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- 27531: NAFTA
- ... that would otherwise be tied up by barriers to commerce (tariffs & regulations). Areas in which NAFTA has provided significant benefit are Agricultural Trade, Automotive Industry and Textiles and Apparel. The United States is the world's largest exporter of agricultural products. NAFTA has stimulated a trend toward a more efficient and productive agricultural sector in America and has integrated North American agriculture into the NAFTA marketplace. United States farm income is ... enabled United States and Canadian producers to optimize production and manufacturing investments in North America, which has resulted in a shift of production from the Far East to North America, which has strengthened North America's textile, and apparel trade on the worldwide market. Textile and Apparel trade among the treaty countries has dramatically increased since NAFTA was implemented from 6.4 billion dollars in 1993 to 12.4 billion dollars ...
- 27532: Accomplishments of John D. Rockefeller
- ... Rockefeller was the guiding force behind the creation and development of the Standard Oil Company, which grew to dominate the oil industry and became one of the first big trusts in the United States. Rockefeller’s stake in the oil industry increased as the industry itself expanded, spurred by the rapidly spreading use of kerosene for lighting. In 1870 he organized The Standard Oil Company along with his brother William, Andrews ... and of pneumonia; knowledge of the cause and manner of infection in infantile paralysis; the nature of the virus causing epidemic influenza; blood vessel surgery; a treatment for African sleepy sickness; and peptide synthesis. Rockefeller’s foundations and charities have save many and many of lives. His Medical Research Institution has found cures for deadly diseases. He spent most of his life dedicating his time and efforts to make the world ...
- 27533: Movie: The Time Machine
- ... into two different sections: The underground people and the people who live on top of the ground. The people who live on top of the ground are like the new breed of people who don't know of the past and they don't really know anything at all, and in a sense they are food for the Morlocks or the underground people. This type of future could be plausible if the people where split up and some went ...
- 27534: The Crucible: Act Four Analysis
- ... hatred against them. They know they have done nothing, and are falsely accused. Yet, even with the glum atmosphere created by the conversation, the reader detects a glimmer of optimism, determination, and hope in Proctor's voice. The reader feels that he will fight till the end. "It is hard to give a lie to dogs.", he says. Proctor continually wavers in his decision whether to confess to this outright lie ... the one to decide whether he should spite the court or save his own life. She never provides a definite answer and seems to be in turmoil. Elizabeth states, "I want you living, John. That's sure." Yet, when John asks her whether he should confess so that his life will be saved, she responds, "Do what you will. But let none be your judge. There be no higher judge under ...
- 27535: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
- ... her that they had found me in a drunken state a few days before our wedding. The third choice was my young love, Elmira Royster Shelton. She decided to marry me even though her husband’s will cut off all funds if she were to remarry. We became engaged and she loved me more devotedly than any woman I had ever met. As all these matters were going on, I gained ... published a counterfeit book of memoirs of my life, death and writings. Later, in the 1870s a Baltimore schoolteacher began a campaign to raise money for a monument on my grave. They also reburied Virginia’s bones alongside mine. My life was a great yet horrific one, filled with many great literary works despite the despair and despondency that I felt.
- 27536: Nuclear Power and Its Uses
- ... take years of selective breeding to develop can be made to occur in a few months. Many believe that nuclear power is too destructive and as such should be destroyed. Although it does have it's negative aspects, nuclear power is not evil in anyway. Nuclear power is an inanimate object, it does not live nor have a mind of it's own. It is the human race that decided that the best way to use this power was to use it as an instrument of war. Nuclear Power should be seen as a positive and humanity ...
- 27537: Gattaca The Movie And Discrimi
- ... be a great achievement for the entire human race such as it was when we landed on the moon in 1969. In the movie Gattaca they barely showed the moral consequences of the actions. Anton s father showed more pride in his brother than Anton, but what about Anton making friends, was he doomed to be a social outcast in friendships also? The second rate swimmer so depressed by being second ... race almost committed suicide, what about him? The movie never revealed how poor nations around the world dealt with eventually becoming a nation of an inferior human race. The movie pretty much shows how Hitler s plan of creating a perfect human race would be like. The movie does show some positives though. A longer lifetime full of health was promised to all planned pregnancies. Diseases were also virtually eliminated and ...
- 27538: Materialism is the Root of All Evil
- ... Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. . ." For Americans to be primarily self-reliant and selfish is not surprising. Americans only do what is beneficial to themselves, if it helps someone along the way, then that's great, but helping people is not their initial motive. In order to have the necessary balance between individualism and community, we must be willing to give and then, only after giving, take what has been ... must change. It must change from being materially based to morally based. Our motives for doing things to get ahead need to change. Getting ahead is all well and good, in fact, I think it's vital to a society to have such a motive, but our reasons for getting ahead need to change. We need to do things to help others, not ourselves. We need to get a good education ...
- 27539: The Hype: Television
- ... wants to wear the designer sunglasses worn by his favorite alien-bashers and the shoes that Michael Jordan wears as he bashes the evil Moonstars (Space Jam). Television has become the obvious spokesperson of today's consumer market. The more hype the television offers, the more consumers buy. There are also other reasons that Americans have become a free spending nation. One of the reasons is the temporary relief buying provides ... Nor can one be a successful doctor without the right clothes. People are more "frightened of the possibilities of their personal failure" than a nuclear bomb (Fromm, 1090). Everyone wants to live forever. In today's society, the only way to do this is to acquire the most stuff. Society is built upon "stuff." Truly, the way Americans crave "stuff" is a pure addiction. Can we stop this addiction to "stuff ...
- 27540: D-day
- ... fortnight in July saw three great successes: the liberation of Caen, the capture of Saint-Lô and the breakthrough southwards towards Granville and Avranches. After a fruitless attempt at cutting off a section of Patton's army in the Mortain counter-attack, the Germans, whose resistance was weakening, began their withdrawal to the Seine. However, in a great two-pronged attack by the British, Canadians and Poles in the north and the Americans and Lerclerc's French coming from Alençon in the south, part of two German armies were trapped in the Falaise-Chambois pocket (the "Corridor of Death" at Montormel). This brought the battle of Normandy to a close, at ...
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