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- 1361: Kamicaze Pilots 2
- ... completed the equivalent of an elementary school and middle school combined. Some had been to college. There was a tendency for them not to be first sons. The eldest sons usually took over the family business. Most were therefore the younger sons who did not need to worry about the family business. Most of those who had come from college came in what is called the Gakuto Shutsujin. This was when the college students' exemption from being drafted into the military was lifted, and the graduation of ...
- 1362: Kamicaze Pilots
- ... completed the equivalent of an elementary school and middle school combined. Some had been to college. There was a tendency for them not to be first sons. The eldest sons usually took over the family business. Most were therefore the younger sons who did not need to worry about the family business. Most of those who had come from college came in what is called the Gakuto Shutsujin. This was when the college students' exemption from being drafted into the military was lifted, and the graduation of ...
- 1363: Hong Kong Transferring Hands
- ... had begun. “The world hasn’t realized that nothing has changed,” says Owen Chi, Assistant Executive director of Hong Kong Trade Development Council. “There are no soldiers on the streets,” he insist that laws and business climate remain the same. Chi stated that the greatest difference was that for the first time the people of Hong Kong govern themselves. He was referring to the May 1998 election of the Legislative assembly ... called Chinese Premier Li Peng a “turtle’s egg with a zero IQ,” the remark was taken as a grave insult. Following the remarks Chee-ying’s reporters were banned from China and his clothing business found itself with a “licensing problem” through out China. In this past year there have been no drastic changes. China appears to be cautious not to overact and make a mistake that could blow up ...
- 1364: History Of Photography
- ... of entertainment. The public was amused and informed by the films.It did not take long for independent film makers to realize that companies would pay them to make films. By 1915 the nontheatrical film business was in full operation. New technologies contributed to the progress of the cinema. Inventions such as portable 35 mm projector that had its own retractable base. During the 1915 World Fair, held in San Fransico, films were showed that were sponsored by industry and businesses. Another important advancement was the development of 16 mm sound film.During World War II the film business saw improvement of the quality of these films. Various techniques were used such as long,medium and closeup shots, the use of various angles for subject and camera movement, and cuts to scenes helped to ...
- 1365: History Essay-the Role Of Wome
- ... greatly under estimated.Mainly because women did not have the option of taking up high powered positions.Gradually women became involved in arts and craft and gained knowledge to advise their husband about politics and business. Jobs that women had consisted of midwives,nurses,hairdressers or just to help their husbands (if they had one) with his daily work.This work could be labour or just help with business.How ever these jobs were only open to plebian women because patrician women were to superior to work. The role that most roman women played was simply a house wife.This was mainly because they ...
- 1366: Great Depression 6
- ... was it simply an economic low-point that had to follow the prosperous 20's? In the 1920's everything seemed to be running smoothly over the whole world. People had a good time and business prospered. Lots of new inventions were introduced such as the first planes, the radio and many families got hold of a refrigerators. In the more wealthy families they even had washing machines and vacuum cleaners ... only half a year of the economic prosperity with which the country had become familiar. He took unprecedented measures to deal with the depression as for the interest of maintaining consumer purchasing power; he urged business leaders not to cut wages, as had been their usual custom during hard times. His policy was only temporarily successful; production declined, unemployment grew, and eventually wages for those still employed were cut after all ...
- 1367: Germany 2
- ... effort has been complicated by growing unemployment, an erosion of the tax base, and the continuing transfer of roughly $100 billion a year to eastern Germany to refurbish this ex-communist area. In recent years business and political leaders have become increasingly concerned about Germany’s decline in attractiveness as an investment target. They cite increasing preference by German companies to locate new manufacturing facilities in foreign countries rather than in ... learn a trade. Other students, after passing an examination, may attend an intermediate school (Realschule) for six years or a senior high school (Gymnasium) for nine years. Realschule graduates usually train for a career in business. The Gymnasium prepares students for entrance to a university. Northern Germany is mostly Protestant, and southern Germany is mainly Roman Catholic. About 500,000 Jews lived in Germany before WW II. Most Jews who were ...
- 1368: German Unificatio
- ... as it had been in Austria.1 Germany Before Bismarck In 1834, Prussia, under the leadership of the Junkers (The Prussian landed aristocracy), began a German customs union, Zollverein, in order to make trade and business between German states easier. Before Zollverein, goods passing from one small German state to another required a duty payment, which made it virtually impossible for the German people to carry on business with separate states without paying several "transit duties". With Zollverein, the Prussian government abolished all internal land duties and put a single moderate tariff around all parts of the kingdom. By 1834, most of the ...
- 1369: Extent Of European Influence B
- ... explorations everywhere they went they destroyed, literally every bit of evidence that there was human civilization. Even if the Spanish were using less than honorable modes of establishing themselves, the French and English were being business minded in the north. They approached the Indians as more of a business partner. They were imitating what the Portuguese were doing with the Africans. They were able to introduce metal and could profit ten fold. Not to mention that at that time beavers were discovered. This is ...
- 1370: Explaining The Twenties
- ... the conviction of John T. Scopes, there was a decline in the membership of liberal Protestant church members and a corresponding rise in the membership of Fundamentalist denominations. When immigrants first began arriving in America, business owners welcomed them because they worked for less money. However, ever since the labor radicalism of the World War I era, and particularly since the Sacco and Vanzetti trial, business owners have increasingly come to view immigrants as the source of labor unrest. Because the common American felt that the United States was becoming too much of a multi-cultural, multi-belief nation, the government ...
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