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- 1621: The Grange
- ... them to fail. They worked as a team to get candidates elected who agreed with the need for governmental control of the railroads. With the control of the Legislatures they implemented governmental controls on railroad rates and practices. However the railroad was also very wealthy. They hired lawyers who soon destroyed the new regulations. With these defeats and with the new rise in farm prices in the late 1870's the ... politicians who won and made changes to protect the small farmer, established a network of warehouses were farmers could deposit their crops and use these as collateral for borrowing money from the government at low rates and wait for the price of their crop to increase before selling, and the acceptance of silver as a form of money. Because of these two decades in our history we can see our power ...
- 1622: Essential Marketing Features A
- ... Personal Selling. There is a strong theory of how advertising works. The AIDA model was developed in the first part of the century to show that. It consists of Attention - Gain attention of the audience Interest - kindle interest in the product/Service on offer Desire - Arouse desire for your product above any desire of your competitor's product. Action - The Customer buys the product . Advertising strategy involves an analysis of the target audience ...
- 1623: Hydroelectricity
- ... between 1 kilowatt and 1 megawatt, are being developed in some countries. In many of China's districts, for example, such dams are the main source of electric power. Other developing nations are also showing interest in such projects, which can make good use of available labor. In the U.S., interest in small-scale plants increased following passage of the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act in 1978, because it states that large utilities must buy power fed into their lines by these small-scale plants.
- 1624: The Manhattan Project
- ... Los Alamos, New Mexico, to design and build the bomb that would end World War 2, but begin serious controversies concerning its sheer power and destruction. I became interested in this topic because of my interest in science and history. It seemed an appropriate topic because I am presently studying World War 2 in my Social Studies Class. The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings were always taught to me with some opinion, and I always wanted to know the bomb itself and the unbiased effects that it had. This I-search was a great opportunity for me to actually fulfill my interest. The Manhattan Project was the code name for the US effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb. It was appropriately named for the Manhattan Engineer District of the US Army Corps of ...
- 1625: Nuclear / Particle Physics Effects of the Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- ... in Hiroshima, and approximately five hundred and ten meters in Nagasaki (Outlaw Labs). Even without causing many deaths the nuclear radiation probably caused the most serious effects. Those with definite proof were those of increased rates of cataracts, leukemia, cancer of the thyroid, cancer of the breast, cancer of the lungs, cancer of the stomach, and mental retardation on babies in utero. Those that had substantial but not definite proof were those of tumors of the esophagus, tumors of the colon, tumors of the salivary glands, and tumors of the urinary tract organs. Those that had no definite nor substantial proof were those of increased rates of birth mortality, birth defects, infertility, and susceptibility towards illnesses (Physicians and Scientists on Nuclear War, 1981). The total number of people effected by the nuclear radiation was estimated to be thiry-five thousand people ...
- 1626: Zane Grey
- ... westerners who had previously looked down on her. She receives a new understanding on life and comes to be regarded as an equal. At the turn of the century there was a revival of an interest in nature, a period that Robert Nash characterized as the area of the "wilderness cult". During this time Grey set his work to magic. Grey was also a huge fan of nature and vividly used ...
- 1627: Billy Budd: Perfect Character In Unjust Microcosm
- ... peace and quiet. (THAAL, pg. 2514) The simple peace that he seeks may represent the romantic view of a noble savage, who has goodness because he is untainted by the corruption in society. Melville has interest in the noble savage and creates Billy Budd to represent this idea. Billy seems naturally good with no sins in his character. He lives a simple and serious life. For example, when Claggart makes fun ...
- 1628: The Catcher in the Rye: Holden's Thoughts and Feelings
- ... people who try to look good in other's eyes. Therefore, since it is obvious that Holden is bright, the reason for his flunking out of school would seem to be from a lack of interest. Holden has strong feelings of love towards children as evidenced through his caring for Phoebe, his little sister. He is protective of her, erasing bad words from the walls in her school and in a ...
- 1629: Ignorance and Racism in Heart Of Darkness
- ... deathlike indifference of unhappy savages" (Conrad 19). Achebe, also, detected Conrad's frequent use of name calling, "Certainly Conrad had a problem with niggers. His in ordinate love of that word itself should be of interest to psychoanalysts" (Achebe 258). Conrad uses Marlow, the main character in the book, as a narrator so Conrad himself can tell the story without saying it himself. Conrad used "double speak" throughout his book, so ...
- 1630: Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Offred
- ... novel is the women activists of the 1960's and 1970's. This group, in which Offred's mother would be a member, is sensitive to the censorship that women once faced and would show interest to the "possible future" that could result. Offred is symbolic of "every woman". She was conventional in prior times, married with one daughter, a husband and a career. She is ambivalent to many things that ...
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