How an oil shortage in the 1970s shaped today's economic policy Oil producers in the United States pumped an average 8.7 million barrels per day last week, according to the department of energy. Although that is impressive, this was not always the case. In October of 1973, the Arab members of OPEC placed an embargo on the U.S. in response to its support of Israel and the Yom Kippur War. The result was an oil shortage across the country, and a crash course for Americans on the limits of their government’s power. Hear Jacobs’ conversation in the audio player above and read an excerpt below.
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6 New Interview Questions You Must Prepare For The oldest interview question in the world is, “Tell me about yourself.” This is considered an icebreaker question and is generally used as a gauge of a candidate’s overall interpersonal skills and nervousness. Other icebreaker questions might be “What events have brought you to my office today?”
How to Write an Elevator Pitch: A Step-by-Step Guide - Skillcrush Everybody dreads the idea of giving an elevator speech. 60 seconds. Trapped in a tiny moving box with someone who could make or break your career. AND you’re supposed to wow them with a mini-pitch all about you? How is that NOT nerve wracking? New Teacher? Start Here! – Samantha in Secondary Getting ready to enter the teaching profession can be so exciting, but also overwhelming. As a blogger and a veteran teacher, I am often asked to offer advice for new teachers. I developed a set of rules that I think are extremely helpful when entering the teaching profession. You can download these as a handy printable at my Teachers Pay Teachers store for free. Print them and hang them up near your desk or planning area for quick tips or a gentle reminder that it’s all going to be okay! Because it’s a marathon, not a sprint.
15 Great Tools to Publish Student Writing - Practutor Blog Why do kids give their best when playing baseball? It isn’t a test, and nobody is going to invite them to join the Major League only because they performed well in one game. Why do children love devoting themselves to a baseball game, even though, it is not being assessed? Simple, because everybody is watching them play. They play for the cheers, shouts and the boos.
The Robber Barons’ Bum Rap Too many generations of Americans have swallowed whole Matthew Josephson's portrait of the great nineteenth-century entrepreneurs as Robber Barons—rapacious predators who grew rich through tactics that were unethical at best, illegal at worst, and contrary to the public interest in any case. They bilked companies, corrupted public officials, and defrauded rivals in their quest for gain. But as history The Robber Barons (1934) is no more accurate than a Norman Rockwell painting a kind of Norman Rockwell in reverse. Josephson was less a historian than a moralist who cared less about the accuracy of the story than about the ideological message he saw in it. The men Josephson caricatured were in fact the creators of the industrial system that gave the United States the most powerful and dynamic economy in the world. They were masters of organization—visionaries and risk takers who thought and acted on a grand scale.
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Response: The Best Teaching Advice Is... (This is the first post in a three-part series) The new "question-of-the-week" is: What is a one-to-three sentence passage have you read—in a book, online, magazine, etc.