![]() ![]() ![]() All believed they were being inducted into the Army, following the precedent of females welcomed into the Navy and Marines. Closely following a handful of Signal Corps members, Cobbs reveals that they joined partly out of patriotism, partly to seek adventure. ![]() These volunteers vastly outnumbered those with telephone experience, and they learned technical skills on the job. Besides needing nimble fingers, the Army also needed bilingual operators to communicate with the French military. For the first time in war, the telephone became the essential form of communication, requiring skilled workers to nimbly manipulate “jacks, sockets, ringers, and buzzers on the boards of busy switching stations.” In the U.S., this job fell to women, who, claims the author, “may possess advantages over males in multitasking.” Since they did not have advantages over males in finding jobs, many opted to become operators, which paid better than most white-collar employment available to women. The Hamilton Affair, 2016, etc.) focuses on more than 200 telephone operators who supported combat soldiers in Europe soon after the United States entered the war in 1917. In an informative history of women’s military work, Cobbs (Chair, American History/Texas A&M Univ. As members of the Army’s Signal Corps, women played a critical role in World War I. ![]()
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Ward wanted The Last House on Needless Street to be a departure to write the mad and anarchic idea that came to me, as opposed to worrying too much about creating the platonic ideal of a. Andy Serkis' Imaginarium Teams With South Korea's Climax Studio To Develop Jason Kim's 'The Monster Tale' Ward Courtesy Robert Hollingworth ![]() ![]() ![]() As vividly as any number of stories in the. Be sure to include parenthetical citation with author’s last name and page number with your first use after that, simply put the page number (s) in parentheses. Short Answer: Answer all parts of each question for total points. John throws the ball through the church window when he tricks Merrill into thinking that Tabitha is sending him a message from the beyond, and the ruse ends up restoring Merrill’s faith in a God who speaks to him and forgives him his sins. New York, New York: William Morrow, 1989. 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