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- 8231: Etrade
- ... in August 1999; and in January 2000, the acquisition of Telebanc. TIR is active in equity, fixed income, currency and derivatives markets in over 35 countries, and holds seats on multiple stock exchanges around the world. Telebanc is the parent of Telebank, an Internet-based, federally chartered savings bank, offering a wide range of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ("FDIC")-insured and other banking products and services. Strategic Relationships We pursue strategic ... that could be leveraged, thereby gaining market share from us. Such competitors may conduct more extensive promotional activities and offer better terms and lower prices to customers than we do, possibly even sparking a price war in the online financial services industry. Moreover, certain competitors have established cooperative relationships among themselves or with third parties to enhance their services and products. For example, Charles Schwab's One-Source mutual fund service ...
- 8232: History Of The Dust Bowl
- ... came,the region was covered by hardy grasses that held the soil in place in spite of the long recurrent droughts and occasional torrential rains characteristic of the period. However in the thirty years before World War I, a large number of homesteaders settled in the region, planting wheat and row crops and and raising cattle. Both these land uses left the land exposed to the danger of erosionby the winds that ...
- 8233: Cark Gauss
- ... of number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy, and optics, as well as many more. The concepts that he himself created have had an immense influence in many areas of the mathematic and scientific world. Carl Gauss was born Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, on the thirtieth of April, 1777, in Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick (now Germany). Gauss was born into an impoverished family, raised as the only son of a ... The two discovered Kirchoff's laws, as well as building a primitive telegraph device. However, this was just an enjoyable hobby of Gauss's. He was more interested in the task of setting up a world wide net of magnetic observation points. This vocation produced a great deal of concrete results. The Magnetischer Verein and its journal were conceived, and the atlas of geomagnetism was published. From 1850 onwards Gauss's ... sleep early in the morning of February 23, 1855. Carl Gauss's influence in the worlds of science and mathematics has been immeasurable. His abstract findings have changed the way in which we study our world. In Gauss's lifetime he did work on a number of concepts for which he never published, because he felt them to be incomplete. Every one of these ideas (including complex variable, non-Euclidean ...
- 8234: Keepern Me
- ... inspires them to become guides as well. Dreams are, in a sense, also a guide in Ojibway culture. They believe that through their dreams they receive visions that are "sent to them by the spirit world. That vision could be just about anything and was meant to be a sacred and private thing for the seeker. Gave a direction for their life." (175). They believe that you should try to figure ... to help a person to become a good human. He or she learns to be a good person, which leads to becoming a good Indian with a pure Indian heart. Keeper says "Nothin' in this world ever grew from the outside in .(Garnet) learned about bein' Indyun, about himself that way he'll survive anything" (39). Once that person has a pure Indian heart they in turn are ready to guide ... lessons and morals, it guides and directs you and it can be true, symbolic or fictional. Storytellers are very important because they have the talent to pass on history whether it be family history or world history. It teaches you about life and the lives of people before you. Guidance is provided in stories so that people will listen and remember because they are being entertained at the same time. ...
- 8235: Romeo And Juliet 11 -
- ... him in skillfully combining drama with poetry. In many plays throughout his career, Shakespeare paid tribute to Marlowe, though ultimately he eclipsed Marlowe as a dramatist (The Tragedies, 17). Shakespeare is the greatest playwright the world has ever known. The thirty-seven plays he wrote more than 400 years ago are the most popular on Earth. They are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He also wrote sonnets ... a sort of sixth sense of combining poetry with drama. Haines declares: [Romeo and Juliet] contains some of Shakespeare s most beautiful lines. The names of Romeo and Juliet have become symbols all over the world of young love. Although exquisite and moving, Romeo and Juliet is perhaps not among Shakespeare s most profound tragedies. In the prologue to the play, Romeo and Juliet are spoken of as "star-crossed lovers ... They continue to show their love for one another from the first time they meet to the last time they look at the other before committing suicide because they can t imagine living in a world without the other. Their love for each other conquers all other things, even life itself. This, along with many other characteristics that Romeo and Juliet posses are what has kept us drawn to this ...
