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- 3031: International Economic Policy: Book Review
- ... Soviet Union in order to assure that Europe will not be affected by problems such as economic immigrants (204). At his conclusion, he was to mention that Europe could play a similar role to the world trade in the future as the one played by the US after the Second World War. He was to look at the Uruguay Round and have some interesting remarks about it. There are two of them that seemed to me as interesting. The first one states that major achievements in ...
- 3032: A Separate Peace: Changes
- ... him or was saying about him as long as he was having a good time. Gene, one of his friends, talks about how the snow began to take possession of everything at Devon like the war took possession everything in the world. “Leper Lepellier didn’t suspect this. It was not in fact evident to anyone at first. But Leper stands out for me as the person who was most often and most emphatically taken by surprise ... have a few good friends. He knew how to listen; this is a trait that is admirable about Leper. Not everyone is a listener. After hearing the two sides of Leper, the one before the war and the one after the war, there was a definite change that took place. Leper always had a one track mind and usually it was about what he wanted. But, before the war he ...
- 3033: Australians Against Further Immigration
- ... bear the blame. We are concerned about the effect of immigration and multiculturalism on this country where as the pro-immigration lobby is only concerned for the migrant or their own interests. ENVIRONMENT Australia, the world's oldest and driest continent, with severe soil degradation and climatic uncertainty - a land of, “droughts and flooding rains”' already faces declining agricultural productivity. Only 10% of our huge land mass is arable and this ... or economic pressures. In comparison, the pro-immigration lobby feel that we have no moral right to this land unless we push development to the limit. Our population must be stabilised as elsewhere in the world. The use of water for irrigation, urban demand and sewage disposal, is already straining supply to the limits. Our main cities have grown beyond their optimum size. Pollution, traffic, urban sprawl, failing community service, crime ... 170 billion with a current account deficit of about $2 billion per month, half of which is due to immigration. It is no surprise that we have the highest per capita foreign debit in the world. Paul Keating was right, when he said in his maiden speech to parliament in 1970, “It is time we considered the enormous cost of bringing migrants to this country” . Even the pro-immigration, Bureau ...
- 3034: Coca-Cola - The History
- The Coca-Cola company started out as an insignificant one man business and over the last one hundred and ten years it has grown into one of the largest companies in the world. The first operator of the company was Dr. John Pemberton and the current operator is Roberto Goizueta. Without societies help, Coca-Cola could not have become over a 50 billion dollar business. Coca-Cola was ... Coca-Cola bell glass was made available. He started advertising on the radio in the 1930s and on the television in 1950. Currently Coca-Cola is advertised on over five hundred TV channels around the world. In 1931, he introduced the Coke Santa as a Christmas promotion and it caught on. Candler also introduced the twelve ounce Coke can in 1960. The Coca-Cola contour bottle was patented in 1977. The ... history of Coca-Cola, and many other elements(Oliver 131). The debut was accompanied by an advertising campaign that revived the Coca-Cola theme song of the early 1970s, "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke"(Say it ain't so, Coke 24). The Jingle read like this: I'd like to teach the world to sing In perfect harmony. I'd like to buy the world a ...
- 3035: Around The World In 80 Days
- ... and colonies around the globe, as well as historically accurate locations. Theme The theme of this breathtaking novel is one of daring and persistence. On the whim of a wager, Fogg is sent around the world in the impossible time span of eighty days. Throughout the work, Fogg’s limitless persistence, entwined with his stereotypical English composure, astound the reader. Fogg represents this boundless daring in the audacious wager he makes ... a complete circumnavigation around the glove condensed into two hundred-odd pages. Within these locales, the area is constantly in transportation areas, that is to say, railroad stations, quays, and carriages. Basic Plot Around the World in Eighty Days begins in the Reform Club in London, where whist players of different disciplines have challenged the news of a circumnavigation conquered in eighty days. Phileas Fogg, a daring individual, wagers with his ... thus, winning the bet agreed upon three months before. Major Characters Phileas Fogg – A rich Englishman, he is the main character of the novel. Determined in all his mind to conquer the trip around the world in eighty days, his effort is commendable. Portrayed as a punctual and gentle man with a greatly controlled composure, he helps those around him on the trip regardless of the delays to winning the ...
