20 Century Genius Award Essays and Term Papers
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Livable Cities: Long Beach, Ca & Springfield, Mo
There are perhaps few other cities that could serve as a better model of promoting a “livable city” than Long Beach, California. The city’s troubled downtown, a depression in the early 1990s, and the downsizing of McDonnell Douglas all placed Long Beach on the verge of not being livable. Despite these significant losses and setbacks, Long Beach made an excellent comeback. The plan to make Long Beach livable again was divided into three areas, all
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The Story We Tell
America and Race have a long and entangled history. The concept of Race, like America is a recent invention. Race is an idea constructed by society to further political and economic goals. Race was never just a matter of how you look, it's about how people assign meaning toward how you look. It is ironic that a nation that takes great pride in one the foundation “All men are created Equal” can at the same
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The Entry of the Usa and the Failure of the Ludendorff offensive
The Entry of the USA and the Failure of the Ludendorff Offensive. The Entry of the USA. Both of these factors were very important in determining the outcome of the war. The American factor was important because when America joined the war, it was a critical period for the allies (April 1917). At the time they joined, Britain only had six weeks supply of corn, the French armies were exhausted after Verdun and French morale
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Mineko Iwasaki's Geisha, a Life
Mineko Iwasaki's Geisha, A Life Geisha is a wonderful book for people who want to learn about Japanese culture and the geisha arts. Iwasaki explains the intricacies and politics of the business while telling of her life as a geisha in post-World War II Japan. Reviewer Alyssa Kolsky writes Ў°thereЎЇs something alluring about a book that details the day-to-day minutes of one of the worldЎЇs most fascinating, secretive and oldest professionsЎ± (74). Mineko Iwasaki is
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Capital Punishment
Capital punishment is the ultimate sentence for a criminal. The question many Americans ask themselves today is whether the death penalty serves justice or immorality. The United States is one of the few industrialized countries in the world that continues to use capital punishment. The death penalty is morally wrong. It is the cruel and inhumane taking of a life and fails to eradicate the severe criminal behavior throughout American society. Contrary to popular belief,
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Effects of Industrial Age on Wildlife
Effects of Industrial age on wildlife Lab # 1 06/18/05 As humans continue to advance in technology and increase in population it seems to have possible negative effect on the echo system. I am looking at two specific species, The Ivory-billed woodpecker ( Campephilus principalis), believed to already be extinct until resent sightings, (James Owen for National Geographic News April 28, 2005) and Coyotes (Brian Handwerk for National Geographic News June 7, 2005) Animals are
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Leadership - John Deere
It is common knowledge that John Deere is one of the largest manufacturers of agricultural equipment. Many people looking from the outside think they have a well-oiled machine, which make superior agricultural products. According to Sprinkle and Williamson (2004), the entire industry took a severe downturn in the 1980's. In reaction to this cycle, Deere presented innovative ways to inspire employees and raise moral. Like many companies, John Deere used a standard hourly compensation for
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Hospitality Marketing in Cyprus
1 Executive Summary 2 2 Introduction 3 3 Rationale behind the choice of the country 3 3.1 GDP 3 3.2 Disposable Income 4 3.3 Leisure Expenditure 5 4 Analysis of country’s external environment (Industry Issues) 6 4.1 Political and Legislative Environment 6 4.2 Terrorism and security 6 4.3 Positive growth factors 7 4.4 Negative growth factors 8 4.5 Market Opportunities 9 5 Choice of the entry mode 10 6 Product Marketing 11 6.1 Product 11
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Alzheimer's Disease: Not Just Loss of Memory
Introduction Alzheimer's disease, a neurodegenerative brain disease, is the most common cause of dementia. It currently afflicts about 4 million Americans and is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. Furthermore, Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of mental impairment in elderly people and accounts for a large percentage of admissions to assisted living homes, nursing homes, and other long-term care facilities. Psychotic symptoms, such as delusions and hallucinations, have been reported
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The Call of the Wild
The story first brings us to San Paolo,California.Buck the familys dog is living the high life.His owner treats him the best out of all the dogs.The butler is a bad guy.He takes Buck to a train going to Washington.From there on he rides on a ship to Alaska.On the voyage there he gets taught the law of the club. When he gets there he finds it quite odd to see white everywhere.He has never
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Religion in Ancient Egypt
The religion in Egypt was part of ones life; they believed and worshipped many gods. The faith they held in the gods were big and religion was bound up with their everyday life. The Egyptians are known as one of the most religious people in the world. Usually they turned to the gods to seek advice, help, and approval in decisions and even to assist in childbirth. The Egyptians had many festivals that they celebrate
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Reforms 1825 - 1850
The influence of the Second Great Awakening played a huge role in social reforms in the United States. Between 1825 through 1850, society in the United States was changing due to transitions and the desire for control and order. People found themselves living in social instability and in a society were values were being challenged. Because of the Second Great Awakening, it encouraged an excitement of evangelicalism that led to a movement towards reforms. These
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Men and Women
Men And Women What influences a person’s identity? Is it their homes, parents, religion, or maybe where they live? When do they get one? Do they get it when they understand right from wrong, or when they can read, or are they born with it? Everyone has one and nobody has the same, is there a point in everyone’s life when they get one? A person’s identity is his own, nobody put it there and
