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Human Development Index and the Human Development Program of the United Nations

included many notables who would go on to be awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science (Mendez, 2002). Harry S. Truma...

Post 1945 History of Africa

South Africa hardening apartheid in that country (Camelot, 2002). 1950s: The 1950s saw a great surge of nationalism and independen...

Ethics and Socrates' Philosophy

some sort of graft then the government will also. Socrates, if one reads any of Platos works, seems to be a...

Background and Analysis of the UNIX OS

and users the opportunity to use their computer systems to their maximum advantage. Its probably safe to say that if not for UNIX,...

Overview of 'Fannie Mae'

would otherwise be unable to qualify for a mortgage loan to do so (Hoovers, 2003). In short, Fannie Maes core mission is to make h...

Overview of SCHIP

coverage ("State Childrens" PG) A child who is an inmate in a public institution or is a patient in an institution for mental dis...

Amtrak's Importance

Boston and Washington, D.C. and encompasses about 70% (2001, p.PG) of Amtraks service. That service is provided by conventional ...

Overview of Northwestern Russia

to deal with inclusive of air pollution, soil contamination and groundwater contamination from toxic waste (2003). While huge, the...

Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the Present

the cause (2003). Again, while today it seems that psychology has focused on physical causes, as history progressed from ancient t...

American English Compendium by Marv Rubinstein

slang and colloquialisms (of the world) smack of American English (1), and that this is true even in England. He credits this fact...

Canadian Healthcare System

federal government provides direct health care services to specific demographic groups: "First Nations people living on reserves; ...

Information Privacy and Web Pages

In fact, that has been the case in more than one instance in the past (Hoy, Grubbs, and Phelps, 2003)....

Windows: A Key Technology in the Development of Multimedia Computing

Such was not to immediately be the case, however. DEC canceled the project in its preliminary stages and the world would have to ...

History of U.S. Sexual Harassment Legislation

simple discrimination against women (Wyatt, Background, 2000). One of the bases of their arguments was that the women harassed wer...

The Park and the People A History of Central Park by Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar

4) Redefining Central Park; 5) The Nineteenth-Century Park in the Twentieth-Century City; and, 6) The Past Fifty Years, in additio...

LA's Skid Row

gangs and as the home to businesses which are plagued with a host of problems indigenous to the area. But Skid Row wasnt always t...

History of Texas and the 'Runaway Scrape' Battle

their homes and their towns to somewhere out of Texas that would be safe (Bredeson, 1996, See also Texans Return to 1836, 2001)....

Overview of ILO

(International Labour Organization, 2003). * management development (International Labour Organization, 2003). * labour law and in...

Washington State's Mt. St. Helens' Eruptions

In six pages this overview of Washington State's Mt. St. Helens' region includes history, eruption in 1980 and its effects, and fu...

Special Education/Literature Review

Itards efforts to help the child are widely acknowledged as constituting the beginnings of the history of special education (Smith...

American Ethnic Literature

do, and does if people are given the opportunity to study and read such work. While many could well associate Amy Tans work...

Religion in the History of Early America

faculties, they "won admirers by their eloquence" (Norton et al 33). The Jesuits drew on science to predict "solar and lunar eclip...

Leadership Models

"Factory System model" of leadership that was prevalent in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries called for management lead...

Civil War Issues

as part of equally bad legislation; and finally, it led directly to violence such as that which earned "Bleeding Kansas" its dread...

Uninsured Americans - The Racial Demographic

and whites (Overview of the uninsured ..., 2005). The picture is somewhat better for African-Americans. They comprise 12% of the...

Overview of MSAs

In six pages Medical Savings Accounts are examined in an overview of their history, evaluation of pros and cons, and current statu...

US Unions and Collective Bargaining

In six pages this paper examines the union history of the United States in an overview that considers the collective bargaining pr...

Overview of Spain

period, the dissolution of the Moroccan state culminated in an unpopular war (PG). The Spanish civil war began in 1936 and did n...

General Information About the USA

This paper presents a general information overview of the United States and includes history, culture, and population diversity in...

Organized Crime in Japan and the Yakuza

The Yakuza organized crime organizations of Japan are discussed in twenty five pages in an overview of history, participation, gan...