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- 7441: Introduction to Business
- ... is to produce something, the cheaper it will be. All economic systems begin with the same resources including land, labor, capital and technology. These resources may be limited at any given time, varying within the world at large, from country to country. This business cycle explains how business fluctuates from high to low prosperity, recession, depression and recovery over time. The major challenges faced by our nation today are the Federal ... a sufficient amount of natural resources necessary to produce goods. General economic growth or stagnation also has an important influence on business within our society. Many factors can affect it's condition, such as war, new inventions and technology, political assassinations, the discovery of physical and natural resources, labor negotiations, government action, and many others. When the economy is strong and the demand is high, businesses can prosper. Regardless of how ... and knowledge of consumers' wants and needs. It will almost always include designing the specifications of the product in order to produce its precise functions and abilities. An important aspect of planning and designing a new product is differentiating it form other similar products on the market. Packaging and presentation can help to achieve this goal in some ways, however, specific features must be present within the products themselves in ...
- 7442: The Trend Towards Fewer and Larger Farms as Economic Growth Occurs
- ... the 160 acres they had received from The Homestead Act of 1862. This act gave families clear titles to 160 acres if they had lived on it for five years. Though in today's changing world farmers have been forced to increase the sites of their operations or go out of the farming business. The farming business is a way of life to most of those who do it and do ... or the owners of these farms could not make a living at it. With the declining of this sector, it is leading more people to off of the farm jobs and is decreasing the agricultural world. The third sector of the three is the noncommercial farms, or the hobby farmers. These farms totaled 1,229,000 in the US in 1991. They produce a very small percentage of the products produced ... sector loses $43 a year in the farming business. These people do not mind taking the loss because they have other jobs and just farm as a hobby, part time or retirement operations. The farming world has changed a great deal in the past twenty years with new technology one person can do more so the size of the farms keeps growing. Although, with all of the cost of this ...
- 7443: Industrial Revolution 5
- ... direct contradiction to that statement; it is the only revolution in history not to have one single drop of blood shed at any time. The Industrial Revolution was a period from 1700-1850 in which new technology was being discovered at an alarming rate. The average British person born in 1760 saw more changes in his or her lifetime than ten generations of ancestors had seen in theirs. There were many ... Industrial Revolution. One for instance was the change in farming many wealthy landowners started to buy out small landowners this process was called enclosure. In the 1700’s many wealthy landowners began to look for new ways to increase the size of their harvests. The first man to experiment in this way was Jethro Tull he improved the process of sowing the seed by a seed drill; it allowed farmers to ... had many great harbors, they had many ships which gave them a great over seas trade which provided great raw materials. Among other were great political stability, good banking system and a favorable climate for new ideas. The cotton industry was the first struck by the Industrial Revolution. By 1800 six major inventions had totally transformed the cotton industry. First of these inventions was the flying shuttle which was little ...
- 7444: Fuel Cell
- Introduction: Ballard Power System is the world leader in developing and commercializing proton exchange membrane fuel cell power systems. At the heart of this corporation is the Ballard Fuel Cell, a propriety zero-emission engine that converts natural gas, methanol, or hydrogen ... for transit bus engines in four phases. In the first phase, which was completed in 1993, Ballard developed and demonstrated a 125 HP fuel cell engine in a 32-foot transit bus. This was the world's first zero-emissions vehicle powered by fuel cells. Over the last six years, it has proven itself to be a reliable, smooth performing vehicle, that could easily be used on a large scale. Phase ... these vehicles. Ballard Corporations is completely positive that after these buses are used on a larger scale, the days of the internal combustion engine will be over. In May 1997, Daimler-Benz released the NEBUS (New Electric Bus), which used an advanced Ballard Fuel Cell as the power source. The NEBUS has a power efficiency of 55 percent, which is roughly 15 percent better than its predecessor, the internal combustion ...
- 7445: Web Radio
- Web Radio Instant global radio, or Web radio, is the latest manifestation of the Internet s multimedia successor, the World Wide Web. Improved technology and content are turning Web radio into a mass medium. (Hickman 30) The Web radio concept is mainly underlined by the concept of Webcasting, or broadcasting station content over the Internet ... will experience the diversity and imagination of the programming, as well as the frustration of downloading it. Works Cited Bremser, Wayne. "Pump up the volume." Computer Life. January 1998. v4:n1. p90(7) Crawford, Walt. "New Niches for New Media." Online. 17 July 1998. v22:n4. p36(1). Hickman, Angela. "Radio Fever." PC Magazine. 30 June 1998. v17:n12. p30(1). "Internet Radio: How well is Net Radio fulfilling its early promise?." The ...
