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- 1331: Behind The Scenes
- ... interviews. The true chilling effects on investigative reporting come from the networks own insistence that the news divisions meet the same bottom-line, profit-driven requirements as the entertainment units. For every episode of dangerous business practices in the TV news-magazines, there are five soft features on celebrity lifestyles, health and beauty, and Dennis Rodman s newest outfit (Douglas 19). Is this Freedom of the Press? Do the people have ... future time. They say that the press has an obligation to seek out the truth -- to investigate and to find the real story. But the word story implies entertainment value, and one person s private business should not be put on display for public entertainment without explicit consent. Does Freedom of the Press mean that the press should be allowed to cover whatever it wants to cover? In his book Privacy ...
- 1332: Assessing Maslows Pyramid From
- ... Carter 1998). People with damage to this area, or in whom it is not fully developed, will not have the ability to carry out such tasks as would make them successful in the field of business. In the more unique cases of highly artistic individuals, the areas of the brain that pertain to their area of expertise may be abnormal, thus making the actualization potential of these individuals largely different from ... hues (Carter 1998). Realizing personal potential in people like Vladimir may include creating works of art representing their unique experiences, while people not born with this condition will self-actualize in other ways, such as business. The underlying theme is that each person has a distinctly different ability to help him/her move upwards through the social class system. Utilizing the anterior cingulate cortex and focusing on one s specific talents ...
- 1333: Advertising 2
- In business success derives itself from the presentation of your business(es), or products, to the eyes of the consumer. Advertising is used to promote goods, services, images, and anything else that advertisers want to publicize. It is becoming a major part of mass media. At ...
- 1334: McCarthyism
- ... only ten of the nineteen were "unfriendly, they were sent to prison by 1950. The film bosses were not very happy with the committee, they resented the presence of the intrusive politicians in a private business. Nevertheless, they met in New York to discuss the communist infiltration of Hollywood. They reached a conclusion that not all members agreed upon, but made just the same. "Nothing subversive or Un-American had ever ... fear and injustice was a victory. To them anything to stop the spread of Communism, for whatever reason or agenda they had, was good. The end of Communism was a wonderful way to gain both business and votes. It was not just the high-ranking politicians that praised the committees actions; "friendly" movie stars were tripping over one another to commend the committee. Among these actors were Ronald Regan, George ...
- 1335: Andrew Carnegie
- ... some small investments that laid the foundations of his what would be tremendous fortune. One of these investments was the purchase of stock in the Woodruff Sleeping Car Company. In 1864, Carnegie entered the iron business, but did not begin to make steel until years later. In 1873, he built the Edgar Thomson works in Braddock, Pennsylvania, to make Bessemer steel. He established many other steel plants, and in 1892, he ... also with his own literature. Carnegie loved to promote his ideas and opinions in print, and has written many works outlining these philosophies, including Triumphant Democracy (1886), The Gospel of Wealth (1900), The Empire of Business (1902), Problems of Today (1908), and an Autobiography (1920) (Mitzen 182). Although Carnegie only stood somewhere between 52" and 56", he "had to be a great, tough, disciplined giant of a man." His ...
- 1336: Unions
- ... against the capitalists, they employed foreign language organizers and published multilingual materials (Cashman,216.) The creation of dual unions, in direct competition to the AFL, reflected the enormous gap that existed between the outlook of business unionists such as Gompers, and the radical industrial unionists of the IWW. Their radical beliefs included ideas such as, " the working class and the employing class have nothing in common." The IWW saw the employing ... group were appealing to different types of workers. The socialist party wanted voters where as the IWW was directing its efforts toward women and new immigrants. Socialists in office were cautious, fearing they would alienate business and the public by introducing reforms that would necessitate higher taxation, sometimes finding themselves limited by charters or at odds with hostile state legislatures. Thus the Socialist Party seemed to be most successful in winning ...
- 1337: The Constitution
- ... major example of their abusement of this clause is the Bank of the United States. In no place does the constitution say that the federal government has any right, or power, to set up a business. Therefor that power would be left for the states. This did not happen, however. Congress, "in their infinite wisdom", deemed it necessary and proper to create a bank to stabilize the economy. Right from the ... take power. When the second bank of the united states was formed Maryland instituted a tax to try and prohibit the bank from being profitable. They said they had the right to control there local business but the federal government argued the supremacy clause protected them. The Supreme Court decided that the supremacy clause protected things set by the government from the states. The American People were losing power by leaps ...
- 1338: Populist Party
- ... 1873. The exorbitant prices of shipping their goods to markets worsened their situation. The railroads overcharged farmers so that they were able to grant large rebates to large industrialists to ensure the continuance of their business. These railroads united to form trusts that raised farmers' prices. One Kansan said in 1891: "At the age of 52 years, after a long life of toil and self-denial, I find myself and family ... Populists ran James Weaver in 1892. Weaver polled over 1 million votes and received a total of 22 electoral votes. The Populists expected to do well in the 1894-midterm elections due to the devastating business panic under Cleveland's administration in 1893. However, the Populists were disappointed as they emerged from the elections in 1894 with six senators and seven representatives. They looked forward to the 1896 presidential election with ...
- 1339: Organized Crime
- ... districts soldiers, counselors, and captains led these groups. Each ethnic gang had its most high in command. In fact the Dons throughout history are single handedly responsible for all changes in the way business worked. "Vito Cascio Ferro, (1862-1945), is believed to be the one man primarily responsible for establishing the communication between the Sicilian and U.S. Mafia" (Family Tree). Ferro is considered the father of what ... s Mafia. "His activities are not clear, but it was recorded that Don Vito was suspected in a brutal killing of at least one man. It was told that the man was trying to do business on his turf, which led to a very vicious death where the man was cut into tiny pieces and shoved into a box" (Family Tree). Lucky Luciano was also very influential during his control of ...
- 1340: The Borderlands: 1880 - 1940
- ... at the border towns, in particular Ciudard Juarez and Tujauna. Cuidad Juarez and Tujuana both benefited from U.S. tourism before Prohibition. The cities mainly benefited from adult tourism, in particular bars and prostitution. This business was started during the Mexican Revolution when President Wilson sent U.S. troops to guard the border. The soldiers stationed on the border, numbering as high as 10,000 men, needed entertainment. The troops would ... pockets of the bar owners. The distilleries that supplied the bars were no different then the bars in terms of ownership. With prohibition, many liquor distilleries moved their plant across the border and remained in business. The distilleries could not legally import liquor into the United States, so they supplied the countless bars in the Mexican cities, or smuggled them into the United States. Prohibition ended in 1933 and many of ...
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