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The Social Construction of Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Socialization is the unequal distribution of power, wealth, income and social status between individuals and groups. This distribution is not random, it is patterned and structured. Three important axes of global inequality are gender, race and ethnicity, and class. These inequalities are on a global scale and are found in virtually all societies. It wasn’t until relatively recently, however, that a caste system developed to include race and ethnicity among class and gender. Since
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Media
BAGHDAD - A bomb hit a motorcade carrying Iraq's first lady through Baghdad on Sunday, while the U.S. military said a roadside explosion killed four Marines in the deadliest attack in western Anbar province in months. The motorcade bombing in Baghdad's Karrada district injured four of Hiro Ibrahim Ahmed's bodyguards but left her unharmed, according to the office of her husband, President Jalal Talabani. She was headed to the city's central National Theater to attend
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Taoism
Taoism is known to many as the "way" or "path" that is followed. In The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff uses the characters from Winnie the Pooh to explain the basics of Taoism. By observing the actions of the main characters, he decides that the actions of Pooh best describe Taoism. This book has offered an interesting and understandable entry into the philosophical world of the Taoist. According to the author, the most important principle
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Hinduism Paper
Hinduism Paper Bill Jackson Axia College of University of Phoenix HUM 130 Religions of the World Professor Naomi Doumbia October 21, 2007 Hinduism Paper The term Hindu was introduced by the British in the nineteenth century as term to classify the people who lived near the Indus River (Fisher, 2005, p.69). The term Hinduism was derived from the term Hindu in order to categorize the religion of this same region. The religion of Hinduism
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Diversity in the Workplace
Diversity in workgroups has received an increased amount of attention from researchers and professionals from different disciplines in the past decade. Many different areas of diversity in workgroups have been studied such as process variables, conditions, percentage of effectiveness, conflict and performance (e.g., Dansby & Mickey 1999; Eisenhardt, Pelled, & Xin, 1999). Demographic diversity is an area that is also receiving additional research attention. The term demographic diversity speaks about the age, gender, or
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Outline for a Paper on Abortions
Abortion, the last 25 years I. Introduction 1. Abortion is one of the most controversial and important subjects of this generation A. 1 in 4 of our generation is not living because they were killed before they were born (Statistics) B. There are even voting blocks that vote purely according to the abortion issue 2. Abortion has affected many people A. Most people know others who have had abortions B. 1 out of every 6
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Lcd Panels
Table Contents 1: Introduction……………………………………..pp 3-4 2: Background to the decision………………….….pp 4-8 3: The foundation of the joint-venture S-LCD……..pp 9-15 4: The Overall Success…………………………….pp 16-17 5: Recommendations………………………………pp 17-18 References…………………………………………pp 19-20 1: Introduction We would like to discuss a joint - venture event, which initiated in 2004 undertaking by two hi-tech giants: Sony corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. They collaborated in the production of seventh-generation liquid crystal display (LCD) panels. The companies invested $ 1.8 billion (2.1
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Terrisom in Our Oun Backyard
Terrorism in our own Backyard America is said to be the strongest nation in the world with a passion to provide a culture full of opportunities, freedoms and a land free of terrorism! Recently, we've all watched in horror as our country's dignity was compromised. The 9-11 acts of terror will always be remembered not only for the number of lives that were lost and for the damage done, but because our safe haven was
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Administrative Assistant Career
Introduction A high school diploma, good typing and word processing skills will gradually get you to your suited job: as Administrative Assistant (http://www.careercruising.com/jobdetails_print.asp?LoginID=647926865110602&OccName=Administrative+Assistant March 25 2004). An Administrative Assistant can be categorized into two types: One that may work in an educative environment or one that may work for a business in an office. An Administrative Assistant that may work in an educative environment (school) will basically deal with handling special administrative tasks, student and
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Quantum Mechanincs
Civilisation has advanced as people discovered new ways of exploiting various physical resources such as materials, forces and energies. In the twentieth century information was added to the list when the invention of computers allowed complex information processing to be performed outside human brains. The history of computer technology has involved a sequence of changes from one type of physical realisation to another --- from gears to relays to valves to transistors to integrated circuits
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Let It Pour Case Study
Case Study Analysis "Let it Pour" University of Phoenix CSS 330 Faith Community Hospital has long been a leader in providing quality health care for all members in the neighborhood regardless of race, creed, moral or ethical issues. The staff is comprised of highly qualified, morally and ethically sound personnel available in their respective community. Despite the high quality of care and the well trained personnel, the hospital is currently experiencing financial distress and a
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Box & Jenkins Method
BOX & JENKINS METHOD I. Introduction Many market participants, namely, international investors, banks, non-bank financial institutions, portfolio managers, are interested in coming up with a model, which accurately predicts exchange rates. Managers of multinational corporations are interested in accuracy of such foreign exchange prediction models as it directly impacts their activities relating to exposure management, hedging, arbitraging, investing and financing decisions. Policymakers frequently monitor exchange rates to better understand their impact on trade positions, and
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