- 7446: Human Rights In Yugoslavia (98
- ... Tito, who ruled until his death in 1980. Under Tito, Yugoslavia developed its own form of Communism, independent of control by the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was the most powerful Communist country in the world until 1991. The Communists in Yugoslavia banned all other political parties. However, they lifted the ban in 1990. That year, the first multiparty elections were held in all the republics. Non-Communist parties won control ... until 1990, when Serbia stripped them of their special status. History Yugoslavia is what remains of a much larger country, also called Yugoslavia that broke up into several independent nations in 1991 and 1992. The new Yugoslavia, like the former, lies on the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe. Belgrade is the nation's capital and largest city. The name Yugoslavia means Land of the South Slavs. The name comes from the ... of the fighting in Croatia in January 1992. But in May 1995, Croatian government forces began to take back the areas that were held by the Serbs. In April 1992, Serbia and Montenegro formed a new, smaller Yugoslavia. However, the United States and most other nations have refused to recognize the country. Economy After the Communists took control of Yugoslavia in 1945, they began working to develop Yugoslavia from an ...
- 7447: Deregulation of the Airline Industry
- Deregulation of the Airline Industry The airline industry has been subject of intense price competition since it was deregulated, and the result has been a number of new carriers which specialize in regional service and no-frills operations. These carriers typically purchase older aircraft and often operate outside the industry-wide computerized reservations system. In exchange for these inconveniences, passengers receive low fares ... were lifted, price fixing was eliminated and route management was removed. The main factors that affected whether an airline could serve a particular city was whether or not that city had enough gates for the new carrier, and whether the carrier was able to afford to purchase them. Companies such as Southwest recognized potential for low fares, and began building a niche for themselves by offering low fares with equivalent low levels of service. Southwest's success gave rise to a new generation of low fare airlines, with ValuJet entering the market in the early 1990's. Unfortunately, ValuJet suffered a string of accidents which brought the future of this air carrier into question. ValuJet is ...
- 7448: How Social Tensions Led To Wit
- The history of witchcraft during seventeenth century New England is inherently a history of direct confrontations within communities where relationships become tainted with suspicion, revenge and anger. The documents in Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth Century New England have retold the events and stories of Puritan New England to give the modern reader an understanding of the repressive social institutions of religion and family structure which were controlling factors that lay behind the particular cases discussed in the book. However, in ...
- 7449: Acid Rain 2
- ... are volcanoes, sea spray , rotting vegetation and plankton. However, the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, are largely to be blamed for about half of the emissions of this gas in the world. When sulphur dioxide gets in the atmosphere, it oxidizes to first form a sulphate ion. It then becomes sulphuric acid as it joins with hydrogen atoms in the air and falls back down to earth ... vegetation and degasing plankton, acid rain has always been around. Although the first recorded acid rain "storm" was in 1944 when readings of pH 2.4(as acidic as vinegar) were recorded during storms in New England. Where is the problem? Acid pollution ranges everywhere from the U.S.(the world's biggest producer of sulfur dioxide) to the Arctic(the world smallest producer of sulfur dioxide). Because of prevailing winds acidic water droplets can be carried long distance, returning to earth as acid rain, ...
- 7450: Gangs
- ... kinship develops between the gang members and the child. It is then that the bond between the kid and the gang is completed because the gang has effectively taken the place of the family. The new anti social structure of cities also effects the ease in which a boy/girl can join a gang. " The formation of gangs in cities, and most recently in suburbs, is facilitated by the same lack ... more people to form organizations like the "Guardian Angels" a gang-like group that makes life very tough for street gangs that are breaking laws. Bibliography Margot Webb, Coping with Street Gangs. Rosen Publishing Group, New York, 1990. William Foote Whyte, Street Corner Society. University of Chicago, Chicago, 1955. Peter Carroll, South-Central. Hoyte and Williams, L. A., 1987. 1 Marshall B. Clinard, Sociology of Deviant Behavior. University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, 1963, Page 179. 2 Merton Nisbet, Contempory Social Problems. Harcourt, Brace & World, New York, 1971, Page 588
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