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Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt and Use of Satire

live up to its name with a great deal of glass, chrome and a lot of managers and executives with a great deal of attitude but few ...

History and Legacy of the Volkswagen AG Company

such a car (Caryl, 1996). The projects first director, Ferdinand Porsche, was a "nuts-and-bolts" man who was able to help turn Hit...

World History and Ethnic Group Persecution

The main reason why the Huguenots were unpopular with the majority in France during the time period was because they were not of t...

IMF's History and Performance

The International Monetary Fund in an international economic organisation which is a specialised agency of the United Nations (IMF...

US Societal Values and the Progressive Era

since the latter 1800s facilitated greater and greater industrialization. With that industrialization the ethic of hard work beca...

Hebrew History and Yahweh

This will be my name forever; it has always been my name, and it will be used throughout all generations" (Exodus 3:15). "God rep...

Indian Music and the Tabla Drums

the emission of harmonics(Courtney, 2001). Musicians play the tabla (or a smaller one at least) by placing it in their la...

NATO and Nation Membership

clear to them that the road to Prague "runs through Washington" (2002, p.634). What does that mean? Although NATO is made up of a...

Meso American Civilizations of the Aztec, Maya, and Inca

In six pages this essay contrasts and compares these early Meso American civilizations in terms of organizational, agricultural, r...

An Overview of Radar

This research paper offers an overview of radar, its history and its function. The writre also discusses uipdates in this form of ...

Cochran and Miller's 1941 Text The Age of Enterprise

In five pages this paper discusses the still accurate premise for American business articulated by a text originally published bac...

Overview of London, England

poem by the same title that begins: Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: England hath need of...

Overview of the World Trade Organization

The WTO is the focus of this overview that includes history, structure, procedures, and postwar GATT agreement evolution with curr...

Overview of Entamoeba histolytica

Morphologically the two species are identical. They can only be separated using isoenzyme, antigen, and/or DNA analysis (Clark, 2...

FERPA of 1974

educational records (Family Policy Compliance Office, 2001). Once the student reaches the age of 18, the rights under this Act tra...

The Transformation of Cairo into its Modern Counterpart

20 pages and 10 sources. This paper provides an overview of modern Cairo, a city that is completely modern in so many ways, but h...

The Computer Giant Apple

John Scully, who was CEO of Apple at the time, made a devastating mistake (Dohrman, 1997). In 1985, Scully confronted Bill Gates, ...

Multimedia and Communications' History

the greatest change has been in respect to communication. Communications as it exists today has revolutionized business practices ...

The Role of the Venetian Army during the Italian Renaissance

but no one can take away Italys prowess during the time period and the strength of the Venetian Navy is also something significant...

Overview of the Fast Food Industry

In fifteen pages the fast food industry is considered in an overview that includes history that commences with the 1916 opening of...

Overview of the League Of Arab States

countries founding the League are: Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and Egypt (League of Arab States, Foundation,...

Education and its History

in power to remain in power, while those who quite possibly had the talent and ability were relegated to a calling more suited to ...

Comparing U.S. and Japanese Politics

governed by a Prime Minister who is elected by the members of the Diet. The Prime Minister then chooses members of his cabinet, mu...

ISAT

10 be tested (Bettis, 2004). The Illinois Goals Assessment Program (IGAP) was created to "develop competency-based tests" (Bettis,...

Illegal Immigration Issues and America's Agricultural Policies

facets of daily life, from job availability to health care and public education, but the list is growing, even to the long term af...

Workforce Participation Rates

riveter). But with the war, the demand for workers grew, and "everyone" agreed that women would work; they also agreed that the jo...

Poet's Corner of London's Westminster Abbey

waxed poetic when he observed of Poets Corner, "To wander around the Poets Corner along the echoing aisles, and stand in front of...

Review of Cotton Belt to Sun Belt by Bruce Schulman

in Southern states, rather than Northern ones). But Roosevelt wasnt helping the South out of the goodness of his heart - h...

Overview of Lighting for the Stage

play. The lighting designer for a production must fully understand the physical of light and the psychology of human perception an...

Islamic Banking

literature concerning the way in which Islamic law could be satisfied with the creation of an Islamic banking system was exhilarat...