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Past, Present, and Future of the Brokerage and Banking Industry

In thirty pages this paper examines the importance of brokerage firms in a consideration of how banks are no longer the only 'fina...

School Prayer Case of Santa Fe, New Mexico

In seven pages this paper discusses the Santa Fe case involving school football games and prayer invocations prior to the games. ...

Greek Games, Now and Then

This research report examines customs, events, and for example meanings of the Phaeacians' games. Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aen...

Societal Perspectives of John Kenneth Galbraith and Adam Smith

differences. Some have suggested that Smith, whose real name is George Goodman, has a more cynical view of society. Goodman seems ...

Greek Culture and the Original Olympic Games

of the Games. Whether they existed before that year is unknown, and there was debate many years ago as to whether 776 BC could be...

Blackjack and Card Counting

In five pages this paper examines Blackjack in this overview that considers the game's history and various strategies to improve w...

Platform Game PACT Analysis

a mixture of male and females, but with a skew to males as these are the dominant user group. However, where the platform has the ...

The Contribution of Game Theory to Collective Bargaining and Negotiation in Contemporary British Industrial Relations

2000). When we look at the way the decision making process is followed in any firm or individual then it is likely that at some po...

Baseball History: The 1919 White Sox Fix

begin to see that different stakeholders involved had different concerns. The owners were divided. They realized that money would ...

Parents should be banned from their children's sport activities

feel their children are being treated unfairly, and this is the situation that sparked the fight in Boston. How should such incide...

Modern Computing and PC Gaming

play in a variety of demographic groups. Players in the 20s, 30s, 40s and even 50s are on-line playing these interactive games. ...

CORPORATE CULTURE AND ELECTRONIC ARTS (EA)

its developers very well (Evil Empire, 2005). These days, with hot licenses in hand, theyre leading the industry in games producti...

Strategy Decisions; To Compete or Co-operate?

investment made to support a belief or idea rather than to create a profit, but even where this occurs the firm need to remain via...

Nash Equilibrium in the Goal Kicking Game

a player to make a random selection, where at least one player has this choice there is the result of a mixed strategy Nash equili...

Soccer, Culture and Identity

was that team members would be consistent, playing for an entire season, which would engender the building of self esteem, with th...

Responsible Drinking and "Drinking Games" by Malcolm Gladwell

laborers concentrated on working long hours. In addition, during the parties themselves, there were no emotional outbursts or act...

Play and Active Gaming

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at active gaming. Traditional play is compared to the exercise offered by active gaming...

New York City and Asian American High School Students

Asians account for only 13 percent of the high school student population but they account for a disproportionately large percentag...

Causes and Effects of the Mexican-American War

north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they...

Understanding the Relationship Among Nations Through the Use of Game Theory

$50 billion due to the events of September 11, they are reluctant to willingly allow insurance coverage due to the inability to ca...

Moscow's 1980 Olympic Games and Russia's Popular Culture

towards the attack, the United States Olympic team boycotted the event. "In 1980 it was a symbolic stand, backed up with all sort...

The Origins of Baseball Terminology

are the batter being on deck or in the hold. The ocean is not the only place that baseball owes its colorful vocabulary to. Appar...

Comparative Analysis of Cherokee and Appalachian Native American Cultures

quite unique as well and has played a significant role in shaping various aspects of the culture. Three parallel belts of distinc...

American Trucking Industry and the Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement

cost thousands of US jobs. None of those unions has been as successful as the Teamsters, however (No truck with free trade; NAFTA...

Drug Culture of America

of recreational drugs became popular in the 1960s, due in large part to Dr. Timothy Leary who coined the phrase, "turn on, tune in...

Popular Culture and its Effects

effort to the point where one can hardly find a flag in a store anywhere. George Lipsitz states that "For all of their triviality ...

Comparative Analysis of Japanese and American Cultures

report similar sentiment from adults, particularly those who play golf and were gratified to play for far less than the $200 custo...

Wal-Mart Company Culture

controversial because of their human resource practices. Many employees are very loyal to the company and yet, they have had more ...

A Look at the Arab Culture

might have on their nations women, did not want them to enter the country" (p.26). In general, Saudi women are not allowed outside...

Steven Johnson/Everything Bad is Good For You

that the judgment of future generations as to what is valuable and what is in error in the past is frequently surprising. In other...