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War Concept and the 'Language of War'

Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...

Kurt Lohbeck's Holy War, Unholy Victory Eyewitness To The CIA's Secret War In Afghanistan

In seven pages this paper reviews Lohbeck's text in an emphasis upon the roles of Islam and the CIA in the author's Afghan reality...

Strategy of "Hard War" and the American Civil War

This research paper explores the topic of "hard war," which was authorized by Lincoln and implemented by Sherman in his March of t...

The Vietnam Wars

The Vietnam war did not just happen. The French had been fighting in Indonesia since the early 1950s. The actual conflicts in Viet...

Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Historical Context

1852.5 Stowes portrayal of the cruelty of slavery generated "horror in the North and outrage in the South," as Southerners perceiv...

Hopkins V. Price Waterhouse

absolve the firm of any culpability served to secure Hopkins victory. The United States Supreme Court heard the appeal and subseq...

Valuing a Target Bond

should be the equivalent of at least 105% of the original investment. However, if there is no risk with the bank and there is gr...

Mexico's Drug Cartel War: United States' Role

United States has long been in battle with itself in an ongoing attempt to control its rampant drug problem, on that clearly stems...

Sun Tzu's "The Art Of War"

those few but powerful pages described how to achieve holism within the esoteric nature of battle. Firing a weapon to kill the en...

Canada and the Cold War

neighbor of the US, "one of the two superpowers defining the post-war world," the Canadian government chose to move "closer to the...

Post-War Adjustment: Literary Comparison

to the soldier, but to his family and the citizens in whose names he fought (Swofford). The author notes how those...

Wal-Mart and Low Prices

The article discusses a little more regarding the profit numbers, and then illustrates that the year of 2008 was a year where cons...

2009; The UK Economy and Scottish Commercial Real Estate

by 3.9% of all production, manufacturing was the weakest, with a decline of 4.6% (This is Money, 2009). Services weakened by 0.5% ...

The Merger of Lloyds TSB with the Royal Bank of Scotland

decision left the bank very vulnerable. The bank was near collapse following the events of the recent credit crunch, wit...

Diet Pepsi; Position, Research and New Marketing Campaign This

own brand colas, at the same, or a similar price to Coca Cola, which is aimed at supporting the idea that this is a premium produc...

TasteeFruit Company Case Study

is only if the causes of negative variances are known and understood that the employees are empowered to help control costs. The...

DYNAMIC PRICING AND AIRLINES

a date of expiration for the seats (once the airline flies, if a seat is empty, it stays empty). Furthermore, capacity is fixed in...

Free Markets and Sustainability

individuals can and do own companies and have the freedom to buy and sell (Hunter, 2003). The goal of these individuals is to ope...

Monsanto as a Global Company

good ideas but failing to capitalize on those ideas. It would prove to be quite sound, however, and even visionary. In order to ...

Microsoft Financial Performance

However, revenues do not necessarily lead to profits. Unless a firm is making profits it is unlikely to survive in the long term. ...

ALCOA - AN OVERVIEW

necessary to produce the aluminum. For Alcoa specifically, the company has seen increasing indebtedness during the past f...

Business Proposal for Mobile Oil Change, LLC

It appeals to businesses that have their own fleet mechanics and those that do not. Those businesses that maintain their own flee...

PRICE DISCRIMINATION AND THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY

2007). After analyzing the costs and markets, the authors came to the conclusion that there was more of a monopoly effect in the a...

Assessing Harley Davidson as an Investment

for as a result of increasing costs, the cost of goods sold in 2007 was 63.1% of the revenue, compared to 61.5% in 2006. In additi...

Baumol's Management Model

are following their own goals they may support the growth of profit, but there may be variance in the way that they support profit...

COMPETITION, PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE AND CIGARETTES

early 1970s, the Marlboro Man continued to dominate advertising; his weather-beaten visage creating a vision of virility and rugge...

Wal-Mart - How the Marketing Mix Satisfies the Target Market

supermarket, and as such sells a wide range of goods, but the service it is offering and the way that it sells may also be seen as...

THE ECONOMICS OF ENERGY: FLUCTUATING GAS PRICES

increases in crude oil, rather than the law of supply and demand (Andrews, 2007). Economists point out that gasoline deman...

Elasticity of Demand

This 8 page paper looks at the influences on elasticity of demand. The concepts and practical use of price elasticity of demand, i...

CARTELS AS EFFECTIVE MARKET STRUCTURES

This 4-page paper suggests that cartels, far from being economic boogeys, are actually efficient when it comes to market pricing a...