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- 5891: Drugs in the Music Industry
- Drugs in the Music Industry The Music World-glamorous, fast paced, and a world most of us will never be part of. But if we knew what it entailed, would we still want to be? The whole world seems to be building itself around drugs more and more every day, and music industry isn't immune. In fact, music is one of the most influential art forms of today's society, and ...
- 5892: Oligopoly
- ... few sellers. Each seller knows that the other seller or sellers will react to its changes in prices and also quantities. This can cause a type of chain reaction in a market situation. In the world market there are oligopolies in steel production, automobiles, semi-conductor manufacturing, cigarettes, cereals, and also in telecommunications. Often times oligopolistic industries supply a similar or identical product. These companies tend to maximize their profits by ... larger the cartel, the more likely it will be that each member will increase output and cause the price of a good to be lower. The majority of time an oligopoly is used describe a world market; however, the term oligopoly also describes conditions in smaller markets where a few gas stations, grocery stores or alternative restaurants or establishments dominate in their fields. A distinguishing characteristic of an oligopoly is the ... or if the Telecommunications Act of 1996 were not railroaded through Congress. These regulators have let these mergers slide, under intense pressure from the telecommunications and entertainment industry. Microsoft, the biggest Software Company in the world, has been through a lot of debate of whether they have a monopoly and have the ability to establish an oligopoly industry. Microsoft Corporation has the ability to control software prices in the market. ...
- 5893: Charles Et Secondat, Baron De
- ... most important point was that history is made by causes and effects, by events influenced by man, and not by luck. His ideas are summarized in this passage: I is not fortune that rules the world . . .The Romans had a series of consecutive successes when their government followed one policy, and an unbroken set of reverses when it adopted another. There are general causes, whether moral or physical, which act upon ... as ones of our time. His ideas help us to understand the Enlightenment, as well as the Middle Ages. It is safe to say that his ideas will never die and his gift to the world will always be remembered. Montesquieu can easily be considered a model Enlightment figure. His ideas produce a mild paradox. He wanted change for the better without crushing the current government. He wanted to educate the ... He respected reason, and used it to help the mankind by creating an idle society. He critisised religion, and yet had faith in God. As a whole he tried to improve things without turning the world upside down. He was the model figure for the steady advancement of the human civilization. BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Hollier, Denis , A New History of French Literature, Harvard University Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, 1989. 2. The Encyclopedia ...
- 5894: Media Influence
- ... Starr that he said, "Communications were not controlled by a narrow elite group. (J.M.Starr,1997,The impact of sociology) In the Johanna Mcgeary's article "Standoff in Kosovo' , she is not informing reel war between the Serbs and the Albanian Kosovars, she is informing the war which is materialise in the desk by singing an agreement. Although there is an agreement waiting for to sign, but Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resist singing it. And also she is giving the information about ... MILOSEVIC. The problem is him, not the others. He is the leader, he controls the country's media and its security forces, which lets him ignore or quell any apposition. It is ridiculous that the world still listening to him, and NATO try to finish the work. For me, NATO's attacked was on time and necessary , Muslim Albanians have right to live happy and comfortable in their home-land.
- 5895: Psychology-Dreams
- ... visual imagery. Congenitally blind people dream in auditory and sensory-motor modes. One difference between waking and dreaming consciousness is that the latter tends to be an internal hallucinatory-like experience disconnected from the external world.. The senses of touch, taste, smell, and pain are not commonly experienced. Emotions are felt, but usually a single, powerful emotion is felt such as fear, anger, or joy, for example. Most dream content consists ... are in the form of interrupted stories with frequent shifts of scene. One difference between waking and dreaming consciousness is that the latter tends to be an internal hallucinatory-like experience disconnected from the external world. Many dreams collected in laboratories are rather common, but some people tend to experience some bizarre dreams. Early in the 20th century, Sigmund Freud believed that dream content was composed of the mental processes different ... dreams, in which the dreamer re-enacts a traumatic situation in his/her life, could be interpreted in terms of an attempt to resolve current emotional problems. This is particularly true for the sufferers of war neurosis (Haskell, R. 1996) Lucid dreaming is a type of paradoxical mental state in which the dreamer becomes aware that he/ she is dreaming and in some cases deliberately takes control of the situation. ...
- 5896: The Atomic Theory
- ... atom bomb and to the discovery of nuclear fission. The neutron has a relative mass of one and has no negative or positive charge (neutral). Chadwick was strongly involved with British atomic bomb effort, during World War II. During the last to years of the war, Chadwick helped with the U.S. nuclear weapons research. The first atomic bomb was developed with the help of Chadwick, and because of this he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935.
- 5897: Fungus
- ... When they get their food from living plants or animals, fungi are called parasites. When they get it from dead plant or animal matter, they are called saprophytes. Fungi are very widely distributed throughout the world, particularly in the temperate and tropical regions where there is sufficient moisture for them to grow. They are less likely to be found in dry areas. Some few types of fungi have been reported in ... in the 20th century was the destruction of elm trees in Europe and the United States by Dutch elm disease. The fungus responsible, Ceratocystis ulmi, probably arrived in Europe from Asia about the time of World War I. By the 1930s it had spread throughout Europe and Great Britain and killed thousands of trees. It appeared in the United States in 1930 and has since destroyed millions of elm trees. Overland ...
- 5898: History And Development Of The Internet
- History and Development of the Internet The internet is a global computer network connecting millions and millions of users throughout the world. (Leiner, 2). It has become one of the fastest growing forms of communication today. (Marshall, 1). The Internet started as a Defense Department Cold War experiment in the 1950 s. (Academic American, 225). The government needed a way to relay information between tanks and headquarters so the APRA (Advanced Research Projects Agency) sought a way to let signals from the battlefield reach a headquarters computer using satellites and radio signals. At the same time the command posts of the nation were located deep underground in mountains in fear of nuclear war. (Diamond, 3). Paul Baran, working for the U.S. Air Force, developed a network that could reroute itself around damage caused by the impact of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile by using "redundancy of connectivity". ...
- 5899: Global Warming 3
- ... New technologies carry increasing risks, and the scale, frequency, and impacts of disaster caused or influenced by human activity are growing tremendously. The risks to the Earth‘¦s natural systems are becoming significantly concerning. The world‘¦s population, currently 5.2 billion has grown from about 3 billion in 1960, and around 2 billion in 1925. Today it increased by almost 90 million each year, and is likely to reach 10 ... sources including CFCs from aerosol cans, refrigerants and cleaning solvents. This damaging cycle is called The Greenhouse Effect. The growth of human numbers and their impacts on the earth‘¦s resources have greatly accelerated since World War II. The production of food, energy, and industrial commodities is associated with much of the deterioration of the Earth‘¦s life-support systems. Some of the ways that Earth may respond to global warming ...
- 5900: Genetic Engineering Of Foods
- ... of genetic engineering inspires visions of perfect health, long life, and miracle foods. The reality is that these claims are often completely unsubstantiated and sometimes simply wrong. Claim: Genetic engineering is necessary to feed the world. Fact: Hunger in the world is caused by war, drought, and poverty, not by lack of supply. Claim: Genetic engineering will help developing countries. Fact: Biotech companies plan to protect their seed patents through the terminator technology. A terminator seed will grow, but ...
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