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- 8651: Advances in Technology and Economics
- ... competition, technology, deregulation, the decline of unions and defense cuts technology is probably the most critical. It has favored the educated and the skilled, says M. B. Zuckerman, editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report (7/31/95). Since 1973, wages adjusted for inflation have declined by about a quarter for high school dropouts, by a sixth for high school graduates, and by about 7% for those with some ... under the age of 18. This government policy was conducive to our economic markets, and allowed our country to prosper from 1950 through 1970. Now, our own prosperity has moved us into a highly technical world, that requires highly skilled labor. The natural answer to this problem, is that the U.S. Government's education policy must keep pace with the demands of the highly technical job market. If a middle ... a college diploma, as it was for the children of the 70's to get a high school diploma. This brings me to the issue of our country's political process, in a technologically advanced world. Voting & Poisoned Political Process in The U.S. The advance of mass communication is natural in a technologically advanced society. In our country's short history, we have seen the development of the printing ...
- 8652: Poverty vs. The Economy
- ... must be taken to reduce it in the future by better preparing young people and by giving the poor a better chance in the job market. Bibliography Fitchen,Janet M.(1981). Poverty and Rural America New York,York: Random house Publishing Company. Jansson, Bruce S. (1988). The Reluctant Welfare State, A History of Amercians Social Welfare Policies. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company. Katz, Michael B. (1990) The Undeserving Poor the War on Poverty to the war on Welfare, New York, New York. Levitan, Sar A. And Shapiro, Issac. (1987), Working But Poor. New York, New York: The free Press.
- 8653: Age of Reason
- Age of Reason Modern society is undoubtedly a product of its history. Each epoch of human history leaves a trace of its distinct character for the worlds citizens to relish for years to come. The Age of Reason was without question such an epoch. The importance of reason in human nature and daily life fostered during this period is still very ... from under the control of my instructors, I entirely abandoned the study of letters and resolved no longer to seek any other science than the knowledge of myself, or of the great book of the world(16). The knowledge of oneself, and of his so-called book of the world, can be obtained solely through a process of reason. He argues that it is reason alone which constitutes us men, and distinguishes us from the brutes(13). Therefore, according to him, the human being ...
- 8654: When Filing For Bankruptcy In
- ... Air Canada had earned a reputation as an industry leader, and this, coupled with the high-profile leadership of Mr. C.R., made Air Canada s imminent transcontinental jet service the catalyst for an exciting new era. Time wrote that although Pan Am had already flown jets across the Atlantic, C.R. Smith and Air Canada would usher in the Jet Age for most Canadians with the introduction of Boeing 707 ... often said that his own typewriter was "the most important piece of equipment Air Canada owns" (Goutierez, 1997). Likely, he would barely recognize the company today. The Time article reported that with Air Canada s new fast plane would come sweeping changes in the transport of both people and things, and that Air Canada was working with IBM "on an electronic system that can transmit information on every Air Canada flight across the U.S. and Canada, enabling clerks to tell instantly which seats are free. Air Canada called its new system the Semi-Automated Business Research Environment SABRE" (Goutierez, 1997). When A.C sought to develop further firsts for the airline industry, baggage handling came under scrutiny. There were plans for automated handling of ...
- 8655: Mental Training-sports
- ... Cited 1. Bandler, R., & Grinder, J. (1979). Frogs into princes. Moab, Utah: Real People Press. Chomsky, N. (1957). Syntactic structures. The Hague: Mouton. 2. Erickson, M. H., & Rossi, E. L. (1979). Hypnotherapy: An exploratory casebook. New York: Irvington. 3. Gallwey, Timothy. (1974). The inner game of tennis. New York: Random House. Grinder, J. & Bandler, R. (1976). The structure of magic. II. Palo Alto: Science and Behavior. 4. Ingalls, J. S. (1988). Cognition and athletic behavior: An investigation of the NLP theory of congruence ... 8721125. 5. Maturana, H. R., & Varela, F. J. (Eds.). (1980). Autopoiesis and cognition: The realization of the living. Boston: Reidel. 6. Miller, G., Galanter, E., & Pribram, K. H. (1960). Plans and the structure of behavior. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston. 7. Varela, F. J., Thompson, E. & Rosch, E. (1993). The embodied mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. von Bertalanffy, L. (1968). General systems theory: Foundations, development, applications. New York: George ...
