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- 461: Song Of Myself: Individuality And Free Verse
- Forged in the fire of revolution and defined by manifest destiny, America has always been the land of the individual. Although the American dream has not always been consistent, (married with 2.5 kids, 2 cars, a dog and a satisfying job), the spirit of innovation, individuality and progress remains unchanged. The father of free verse, and perhaps the American perspective of poetry, Walt Whitman embodies these values in his life and work. First published in 1855 in Leaves of Grass, "Song of Myself" is a vision of a symbolic "I" enraptured by the ...
- 462: Muckrakers
- ... magazine had already built a very reasonably sized circulation through popular fiction and historical representation. Ida Tarbell, the most popular reporter of the magazine, investigated Standard Oil originally as a way of honoring this great American business. However, Tarbell started to discover the unhappiness of the workers. She decided to research more deeply into the Standard Oil Company. Her research provided her with the story of a company whose ideas were ... Oil Company saga to write two articles on how the company affected Kansas and two articles on Rockefeller himself. Tarbell eventually left McClure's magazine because of a disagreement in business policy and formed the American with other former members of the McClure's staff. During her career at the American, Tarbell published many articles including "How Chicago is Finding Herself;" "Hunt for a Money Trust;" "Roosevelt vs. Rockefeller" and "The Mysteries and Cruelties of the Tariff." In this tariff article, from 1910 to 1911, ...
- 463: The French Revolution
- The French Revolution was an unstable, blood-filled time. With 20,000 sent to the guillotine and an equal number to prison, it is not hard to find importance but rather to find meaning. The most crucial thing to look for in the revolution is justification, reasons that excuse or bring significance to the deaths of many. John Locke, a philosophe of the time, may have argued that a leader who does not provide his people with inalienable rights ... approach which advocates control, could not have provided the people with such liberation, but in theory should be able to maintain the peace among the people, the peace that seemed so lacking during the French Revolution. The French Revolution was a disaster for the following reasons: it happened too fast, it went too far, and it achieved too little. Thomas Paine a radical thinker of the era once said Time ...
- 464: Policies on Cuba
- ... we no longer see Cuba as the doors to hell, those doors have been rotating among other military strong men, this time in the Middle East. Fidel Castro is no longer the target of any American assassination plans, the United States no longer deals in the assignation of political leaders, now we have allies who are more able and discrete in doing that type of work. The only ancient legacy that ... out of Cuba's massive problems by loosening the 30 year old trade embargo instead insisted on furthering tightening it with the 1992 Cuba Democracy Act. This act not only made it more difficult for American companies to deal with Cuba but also set out to punish foreign companies that had dealings with the island nation. As Communism fell in Europe and Asian Communist countries started to become a little more ... attack on it's economic livelihood. Now in 1996 a relic of the Cold War, Castro , is once again under attack by an other relic Jesse Helms. With the urging and political contributions of Cuban American groups, the fact this being an election year and the the quick trigger finger of a Cuban pilot, Senator Helms has been able to push the Helms- Burton Law through Congress and into the ...
- 465: The Critical Role Of Informati
- ... critical role in todays business organization and society (Laudon 5). Since the emergence of the global economy, the success of firms today and in the future depends on their ability to operate globally. The American economy depends on imports and exports. Foreign trade, both imports and exports accounts for a little over 25 percent of goods and services produced in the United States, and even more in countries like Japan ... businesses to play a part in this global economy. In order to become a profitable player in a worldwide market firms, need powerful information and communication systems (5). Many countries are experiencing the third economic revolution. These countries include the United States, Japan, Germany and other major industrial powers. This revolution, which is now in progress, is transforming itself into a knowledge and information based service economy. This revolution began at the turn of the century and by 1976 the number of white-collar workers ...
- 466: The Colonial Economy
- ... they also traded with Asia and Africa. For several decades their survival depended on imported goods, and they were unable to export enough to pay for them.. A century after colonization began in the North American English colonies, they had developed an economy based on the export and imports between themselves and Europe and the Caribbean. New York ultimately became the center of this commerce.In the late colonial period, while ... War, tobacco-producing Virginia was the most wealthy and populous of the thirteen colonies, and per capita income in the thirteen colonies possibly exceeded that of the Mother Country, England. On the eve of the revolution, Virginia and Maryland together contained nearly one-third of the colonies' people and accounted for 60 percent of the colonies' exports to Britain. (The Revolution was not a conflict between a Third World type colonial dependency and the metropolis. It was a conflict between two nations on a roughly equal level in terms of per capita incomes, with the ...
