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- 841: Airborne Express Company Overview
- ... to have a tool to fight with them. It wasnt going to be size; it wasnt going to be how well-known we were. So, we decided to be the low-cost operator.(Washington CEO P 33). However, to become the low cost operator Airborne had to make many structural changes. One of those structural changes was that Airborne centralized its organization as much as possible. After all, why ... also benefited by taking away the need for advertising. Therefore, it could save the $35 to $40 million it was spending a year on advertising, and use it to help become the low-cost operator (Washington CEO p 36). Airborne made important structural and strategic changes in the eighties, which contributed to its success. However, in the nineties, Airborne is reluctant to change with the environment. As mentioned earlier, many firms ... Publishing Company. 1995 The New York Times. UPS Walkout: For Small Businesses, Big Problems. Sec. C-6. Aug. 1997 Traffic World. Pilots Airborne Sue. P 1 1998 Online. Internet 16 Feb. 1999 www.northernlight.com Washington CEO Network. The Underdogs Deliver. P 36. 1997 Online. Internet 16 Feb. 1999 www.waceo.com
- 842: How Literature was Affected in the Victorian Age
- ... four decades of the Victorian period could not help but reflect the social and intellectual controversies of the era(Richardson 9). Writers including Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin attacked the problems directly, while Charles Dickens, George Eloit and Alfred Lord Tennyson dramatized the conflicts and challenges in their works. The most popular form for this type of dramatization was the novel. Victorian novels represented almost every aspect of nineteenth century Victorian ... novels. She wrote about women's sexual passions (Summers 14). Never before had a woman wrote a novel of this content. Unquestionably, the three great masters of Victorian novels were Charles Dickens, William Thackerary and George Eliot. Of the three, Dickens was the most popular with the Victorian public and the most difficult to evaluate today. Dickens novels cannot really be judged. He used a difficult more inclusive type of writing ... Twist, David Cooperfield, Great Expectations and Our Mutal Friend. William Thakerary's greatest novel, Vanity Fair, refused both to elevate the heroine onto traditional pedestal and to conflict upon her antagonists complete defeat.(Brown 40) George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) was perhaps the most learned of the Victorian novelists. She wrote The Mill on the Floss, a novel about a girl growing into maturity and the problems she faces(Liston ...
- 843: What is a Hero?
- ... for a cause, like Martin Luther King, Jr. in his fight for black people rights. Among others are Ben Franklin and Thomas Edison, major inventors of their time, John Glenn with his trip into space, George Washington, our first president and father of our country, and John Kennedy, our youngest president. In conclusion, the term heroism varies from generation to generation, but the personal underlying meaning of the word remains the same ...
- 844: The 1960's
- ... civil rights supporter. Black unity and white support continued to grow. in 1962, with the first large-scale public protest against racial discrimination, rev. Martin luther king, jr. Gave a dramatic and inspirational speech in washington, d.c. After a long march of thousands to the capital. the possibility of riot and bloodshed was always there, but the marchers took that chance so that they could accept the responsibilities of first ... 1000 military police, 1900 federalized alabama national guardsmen, and platoons of u.s. Marshals and fbi men. When the marchers reached the capital of alabama, they were to have presented a petition to then governor george wallace protesting voting discrimination. however, when they arrived, the governor's aides came out and said, "the capital is closed today." About this same time, the term, "black power" was coming into use. it was ...
- 845: Fallen Souls in "The Inferno"
- ... in glass, (Literature 641). And among these ice covered souls is the soul of Benedict Arnold, an American officer of the American Revolutionary War. During Arnold's time as an officer he became one of George Washington's most trusted officers. But his deceit and worthlessness was shown when Arnold sold his services to the British, (New Standard Enc. A-627). Arnold supplied the Brits with valuable military information and agreed to ...
