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GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD AND ITS IMPACT

The roots of the GASB were actually launched in 1906 as the National Association of Comptrollers and Accounting Officers (Foltin, ...

Populism

formed a political party, the "Peoples Party or Populists" (Agricultural discontent, 2007). While the Populists goals were basical...

Appalachia: Culture and Social Problems

The mountain peoples who populate the mountainous regions of the southern Apalachias are, by majority, the descendants of English ...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...

Analysis of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

case of Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the district court prevented the state or ...

Americans Obsession With Gasoline

molecules are broken up into lighter molecules by means of heat, pressure, and sometimes catalysts" (Bellis, 2009). This process...

Long-Term Care in Canada and Finland

nursing home care is now so expensive seniors cant afford it; in others, it is unavailable because of demand (Clancy, 2009). "In s...

Tension Between Individual and Group in Sophocles’ Oedipus Trilogy

Oedipus as the helmsman of a ship confronting a storm or as a metaphor describing King Oedipus himself and the plague his patricid...

Nature in Narratives of Americanness Between 1840 and 1860

beginning of this countrys history. Emerson is also noted for his preference for the simpler things in life and for his love of n...

A Look at the Role of the Historian

different definitions. That is, different people see history in different ways. There is a debate over presentism where there is d...

Adolescent Observation And Developmental Analysis

the teacher did not see it. This is interesting because Tyler achieves As and Bs in all this classes. This particular class was Wo...

Hewlett Packard; Analysis and Strategic Plan

This 25 page paper looks at Hewlett Packard and its history, including the merger with Compaq, assesses the current position and t...

Impact of Imperialism on South Africa

racism and the politics of apartheid or separatism between blacks and whites. This resulted in a history fraught with turmoil, wa...

Cocoa's Sustainability

was prohibitively expensive because of high import tariffs on cocoa beans, and only the truly wealthy could afford to buy it. Joh...

The Rise of the AFL

we are slaves! (Journal of United Labor, May 1881)" (Hallgrimsdottir; Benoit, 2007; 1393). This was referred to as wage slavery be...

African Americans: History, Culture, Families, Beliefs and Religion

African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...

The History of Microsoft

Harvard, and Allen enrolled at University of Washington, only to drop out and work at Honeywell (Lesinski, 2006). It was 19...

The Relevance of Whitney's Cotton Gin

made life easier. Prior to the invention, one person might spend an entire day picking the seeds out of a pound of cotton (Yanak &...

The Great Depression and the 2009 Economic Recession

overnight. As Smiley observes, in the years preceding the Great Depression, "the United States had achieved a higher degree of co...

American Nationalism

Germany, historically, Turkish families who have lived in Germany for generations are not regarded as German (Ignatieff, 1995). ...

Microsoft Zune

may want to preserve, but there seems to be little complaint about that among current customers. The Zune made a reasonable...

Immigration, Pros and Cons

human rights, democracy and peace is the standard," then European immigration to North America can be regarded as a blessing; how...

Ship Registry and Certification

Kyokai (ClassNK), 1899 * River Register of 1913: Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS) * Croatian Register of Shipping (CRS),...

The Relevance of the History of Philosophy

they at least try not to have affairs. They give to charity, pay attention to raising their young, and also model a good example f...

Transformations of Hagia Sophia

second fire, it was reconstructed yet again by Justinian I (Justinian the Great) during the sixth century. Due in large part to J...

The Great Depression

nonmember banks so that the deposits would be secured by the government (Auerbach and Kotlikoff 406). This means that the governme...

Book Review of Joseph J. Ellis’ His Excellency: George Washington

that George Washington was fueled foremost by ambition. He wrote, "Ambitions this gargantuan were only glorious if harnessed to a...

NIKE INC. AN OVERVIEW AND STRATEGIC FUTURE

Phil Knight and track coach Bill Bowerman met in the late 1950s at the University of Oregon (Nike Inc., 2009). Bowerman, who liked...

The Quality of Perugina Baci Chocolates

years, but this was a good thing for Perugina ("The history of Perugina," 1999). In 1929, Giovanni Buitoni was introduced to Musso...

Observations in History, Nationalism, and Military Strategy and Technology

measuring stick against which all the answers to all the questions could be compared to see if they measured up. Not only was sci...