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- 2861: Pan American World Airways, Inc
- Pan American World Airways, Inc Pan American World Airways, Inc ("Pan Am") is a New York corporation organized in 1927 which is engaged in commercial air transportation which it pioneered between the United States and most areas of the world. Pan Am Corporation ("the Corporation"), a Delaware corporation, is and since September 14, 1984 has been the parent of Pan Am, it's principal subsidiary. For the past few years Pan Am's financial ...
- 2862: Henry Charles Carey
- ... labour he favors the notion of independent nationality where each country, on its own, would devote itself its own economic activity. One author, who wrote about Carey, stated that "almost all the evils in the world he attributed to international trade, and all the virtues flowed from domestic commerce."(Oser, 235) This view was realized because foreign trade, in eyes of a protectionist, destroyed small communities and replaced them with cities ... transported to another land, therefore the produce grown in the states would not be returned to the soils of the states. This simple fact would lead to a multitude of unfortunates including; soil exhaustion, unemployment, war and disruption. By 1951, Carey had established his theory of protection@. His book entitled AHarmony of Interest@ reflected this protectionist theory. Many of his ideas of protectionism resembled those of Freidrich List. As international trade ... develop the mineral treasures of the earth, and from the constant waste of property and of labour, is more than the total value of the merchandise received in the Union from every quarter of the world; and yet, it is policy which forbids the opening of mines, and the development of the coal and metallic ores that so much abound; and by means of which structures of every kind could ...
- 2863: The HOPE Bill
- The HOPE Bill In the year 2024, the world has grown to increase its size to 24 billion people worldwide. The increase in the population has caused the destruction of most farmland in the world, causing it to look underwater for a supply of food. Private enterprises are currently farming and selling food that comes from underwater regions of the world. However, a vast majority of the world is still not being fed. On a percentage basis, though, we have fewer people unemployed than in 1996. However, that still means that over a hundred million ...
- 2864: The Red Badge Of Courage 3
- ... would like to be like, this character goes through some tough times and some fun times that makes you wish that you could be there. The book also has other characters that represent the real world and the problems it has. The main character has to deal with the other characters which represents us dealing with life. Because the main character has to deal with the same problems as us, which ... it easier for us to relate to them. Physical and emotional pain is what the tattered solider illustrates in the book. The tattered solider's pain comes from all of the horrible things associated with war. Him going crazy brings emotional pain and the physical pain is brought on by the endurance of war. "There was a tattered man, fouled with dust, blood and powder stain from hair to shoes, who trudged quietly at the youths side." (pg 50) The tattered solider also characterizes the toughness people can ...
- 2865: What Leads to Intervention?: A Case Study of Intervention During the Bush Administration
- What Leads to Intervention?: A Case Study of Intervention During the Bush Administration As Commander-in-Chief of the most powerful armed force in a world plagued by small military crises, the question ultimately becomes: when does a crisis call for intervention? From 1988 to 1992, this was President George Bush's dilemma. The days of the United States fearing embroilment ... the USSR and global destruction ended at about the same time as Bush ascended the Presidency. However, with the threat of the USSR gone, the importance of small scale conflicts had taken priority in maintaining world peace. Further, the fall of communism had left the United States with a leading role in world politics. In that position, with a powerful armed force behind it, the United States carried the heavy responsibility of how and why to use it's new found eminence. That responsibility fell onto the ...
- 2866: Cults
- Cults There are many types of cults in the world, cults are everywhere but you just do not see them. Every person in the world has been in contact with them in one way or another in many cases you cannot see them. The closest cult we know of is on Rice Lake called the Moonies led by Reverend Myung ... and leave church when you want to. Although sects are against church attempts to accommodate to secular society. Sects believe that they are protecting a true faith or belief. Sects tend to stay away from world events , and also they believe in a strong strict behavioral code and demand a commitment out of their people. The differences between cults and sects are sometimes the same. Many scholars do not make ...
- 2867: The Influence Of Writers On Charles Darwin
- The Influence Of Writers On Charles Darwin The theory of Evolution as presented by Charles Darwin has had a great impact on the world today. It has caused many debates between religious authorities and those from the scientific community. This theory had prompted individuals to think about themselves, their origins and it has changed the way in which they ... his theories on population growth. One of these intellectuals was Charles Darwin. Thomas Malthus (1766-1834) was an English clergyman and political economist in the times of Darwin and his primary contribution to the economic world was the his theory of population which was published in Essay on the Principles of Population in 1798. According to Malthus, population tends to increase faster than the supply of goods available for its needs ... relative gain in production over population growth, it stimulates a higher rate of population increase; on the other hand, if population grows too much faster than production, the growth is checked by famine, disease, and war. (Funk & Wagnall's New Encylopedia, 1979, p.438) Malthus' theory was seen as being a dismal expression of the human struggle for survival. This philosopy of survival of the fittest was used by many ...
- 2868: Cults
- There are many types of cults in the world, cults are everywhere but you just do not see them. Every person in the world has been in contact with them in one way or another in many cases you cannot see them. The closest cult we know of is on Rice Lake called the Moonies led by Reverend Myung ... and leave church when you want to. Although sects are against church attempts to accommodate to secular society. Sects believe that they are protecting a true faith or belief. Sects tend to stay away from world events , and also they believe in a strong strict behavioral code and demand a commitment out of their people. The differences between cults and sects are sometimes the same. Many scholars do not make ...
- 2869: Crying of Lot 49
- Crying of Lot 49 The philosophy behind all Pynchon novels lies in the synthesis of philosophers and modern physicists. Ludwig Wittgenstein viewed the world as a "totality of facts, not of things."1 This idea can be combined with a physicist's view of the world as a closed system that tends towards chaos. Pynchon asserts that the measure of the world is its entropy.2 He extends this metaphor to his fictional world. He envelops the reader, through various means, within the system of The Crying of Lot 49. Pynchon designed The Crying of Lot ...
- 2870: Education And Egalitarianism In America
- ... in any proper sense a human being until he is educated." Education is the process through which people endeavor to pass along to their children their hard-won wisdom and their aspirations for a better world. This process begins shortly after birth, as parents seek to train the infant to behave as their culture demands. They soon, for instance, teach the child how to turn babbling sounds into language and, through ... that the students learn these particular values. Wisdom of the heart had a profound effect of the curriculum of the early schools. As the spirit of science, commercialism, secularism, and individualism quickened in the Western world, education in the colonies was called upon to satisfy the practical needs of seamen, merchants, artisans, and frontiersmen. The effect of these new developments on the curriculum in American schools was more immediate and widespread ... growth and of knowledge are different from the later stages. The development of the mind begins with the child's perception of things and facts as they are related to himself, to his personal, immediate world. A dog is his dog or his neighbor's dog; it is something furry and warm, something to hug, feed, and play with. The child may recognize the fact that though his neighbor's ...
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