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Firestone Tires and Ford Explorers

In eleven pages the fiasco involving Firestone tires and Ford Explorers is examined. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

Underlying Issues Behind the Ford Explorer and Firestone Tire Deaths

This paper addresses the recent tragedy caused by the defective Firestone tires on Ford Explorers that blew out causing over one h...

Innovative Thinking of Sir Francis Drake

In nine pages explorer Sir Francis Drake is examined in a consideration of his innovative perspectives, his privateering, and his ...

Capitalism Growth and European Explorers

character that had not been seen with the Roman empire (Hooker, 1996). The Europeans in medieval times basically learned about mer...

Internet Explorer, Netscape

browser statistics compiler indicates that 76.1% of visitors employ Netscape Navigator and only 4.1% use Internet Explorer" (Wingf...

Microsoft's Decision to Offer Multiple Internet Browser Options with Windows 7

presence ion the market. One Microsoft themselves may been arguing that despite spending such a large amount of development they ...

Spanish America

milestones in the history of Europe. The Portuguese, Spanish and French explorers who set out to see what lay beyond the horizon c...

Dora the Explorer and Immigration Policy

U.S. illegally (Martinez). While the Nickelodeon cartoon show has never specified what country Dora is from, the assumption is, wi...

The Rise and Fall of Civilizations Between 1500 and 1815

world population was only about 425 million and most of those people lived in Asia (Roberts 279). Hence, Asia had quite a lot of p...

Explorer Captain Cook

not only new, but incredibly accurate and are still even used today (Captain Cook, 2005). His journeys covered over 8 years wherei...

The Reconquista and the Spanish Explorers

most of Spain was united; the exception was Navarre, "which remained separate until 1512" (Reconquista, 2006). Spain, like most c...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Student Submitted Case Study on Spelunkean Explorers

their companions, the group made a pact. They decided that if they are truly starving, they would sacrifice one member of the grou...

8 Significant Anglo Americans Who Lived Between the Years 1607 and 1763

metaphor to rule on cases concerning separation of church and state (1998). Daniel Boone is a legend. Like Jefferson, he was bor...

Overview of the Microsoft Antitrust Case

fence replied: "Thats crazy. Microsoft is on a rampage, and the Department of Justice should rein the company in" (1995, p.106). ...

Journal Entries of Christopher Columbus

history select, describe, and explain historical evidence -- and thereby interpret" (p. 26). The end result is that, as MacLeod al...

Management and Ethics

on factory-installed Firestone tires, the Ford Explorer fliped over and death and injury resulted. Each company made public only ...

Early Accounts of American Colonial Life

have long been "possessed" by adventurers, as this act would eternalize "the memory of those that effected it" (Smith). As this su...

The American Dream: Harper Lee and John Steinbeck

who is noble, honest, and humble. He fights for the rights of an African American accused of raping a white woman even though the ...

Changing American Ideology and the John F. Kennedy Assassination

John Fitzgerald Kennedy is one of the more vividly remembered presidents in US history....

Letters from an American Farmer and the Writings of J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Once the American Revolution ended, Cr?vecoeur was appointed French counsel at New York, where he remained for a long time. While...

St. John De Crevecoeur's Essay 'What Is An American'

from the soil and the sweat of their labor. European society, in contrast, had institutionalized class divisions that kept the ric...

John Collier and Native American Policy

the federal money was also being used on boarding schools which were clearly not something that benefited the native people in any...

American Dream in John Steinbeck's Tortilla Flat

"Tortilla Flat" set in Monterey, California tells of a tale of several wanderers who end up staying at the homes of Danny which we...

William Bradford and Captain John Smith as Examples of American Colonial Writers

to tell its readers of the new lands and enterprises they had acquired and fought for (Bassett: Smith, 2002). The first historian...

American Life Duality and the Tradition of John Locke

to living their lives at the mercy of their rulers. The vote for colonial democracy was a vote for the freedoms that are intrinsi...

American Dream and the Writings of John Steinbeck

the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out...

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and American Transcendentalism

The American transcendentalism philosophy and how it is represented by the character of Jim Casy are discussed in this analysis of...

John Steinbeck's Writings and 'the American Eden'

In 6 pages this paper discusses how Eden is metaphorically depicted in John Steinbeck's portrayal of America in such texts as Cann...

The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck and Eroding American Morality

In 5 pages this paper examines how author John Steinbeck addresses the issue of eroding morality in America in his novel The Winte...