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- 1641: Accounting Information Systems in A Changing Environment
- ... Pastel or Accpac, should your company choose to use either of these packages. Bibliography Davis, J.R., Alderman, C.W. and Robinson, L.A. 1990. Accounting Information Systems – A Cycle Approach. Third edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons. Lay, P.M.Q. et al. 1993. The Principles of Business Computing. Cape Town: Juta & Co. Ltd. McRae, T.W. 1964. The Impact of Computers on Accounting. London: John Wiley & Sons. Schutzer, Daniel. 1991. Business Decisions with Computers. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. Wilkinson, J.W. 1989. Accounting Information Systems: Essential Concepts and Applications. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
- 1642: The Vietnam Anti-War Movement
- ... The United States first became directly involved in Vietnam in 1950 when President Harry Truman started to underwrite the costs of France's war against the Viet Minh. Later, the presidencies of Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy increased the US's political, economic, and military commitments steadily throughout the fifties and early sixties in the Indochina region. Prominent senators had already begun criticizing American involvement in Vietnam during the summer of 1964 ...
- 1643: The Year 2000 Computer Problem
- ... Moffitt & Sandler 3). Bibliography: Martin, Robert A. Dealing with Dates: Solutions for the Year 2000. [Online] Available October 1997 Widder, Pat. Scramble to catch year 2000 bug is on. [Online] Available November 20, 1997 Moffitt, John & Sandler, Robert J. The year 2000 FAQ. [Online] Available January 14, 1997 de Jager, Peter. You’ve got to be kidding! [Online] Available January 10, 1997 Conner, Jim. Businesses should get a jump on solving ... Available in Adobe Acrobat Format IBM. The Year 2000 & 2-digit dates: a guide for planning and implementation. [Online] Available September, 1997 Pollner, Andrew. Testing Year 2000 conversions. [Online] Available January 1998 Copyright (c) 1997 John Muirhead-Gould. All rights reserved. This document may not be reproduced in full or in part without the expressed written permission of John Muirhead-Gould.
- 1644: Irish Literature And Rebellion
- ... of the Irish and came to a boil in the writings and literature of the sons and daughters of Ireland. The Literary Renaissance of Ireland produced some of the greatest writers the world has seen. John O’Leary said it best, “literature must be national and nationalism must be literary” (Harmon, 65). Although there is an endless stream of profound poets and playwrights; John Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, etc., this paper’s primary focus is on William Butler Yeats and James Joyce, and their contributions during the Irish Literary Renaissance and their perspectives on the “Irish Question.” They ... really care all that much for schooling either, “because I found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my thoughts, I was difficult to teach” (DLB 19, 403). However, in 1886 he met John O’Leary, an old Fenian leader. O’Leary had been a Young Irelander and fought in the insurrection of 1849. He took Yeats under his wing and introduced him to the world of fenians ...
- 1645: La Amistad
- ... by Nigel Hawthorne), seeking re-election, is willing to sacrifice the Africans to appease the South, as well as Queen Isabella of Spain (played by Anna Paquin). But his will is challenged by former President John Quincy Adams (played by Anthony Hopkins), who comes out of retirement to fight the Africans' cause in the United State Supreme Court. In the end the Supreme Court orders that the Africans be released post ... Supreme Court, a regular attorney is not going to make the best presentation, but with the help of an ex-president, it would be much easier. This is something that the movie does not mention. John Quincy Adams did not make the entire presentation to the Supreme Court; he gave the second part of the defense. Roger Baldwin presented the beginning. During the course of John Quincy Adams’ two-day defense speech, he spoke the words “This is the most important case that has ever come before this court, because what it in fact concerns is the very nature of ...
- 1646: Affirmative Action: Will It Every Work Right?
