing." As the companies expected, newspapers reported each new announcement of corporate cut-backs with almost gleeful tones, to the point of running news about the layoffs in headlines with the most dramatic language. The New York Times, for example, in March 1996 ran a seven-part series called "The Downsizing of America," in which it called laid-off employees "casualties" of "the battlefields of business." Part of the enthusiasm for the news accounts involved the "victims" - in this case, employees whose productivity no longer matched their cost - because the pink-slipped were overwhelmingly mid-level managers and white-collar executives who had (seemingly) been spared the severe retrenchments during the 1970s and 1980s in the steel, auto, and electronics industries. At that time, the blue-collar workforce had taken it on the chin, and the media had dutifully covered those developments with appropriately somber and glum commentaries. After all (the newsroom reasoning went), the blue-collar guys actually worked for a living and thus were deserving of sympathy. But the corporate types? Served 'em right. Now they knew how the line workers felt.
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This Page Has Moved! Bad Link Learn what life in the west was like Louisiana Purchase in 1803 to the PonyExpress in 1860 Home Subjects Social studies History us History III http://www.madison.k12.wi.us/elib/Subjects/Social_Studies/History/U.S._History/I
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Extractions: TABLE OF CONTENTS General 19th Century U.S. U.S. Government 20th Century U.S. ... RETURN TO LIBRARY HOME PAGE Colonial and Pioneer Times American Revolution RETURN TO TEACHER TABLE OF CONTENTS 19th CENTURY U.S. Civil War American West War of 1812 RETURN TO TEACHER TABLE OF CONTENTS 20th CENTURY U.S. World War I 1920's 1930's 1940's 1950's Vietnam War U.S. History: The Vietnam War
Extractions: 1st Annual Northern Nevada Living History Festival 19th Century Colorado History from the Colorado State Archives African Cowboys One out of every three Cowboys in the Old West were African,Indian or Mexican All About Buffalo All About Cowboys American West: IPL Ready Reference Collection The American West - Frontier History An annotated directory of the best Internet resources on the history of the American West The American West: yet another listing of links to a wide range of topics about the West. Association for Library Service to Children: Links to US History Pre-Colonial to 1865. An excellent site compiled by the Children and Technology Committee of the Lots of other sites for children too. Buffalo Soldiers Life on the Western Frontier Connecting Students: Westward Expansion Cowboy Links Links to just every imaginable western site. Davenport Public Library World and American History to the present. Early Western Americana information Early West History Events in the West From 1840 to 1850: A great PBS timeline. Events: 1850 to 1860 Events: 1860 to 1870 Exploring the Wild West: The Best Western Sites on the Internet.
Old West History-Last Updated 10/29/01 Plains Indians; pony express western Links These are great linksand a really ArtsHumanitiesHistoryBySubjectUS History19th CenturyAmerican west. http://www.over-land.com/westhist.html
Extractions: Each of the following pages consists of hundreds of links! 1st Annual Northern Nevada Living History Festival 19th Century Colorado History from the Colorado State Archives 19th Century History An incredible number of links on this site to all history. African Cowboys One out of every three Cowboys in the Old West were African,Indian or Mexican All About Buffalo All About Cowboys American West: IPL Ready Reference Collection The American West - Frontier History An annotated directory of the best Internet resources on the history of the American West The American West: yet another listing of links to a wide range of topics about the West. Association for Library Service to Children: Links to US History Pre-Colonial to 1865. An excellent site compiled by the Children and Technology Committee of the Lots of other sites for children too. Buffalo Soldiers Life on the Western Frontier A Chronology of US Historical Documents A fine page! And kept up-to-date with current historic events. Connecting Students: Westward Expansion Cowboys and Gunslingers Good Guys and Bad...
Social Studies Links On Where in the west they give you a picture of a national You would go to the PonyExpress. not be as fast, efficient, or reliable as the us postal service or http://education.atu.edu/people/sadams/social.html
Extractions: more. With nearly 200 original photographs, many never before seen by the general public, The Courage to Remember online exhibit includes a resource guide for teachers. Statistics With the winning combination of statistics and politics, this Annenberg/CPB Website offers an original, educational, and entertaining online experience. Visitors follow a fictional race between two candidates by reading news bulletins, then learn basic statistical concepts in a real-world context. Find the out what a random sample really is, what "margin of error" means, and why polls aren't always right. AlaWeb! (Alabama) A School for Iqbal - A Bullet Can't Kill A Dream This site is an outstanding example of how the Web is about people and reaching out (not bandwidth and AUPs). Iqbal Masih was sold into child bonded labor at 4 years of age for the equivalent of $12. He escaped at age 10 and began to speak out against child slavery. He won the Reebok Human Rights Youth in Action Award 1994 and on Easter Sunday, 1995, he was murdered. Students at Broadmeadow Middle School formed a campaign to help fight for Iqbal's Dream. Also look to the Atlantic Monthly's exhaustive and persuasive article, Child Labor in Pakistan by Jonathan Silvers. Teachers and students could use the Iqbal site as inspiration for their own projects.
