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- 3581: The Torture of the Kuwaitis by the Iraqis
- ... ventures upstairs into the nursery of the royal siblings. The doors are still covered with the welcoming pictures of characters from nursery rhymes and television cartoons, but what lies within is adult perversion of a high order." (Coughlin 11) The nursery was turned into an Iraqi interrogation station, where they tortured their victims with various items. "Pools of congealed blood were still visible beneath the bed frame. These has been caused ... were often picked up at random during walks or tortured for displaying the emir's picture, either on themselves or somewhere within their house or workplace. Other type of torture used was, "Lifting the detainee high up in the air and then dropping them, sometimes resulting in the fracturing of bones." (Internet 4) Another way of torturing victims was to threaten the prisoners with weapons used to torture their friends or ... crying begging to be released. "A bullet through the mouth or the back of the head was in some cases the kindest Iraqi punishment." (Strasser 36) The number of Kuwaitis that were tortured is very high and almost impossible to calculate. "Abdul Rahman Al-wadi, Kuwait's minister of state for cabinet affairs claims that 33,000 people disappeared since August 2. The Iraqis are reliably estimated to have taken ...
- 3582: Business - Case Study
- ... difficult but made this assignment a far better learning experience. On completion of this assignment I can easily say that this has been one of the most challenging, enjoyable eye-openers I have experienced during high school.
- 3583: How Tv Impacts Teens
- ... vulnerable, therefore these large industries target their ads towards teens. For example, there is a commercial for Molson Ice a brand of beer that use teens in their ad. The ads scenario is a high school party where teens are having fun while drinking beer. So what are teenagers going to think? They will think that if they drink beer they will have as much as the teens in the commercial ...
- 3584: Iomega Corporation Data Storag
- ... 1.76 to 1.23 Such a performance put Iomega among the top companies in its industry of computer storage devices. The computer industry had a relatively good year in 1998, and because of the high demand for their products, the next few years look promising.24 However, while Iomega s sales in 1998 were approximately equal with those in 1997, they experienced a net loss of $(54) million and a ... in the first quarter and summer months. The fluctuation in Iomega s common stock is evidence of this seasonality. In 1997, the 52-week low of $7.06 occurred in the first quarter and the high of $16.41 occurred in the fourth quarter. The company s stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol IOM. It has not paid cash dividends to common stockholders in the ... in Europe, and $34 million in Asia Pacific. In addition, the quarter generated over $100 million in positive cash flow and reduced inventory by 16% over the third quarter. While 1998 did result in a high amount of operating expenses, the fourth quarter operating expense total of $106 million was down 17% from the $128 million in the fourth quarter of 1997. Iomega is working to implement its Six Sigma ...
- 3585: Is Ethnography A Suitable Meth
- ... into question the researchers own morality and respondent confidentiality issues (Lindsay, 1997). Additionally, there is the difficulty of the lack of generated statistical information that is produced as a confirmation to the observers study. A high level of commitment required for the research in comparison to other studies, as it is in the form of a longitudinal study, and therefore creates a very time consuming entity (Lindsay, 1997). Non participant observation ... London. Lindsay, J.M. (1997) Techniques in Human Geography, Routeledge, London. Wainwright, D. (1997) Can Sociological Research Be Quantitative, Critical and Valid?, The Quantitative Report, Vol. 3, No.2, July 1997, Nova South Eastern University, School of Social Systematic Studies, on line: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR3-2/wai.html.
- 3586: Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin
- ... Union army and observed the Civil War. Zeppelin served in the Franco-German War of 1870-1871; he retired in 1891 with the rank of brigadier general. It was quite usual in his noble and high-decorated family, that he chose a military career. And later explored the headwaters of the Mississippi River, and made his first balloon flight while he was in Minnesota . And on August 7, 1869, he was ... public, he had told a reporter. I am doing serious work for my country. Zeppelin was inspired of the successful ascent. The ship achieved a rate of 30 km/h, whereby it proved an amazingly high controllability. Expectations of the military observers were not fulfilled, however, which was to due to the low engine performance of the Daimler Benz machines. After two further test flights, the new company was actually bankrupt ... with strong wind also. In the meantime, Zeppelin GmbH was created, which was led by Alfred Colsmann. In the proximity of Ludwigshafen, large production plants and buildings of workshops developed. One was thus prepared for high production capacities in the best way. But the expected jobs of the military were missing. The guidance the Zeppelin GmbH reacted very fast. In 1909 he created the DELAG (Deutsche Luftschiffahrts Aktien-Gesellschaft), mainly ...
- 3587: Sports in Canada in the 1920s
- ... golden age of sport for women. The world's greatest basketball team, the Edmonton Grads, were all women. The Edmonton Grads were a team made up of players who were students or graduated from McDougall High School in Edmonton. From 1915 to 1940, they played 522 games and lost 20. The Grads represented Canada at 4 Olympics, and won every single one, including 27 Olympic basketball games in a row. They were ...
- 3588: The French Revolution
- ... was equal in terms of its social, economic, and spiritual power. The First Estate owned nearly 10 per cent of all land in France. It paid no taxes but, to support church activities such as school running and caring for the poor, they collected a tithe, or a tax on income. About one-third of the entire clergy in France served as parish priests. Also included in this estate were the ... for the wars of Louis XIV. Louis still borrowed money to fight wars and to keep French power alive in Europe. These costs greatly increased the national debt, which was, at the time, already too high. When King Louis XVI came into power, he realized that these problems existed. At first he did not know what to do, until he found a man by the name of Robert Turgot. He eased ...
- 3589: Gambling Is Good For Our Commu
- ... few years but there seems no profound effects. In education, colleges and university s tuition fees have been increased by around 30% in five years because the government is cutting its budget. This puts extremely high pressure on most students. Moreover, by cutting the total amount of government student grant may result in keeping people away from going back to school. The similar problem also exist in other area such as medical and social welfare which may cause greater impact on the society. Employment rate--Many people believe that gambling expansion can create more job opportunities ...
- 3590: Violence on TV
- Violence on TV What has the world come to these days? It often seems like everywhere one looks, violence rears its ugly head. We see it in the streets, back alleys, school, and even at home. The last of these is a major source of violence. In many peoples' living rooms there sits an outlet for violence that often goes unnoticed. It is the television, and the ... viewer into a hypnotized nonthinker (Langone 48). As you can see, television violence can disrupt a child's learning and thinking ability which will cause life long problems. If a child cannot do well in school, his or her whole future is at stake. Why do children like the violence that they see on television? "Since media violence is much more vicious than that which children normally experience, real-life aggression ... and television violence has been conducted. All of the results seem to point in the same direction. There are undeniable correlations between violent television and aggression. This result was obtained in a survey of London school children in 1975. Greensberg found a significant relationship between violence viewing and aggression (Dorr 160), In Israel 74 children from farms were tested as well as 112 schoolchildren from the city of Tel Aviv. ...
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