- 846: The Journey of Lewis and Clark
- ... He became President Thomas Jefferson's private secretary from 1801 to 1803. After the expedition, Jefferson appointed Lewis the governor of Louisiana Territory in 1807. Lewis died in 1809 from an unknown cause traveling to Washington on public business. William Clark, Clark was a United States explorer. He was born in Caroline County, Virginia. His brother was George Rogers Clark. When William was 14, his family moved to the present site of Louisville, Kentucky. Clark saw military service in Indian Wars, and became a skilled frontiersman. In 1803 he was chosen by his ...
- 847: Social Criticism in Literature
- ... experiences, history, or even their own creativity. For authors that choose to write a book based on historical events, the inspiration might come from their particular viewpoint on the event that they want to dramatize. George Orwell and Charles Dickens wrote Animal Farm and A Tale of Two Cities, respectively, to express their disillusionment with society and human nature. Animal Farm, written in 1944, is a book that tells the animal ... that both describe how, even with the best of intentions, our ambitions get the best of us. Both authors also demonstrate that violence and the Machiavellian attitude of "the ends justifying the means" are deplorable. George Orwell wrote Animal Farm, ". . . to discredit the Soviet system by showing its inhumanity and its back-sliding from ideals [he] valued . . ."(Gardner, 106) Orwell noted that " there exists in England almost no literature of disillusionment ... right place, at the right time. Works Cited King, Martin. Students' Guide to Animal Farm. Scotland: Tynron Press, 1989. Lucas, John. The Melancholy Man: A Study of Dickens' Novels. London: N.P., N.D. Orwell, George. Animal Farm. London: Penguin Books, 1985. Shelden, Michael. Orwell: The Paperbacks, 1992.
- 848: Fallen Souls in "The Inferno"
- ... in glass, (Literature 641). And among these ice covered souls is the soul of Benedict Arnold, an American officer of the American Revolutionary War. During Arnold's time as an officer he became one of George Washington's most trusted officers. But his deceit and worthlessness was shown when Arnold sold his services to the British, (New Standard Enc. A-627). Arnold supplied the Brits with valuable military information and agreed to ...
- 849: The Bay of Pigs Invasion
- ... the late 1950s and early 1960s has its origins in American's economic interests and its anticommunist policies in the region. The same man who had helped formulate American containment policy towards the Soviet threat, George Kennan, in 1950 spoke to US Chiefs of Mission in Rio de Janeiro about Latin America. He said that American policy had several purposes in the region, . . . to protect the vital supplies of raw materials ... and Company, 1990. The New York Times. 16 April to 22 April, 1961. New York: The New York Times, 1961. United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Cuba. Map, 22 by 52 cm, No. 502988 1-77. Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, 1977. Vandenbroucke, Lucien S. "Anatomy of a Failure: The Decision to Land at the Bay of Pigs." Political Science Quarterly, Volume 99, Number 3, Fall 1984.
- 850: Berkeley's Theory of Immaterialism
- ... John Locke and David Hume upheld the belief that sensible things were composed of material substance, the basic framework for the materialist position. The main figure who believed that material substance did not exist is George Berkeley. In truth, it is the immaterialist position that seems the most logical when placed under close scrutiny. The initial groundwork for Berkeley's position is the truism that the materialist is a skeptic. In ... must be considered to exist. In the final analysis, it is evident that Berkley's immaterialist position is logically feasible. From his definitions of minds and ideas to his careful attribution of their respective qualities, George Berkeley has produced a compelling argument for his views. However, this is not all that he has done; in fact, Berkeley has shown the necessary importance of God. In the materialist view, a belief in ... uphold the "material substratum2." Berkeley shows that God must exist, for He is at the heart of Berkeley's position. In short, the materialist view allows for atheism as a possible option. --- End Notes 1. George Berkeley. "Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous." Reason and Responsibility. Ed. Joel Feinberg p. 175. 2. Berkeley, p. 165. 3. Berkeley, p. 165. 4. Berkeley, p. 191. 5. Berkeley, p. 179.
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