- 8656: The Volkswagen Beetle
- ... the NSU-Fiats to come. These stimulated desire rather than a year s wage for an average worker. This prompted motorcycle manufacturer Zundapp to commission a low-cost car design from Dr. Ferdinand Porsche s new design studio. The project did not get far, but a Porsche-designed NSU that reached that prototype stage in 1933 accurately foreshadowed the Volkswagen. The idea of a people s car appealed to Porsche, and ... the wildest limits of the Thirties dream. In 1931, the Porsche independent front suspension was patented. It interested many manufactures, and was to be important to the Volkswagen. It was devised around torsion bars, not new as such, but in this arrangement the two transverse bars were housed in tubular cross members, with a lower trailing link at each end, and an upper link pivoted to the frame and combined with ... the first VW Beetle convertible was produced. Only 682 convertibles were made. Then in 1949 the Export Model was produced. The Export Model was the same as the old beetle but it had chrome trim, new colors, and the interior of the car was much better. It wasn t until 1950 that hydraulic brakes were added. In 1952 the handy door on the glove compartment was made. A year later ...
- 8657: Theodore Roosdevelt: 26th President of the United States (1901-1909)
- ... the United States (1901-1909) Theodore Roosevelt was an energetic and dynamic leader who gave the nation a square deal. During his presidency to a position of internatio nal leadership. Roosevelt belonged to an aristocratic New York family. He attended Harvard Univerity. Theodore Roosevelt fought in the Spanish-American war with the Rough Riders at the battle of San Juan Hill. He had served as police commissiores of New York, assistant secretary of the navy, governor of New York, and vice president of the United States. When president McKinley was assassinated on September 14, 1901, Theodore Roosevelt became, at the time, the youngest (43 years) president in hist ory. The president saw ...
- 8658: Discussion of the Feasibility of Miracles and the Grounds for Christianity Existing Without Miracles
- ... or explain what we see and what goes on, how can we know what a miracle is or looks like, such as similar as the example that you have no reason to believe that this world is incomplete and needs work, because you have never seen a completed world. This turns into his argument of knowing God through experience. Not only can we not know God from experience of miracles, but he again uses the idea that since we have never experienced God, we ... right. It is the feeling in the back of your head that does this to you. This is Hume's idea of morality. This is because of how we think one act would effect the world. Therefore, when we see one person doing many good acts, we think of them as a good person. We cannot infer that in another world a deity would change the small problems of this ...
- 8659: The Life And Times Of Ghandi
- ... scientific talents. He never earned a degree or received any special academic honors. He was never a candidate in an election or a member of government. Yet when he died, in 1948, practically the whole world mourned him. Einstein said in his tribute, Gandhi demonstrated that a powerful human following can be assembled not only through the cunning game of the usual political maneuvers and trickery but through the cogent example ... Delhi, while on his way to his regular prayer meeting, Gandhi was shot and killed by a Hindu fanatic opposed to partition. Mohandas Ghandi was the source of many changes throughout, India, Britain, and the world. With all that Ghandi has done in our world it becomes overwhelming when I think about his life. What Ghandi did in terms of opening the minds of the people of India is almost analogous to what Christ did to open the minds ...
- 8660: Two Books By Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- ... underlying theme for both books however, is the same; stop mindless war, stop mindless genocide of the human race, stop hatred for one another. These zealous antiwar sentiments stem from Vonnegut's personal experiences during World War II. An American ground soldier, Vonnegut was captured and held in the German city of Dresden. During his captivity, the Allied forces fire bombed Dresden, killing 135,000 inhabitants, destroying hospitals, schools, apartment buildings ... it in his books until Slaughterhouse-Five, published in 1969. The conviction of an antiwar book emerges more evidently in Slaughterhouse-Five. The main character, Billy Pilgrim (Vonnnegut himself), a soldier for the Allies during World War II and just like Vonnegut, is captured by the Nazis and held captive in Dresden where he witnesses the same tragedy as Vonnegut did. Pilgrim, however, comes out of the war a crazed lunatic ... is no why." Vonnegut uses these trafalmadores as the utopian, ideal society; for they have no wars, because they know how they will end. Vonnegut presents the human race a standard for what the human world should be like. In his last and perhaps most desperate attempt for the human race to reform, Vonnegut pleads, "Robert Kennedy was shot two night before. So it goes. And Martin Luther King Jr. ...
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