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Links To Other Sites Eldorado National Forest including the pony express route that History of the USPostal Service has a TRAILS west MARKERS OF THE CALIFORNIA EMIGRANT TRAIL; http://www.xphomestation.com/links.html
Extractions: Hollenberg Station State Historic Site , Kansas State Historical Society Oregon-California Trails Association KANZA Chapter End of Oregon Trail Interpretive Center OCTA Regional and State Chapters ... Oregon Trails in Oregon (A clickable map) OCTA's On-line Book Store California National Historical Trail The Eldorado National Forest Interpretive Association (ENFIA) web site covers all aspects of information pertaining to the Eldorado National Forest including the Pony Express route that passes through the forest. History of the U.S. Postal Service
American History of the mountain men of the us Rocky Mountains Information about the history of thePony express in Utah The American west A collection of sites that provide http://www.slco.lib.ut.us/kidhistamerican.htm
Extractions: Helps students understand commonly studied events, persons, and social movements in American history. Find thousands of comprehensive essays devoted to: Historical periods and eras (Westward expansion, Development of the industrial U.S.); Significant events (The Great Depression, Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing); Notable people from all cultural and ethnic and ethnic backgrounds (Susan B. Anthony, Spiro Agnew); Particular milestones (Disney's "Fantasia" premieres; Unions in the 1970s); and Social history (Dr. Kevorkian invents suicide machine; Abortion rights)
Open Spaces Magazine - Publishing In The Northwest A collection of resources for publishing nonfiction in the Northwest, with descriptions of small Category Arts Writers Resources FAQs, Help, and Tutorials make a rich and generous home for us and for most colorful periods in the AmericanWest, when transportation meant the pony express, mule trains http://open-spaces.com/article-v2n3-publishing.php
Extractions: We humans populating the Pacific Northwest are known to be one of the nation's most dedicated reading groups. Reasons provided to explain this phenomenon are varied, from the long gray winters west of the Cascades that promote warm and dry indoor activities to the isolation of the ranching territories east of the mountains. And perhaps more recently the richness and diversity of the crops produced by the wealth of regional publishers could be playing a significant role. The West Coast has more active publishers than any area outside New York City, the traditional core of publishing in the United States. Our Northwest region abounds in publishing houses not of the size of those New York mega-conglomerates, but homegrown presses more attuned to local trends and interests and more human in scope. A stroll through Literary Market Place demonstrates that Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana play host to upwards of thirty general trade publishers of substantial size, along with multitudes of smaller one-to-few book companies and some really esoteric specialist presses. These are general trade publishers, meaning they distribute their titles significantly through bookstores. And they annually produce hundreds of books on topics ranging from regional books in predictably popular categories such as natural history, travel and recreation, western Americana, local history and biography to books in quite narrow specialty subjects. These subjects include horticulture, classical music and opera, translations of European literature, law, business management, legal self-help, literary fiction, fiction and non-fiction from women writers, gay and lesbian literature, needlework crafts, poetry, writer's reference, illustrated graphic novels, children's books, coffee table books on art and photography. All these subjects and more are published oftenand very wellhere in the Northwest. Profiles of many of the key players follow this introduction.
Extractions: On-air this month three contemporary American families face 19th-century life in the Montana wilderness, living as 1880s homesteaders - with only the tools and technology of the period at their disposal in the "hands-on" history series, Frontier House. Introduce students to frontier life by exploring why people moved westward in the 19th Century. Upper level grades may discuss more aspects of moving westward. For example, do the costs (hardships) outweigh the benefits (end result)? In other words, is it worth it? As a class, view Frontier House. Compare your class's views on moving west as a homesteader with those expressed in the video. Would your family take on this same challenge? Why/why not? On-Air Resources
Pony Express 2.3 Florida Fossil Horse Newsletter Volume 2 Number 3 3rd QuarterSeptember 1993 What's Inside? Fossil Skeletons and Mother Lodes George Gaylord Simpson Mammal Tooth Structure Horse Phylogeny Member Profile Book Review Idaho State Fossil Fossil http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/vertpaleo/pony2_3/pe23.htm
Extractions: Idaho State Fossil For those who have collected old bones and teeth from Florida, you can attest to the fact that although fossil mammals are indeed plentiful, they are usually found disarticulated; the skeletons are almost never found in tact. Localities throughout the world that do preserve complete skeletons are indeed rare and these have been called Lagerstätten , a German term roughly meaning "mother lode." Steve Gould once noted that ".Lagerstätten are rare, but their contributions to our knowledge of life's history is disproportionate to their frequency." Why is this so? For invertebrates, soft-bodied organisms may be preserved thus giving insight into various fossil groups not normally fossilized (see Book Review below). For vertebrates the same can be true. At the fabulous Eocene Messel in Germany, carbonized impressions of stomach contents of palaeotheres (close relatives of horses, see chart on page 6) indicate that they were eating grapes, and that bats were eating butterflies. For other Lagerstätten containing vertebrates, the Scientific value is in the completeness of the skeleton. These entire specimens allow paleontologists to decipher the anatomy and biology of these extinct organisms. Artist Marc Marcuson's reconstruction of Pliohippus
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Extractions: 1869-1871 Capitol Building Welcome to Our Capital - Carson City On October 31, 1864, Nevada became the 36th State of the Union. This was the time of the Civil War and thus the state motto of "Battle Born". The Union needed the minerals that are abundant in this state. Beginning in 1857, several names were used to refer to this area, ie: Sierra Nevada Territory, Washoe Territory, Carson Territory, Eastern Slope, Humboldt, Esmeralda, Sierra Plata, Oro Plata and Bullion; but in 1864 she emerged as "Nevada" a Spanish word meaning snow-covered. Nevada is also known as the "Silver State" and the "Sagebrush State".
