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Microsoft and Bill Gates

1973, while at Harvard University, Gates and friend Steve Ballmer, now Microsofts chief executive officer, developed a new version...

Controversy of I, Rigoberta Menchu

benefits which had been gained from the experience, since this would be counter-productive in terms of the effect on the reader....

WTO's Controversial Position

its advantages as well as its disadvantages. If we wish to consider the role of the World Trade Organisation we need to consider...

Sentencing That is Indeterminate v. Determinate

minimums with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (1994). Since that time, stiffening or adding to mandatory minimums has ...

Government and its Purpose

and the death penalty should be outlawed and that murdering animals should also be against the law. These are really the only conc...

United Kingdom and United States' Private Printing and Vanity Publishing Industries

talent and new innovative ideas. It is worth noting that texts which are printed privately do not only include the experimental ...

Controversies Surrounding the Los Alamos Laboratory

"It seems sensible to this author to cut off concern with the risks accompanying exposure to manmade radiation at some sensible fr...

Traditional Scheduling vs. Block Scheduling

class for a longer period of time (Irmsher, 1996). For example: * Alternative day schedules mean that six or eight courses are spr...

Controversy Over Schools Being Open All Year

15 days of vacation. * The 60/20 plan. The year is divided into three equal groups, with 60 school days followed by 20 days of va...

Controversy Regarding the Elderly and Prescription Drug Coverage

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

Church of Scientologists International Lawsuit Against Time Warner

teaching and counseling that can cost thousands of dollars. They have hundreds of centers throughout the nation and by all appeara...

Are Cesarean Section Rates Too High?

physicians to their patients for cesarean procedures, rather than risk incurring suit by allowing a woman to go through the vagina...

House of Representatives and Proportionality

other house. Thus it is of a complicated nature; and this complication, I trust, will be found to exclude the evils of absolute co...

An Architectural View of Centre Georges Pompidou

capacity for developing "strong feelings about a design" (6). This pair of architects burst onto the international scene in 1977...

Education for the Deaf

part of its grammar and utilizes space to impart nuances of meaning. For example, the word "look," can be changed to mean "grace, ...

Injury and Safety Impacts of Bicycle Helmet Laws

enter emergency departments as a result of bicycle accidents (Business Wire, 1997). Over sixty percent of those individuals who d...

Historical Overview of Voodooism

African for Spirit(Corbett). "Vodou is tolerant. It receives. It honors and respects us all as though we were gifts. It tells us t...

Elitism and The British Broadcasting Corporation from 1922 to 1939

was introduced within two weeks of the BBC forming, and would act as a barrier to radio ownership, as ten shillings was a great de...

College Sports and Gambling

of the athletes (Sports Wagering, 2003). The NCAA argues that sports wagering of any kind "demeans the competition and competitor...

Controversy of Applying Genetic Engineering to Foods

the production of GE foods. Lastly, many of the same companies which produce GE pesticide resistant crops are the same companies w...

Issues, Reforms, and Controversy Associated with the CAP

consumers at reasonable prices (EU, 2001). Article 34 of the EC Treaty also adds the creation of the "common organization of the...

Reproductive Technology and Identity

to be inferior (Chesterton, 1922). The idea behind this premise was to protect the American "identity" which in many ways was stil...

Twenty First Century Gun Control

gun control is that the existence, or presence, of guns in a private citizens home leads to more violence. Statistics have often i...

The Language of Black America: African American Vernacular English (AAVE)

the verb to be, such as in he be hollering at us (Powell, 1997). Other aspects of this dialect is to drop the consonants at the en...

Controversy Surrounding the Harvard Comma's Use

bread, and turkey and dressing" meant to be understood that the "turkey and dressing" were together as one item but "bread" and th...

Teaching Reading

explained the bottom up model: "the reader first identifies features of letters; links these features together to recognize letter...

Pyramide du Louvre by I.M. Pei

controversial as the actual building. (An adjective often preceding his name is "iconic.") For one thing, the idea that an America...

Controversy Over Abercrombie and Fitch Catalogs

serious campaign. In some way, one could say that the A&F strategy is to attack, then retreat and lie low for awhile and then wage...

The Controversy over Bilingual Education

this program allows children to retain their heritage and their home culture (Rothstein 672). Further, proponents comment that som...

Roles of Tobacco Scientists

In his book, Question of Intent (which basically blows the lid sky-high off the shenanigans in the tobacco industry), author David...