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- 13371: Ibm
- ... exploration. The company was incorporated in 1911 as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in a merger of three smaller companies. After further acquisitions, it absorbed the International Business Machines Corporation in 1924 and assumed that company's name. Thomas Watson arrived that same year and began to build the floundering company into an industrial giant. IBM soon became the country's largest manufacturer of time clocks and developed and marketed the first electric typewriter. In 1951 the company entered the computer field. The development of IBM's technology was largely funded by contracts with the U.S. government's Atomic Energy Commission; close parallels existed between products made for government use and those introduced by IBM into the public marketplace. In ...
- 13372: Russia' Economic Transition
- Russia' Economic Transition In August of 1991, the collapse of the communist system in the USSR and it's neighboring republics occurred. Out of the smoke emerged fifteen new republics and a union known as the Commonwealth of Independent States. These new regimes faced formidable obstacles. The collapse brought massive inflation which in turn ... Ukraine was fortunate to border one of the only Soviet access points to a large body of water; the Black Sea. It was from this port that the former Soviet Union established one of it's larger naval divisions, known as the Black Sea Fleet. Consisting of over 1700 warships of various sizes (McLelland 63), this fleet was one of the most dreaded in the world. Aboard those ships, there were ... the jobs that were directly or indirectly associated with it. Knowing that the upcoming years may be harsh in terms of economics, the Ukraine was not readily willing to accept a sharp blow to it's employed work force. The Ukraine already had an unemployment rate of 7% (McLelland 24), and this was straining the limited social safety nets. The last thing the Ukraine was prepared to do was pay ...
- 13373: The Rise and Fall of Hitlers Reich
- The Rise and Fall of Hitlers Reich Feeling that all was lost, Hitler shot himself on April 30, 1945. By orders formally given by him before his death, SS officers immersed Hitler's body in gasoline and burned it in the garden of the Chancellery. Soon after the suicide of Hitler, the German forces surrendered. The war was officially over; however, the world was only beginning to realize ... parents of Alois and Klara Hitler of Austria. Hitler was a good student. He took singing lessons and sang in the church choir. When he hit an adolescent age, he began to rebel. When Hitler's dad acquired a top ranking job in the military, he wanted his son to work hard so that he might become a civil servant. Hitler wanted nothing of it. He wanted to become an artist ... board at the art school in Vienna. The Vienna School of Fine Arts had strict entrance requirements. After taking the preliminary examination, the applicant was asked to submit drawings. Biblical drawings were most preferred. Hitler's drawings were returned saying they were "too wooden and too lifeless." He was rejected. He tried three months later and did not get past the preliminary exam. His artist career was over. His mother ...
- 13374: Pride And Prejudice
- Question 1: Pride and Prejudice Chapter 19 concerns Mr Collins's proposal to Elizabeth. Read carefully the exchange between Elizabeth and Mr Collins beginning 'Believe me, my dear Miss Elizabeth' to 'not fail of being acceptable'. Discuss the passage in detail, commenting on its comic aspects ... across this passage, he is very confident, very sure of himself, and completely off the mark. It is something that we as readers can see quite plainly, but it reveals many things about Mr Collins's personality, and its distinct lack of depth. He views his proposal as doing Elizabeth and indeed the whole Bennet family a favour, by allowing them to keep Longbourn Estate in the family so to speak. While his proposal was comical in aspect it was also a looking glass into English society, through his long drawn out protests at Elizabeth's rejection of him he gives the reader an insight into English society and particularly the roles of women. Elizabeth Bennet's character is put to a test by Mr Collins' proposal in Chapter 19, ...
- 13375: The Case for Euthanasia: Should Physician-Assisted Suicide be Legalized?
- ... as well as where the state courts stand in respect to this most delicate of issues. In the hopes of clarification, we must first distinguish between active and passive euthanasia. Passive euthanasia involves the patient's refusal of medical assistance. It involves the right to die which is protected by the United States Constitution clauses of due process liberty and the right to privacy (Fourteenth Amendment). The right to doctor-assisted suicide, or active euthanasia, consists of, "...a patient's right to authorize a physician to perform an act that intentionally results in the patient's death, without the physician's being held civilly or criminally liable for having caused the death" . The "passive" form of euthanasia was first deemed legal by the New Jersey State Supreme Court in 1976 ...
- 13376: Thesis: Show How Mexico Lost An Enormous Territory to the U.S. in 1848.
- Thesis: Show How Mexico Lost An Enormous Territory to the U.S. in 1848. Henry Polk was President of the U.S.A. from 1845, and was an imperialist. He wanted his country to expand by seizing Mexico's land. His goal was to try to make the States stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Polk first offered 30,000,000 dollars to Mexico for California and New Mexico, but they refused. ...
- 13377: Black Women and Their Push For Equality For African Americans
- Black Women and Their Push For Equality For African Americans Both attitudinal and institutional racism grossly intertwined in U.S. society and government finally led to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s. Depicted above is just one of the many organized forces demanding equality and respect for Blacks in America and world-wide. This particular group, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. With the aid of Huey P. Newton’s legal background, the Black Panthers legally demanded the end of racism and class oppression based on Constitutional rights. The Black Panther Party’s ten point platform stated goals such as "power to determine the ...
- 13378: Reproductive Medicine
- ... and fertility drugs are all available prospects for the infertile couple, today. The Ethics Committee of the American Fertility Society states “[ Artificial insemination by donor ] may be the best solution to overcome the infertile couple’s inability to have their own…child.” In-vitro fertilization, otherwise known as test-tube babies, is a process in which doctors remove ovaries and prepare them in a petri dish along with the male’s sperm to ensure pregnancy. This process begins with the female submitting to a two-week regimen of daily drug injections, tedious blood shots, and a number of ultrasound examinations. Although they are well informed of the price tag, risks, and effects of these procedures, “reproductive medicine is now a $1 billion-a-year industry that accounts for some 23,000 live births a year in the U.S. alone (Wulf). With these experimental procedures comes the risk of error by surgeons. Donna Fasano of New York was one victim in an infertility treatment mix-up that impregnated her with two embryos; one ...
- 13379: Global Warming 2
- Like the glass in a greenhouse, certain gases that occur naturally in the atmosphere tend to trap the sun's heat. This natural "greenhouse effect" helps keep the Earth's average temperature at a comfortable 59° Fahrenheit. Without these greenhouse gases, the Earth would be about 0° F, like a deep- frozen snowball. The earth's climate is predicted to change because human's are changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere by the buildup of greenhouse gases which mostly is carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. These gases trap ...
- 13380: Happiness In Brave New
- Happiness in Brave New World When we look to define happiness, many different ideas come to mind. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary uses three definitions for happiness: good fortune, a state of well being and contentment, and a pleasurable satisfaction. In Brave New World, Aldus Huxley argues that a society can redefine happiness through the government’s manipulation of the environment and the human mind itself. The government accomplishes this by mind conditioning throughout the process of maturing, keeping a caste-based society, and obliterating problems. The government thus defines happiness as ... during sleep. After many repetitions of one phrase, the idea is hardened within the human mind, proving most difficult to undo. Evidence of this method to provide artificial happiness surfaces in both Lenina and Bernard’s actions. Huxley states this coldly during Lenina’s trip home with Henry Foster, “‘What a hideous color khaki is,’ remarked Lenina, voicing the hypnopædic prejudices of her caste” (62). Khaki is a color worn ...
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