- 467: Describe The Challenges That Human Resource Managers Will Face in the Next Five Years
- ... diversity, fostering innovation, and Global sensitivity. Now, I don't dispute that these are challenges that we as human resource managers are going to face in the upcoming years but I think that the technology revolution, AIDS, downsizing or outsourcing, and sexual harassment are going to be bigger challenges. The first item that senior human resource managers felt a challenge was pay equity. Specifically, high executive compensation compared to the wages ... had 1997 revenues of $20.56 billion. Now, I'm sure the rank-and-file did not get a 43-percent raise. I think the number one problem challenging human resource managers is the technology revolution. According to the experts the employment in the Information Age is undergoing a transformation that may cause as much dislocation as the moves from farms to factories did in the 19th century. Studies predict that ... any number of different commission or viewing the The Quality Wave home page which contains information about TQM, education programs and business theories. I have just touch the tip of the iceberg concerning the technology revolution but I think you can see how this is going to be biggest challeng e for the Human Resource adviser in the upcoming years. According to Dave Ulrich, Technology is the keystone of my ...
- 468: The Formation of an Independent Country: A Case Study of the Republic of Korea and America
- ... head of the new assembly. Under these grounds, when on August 15, 1948 the Republic of Korea ( South Korea) was proclaimed, Rhee assumed presidency. Two hundred some odd years before this there was another great revolution. This took place in what we now call America. The colonization, protesting and independence were different than that of South Korea. In the beginning, the colonizing of America seemed to be benefiting both the colonists ... political, social and economic acolyte they had once relied so heavily on. Due to the English policy of forcing Indians on to reservations and taking their land, they did not become a factor in the American Revolution. In spite of that fact the Indians were involved in many uprisings, even if they never did hold any degree of importance, large enough to alter the outcome of it. After the colonists last ...
- 469: Kristallnacht
- ... intimidation in the minds of everyone they cross. The Klan has undergone four stages after its establishment and the last stage is still on the rise. The Klan has a distinct origin, a four stage revolution, distinct symbols, recruiting requirements, and strong political beliefs. Formed in the 19th century, the Ku Klux Klan has attempted to instill fear in the minds and the hearts of black citizens in the United States ... to intimidate Blacks. They used bizarre rituals and wore pointed hoods and draping gowns to help intimidate Blacks. From 1868 to 1871, the Klan reached the height of its power. The movement was really a revolution against many of the aspects of Reconstruction, and was also a revolt to overthrow local and state governments. At the first meeting for the KKK in Nashville, Tennessee, General Nathan B. Forrest, a famous Confederate ... The ranks of the Klan, however, continued to deteriorate. During the 1930s, the Klan was reduced to a regional, ineffective organization in the South. In the late 1930s, it had some association with the German-American Bund. When the U.S. government tried to collect back taxes in 1944, the remnants of the Klan again disbanded. The third stage came after World War II. The Klan was again revived in ...
- 470: Could Gambling Save Science: Encouraging an Honest Consensus
- ... of specific scenarios and a set of detailed procedures. Over thirty possible problems and objections are examined in detail. Finally, a development strategy is outlined and the possible advantages are summarized. THE PROBLEM THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION Four centuries ago, some Europeans complained that the existing academic institutions were biased against them. Insiders, it was said, were "inflated by letters" and shunned anyone who dared "speculate on anything out of the common ... whole new social institutions, for both academia in particular and society in general. Within a century or so, the intellectual descendants of these outsiders became the new insiders in a process now called the "Scientific Revolution". They introduced a new respect for observations along with new social institutions, such as the Royal Society of London, inspired by those utopian ideals. Since then science has made impressive progress. Most controversial issues of ... other co-existing consensus mechanism. It is well-grounded in our best theories of decision and incentives. And it is ancient. We need only revive and embellish a suggestion made back during the utopian scientific revolution. Chemical physicians, excluded by the standard physicians from teaching in the British schools, repeatedly offered challenges like the following (circa 1651): Oh ye Schooles. ... Let us take out of the hospitals, out of the ...
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