- 8236: Carl Gauss
- ... of number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy, and optics, as well as many more. The concepts that he himself created have had an immense influence in many areas of the mathematic and scientific world. Carl Gauss was born Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, on the thirtieth of April, 1777, in Brunswick, Duchy of Brunswick (now Germany). Gauss was born into an impoverished family, raised as the only son of a ... The two discovered Kirchoff's laws, as well as building a primitive telegraph device. However, this was just an enjoyable hobby of Gauss's. He was more interested in the task of setting up a world wide net of magnetic observation points. This vocation produced a great deal of concrete results. The Magnetischer Verein and its journal were conceived, and the atlas of geomagnetism was published. From 1850 onwards Gauss's ... sleep early in the morning of February 23, 1855. Carl Gauss's influence in the worlds of science and mathematics has been immeasurable. His abstract findings have changed the way in which we study our world. In Gauss's lifetime he did work on a number of concepts for which he never published, because he felt them to be incomplete. Every one of these ideas (including complex variable, non-Euclidean ...
- 8237: Hitler
- ... the Soviet Union. He invaded the USSR in 1941 and quickly carried the German armies to the gate of Moscow, but then in December they were pushed back by the Russians. Hitler knew then the war was lost militarily, but hoped that new weapons and strategies would help. As time went on the defeat became more certain, but Hitler refused to give up, but believed that Germany did not deserve to ... he had Married the day before. Hitler had a Charismatic personality of overpowering forcefulness. An amoral man rootless and incapable of a personal friendship, he look at his fellow humans as mere bricks in the world structure he wish to erect. He knew how to appeal to peoples baser instincts and made use of there fears and insecurities. He could not do that, however, only because they were willing to ...
- 8238: Internet History Report
- ... other researchers. In 1984 the National Science Foundation established an office for networking. a number of universities and research groups actually did get access to ARPANET. In 1993, Tim Lee created an interface to the World Wide Web he called Mosaic. The NSF actually funded further development of a Macintosh and Microsoft Windows version of Mosaic through a grant to the University. The first Microsoft Windows version appeared about November of 1993. The Mosaic Web Browser put a pretty face on the Internet. You could navigate the World Wide Web by clicking on links with the mouse. More importantly, it allowed users to add "players" for sound, video clips, or anything else they wanted to add. Today, advanced Mosaic browsers such as Netscape have added other functions quite beyond World Wide Web, including electronic mail. Electronic mail, or E-mail as it is commonly called, was invented by Ray Tomlinson in 1971 as a way of sending messages of the Internet to other users ...
- 8239: Vegetarianism
- Vegetarianism Vegetarianism as defined by The World Book Dictionary (1989) is "the practice or principle of eating only vegetable foods and refraining from eating meat, fish, or other animal products". This definition, though accurate, seems somewhat limited, as being a vegetarian is so much more: it is a lifestyle choice, a way of thinking, and a way of behaving. Over 12 million Americans and countless others, from all over the world, have turned to the vegetarian diet (Vegetarian Times, 1996). People who have become vegetarians have made a conscious choice to be this and, having studied this practice, no one should entertain becoming a vegetarian lightly ... too can flourish on the vegetarian diet if they include, as well, in their education a thorough understanding of what their body will need to perform to it's full potential. There have been several world class athletes who have succeeded in their sports and done it on the vegetarian diet. Six time Ironman winner, Dave Scott, the baseball home run king, Hank Aaron, tennis star, Martina Navratilova and many ...
- 8240: Demanding Greatness: Steroid Use
- ... or for a scholarship.7 The word steroids was hardly heard in the news until the 1988 Olympics. It was announced that Ben Johnson from Canada had taken steroids to help him set the new world record for the 100-meter dash. Now many young athletes realized that they too could use steroids to help their physical appearance. Everyone saw what steroids did for Johnson. He set a new world record. This was not the first time steroids have been used in a professional event. Some studies estimated that up to 80 percent of professional football players, half of all world-class athletes, and 20 percent of college and high school athletes used steroids to help them perform better.8 One million Americans were estimated of taking steroids. Most of them were athletes and bodybuilders. ...
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