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- 2041: The US Stock Market
- ... short term. The question of a correction occurring in 1997 is a valid issue, but there is no definite forecasting method. Works Cited Brimelow, Peter. "Our Underachieving Economy." Forbes 7 Oct. 1996 : 120-7. Downes, John and Jordan Goodman. Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms. 3rd ed. 1991. Ip, Greg. "Sales Growth Becomes Challenge." The Wall Street Journal. 3 Feb. 1997 : C1+. Kinsella, Eileen. "Short Interest on Big Board Rises to ... Lightbulb Press, 1993. Sesit, Michael. "World Stocks, Following the U.S., Hit Highs." The Wall Street Journal 20 Jan. 1997 : C1+. Teweles, Richard, Edward Bradley and Ted Teweles. The Stock Market. 6th ed. New York : John Wiley and Sons, 1992.
- 2042: Great Expectations And Oliver
- ... to the poor. In order to conquer these evils, they must first be understood, and explaining the severity of these experiences seems to be a job which Charles Dickens is very good at. Bibliography Carey, John. Here Comes Dickens - The Imagination of a Novelist. New York: Schocken Books, 1974. Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations. New York: The Heritage Club, 1939. Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1949. Johnson ... York: Simon and Schuster, 1952) 273. 9 Dickens, Expectations 62. 10 Garrett Stewart, Dickens and the Trials of Imagination (Massachusettes: Harvard University Press, 1974) 187. 11 Marcus 74. 12 Marcus 80. 13 Marcus 83. 14 John Carey, Here Comes Dickens - The Imagination of a Novelist (New York: Schocken Books, 1974) 149. 15 Dickens, Expectations 71-72. 16 Alexander Welsh, The City of Dickens (Oxford: Claredon Press, 1971) 107-108. 17 Marcus ...
- 2043: Black Holes
- ... candidates. The velocity depends on the mass of the planet. The scientists believe if our Sun dies, the sun may turn into a black hole. Black holes were theorized about as early as 1783, when John Michell mistakenly combined Newtonian gravitation with the corpuscular theory of light . The concept of an escape velocity, Vesc, was well known, and even though the speed of light wasn't, Michell's idea worked the ... black hole, called an event horizon because all events within RS are causally disconnected from the rest of the universe. There aren’t many physical features of a black hole. In an aphorism coined by John Wheeler , "black holes have no hair," hair meaning surface features from which details of it's formation might be obtained. There are no perturbations in its event horizon, no magnetic fields. The hole is perfectly ...
- 2044: Civil Rights Movement 2
- ... not be judged by the color oftheir skin but by the content of their character." Everyone agreed the march was a success and they wanted action now!but, now! remained a long way off. president kennedy was never able tomobilize sufficient support to pass a civil rights bill with teeth over the opposition of segregationist southern members of congress. but after his assassination, president johnson, drawing on the kennedy legacy and on thepress coverage of civil rights marches and protests, succeeded wherekennedy had failed. However, by the summer of 1964, the black revolution had created its own crisis of disappointed expectations. rioting by urban ...
- 2045: Asbestos Manufacturing
- ... of future lawsuits. There are, of course, those who denounce the asbestos manufacturers by using an emotion-based logic and naive form of rhetoric. These critics rely on the blind and insensible theories presented by John Stuart Mill. In Mill’s theory of utilitarianism, or happiness theory, he says that “utility” or the “greatest happiness principle” is the basis of ethical behavior. Mill would have his tree-hugging followers believe “that ... Prentice Hall 1999 Worthington, Roger G., “Manville/Raybestos Manhattan” 1996 n. pag. Online. Internet. Jarvis, Chris, “Niccolo Machiavelli 1469-1527” 1998 n. pag. Online. Internet. 19 October 1998 Wintergrove-Haugland, Erik, Morals and Ethics: Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill, New York: McGraw-Hill
- 2046: School Uniforms
- ... used uniforms to needy families. In Seattle, Washington the South Shore Middle School has implemented a mandatory uniform policy for 900 middle school students since 1995. The Results were staggering principal of South Shore, Dr. John German, reports that "this year the demeanor in the school has improved 98 percent, truancy and tardies are down, and we have not had one reported incident of theft." Dr. German explains that he began ... less than in schools without such a program, sometimes 80 percent less. School officials believe that durability, reusability and year-to-year consistency also increase the economy of the school's plan. Works Cited Donohue, John W. There s Something About a Uniform. America 20 Jul. 1996: 18- 20. Gursky, Daniel. Uniform Improvement? The Education Digest Mar. 1996: 46-48. Mancini, Gail Hinchion. School Uniforms: Dressing for Success or Conformity? The ...
- 2047: Could the Greenhouse Effect Cause More Damage?
- Could the Greenhouse Effect Cause More Damage? John Harte is an ecologist from the University of California at Berkley. He is trying to find out whether heat stimulates further trace-gas from solid or not. He is going to conduct an experiment that ... elevations might melt up to two months sooner. In Colorado that would constitute March as May. As a result, the soil will dry quicker and will be much warmer than usual when May rolls around. John Harte says it would be like expanding summer at the expense of winter. That means plants that usually start to bloom just as the snow begins to melt will bloom sooner then the pollinators of ...
- 2048: Good News From Outer Space By
- The key ingredients that make the society in the book Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel seem so full of mordant farce are chaos, technology, belief and faith run amok. The book is set in our present year of 1999, and it seems that all of the conventional thoughts and ... to say that in a couple of years or months, ours will not mirror the one in the book? After all, we are approaching the millenium. This paper intends to relate the world created by John Kessel to the world we now inhabit; this world where science and religion, for most, are the mental constructs that give us some sense of control over this obscure universe. The most significant aspect of ...
- 2049: The History of Walmart
- ... Work smarter than others do. 10. Blaze your own path. Bibliography 1. Jon Heuy. Sam Walton: Made in America: My Story (New York: Doubleday, 1992) 2. Kenneth E. Stone, Competing With the Retail Giants, (Toronto: John Wiley & Sons Inc. 1995) 3. Vince, H. Trimble, Sam Walton: The Story Inside America's Richest Man (New York: Dutton, 1990) 4. www.SmartLeadership.com 5. Inc Magazine, Spies Like Us, Stemberg, Tom, with Gruner ... 48 6. Inc Magazine, The Mentors, Welles, Edward O. June, 1998, p48-50 7. www.walmart.com 1996, 1997, 1998 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 8. Stone, Kenneth E. Competing With the Retail Giants. (New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1995) 9. Taylor, D., Archer ,J.S. Up Against the Wal-Marts. (New York: AMACOM, 1994) 10. Microsoft Encarta 98. Samuel Walton
- 2050: The Pearl: Depictions of Life
- The Pearl: Depictions of Life In John Steinbeck's The Pearl, a destitute pearl diver finds a giant pearl with which he hopes to buy peace and happiness for his family. Instead, he learns that the valuable pearl can not buy happiness ... setting which encompasses the struggle among social classes to become successful. Steinbeck, a novelist known for his realistic depictions of life, portrays this motif through Kino, the doctor, Coyotito, and the town of La Paz. John Earnst Steinbeck, author of The Pearl and many other stories, was born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California. Both his father, who ran a flour mill, and his mother, a teacher, encouraged him to ...
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