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- 1021: Tennis A Sociological Perspect
- ... to pick up their rackets, perhaps inspired by the success of Michael Chang. Michael Chang is American born Chinese and he is about 173 cm tall. Chang overcame his physical disadvantage and won the prestigious French Open in 1989. He still holds the honour of being the youngest male player ever to win a grand slam title. In addition to the recent successes of Michael Chang, Kimiko Date and a few ... person associate a sports figure with women tennis players. In response to the stereotype and inequality between men and women players, Monica Seles, a nine times grand slam winner and youngest ever woman champion of French Open, told the media at a press conference that,"It's a traditional common sense, but I think a lot of traditions should change." (Seles, 119) There is hardly any evidence to show or suggest ... choose to play tennis in Australia and Sweden because of the success of Bjorn Bjork and Roy Emerson. Bjorn Bjork, a legend Swedish player who won the Wimbledon 5 time in a row plus 4 French Open single titles. Roy Emerson, arguably the best player of all time, holds the men's record of most single championship of grand slam at 12. Australian and Swedish kids grow up with the ...
- 1022: Searching For Utopia
- Searching for Utopia After the French Revolution many men began a search for a utopian society, one which would allow justice and happiness for all who resided there. It was not only a search for these men, but a lifelong goal, for ...
- 1023: Smartcards
- ... currency onto the ring therefore enabling the bearer to be able to spend electronic money at a store which had the suitable electronic equipment. Then in March 1974 Roland presented his project to a few French banks where he demonstrated a transaction-taking place from the ring to the reading device. In September 1974 the first chip was mounted onto an epoxy card and this was the birth of Smartcards . Then ... CII Honeywell Bull. In 1978, Michel Ugon came on the scene bringing with him a new batch of Smartcards and taking out his first patents. In December 1978 a team of senior executives from four French banks finalized a brief outline on the industries expectations and requirements for memory cards and forwarded it to CII Honeywell Bull. The birth of the first operational microprocessor card (Two-chip card) by Bull CP8 ... in the town of Velizy in France in 1981. A year later Philips supplied the US Government with Identification Smartcards. In 1983 France installed 160,000 Card payphones using the Telecom France Cards. In 1984 French banks announced their choice of a CP8 technology chip card manufactured by Motorola and Eurotechnique and they stated their specifications and standards for the bank memory card. Then by October 1986 there were 250, ...
- 1024: Marketing 2
- ... some help owning hoe items. The United Kingdom loved the idea of being able to rent furniture until they had paid enough to own the items. In France, however, it is a different story. The French do not like the idea of being reminded that they do not have much money. The store Crazy George was not successful in France for that reason. Having to come in once a week so that one can pay for the weekly amount that is due on their rented furniture is a put down in the French culture. There are barriers that exist between the European countries that make it difficult to market to them. There is also a risk in treating the countries differently. By treating each country differently, the product ... of a country before setting up a market in a foreign country. The Nabisco company obviously did their research and the Crazy George store apparently did not spend the time needed in learning about the French.
- 1025: Is Canada Losing Its Identity
- ... of an internal section of Canada itself wanting out is the most complex and hardest to deal with. It dates back to those early settlers of Canada and the two conflicting mother tongues, English and French. Over the last 200 years, Canada has evolved into a bilingual country where English is the dominant language. This offends the rights of many of the French, who largely live in the province of Quebec, who feel they're not being treated equally. This is an ongoing problem which may never go away as it's proved the test of time so ... a dog sled. And I don't know Jimmy, Sally or Suzie from Canada, although I'm certain they're really, really nice. I have a Prime Minister, not a President. I speak English and French, not American. And I pronounce it "about", not "aboot". I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack. I believe in peace keeping not policing, diversity not assimilation. And that the beaver ...
- 1026: Marketing
- ... some help owning hoe items. The United Kingdom loved the idea of being able to rent furniture until they had paid enough to own the items. In France, however, it is a different story. The French do not like the idea of being reminded that they do not have much money. The store Crazy George was not successful in France for that reason. Having to come in once a week so that one can pay for the weekly amount that is due on their rented furniture is a put down in the French culture. There are barriers that exist between the European countries that make it difficult to market to them. There is also a risk in treating the countries differently. By treating each country differently, the product ... of a country before setting up a market in a foreign country. The Nabisco company obviously did their research and the Crazy George store apparently did not spend the time needed in learning about the French.
- 1027: ON POVERTY
- ... stages after "enclosure movement" in England. As we know in the very early stages of history, human beings lived as a colonies and tried to survive by collecting things from their environment then after Neolithic Revolution they settled down in a specific territory and started to produce their own nutrition. Even in these stages, the concept of poverty exists (not in our modern sense but in very primitive sense) because human ... only sell his labour force. In other words, after the merchant became capitalist because labourer did have nothing to sell other than his force, exploitation started. From the mid 18th through 19th century, the industrial revolution expanded in Europe and America. But the revolution went parallel with Protestant ethic and the laissez-faire economic view. These two had important effects on the poor. The Protestant ethic emphasised individualism, the view that one is responsible for one's action ...
- 1028: Guerilla Warfare
- Guerrilla Warfare The term guerrilla (Spanish, little war) originated in the early 19th century during the Peninsular war when, after the defeat of Spains regular forces, Spanish irregulars and civilians rose up against the French occupying forces. The practice of guerrilla warfare, however, dates from antiquity; for example, the Bible tells of the Israelite conquest of Canaan, led by Joshua, involving harassment and ambush of the enemy. Later Jewish resistance ... c.Tactics that enhance the development of the urban guerrilla are those that wear down, demoralize, and harass enemy forces. In this way tactics allow the urban guerrilla forces to survive and expand until the revolution can establish rural guerrilla warfare, which plays the decisive role in a revolutionary war. In my opinion guerrilla warfare is essential for any country that is under political stress; in a country where the voices ...
- 1029: Christmas Traditions Around Th
- ... it into a shallow bowl of water. This is believed to give the water holy powers. The water is then sprinkled throughout the house to keep the mischievous spirits away. In Russia After the Russian Revolution of 1917, authorities of the newly formed USSR prohibited the practice of all religions. After the USSR broke up in 1991, the Russian Orthodox Church revived Christmas rituals. Like the Greeks, some Russians fast during ... Eve, which tends to be more wild than solemn, especially in the cities. The festival meal is , a midnight supper that may consist of oysters, sausages, baked ham, fowl, fruit, pastries, and wine. In the French countryside, families often burn a large Yule log and preserve the ashes to protect the home from evil during the coming year. In Spain Spaniards attend church at Christmas, but during the Christmas season they ...
- 1030: Computers In Society
- ... to them more readily. In 1438 Johannes Gutenberg wanted a cheaper way to produce handwritten Bibles. His moveable type fostered a spread in literacy, and advance of scientific knowledge, and the emergence of the industrial revolution . Although most of the time technology changes at far too gradual a rate, slipping past our fingers, causing us to move on, and carry this new technology with us, seemingly in the same form as ... be five thousand miles and six time zones away. When you watch an hour of television, it may have been delivered to your home in less than a second. In the wake of the information revolution (now four decades old), people are now working harder and longer (with compulsory overtime), under worsening working conditions with greater anxiety, stress, and accidents, with less skills, less security, less autonomy, less power, less benefits ... corporate power than ever before in our history. In the hands of such self-serving peoples and it is now more than ever in their hands the information highway, the latest incarnation of the information revolution, will only be used to compound the crime. In this report we have dealt with the three major factors in our societys technological advancement: time, money, and lifestyle. Each has greatly affected us, ...
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