- 3036: City Of Berlin
- ... rivers helped to establish its importance. In the 1600's it became the capital of Prussia. Berlin's worst period began with Adolf Hitler's rise to power with the Nazi Party in 1933. During World War II in 1939 to 1945, Germany fought England, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States. Berlin was ruined by the bombings. Germany was defeated in 1945 and the peace treaty divided the nation into ... earn a few marks for their performances. At the East End of the Ku-damm we see the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. The bombed-out tower was left as a remembrance of the tragedy of war. The modern church and bell towers were built on either side of it. If you look to your left, you'll see the Tiergarten, a former royal hunting ground. It is now a large ...
- 3037: Norway
- ... associations respect one another as well as government guidelines, and this helps to control the rapidly expanding economy. Foreign trades, the form of commodities exported chiefly to western Europe or of shipping services throughout the world, accounts for nearly 50% of Norway’s national income. Located on the outskirts of Europe and with much of its inland pop almost isolated until the 20th century Norway has been able to preserve much ... and Herbiides, the isles of man and the unpopulated Faeroe islands and Iceland. Following the rule of Magnus III’s sons was the increasing power of church and monarch contributed to the century of civil war. The cival war continued until 1217 when Sverrirs grandson Haakon IV became King beginning the “Golden age” of Norway. He modernized the administration by creating a chancellors office and the royal council. Norway in WW II declared ...
- 3038: Cultural Relativism
- ... about differences in moral beliefs. The conclusion makes an assertion about the nature of moral facts or truths. In general, he argues, one cannot assume anything about what is or is not true about the world, from premises about beliefs about the world. A culture may believe that the earth is flat, but believing so doesn't make it so (nor does belief that the earth is round make it so). Nor does disagreement over the shape of ... the truth of the premise cannot guarantee the truth of the conclusion. Rachel's claim that physical facts are independent of beliefs about those facts is not justified. We never have access to the physical world apart from, or independent of, some scientific or conceptual framework. There is no "view from nowhere" which we can use to determine whether our judgements about the world are true or not. Moral facts ...
- 3039: A Farewell To Arms
- A Farewell to Arms The novel "A Farewell to Arms" should be classified as a historical romance. Many people in reading this book could interpret this to be a war novel, when in fact it was one of the great romance novels written in its time. When reading this book you notice how every important event of the war is overshadowed by the strong love story behind it. The love story is circled around two people, Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley. Frederic is a young American ambulance driver with the Italian army in World War I. He meets Catherine, a beautiful English nurse, near the front of Italy and Austria. At first Frederic s relationship with Catherine consists of a game based on his attempts to seduce her. ...
- 3040: Genocide
- ... to live because of your race or religion? Scary yes, but definitely possible. The word genocide, which is also known as ethnic cleansing, is certainly not uncommon to anyone living in this not so perfect world, full of violence, hatred and discrimination. Throughout the decades, genocide has taken place in more than one occasion, causing wars, slaughters and mass destruction of cities and towns. I think that genocide is by far ... heard the term genocide, the first picture that came up to my mind was the picture of the German dictator Hitler. Hitler hated Jews and saw them as the reason behind every disaster in the world. In his biography on Hitler, Schramm wrote that there is a theory explaining the reasons behind Hitler’s hatred towards Jews, he said that one of Hitler’s ancestors who was Jewish, “took advantage” of a small girl (51). This incident obviously made Hitler paranoid for the rest of his life making him hate and despise all Jews. He decided to kill them and looked for a better world where they won’t exist at all. Maybe if Hitler had not hated these Jews and instead if killing them and putting them in gas chambers in awful concentration camps, he could have won ...
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