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- 621: On Line Schemes
- ... will be online with these commercial services, which are the three largest such enterprises in the U.S. Additionally, hundreds of smaller companies have emerged to provide bulletin board services and local access to the world of Internet.1 The number of Americans who are online has jumped 90 percent since 1992 alone, their ranks are expected to double or triple over the next two to three years.2 According to Whole Earth Review, America Online more than doubled in size in a nine-month period, going from 300,000 users to over 700,000.3 The New York Times, has described the Internet as the world's "new mass information market."4 Today investors are in danger of being taken for a ride on the cyberspace. State securities regulators around the U.S. are concerned about the explosion of illicit ...
- 622: Canada in WWI
- ... forced to change in order to accommodate the war. On the "Home Front" as it was known, Canada was going though the greatest economic change that it had ever experienced. Because of the war, many new industries were formed in Canada's cities. In these factories guns, food, munitions and other war supplies were produced for the soldiers overseas. In addition, rural Canada went through great economic changes. To feed Allied ... large burden. In order to raise funds, the government introduced income tax, and sales tax and luxury tax. They also borrowed money from the people through Victory Bonds. When the last shot was fired in World War 1 on November 11, 1918, Canada had gone though a great economic transformation; the economic changes the country endured would influence it forever. After the war, Canadian soldiers came home expecting to be regarded ... 1923 Canada's economy was once again on track. Farmers produced bumper crops, and their wheat was in high demand in war torn Europe. People began to settle in Western Canada, and factories were producing new products like cars, radios, and refrigerators. With the introduction of all these new products, unemployment dropped and people had money. One the big reasons for the pick up in Canada's economy was increase ...
- 623: The Effects of Aristotelian Teleological Thought on Darwin's Mechanistic Views of Evolution
- ... Devils Chaplain," and his idea of natural selection has virtually dissected Aristotle's ghost. While Aristotle explained biology through a plan and a purpose, Darwin debated that randomness and chaos are responsible for the organic world as we know it. Guiseppe Montalenti, an Italian geneticist and philosopher of biology, wrote that Darwin's ideas were a rebellion against thought in the Aristotelian-scholastic way (Ayala, 4). In order to understand how ... did not often enough follow his own advice. Ayala printed that Aristotle's "error was not that he used teleological explanations in biology, but that he extended the concept of teleology to the non-living world."(56) Some biologists say Aristotle used teleology so often because order and purpose, both in the universe and life, were immensely important to him. Aristotle thought it was both ridiculous and impossible that chance, which ... but his biological theories remained intact. This does not mean all people accepted Aristotle's theories during the Renaissance, however. One philosopher from the twentieth century, Mayr, accuses Aristotle's teleology of the non-organic world for the refutation of Aristotle by Descartes and Bacon. Both of these men criticized "the existence of a form-giving, finalistic principle in the universe" and believed this rejection demanded the removal of all ...
- 624: A Analysis Of Jack London Nove
- ... spite of this London grew to become one of Americas most popular and highly paid authors ever. He was not a baby boomer. This was not just an American thing, London was known around the world for his great adventure stories, that could be enjoyed by all ages. Londons life was diversified and so were his writings. Today, London is mostly known for his "dog stories", The Call of the Wild ... all, at the same time stressed the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race. This mixture in London prefigured the twentieth century with its dramatic inconsistencies, its political and social revolutions, and its great upheavals in world culture. For London broadcast his message of raw life with all its inherent flaws, ecstasies, and miseries at a time when the world was still digesting "Victorian pap", the sentimental stories of drawing room propriety that demanded a rigorous screening of anything unseemly. Jack London cracked the hypothetical bed of that literary world. "The Call of the ...
- 625: Information Warfare
- As we entered the third wave, we traded in our pens and notebooks, for keyboards and CPU s. A simple wire connected from a phoneline to a modem to your CPU, brings the whole world into your hands. And you into the worlds hand as well. Political realism is defined as doing what is necessary for survival. One must depend on themselves, because no one else will look out for them. Information Warfare has become a massly used tactic by individuals as well as companies looking out for their own survival, in a world of commerce, and politics. Information Warfare is an innovative and dangerous new way to harm your opponents. When one thinks of warfare the mind is usually bombarded by thoughts of M16 s, grenades, and hand to hand combat. In this new era of technology that we ...
