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- 671: If I Should Die Before I Wake
- ... and malnutrition.(89,90) Anna and her mother were next; they were taken to concentration camps.(137-140) Jakub was the last person she and Bubbe saw before they tried to escape from Lodz to Germany.(154-156) Chana and Bubbe escaped Lodz only to be jailed, tortured and sent to concentration camps. Only a strong willed person could mentally and emotionally endure such tragedy and horror as Chana did. Chana ... thought of escaping and running away and suggested to her family that they should hide in the House of Culture, but Bubbe decided to take Jakub's advice and get fake papers and go to Germany. If I was faced with Chana's problems I would've done some things the same as she did, but some different. Regarding the struggle for food, I would've brought things that are very ...
- 672: History of the Automotive Industry and Ford Motor Company
- ... halted. Many of the smaller plants couldn't afford to stay in business. The United States time of prosperity had ended. WWII During the early 1940s, the United States as Hitler rose to power in Germany, and our relationship with Japan grew more and more tense. When Hitler invaded France and started the war, the United States was quick to respond. The United States started producing many different pieces of war ... United States dropped to an all-time low. Ford was forced to shut down plants and lay off thousands of employees. Ford found hope in the market overseas. Ford opened two new plants, one in Germany, and one in England. In 1932, Ford built the Model Y, a car designed specifically for Europe (Ford Facts 1) The United States entered WWII in 1941, and was the same year, that Ford started ...
- 673: Free Trade Agreement and Its Affect on Canadian Business
- ... Compared to the other industrialized western nations we lag far behind in nearly all areas. Take for example R&D. In 1990 Canada spent approximately 2.1% on R&D. Japan spent 5.6% and Germany 4.8% Even the US spend more at 3.1%. Given these statistics, it will be very difficult for Canada to compete in any form of new technology if all parties are on a level ... plane, they have been able to capture a large share of the market even though France has never been considered a large power in production before and lacks the manufactuing ability of the US or Germany. Another trend is that of US and Canadian firms banding together. This makes a great deal of sense since not only can they handle the North American market in a more unified fashion, but they ...
- 674: Education And Egalitarianism In America
- ... This was particularly true of the schools in the New England area, which had been settled by Puritans and other English religious dissenters. Like the Protestants of the Reformation, who established vernacular elementary schools in Germany in the 16th century, the Puritans sought to make education universal. They took the first steps toward government-supported universal education in the colonies. In 1642, Puritan Massachusetts passed a law requiring that every child ... college -- an even higher form of education -- instead of preparing them to immediately enter the work force. America's educational ladder was unique. Where public school systems existed in European countries such as France and Germany, they were dual systems. When a child of the lower and middle classes finished his elementary schooling, he could go on to a vocational or technical school. The upper-class child often did not attend ...
- 675: The Economics of Federal Defense Policy
- ... Cold War is extinct. For over forty years, the military budget has been driven by the Soviet threat. Over half the budget was devoted to defeating a sudden attack by the Warsaw Pact nations on Germany. Now, the ex- Soviets want to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). In the words of General Colin Powell," The Red Army is no more." (1) In fact, the economy in the post-Soviet ... percent of the federal budget is spent on military expenses while thirty percent is allocated to social expenses such as education, housing, social security, and welfare. In other comparable countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Sweden, the ratios show a dramatic difference in priorities. Sweden could prove to be an example in the way we should restructure our country. Less than ten percent of their federal budget is ...
- 676: Cold War
- ... you demand that I renounce the interests of security of the Soviet Union, but I cannot turn against my country."(6) On the other hand, American General Lucius Clay, who was stationed in post war Germany commented " we must have the courage to proceed quickly with the establishment of a government for western Germany...42 million Germans in the British and American zones represent today the strongest outpost against Communist penetration that exists anywhere."(7) At this response Truman changed his attitude toward the Soviets with the words, " there ...
- 677: NAFTA: Canada's & Mexico's Viewpoints
- ... of their dollar value. In 1993, 8.5% of the economically active population of Mexico earned less than the minimum salary; today 11.9 percent find themselves in the very same position. Much like East Germany, Mexico suffers from "backward technology and inefficient, bloated state monopolies. The trauma of exposure to giant northern firms could be fatal to Mexican manufacturing." NAFTA proposes to open Mexican markets to Canada and the U ... gradually, thus constraining the "foreign onslaught," however, the short run suffering that Mexico would endure would be massive. Especially since Mexico which has been buried in a deep slump since 1982, will not, unlike East Germany, receive huge financial aid. The biggest disadvantage incurred on Mexico as a direct result of the deal is the amount of money and capitol needed to be spent on up grading their telecommunications, equipment in ...
- 678: NAFTA
- ... two thirds that of the U.S., which in 1994 stood at US $6,738 billion. The demand for imports in the U.S., at US $669 billion in 1994, was about double that of Germany, the second largest market for imports. Simply put, the U.S. market is a magnet for companies around the world. What is less appreciated about the U.S. market is that it is all easily ... percent, the West 21.7 percent, and the largest, the South, has 34.7 percent. The GDP of each of these regions is larger than individual countries of Western Europe, with the single exception of Germany. As a share of total U.S. GDP, the Northeast, Midwest and West each has roughly 23 percent. The South's share is around 31 percent. In 1994, per capita GDP in the U.S ...
- 679: Daisy Miller
- ... James). As a young child, Henry James had only private tutors and never gained any strict education. The year Henry James turned twelve years old his family moved to Switzerland and later to France and Germany. After the completion of his familys travels, Henry James returned to America and enrolled in Harvard law school for a while. He withdrew soon after his enrollment because he desired to pursue writing rather ... Bronson Alcott. His youthful years in Europe left a great impression. Later in his life, James moved to England where he established citizenship as a protest against Americas failure to enter the war against Germany. Henry James died on February 28, 1916 ( "Henry James"). Some scholars criticize James works because of its slow development and deliberate withholding of information. These two characteristics are a result of his leisurely and refined ...
- 680: George F. Handel
- ... as a lawyer and good skills as an artist, both characterizing every sudden and proverbial decision taken by him in the future were both proved. At those times Hamburg, the mercantile capital city of Northern Germany, was well known also for its Gansenmarkt Thater (literally: 'Theatre at the goose market'), which workers were yet trying to create the millenary dream in advance of Goethe by combining Italian creativity with German methodology ... the master's ever favourites. As a further symbol of success also the reknowed composer and diplomat Agostino Steffani, whose "Enrico il Leone"(Hannover 1689) was perhaps the most famous opera represented in XVIIth century Germany, offered to Haendel his own succession as Kappelmesiter to the prince elector of Hannover. There neverthless the service had to be quite more boring than the activity of operist in the main capital cities of ...
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