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- 3341: Segregation and The Civil Rights Movement
- ... governments in the Southern states were run by blacks, Northerners, and some sympathetic Southerners. The Reconstruction governments had passed laws opening up economic and political opportunities for blacks. By 1877 the Democratic Party had gained control of government in the Southern states, and these Southern Democrats wanted to reverse black advances made during Reconstruction. To that end, they began to pass local and state laws that specified certain places "For Whites ... Their fairness has been debated and litigated into the 1990s. Although full equality has not yet been reached, the civil rights movement did put fundamental reforms in place. Legal segregation as a system of racial control was dismantled, and blacks were no longer subject to the humiliation of Jim Crow laws. Public institutions were opened to all. Blacks achieved the right to vote and the influence that went with that right ...
- 3342: Japanese Capital Structure And
- ... Ownership in Japan The structure of corporate ownership in Japan is quite different compared to their counterparts in the West, with ownership being highly concentrated in Japan. Japanese laws allow institutional investors to exert more control over firms and their management inducing them to seek higher levels of share ownership. Indeed, there is a striking difference between Japanese and US corporate ownership. Ownership by financial institutions (particularly commercial banks) is far ... the Bond Issuance Committee s criteria for firms wishing to issue bonds in any capital market was so strict that only Toyota Auto and Matsushita Electric qualified. During that year, the Foreign Exchange and Trade Control Act was reformed, opening up foreign bond markets to Japanese companies. A year after that, a new type of bond with options to buy shares called warrant bonds were legalized. These bonds proved to be ...
- 3343: Psychology Comparison
- ... involvement, and certain likely consequences of social involvement.Ó The sample used in the study consists of 169 people from 73 households from eight diverse neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They carefully monitored this sample for control variables such as demographics, age, gender, race, and introversion and extroversion. Tests were administered before the participants were given access to the Internet to examine their initial social involvement and psychological well-being. A series ... of the study. Social involvement was measured by family communication, size of local and distant social network, and social support. Psychological well-being was measured by loneliness, stress, and depression. They carefully monitored for other control variables that could influence these things. Internet usage was automatically monitored watching specifically for the major applications the Internet was used for and finding that e-mail and the World Wide Web consumed most of ...
- 3344: Circadian Rhythms: Experiment
- ... will be relying on their circadian rhythms alone. I will measure them all by time. What time they eat, what time they become sleepy, etc. How will you assign your subject to the experimental and control groups? The first three days they will all be the control groups. They will live their lives just as they would normally do it. The next three days they will all become the experimental group because they will all be missing something that they normally have ...
- 3345: An Attempt At Understanding Dreams
- ... explaining to me about being aware that you are dreaming, especially that this is something that happens to me personally. This phenomenon is known as lucid dreaming. Lucid dreamers can achieve a certain degree of control over their dreams. For example, they can decide to face the dream figure that is intending to harm them, instead of just running away. They know that they can't be harmed because they are ... in the dream, take any actions, and live any fantasies that they can imagine. However, some people would argue that it is nicer to just experience the dream as it comes, without being able to control it by being lucid. Concerning nightmares, Dr. Hassan explained that they are usually caused by some serious problems that affect the person, possibly unconsciously. It's a phenomenon that is difficult to analyze because sometimes ...
- 3346: Intro To Business
- ... fourth and final idea is that the government should not be involved in the economy. Smith felt that the government should be limited to providing defense against foreign countries, while allowing it's citizens to control the economy. He did state that the government should make the rules, and decide if and when those rules are broken. Karl Marx could be considered completely opposite of Smith. Known as the father of communism, Marx felt that a society whose economy was under complete government control would be the most prosperous. Communism was built around the belief of a classless society where the citizens collectivly owned all resources. Workers would produce to the best of their ability and were paid upon ...
- 3347: What Is A Monopoly
- ... Monopoly is more of an example of what a monopoly is, it is a great example in explaining the definition. The second way people think of a monopoly is its dictionary definition as the exclusive control of a given commodity or service in a given market. I will not try to explain what the definition of a monopoly is in this paper, but rather explain what components make up a monopoly and how they interact together. I will try and answer the questions on why monopolies exist and their traits that control the business world. Microsoft is probably one of the first companies that comes to mind when one thinks of a monopoly. I will discuss Microsoft in fairly well detail because I believe that they are ...
- 3348: Whitewater Vs. Watergate.
- ... Nixon. But Watergate was so much more than a political burglary. The Senate hearings showed Watergate was composed of constant criminality by the Nixon White House, and was driven by an extreme commitment to maintain control of power by any means, including criminal conduct. It included the break-in of a psychiatrist's office for the purpose of smearing Daniel Elsberg - the leaker of the Pentagon Papers; the misuse of the ... the executive-privilege argument Nixon unsuccessfully tried to use to keep White House tape recordings secret. Similarly, Clinton is arguing executive privilege and attorney-client privilege to keep from releasing White House notes about damage-control conferences involving, for example, his wife. In some ways Whitewater has resurrected Watergate; likewise, Watergate has prevented Whitewater from disappearing. Both have become the measuring devices of scandals, with hundreds of books written about each ...
- 3349: Racism in Colleges
- ... the movie, there is a peace march on the campus and the nazis don't like it. The group persuades one of the members to go to the top of a large building with a gun and open fire on the peace marchers. He does and a black woman ends up getting shot. Her boyfriend runs to the top of the building and proceeds to beat the nazi. The cops find ... them both, drag the black man off and start to beat him as if he just picked a fight for no reason! As the cops approach the white student, he becomes frightened and sticks the gun in his mouth. He says if they come any closer he will shoot himself. The movie ends with him actually shooting himself, which goes to show the confusion that most of these people have. Most ...
- 3350: AIDS
- ... major challenge to biomedical scientists and health-care providers. HIV infection and AIDS represent one of the most pressing public policy and public health problems worldwide. Definition of AIDS The U. S. CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL has established criteria for defining cases of AIDS that are based on laboratory evidence, the presence of certain opportunistic diseases, and a range of other conditions. The opportunistic diseases are generally the most prominent and ... a latent form for a variable and often lengthy period of time until it is reactivated. Further knowledge of the mechanisms and triggers of the activation process is important to the efforts being made to control HIV infection. A critical step in HIV infection is the binding of the virus to a host-cell receptor, enabling it to gain entrance into the cell. Studies have demonstrated that a molecule called CD4 ...
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