- 626: Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
- ... on how he viewed society, specifically American society and the values it held. No other author of this century has had such a general and lasting influence on the generation which grew up between the world wars as Ernest Hemingway (Lania 5). The youth that came of age during this time came to adopt the habits, way of life, and essentially the values of Hemingway’s characters. The author , however, was ... phrase is attributed to Gertrude Stein, a friend of Hemingway’s, who meant youth, angry with life itself after the war; drowning themselves in alcohol; sleeping away the days and sharing their beds with a new partner each night. Thus, Hemingway depicts America as a society with a profuse amount of twisted values. A constant theme runs through all of Hemingway’s work. That man can be defeated but not destroyed ... constantly haunts him. However strong and tough he seems, he is centrally a sick man. He must prove himself to himself: his strength and his courage are nothing but a victory over fear. Hemingway’s world is a world at war…either in the literal sense or the unforgiving, brutal fight for existence. A hostile and unsympathetic world. Those who wish to survive must know how to kill. In The ...
- 627: Managing Information Systems
- ... ideas and concepts and in turn make them into reality. For years businesses have had to distribute written memos and other paperwork to their fellow employees in order to spread their ideas. In the changing world that we live in today this concept of spreading ideas is slowly fading. Communication is spread throughout the globe in a matter of minutes through the use of computers and modern technology. We can communicate over thousands of miles or just a couple of floors with only the click of a button. But with this new found way of communicating comes the confusion of what to do with all this information, how best to utilize it, and how to regulate it. This paper will look into those questions and what actually makes up this new virtual world that we are creating for ourselves called cyberspace. In the 1950 s and 60 s the fear of nuclear attack was constantly on the minds of the American people and the government. ...
- 628: Organizational Skills
- ... the attempted legislation in Maine. Another emerging issue is the use of drugs for practices that have moral implications, such as pregnancy prevention or termination, and assisted suicide. Wal-Mart has refused to carry the new emergency contraceptive called Preven, because it fears boycotts by right-to-life groups. Some pharmacists may refuse to fill certain prescriptions, such as ones for contraceptives, because of moral beliefs. K-Martˇ¦s policy is ... important factor is the trend toward self-medication, which is increasing purchases of OTC medications (Encyclopedia of American Industry). Other factors that had an impact on prescription sales are drug price inflation, the introduction of new drugs, and an increase in the number of individuals participating in third-party insurance programs. The increased traffic in drugstores has also resulted in increased sales of higher margin products such as OTC medications and ... in distribution, buying power, corporate overhead, and the technology needed to compete for third-party prescription drug business, it has been necessary for chain drugstores to increase their numbers. This is achieved by rapidly building new stores or by buying smaller independent stores or regional chains. Their increased size results in greater bargaining power with suppliers and the ability to negotiate for better prices with third-party providers (US Business ...
- 629: Themes in William Golding's Novels
- ... Gerald Golding was born Cornwall, Britain in 1911. His family influenced him first to write because they were progressive. He studied Physics and English at Marlboro and Oxford University in England. He took part in World War II (1945-1962) and joined the British Navy in 1940. After the war his life changed dramatically, he couldn’t believe in man’s and children’s innocence. He has seen so much in ... elements of life within society are closely related to the good integrity of its individual members. Golding’s second novel, The Inheritors, was about the death of the leader of a group of Neanderthals. Some new people came to there area and discovered the Neanderthals and they thought of them as savages and devils. They tried to kill them. The new people eventually started to kill off the Neanderthals, everyone except for one died and the new people became the inheritors of the earth. William Golding is saying each human evolution has more and more ...
- 630: Labor In America
- ... As most jobs in cotton factories required neither great strength nor special skills, the owners thought women could do the work as well as or better than men. In addition, they were more compliant. The New England region was home to many young, single farm girls who might be recruited. But would stern New England farmers allow their daughters to work in factories? The great majority of them would not. They believed that sooner or later factory workers would be exploited and would sink into hopeless poverty. Economic "laws ... form labor unions to protect their interests. The first union to hold regular meetings and collect dues was organized by Philadelphia shoemakers in 1792. Soon after, carpenters and leather workers in Boston and printers in New York also organized unions. Labor's tactics in those early times were simple. Members of a union would agree on the wages they thought were fair. They pledged to stop working for employers who ...
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