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- 441: Ernest Hemingway
- ... to raise a family, and from then on she was a music teacher and had a career. His dad was quiet and was a doctor. Ernest got along well with him because of their shared interest in hunting and fishing. These activities would later come up in his books. He was educated at Oak Park High School, where his first writings where in the school's magazine. His mom liked to ... he went to France as a correspondent for the Toronto Star. InFrance he made friend with several expatriates, such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Hemingway's first wife, Elizabeth left him because of his interest in other women. She took their son with her. On January 27, 1927 he married Pauline Pfeiffer. At this point in his life he spent time in Key West Florida, Spain and Africa. He returned ... Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939. He was also a correspondent that covered World War II. After the war Hemingway went to live in Havana, Cuba and then in Ketchum, Idaho. He developed an interest in bull fighting and used this them in his writing of his book Death in the Afternoon in 1932. Hemingway and Pauline were divorced in 1940. His third wife was Martha Gelhorn. This marriage ...
- 442: Juvenile Delinquency
- ... parents with whom they did not get along or who were inconsistent in their patterns of discipline and punishment. Neighborhood conditions have been stressed in studies by sociologists. Many of these inquiries concentrate on differing rates of delinquency, rather than on the way individuals become delinquents. A series of studies have shown that delinquency rates are above average in the poorest sections of cities. Such areas have many broken homes and a high rate of alcoholism. They also have poor schools, high unemployment, few recreational facilities, and high crime rates. Many young people see delinquency as their only escape from boredom, poverty, and other problems. Social scientists have also studied the influence of other youngsters on those who commit delinquencies. For example, they point ...
- 443: "The Baltics: Nationalities and Other Problems"
- ... the predominant behaviors of the decade in the three nations. "In agriculture, centrally enforced attempts to grow maize gave way to a return to the dairy-centered approach of the independence period. Urbanization increased, birth rates decreaeed, divorce rates soared, and Protestant religious practices plummeted." (45) "Of the three Baltic republics, Estonia and Latvia tended to exhibit quite similar social characteristics, while Lithuania tended to follow the same path of development, though with some ... 1960's, and the ouster of Khrushchev in 1964. The Baltic republics apparently saw this hopefully, only to see a renewed effort at Russification and extinguishment of national culture and language. (49) "Interaction between birth rates and immigration continued in 1968-80 to be of far reaching importance for Baltic social, political, and cultural processes. Urbanization continued, but service industries replaced production as the main growth sector. Many new aspects ...
- 444: Business Planning
- ... ANALYSIS The CASHFLOW statement generally compares the results of the cash inflows to the cash out flows in a business. In our case our inflows are £290,890 (income + loan from directors). Our outflows are interest tax, direct cost - depreciation, the total of management expenses and the purchasing of fixed assets. The result of the outflows is £163,019. The total net cash inflow is £127,871 (£290,890 less £163 ... advertise through our bar and club in the same way, by sticking signs to the stools and tables. This is something that will not bother the customer especially if the products of the selected company interest him/her. ADVERTISING THROUGH OUR TELEVISION SCREENS This advertising is somehow used in hotels; not to advertise others, but to give information to people about the hotel e.g. when the restaurant closes. On the ... will be paid per company is £2,524 pounds per year. The amount of money they will pay will depend on the type of advertisement they desire. Huge companies such as Lanitis Co. showed great interest to advertise through this, under some terms that is profitable for them. E.g. to have a monopoly in Coca-Cola which is a product produced by their company. This average amount of £2, ...
- 445: BUILDING A RADIO EMPIRE-CHANCE
- ... the number one expense of radio stations, and media moguls are cutting local news to cut expenses. News departments are being replaced with a top-of-the-hour generic broadcast with no local ties. Media interest is shifting from Libertarian view points, that of news being the fourth state, to intense corporate interest of the bottom line. Radio stations are moving from self-interest to investor interest. It is no longer how many listeners you have, but how many ad dollars can you pull. These mega corporations are overwrought with debt. Chancellor alone is $6.4 billion in ...