- Affirmative Action: Will It Every Work Right? For Business Ethics Taught by: Dr. J. Daiz Outline I. Introduction History II. Ethical Issues Kennedy’s Arguments Positive debates Sher’s Argument Negative debates III. Summary Footnotes I. Introduction From the time of it’s original conception to the actual passing of the act or civil rights addendum. Affirmative Action ... no bias to give an fair shake to the Affirmative action policies that have now taking hold of our society in the late Nineteen Hundreds. I will be discussing ethical arguments by economist Sher and Kennedy. I will discuss the positive and negative aspects and give a summary of these issues. History The history of affirmative action has its roots in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (1) and stems from ... to make sure that race is not a determining factor in the giving and receiving of jobs. The best person for the job, no matter what race, should be given the job. II. Ethical Issues Kennedy: All Knowledge is ideological and as such, reflects the power struggle existing in this society. For minority communities to fairly compete for wealth and power they must participate in the production of knowledge and ...
- 1647: The Political And Religious Wi
- ... the people, and Charles was stubborn (Buchan 53/54). Oliver Cromwell emerges as the leader of the dissenters and quickly takes control of a volatile situation. The last words of Oliver Cromwell as written by John Buchan are as follows: “’Lord, tough I am a miserable wretched creature…give them consistency of judgment, one heart, and mutual love…’” (441). The improvised republic was now over, as stated by John Buchan: “A republic can not be made merely by decapitating a monarchy” (351). England was now no longer a nation, but in the confusion of small factions. For a while it looked as if she ... and laws of the Protestants. (Kishlansky 63). Now science and philosophy as well as religion were being questioned ( Wright 189). This revolution was one of the most important in history (Wright 187). Works Cited Buchan, John. Oliver Cromwell. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Riverside Press, 1934. Chapman, Hester W. The Tragedy of Charles II in the years 1630 – 1660. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964. Hooker, Robert. The New Century. Los Angles: ...
- 1648: The Battle of Gettysburg
- ... Meade had moved down to intercept the Confederate army. The battle began on July 1 outside of Gettysburg with an encounter between Hill's advance brigades and the federal cavalry division commanded by Major General John Buford, supported by infantry under Major General John Fulton Reynolds. Hill encountered stubborn resistance, and the fighting was inconclusive until Ewell arrived from the north in the afternoon. The Confederates pushed against General Oliver Howard's corps and forced the federal troops to ... Hill and Cemetery Ridge, southeast of Gettysburg. The fighting had been heavy on both sides, but the Union troops suffered more losses. More than 4000 men were taken prisoner by the Confederates, and Federal General John Reynolds was killed in battle. The federals did manage to capture Confederate General Archer, the fi! rst Confederate officer to be taken prisoner after Lee assumed command of the Confederate army. The corps led ...
- 1649: Engineering
- ... and electromagnetic ones. Later on, Aiken used vacuum tubes and the solid state transistors to manipulate binary numbers. He also helped to establish the first computer science program at Harvard University. In 1945, Hungarian-American, John von Neumann developed one of the first computers to be used to solve problems in a variety of fields. His Electronic Discrete Variable Computer was the first electronic computer to use a program stored entirely within its memory. In 1945 John Mauchley, an American physicist, proposed and electronic digital computer, called the Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer. His invention is regarded as the first successful, general digital computer. It had a weight of more than 60,000 lb.. and contained more than 2,000 vacuum tubes. It required high maintenance and was used mainly for military purposes. In 1948, at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Walter Houser Brattain, John Bardeen, and William Bradford Shockley invented the transistor. This device can act as an electric switch. This invention had a tremendous impact on computer design because it made costly unreliable vacuum tubes obsolete. In ...
- 1650: Eleanor Aquitaine
- ... off Southampton. They were crowned King and Queen of England by the archbishop of Canterbury on December 19, 1154. On Christmas Eve 1167 at Oxford Eleanor gave birth to her last child, the future king John. This is said to be the end of Eleanor and Henrys sexual life, after the birth of John, they never slept together.9Henry had started his affair with Rosamund Clifford before 1167, and she was more than a sleeping partner, she was also a rival to the queen. Eleanor did not seek revenge ... his neck, and after a painful operation a iron piece was still in and Gangrene set in. Eleanor took Richards death as a great shock and never fully recovered. With Richard's death his brother John would now become King, who unlike Richard was short, fat and ugly. He lived a life of luxury and became known as a glutton and a drunkard. Eleanor died April 1of 1204. During her ...
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