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Traditional Travel Agencies versus Internet Travel Agencies

a wider audience of potential clientele. Currently, Expedia services myriad hotels worldwide, including Radisson Hotels Worldwide...

Class Roles, Political Changes, and Their Impacts Upon Socialism, Monarchies, and Democracies

people and it is the people who decide the issues through elections. Theoretically, democracies should be formed for a long term b...

Garcilaso de la Vega's Poetry and Love

as the vital key, where one sings to their beloved in life and after death, supporting themselves within a delicate and austere sc...

Mexican Cement Company CEMEX

the latter 1980s and the 1990s, mainly through acquisitions (Podolny and Roberts, 1999). What also helped was liberalization of fo...

Venezuela Independence and the Ideals of Francisco de Miranda

Both the similarities and the differences in conditions in the new United States and in Venezuela fascinated Miranda. He notes in...

Late 19th Century European Imperialism

see how there were many commonalities. Many of the gains made by Britain were focused on the African continent. The desire...

Overview of De Havilland Aircraft Company

crew training, and flying the plane long distances, the Comet was awarded its certifications for flying passengers (Aerospaceweb.o...

Mass Media and Global Communications

with the technology that allows instantaneous communication and fast transportation has made it possible to communicate to almost ...

How Contemporaries Depicted Hernan Cortes and Christopher Columbus

The first impression that we get is that Cortes is a determined and logical man. He attempts this journey, and has to overcome...

Predictions of Alexis de Tocqueville and the Survival of Native Americans

which Tocqueville noted between white and red, between savage and civilized, was an ever-present factor, in fact in the interactio...

A Diamond Industry Study

considered the jewels of the extremely wealthy - diamonds and mink go together, it seems, much like coffee and milk. In short, whe...

Reaction to the Works of Claude Debussy and Claude Monet

observing the ships that crowd the harbor. Their serenity provides an interesting contrast to the business of the ships, and the c...

Martin Luther, Erasmus, and Ferdinand Magellan's Medieval World Influence

in wanting to make this important voyage, it wasnt long before the King of Portugal became jealous. It did not take Magellan long...

Kate Chopin's and Guy de Maupassant's Writing Style

incredibly natural and part of the environment so to speak. Or, as Zimmerman states, "If observation from nature imprints upon his...

Medieval Epic Beowulf and its 3 Battles

is in danger, and perhaps also eager to gain some fame through the process. His character is somewhat innocent, but yet no less wi...

A Case Study of De Beers

In five pages the 'Supplier of Choice' campaign by De Beers is examined in terms of competitior reaction and company strategies th...

Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut

faced with whitewashed Gunite (sprayed concrete) and a roof of contrasting beton brut. Formally and symbolically, however, this s...

Literature and Class Division

tells her friend the story until years later when they ran into each other by chance. What Mathilde Loisel did was difficult an...

Literary Critique of Guy de Maupassant's 'The Necklace'

the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...

Goods, Free Movement, and European Union Law

however, it is also very definite in the way that it is only to be used where there is a genuine case, and not as a form of trade ...

'The Plague' of Albert Camus

Rieux, who is preoccupied with the departure of his ill wife to a sanatorium, finds a dead rat. This event heralds the onset of on...

Saint Augustine of Hippo and Plato's Influence

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

Anthropology and Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios

as treasurer. With two other Spaniards and an Arab Moor, he was the only survivor who remained on the mainland," thus setting the ...

Don Quixote Character Analysis

servant and friend, Sancho Panza, he experiences successes and times of humiliation until he is finally forced by defeat to return...

Literacy and Religion

their function was only to labour. As Wood (2002) points out, historians tend to measure levels of literacy by the percentage of a...

Charles Manson's Personality Profile

It has also been pointed out those with active or high fantasy prone imaginations are more apt to be able to become serial killers...

Biography of Evita Peron

old enough to venture out on her own, Evita - whose beauty helped open many a door of opportunity - sought an acting career in Bue...

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...

Metaphors and Themes in Works of Louis De Bernieres and Primo Levi

make an appearance in the book until nearly mid-way through. However, it is quickly understood, once he appears, that he and his m...

François de La Rochefoucauld and Blaise Pascal

pessimistic about human beings and their propensity toward self-love. He thinks of virtually all human relationships as being driv...