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Andrew Carnegie 2
Number of Words: 1286 / Number of Pages: 5
... areas around the
country. Unfortunately, the ride to these distant destinations was quite uncomfortable. The passengers’ complaints increased.
Theodore Woodruff developed sleeping cars that introduced passengers to more comfortable rides. Through the persuasion of his boss, Carnegie bought a share in this particular company while working for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Carnegie’s boss urged him to purchase one-eighth share in this company. The share’s money supply sharply increased due to the excessive amount of railroad companies that wished to please their passengers.
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Auschwitz 2
Number of Words: 1054 / Number of Pages: 4
... prisoners from occupied Poland and from concentration camps within Germany. Construction of nearby Birkenau (Brzenzinka), also known as Auschwitz II, began in October 1941 and included a women's section after August 1942. Birkenau had four gas chambers, designed to resemble showers, and four crematoria, used to incinerate bodies.
Approximately 40 more satellite camps were established around Auschwitz. These were forced labor camps and were known collectively as Auschwitz III. The first one was built at Monowitz and held Poles who had been forcibly evacuated from their hometowns by the Nazis. Pri ...
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Robinson Crusoe
Number of Words: 461 / Number of Pages: 2
... being a slave in some foreign country and shipwreck, he settled for a while. However, this "settlement" did not last long, as he went on another journey. This journey absolutely turned his life up side down. He and his crew were faced with very violent storm, which in result washed him and himself only, up on the isolated island. Since then, he began his life as a king of the island. He built a home in the cave at the bottom of the cliff, he ate turtles and its eggs (page 64), and he tamed animals and breed them(page 56). It was much easier to write about it, than actually having to do all these ...
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Congresswoman Rep. Maxine Wate
Number of Words: 4354 / Number of Pages: 16
... in the 1980s, international ##### traffickers, and crack cocaine's origins in South Central Los Angeles.
This paper will critically examine some of the speeches, press release, letter and other documents by Rep. Maxine Waters in her quest to "…punish those responsible for creating the devastating drug addition sales, gun-running, violence, and death associated with crack cocaine throughout this nation" (press release 9/5/96). Before I perform a critical analysis, I will examine the history of CIA complicity in drug trafficking which has led up to the allegation by Waters and others. I will also ...
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Descartes
Number of Words: 531 / Number of Pages: 2
... to military, the valued vocation changed in correlation with the valued focus of education. The role of the orator diminished as the role of the soldier increased. In the Greco-Roman times education as an institution was geared to those with time and money, therefore few were able to partake. Clearly if only a small percentage of the populace, in any culture or time-period, has access to information, the impact of that information on society and future generations, as a whole, will be limited.
The medieval education systems' institutions have impacted Education comparably to those of the Greco-Roma ...
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Chernobyl
Number of Words: 1731 / Number of Pages: 7
... impact the course of Soviet events without exaggeration. (Gale 27) In my paper I will discuss the causes and effects of the accident.
Human error is what basically caused the disaster. (Medvedev 1) These operators of the fourth unit slowly allowed power in the reactor to fall to low levels as part of a controlled experiment gone wrong. The purpose of the test was to observe the dynamics of the RMBK reactor with limited power flow. Twelve hours after power reduction was initiated, power reached 50 percent. (Medvedev 36-39) Only one turbine was needed to take in the decreased amount of steam, s ...
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Hamilton Vs. Jefferson
Number of Words: 589 / Number of Pages: 3
... by Hamilton, could be checked only by the informed masses provided for under Jeffersons plan. On a broader aspect, Hamilton wanted to expand the beuracracy, as well as enable the strong federal government to establish numerous tariffs and limits on free speech and free expression rights. Jefferson held strong to his beliefs of a weak central government needed only to secure individual rights and equal treatment of citizens. On the issue of a national bank, Hamilton believed that anything that was not forbade in the Constitution was to be allowed and thus supported a national bank in order to control ...
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Netherlands
Number of Words: 632 / Number of Pages: 3
... urbanized; about 27% of the people live in cities of more than 100,000 inhabitants, and another 62% inhabit smaller cities and towns. The largest cities are, the capital, Amsterdam; one of the worlds leading seaports, Rotterdam; the nation’s administrative center, The Hague; and a manufacturing hub, Utretch. The official language of the is Dutch, which is spoken throughout the country. Roman Catholics constitute about 33% and Protestants about 25% of the Dutch population. From the time of the reformation the 16th century, the has had a high level of basic education and comparatively high liter ...
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New York Times Co. V. United S
Number of Words: 257 / Number of Pages: 1
... Daniel Ellsberg,
a minor writer in the Pentagon Papers. The Times published these papers bit
by bit until the Nixon administration sought an injunction on the Times to
stop publication. The Supreme Court found that the First Amendment did not
permit an injunction against the Times.
The issue here is weather or not
the First Amendment applies to federal papers, and weather prior restraint
is unconstitutional. Also, can the government seek an injunction on a press
to halt publication of such documents, even in cases of national security.
The Supreme Court Ruled 6-3 in favor of the New York Times, ...
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Labor Unions
Number of Words: 605 / Number of Pages: 3
... increases. Second, labor costs should be a small portion of the total costs of production, so that a rather large increase in wages would generate only a small increase in the price of the product. Third, the supply of factors that can be used as substitutes for union labor, such as nonunion labor or labor-saving machinery, should be inelastic, so that their price rises substantially as more units are employed. Fourth, the ability of these factors to substitute for union labor should be highly limited; it would be hard to substitute for workers with very high skil! ls or skills that are highly specific ...
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