- 446: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... he had during his many college years. Thus it took a long time for him to graduate, but eventually after transferring, Wilson graduated from Princeton. As a college student, he often frustrated himself by finding interest in the sole activities in which he excelled. Anything he was not good at, he told himself it was of no importance. After graduating, Wilson decided that greatness could be found within the legal profession ... school, Wilson passed the bar within the state of Georgia. After a few boring cases that had come from clients his mother had found, he grew bored and decided political science would be of more interest. Graduating John Hopkins, he received his Ph.D. Wilson then ascended the corporate latter. He began teaching Brynmaur, where his fame as a great orator soon spread. Princeton soon hired him and Wilson taught there again demonstrating his superior verbal abilities. He also developed a specialty in American politics as a collegiate interest. Eventually Wilson became president of the college. He had many great ideas for reform within the college, but he became very fixated on religious aspects to his plans. Often refusing to back down or ...
- 447: Adult Education In The U.s.
- ... central learning theory is self-directed learning. He (1985) said that because the concept is so central to what adult education is all about, self-directed learning has been one of the field's high-interest topics for more than a decade (Mezirow, 1988). Many people like researchers theorists and so on have all asked the pistons: what is self-directed learning? What kinds of people are engaged in it? How ... constraints. Together, competency and contingency assessments represent the mediating construct of ¡°anticipated control.¡± Anticipated control is an essential perception when assessing expectancy of success and making decisions regarding goal-directed behavior. Entwistle (1981) states that ¡°interest and intrinsic motivation are likely to foster a deep approach, and an active search for personal meaning¡±. Intrinsic motivation leads to responsible and continuous learning. If these are the worthy aims of education, it is necessary that we create conditions where students become increasing motivated by authentic interest and desire to construct personal meaning and shared understanding. Understanding these conditions is, in essence, what the exploration of self-directed learning is about. Authentic self-directed learning becomes self-reinforcing and intrinsically motivation. ...
- 448: Geography of Mauritania
- ... first deepwater port opened near the Nuoakhott River in 1986 and is now almost extinct of fish. In recent years drought and economic mismanagement has resulted in a foreign debt. [2] Not to mention inflation rates which have shot through the roof in the past 6 years. As of 1995 the rates are at a steady 3.5%. To high to afford anything that is needed to live on. Yet people feel that it is not necessary for the U.S to help other countries. The labor ... slavery. Even though Maurita-nia is a poor country, it's anti social welfare system provides old age and good benefits. The benefits for unemployment and illness is reflected in it's high infant mortality rates (about 127 per 1,000 live births) and its low life expectancies. Increasing students enrollment in primary and secondary schools have been rising steadily. Illiteracy still reaming high, at more than 70% of the ...
- 449: Mauritania
- ... first deepwater port opened near the Nuoakhott River in 1986 and is now almost extinct of fish. In recent years drought and economic mismanagement has resulted in a foreign debt. [2] Not to mention inflation rates which have shot through the roof in the past 6 years. As of 1995 the rates are at a steady 3.5%. To high to afford anything that is needed to live on. Yet people feel that it is not necessary for the U.S to help other countries. The labor ... slavery. Even though Maurita-nia is a poor country, it's anti social welfare system provides old age and good benefits. The benefits for unemployment and illness is reflected in it's high infant mortality rates (about 127 per 1,000 live births) and its low life expectancies. Increasing students enrollment in primary and secondary schools have been rising steadily. Illiteracy still reaming high, at more than 70% of the ...
- 450: European Studies
- ... pay subsidies to traders to sell surpluses on the lower-priced world markets. (5) During the 1960Æs the price system was devised. The first problem with price policies is that of fluctuating and differing exchange rates. ôGreen Moneyö was the first solution to be developed to counter the problem of differing exchange rates. This, however, could be manipulated by politicians to achieve different price levels in the member states than those indicated by the common price level. The lowering of the green currency towards a depreciating average rate ... were only introduced for the dairy sector, production and surpluses in other areas continued to grow unchecked. Penalties for over-production were never really implemented and were easily avoided by raising prices and adjusting MCA rates. (14) An arable Set Aside policy was introduced in 1988. Producers can receive payment per hectare on each hectare taken out of production. Every producer must make more than a minimum area reduction of ...
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