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- 4401: Milton Friedman
- ... Maynard Keynes came up with an explanation to the economic slump that was so simple people did not think it would work. Keynes explanation was something like this; in a normal economy, there is a high level of employment, and everyone is spending their earnings as usual. This means there is a circular flow of money in the economy, as my spending becomes part of your earnings, and your spending becomes ... steady and only increase it by 3- 5 percent each year to allow growth for the economy. Inflation and unemployment would supposedly adjust themselves to the market demands, thus giving the economy low inflation and high stability. He called this theory Monetarism. Milton preached Monetarism for a long period of time until it was finally tried in Great Britain during the 80's. His theory was a big disaster. Milton's theory did not work. For almost seven years, the Bank of England tried its best to make it work. According to monetarist theory, the British economy should have enjoyed low inflation and high stability. But in fact, it went berserk. The economy sank into deep recession. Although inflation came down, this was at the price of rising unemployment, which soared from 5.4 to 11.8 percent. ...
- 4402: Managing the Transition from Maturity to Decline: Diamond Power Corporation
- ... by the marketing vice president at the time, involved a nationwide network of minifactories that offered service and replacement parts that could be delivered in a matter of hours to industries in need. Diamond's high market share on soot blowers allowed the company to lower its new equipment prices and recoup any losses through its replacement part division. This resulted in increased sales in both new equipment and parts. Diamond's competition, Cope- Vulcan, did not have any service centers and only limited replacement part manufacturing, and therefore did not reap profits as high as Diamond Power's. However, not all of Diamond's business strategies worked as well as the replacement part and service system. Under the pressure of McDermott, Inc, Diamond felt it had to make several ... Price reductions might need to be implemented in order to resuscitate sales quickly. Also Diamond may want to boost the technology level in its machinery and parts to prove that to customers that Diamond makes high quality products. Some expenses would have to be increased initially, but these would soon pay for themselves by increasing sales and reputation. Long-term changes should include reopening service centers and possibly trying to ...
- 4403: William DeKooning
- ... a beer distributor and his mother ran a bar. At the age of twelve, he became an apprentice at a commercial design and decorating firm. He studied for eight years at Rotterdam's leading art school. In 1926, de Kooning secured a passage on a streamer to the United States, illegally entering and settling in New Jersey. He quickly moved to Manhattan, painted signs and worked as a carpenter in New ... fellow artists. By the late 1940s, de Kooning along with Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, began to be recognized as a major painter in a movement called "Abstract Expressionism". This new school of thought shifted the center of twentieth century art form Paris to New York. Willem de Kooning was recognized as the only painter who had one foot in Europe and one in America. He combined ... art. There was not mere criticism by critics, who even hired some neurologists to back up their claim for faulty paintings. A lot was written to acknowledge and criticize the originator of the Abstract Expressionist School. The exhibition at San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art drew paintings from private and public collections. Most of the observers and curators called it the most fluid, sensual and celebratory works created in the ...
- 4404: U.S Investment in Mexico
- U.S Investment in Mexico Mexico has established itself as one of the biggest emerging markets in the world today. It has exhibited many of the signs of a high growth economy, offering several advantages to prospective investors. Some highlights of the Mexican economy include " single-digit inflation, a balanced public budget, real economic growth (presently at a rate of 12 percent), a deregulated economy ... and local revenue. Several obstacles still persist. The Mexican government continued to open the Mexican market to foreign investors following the implementation of NAFTA. Inflation dropped to about 7 percent in 1994, down from the high of 150 percent in 1987. However several factors deteriorated the outlook for the Mexican market. Namely an unresolved peasant uprising in Chipas, Political assassinations, and a series of high profile kidnappings. All of those contributed to investor skepticism towards Mexico. The devaluation of the Mexican peso, which went down as much as 50 percent against the dollar, was a mixed blessing. Though it ...
- 4405: My Freshman Experience at the University of Alabama
- ... my schoolwork. I am also concerned because I do not have a major yet. This makes it hard to approach college with such serious attitude because I feel like I am once again taking the High School core classes. I feel that if I already knew my major I would be more involved in my work and really pushing towards my future. Coming to the University of Alabama, I brought a lot ...
