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- 2721: Fractal Geometry
- ... 3.25" disk, as opposed to the same landscape being stored as 2.5 megabytes of image data (almost 2 full 3.25" disks). Fractal image compression is a major factor for making the "multimedia revolution" of the 1990's take place. Another use for fractals is in mapping the shapes of cities and their growth. Researchers have begun to examine the possibility of using mathematical forms called fractals to capture ...
- 2722: The Need for Federal Government Involvement in Education Reform
- ... the effectiveness of identifying academic standards and aligning curriculum and assessments with those standards. France is a particularly salient example: * In texts and exams, the influence of the national curriculum is obvious. For example, a French math text for 16-year-olds begins by spelling out the national curriculum for * the year so that all 16-year-olds know what they are expected to study. The book's similar table of ...
- 2723: The American Education System; Cause for Rebellion
- ... disapproval of the national education system, it is not difficult to predict a rebellion concerning this aspect of society. If the situation does not drastically improve in the near future, there will be an education revolution in this country. Parents will no longer allow their children to be deprived of a quality education. They will demand better schools and or seek alternative ways to alternative ways to educate their children. Private ...
- 2724: Banking And The Economy
- ... branches will decline. Bank customers will move away from traditional banking and will become more dependent on electronic transactions using ATMs or PCs (Britt, Savings&Community Banker, February 1995, p.9). Thanks to this “technical revolution”, financial institutions are using software programs, online services, and even the Internet to allow customers to check balances, pay bills, and transfer funds among accounts. Bankers promise that, in the near future, we will also ...
- 2725: Capitalism and Communism
- ... Communism uses communal ownership and has a hope of better economical equality. Communists want to spread the wealth more evenly throughout the people. Carl Marx started the idea of Capitalism, or Socialism, during the Industrial Revolution. He witnessed the horrible conditions the proletariats were living under, and how wealthy the factory --owning bourgeoisie were becoming. He wanted to create a more fair system. However, it is not fair at all. Capitalism ...
- 2726: Coke
- ... stock for a long while, particularly when private-label competition was siphoning off business, but the shares have doubled since last fall. Having proved itself at home, the bottler is expanding abroad; Coke sold its French and Belgian territories to CCE in August, and Ivester opted to sell the Americans Coke’s bottling venture in Britain as well. "We knew ten years ago we wanted CCE to have an international base ...
- 2727: Industrial Transformation: Economic Development between 1865-1900
- ... can be attributed to the inventions, and the demand for goods and services. Also the technological advances. Between 1850 and 1900, they were making leaps and bounds in the industrial areas that fueled this magnificent revolution The "Rockefeller’s", could be seen as threatening the our democracy with the way they "bought" the public. They bought elected officials, threatened other industry that they depended on, i.e., the railroads, miners, and ...
- 2728: DuPont: An Investment Analysis
- ... its third century of scientific, technological, commercial, and social achievement. DuPont is a research and technology based chemical and energy company with its annual revenue exceeding $39 billion. Eleuthére Irénée du Pont de Nemours, a French immigrant, established DuPont in 1802 in a small Delaware town. E.I. du Pont was a student of Antoine Lavoisier, the father of modern chemistry, and when he came to America he brought some of ...
- 2729: Heroin Legislation
- ... the drug and bringing the issue out into the open would increase education on the danger and desperation which accompany heroin addiction. It will take acts of courage and forward thinking to bring about a revolution in society’s attitude toward drug addiction, particularly heroin. But it is time our community and our government began to challenge the inadequacies of prohibition. The evidence showing that zero-tolerance falls short is blatant ...
- 2730: Euro Heralds New Era
- ... said in Vienna. “From Lisbon to Helsinki, from Paris to Vienna, the euro is a remarkable symbol of our common identity,” said France Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn. “Tomorrow I won’t be any less. French … but we will all be a little more European.” “Europe is finished the century by sending a message of peace,” said Italian Treasury Minister Carlo Ciampi. “The conflicts that have so often gripped our continent ...
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