- 4406: Perosnal Writing: My Experience In The Navy
- ... The Navy This was happening about 10 years ago when I was first came to the United States. I was 13 years old at that time. I remembered correctly it was my first day at school, I was very excited to go to school in America, it was a big day for me since I came from a very poor country. I learned English from the beginning, the rest of the kids were all spoke English really well. They ... background and my experienced. Finally, I decided to work for E.D.D. (Employment Development Department) City of Montebello. At the same time I go to college full-time and get paid for being in school. No matter how much I hated my job before and I realized that it really helped me a lot to become who I am today and hopefully in the future as well.
- 4407: Personal Writing: My Father's Desire To Be A Doctor
- ... s Desire To Be A Doctor Born in a poor family, my father and several of his brothers were sent to military schools for their education. Interested in medical careers, he studied pharmacy throughout his school years and later got a license as a pharmacist. However, he realized that pharmacy was not what he wanted for his career. Pharmacists and medical doctors study almost entirely the same thing, but all pharmacists can do is counting pills at drug stores. He wanted to do more than that; therefore, he then spent several years of study and training at the Chinese Air Force Medical School. Many years later, he could finally help patients with their diseases but only could do so in the air force. Though having a strong desire to help more people, he was not allowed to have ... At the age of forty-four, he finally passed the examination but had to leave his family to go to another city to get proper training. After months of training and trafficking between home and school, he got his license as a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine. Now he has a brand new doctors office of his own, which is always crowded with patients. Thinking that he is a ...
- 4408: Childhood Experience Of Religion Conflicts
- ... my self, I knew I wasn't welcomed back. With a child's mind that I had, I still had hope of being welcomed by my best friend. I was going to see her after school at the same bench that we all use to sit and chat about cute boys walking by and sending them sweet kisses across the park. The bell rang and I was the first one out ... said, "Just stay away from them. They are not your friends but your enemies child." She still did not answer my question and I refused to believe what she told me. The next day to school I saw them again, this time I was full of anger and confusion I really wanted to know what was going on. While walking toward them, the whole group turned around looking at me approaching ... her face and she tried to hide her tears from me, she gave me a smile as if everything will be fine. For the next few weeks my parents didn't let me go to school. Most of the time I used to sit on my balcony and play with my video game. At night time my father used to come home, while eating dinner my parents start discussing some ...
- 4409: Personal Writing: The Sightless Explanation
- ... a caretaker that would help her with her daily tasks that she would pay lots of money to each day. I was skeptical the first time she asked me to stay with her, because of school, but I decided I would do it to be charitable. I would go over there at 6:30 each evening and leave at 6:30 each morning. I started in October, if I recall correctly ... since last October when he had lost his two sons. David says choking back tears, "I don't know what I'm supposed to do without my kids. Everything I planned...watching them go to school the first day, watching them grow up--all that's been ripped from me." He broke down sobbing and expressed that his wife, Susan, should be executed. Another witness was Tom Findlay, the wealthiest and ... how much she knew. After four months of staying with Miss Singleton and after two years of claming things happening to her. She finally decided to move out of the house. I came home from school one afternoon to say good bye to her. At this time, after all the stories she had told me and after all the experiences she was like a Grandmother to me. In a very ...
- 4410: Lord Of The Flies By William G
- ... hunters ) in Lord of the Flies (Dick 121). E. The Brilliance of Lord of the Flies can scarcely be exaggerated, and horrific as it is, it cannot be dismissed merely as a horror-comic of high literary merit, as a sick comment of R.M. Ballentynes nineteenth century views of the nature of British boyhood (Allen 120). III. A. He [Golding] entered the Royal Navy at the age of twenty ... mundane tasks of modern society. It is a struggle between Ralph and Jack, the boys and the Beast, good and evil. The story takes a look at what would happen if a group of British school boys were to become stranded on an island. At first the boys have good intentions, keep a fire going so that a passing ship can see the smoke and rescue them, however because of the ...
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