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Consumerism Perspectives of Thomas Frank and Susan Strasser

the development and marketing of a product--Procter and Gambles Crisco, a solid vegetable shortening that went on the market in 19...

Iraq War and Weapons of Mass Destruction

his underwear, is humiliation enough. Of course, the primary controversy is not how the war plays out on television, but the idea...

Strategies for The Zune

had a dominant market share. The unit had been developed in order to be attractive ad compete head to head with the iPOd. Microsof...

Mass Extinction: Comparison of Flora and Fauna

may be severely affected by this extinction period as early as 2100. PBS reports that, while scientists like David Jablonski belie...

SOCIAL INFLUENCE THEORIES AND AUDIENCE PERSUASION

The idea behind social influence is that the opinions and enthusiasm of others can encourage, persuade and sometimes force an indi...

Apple’s iPad

similar operating system to that found in the iPhone, with the device controlled by the a multi-touch LCD screen. The device has a...

Fair Trade Goods and Consumer Purchases Patterns

to be the contradictory to the concept of retail therapy and needless spending, but may also be seen as a balance, allowing the pu...

What Do Killers Think

have become far more visible over the last few decades, such as spousal abuse, school violence, child abuse, car-jacking, and so o...

Roberts' The Invisible Heart

is the title of Russell D. Roberts (2002) book and is subtitled an economic romance, and so it actually is a rather humorous title...

Gravitational Force and Mass

planets to their particular courses much like the strength of a string hold a ball in a circular coursed as we twirl it around our...

Push to Pull Manufacturing Method Tools

will need to be two systems running next to each other; the stock cars and the mass customisation. 2. The implementation of a sys...

Discussion Questions on Strategy and Marketing

more targeted micro-marketing" (Mass marketing comes unplugged, 2005), primarily because it is no longer possible to gain a mass a...

The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy

the blog sites of Volpac, a conservative political action committee chaired by Senate majority leader Bill Frist. One of the curr...

Assumptions Made in The Whole World is Watching Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left by Todd Gitlin

destabilization of the movement, while simultaneously promoting moderate alternatives. In the end, Gitlin asserts that me...

America's Democratic History

the Declaration of Independence. While two-thirds of mankind suffers undernourishment, our own upper classes revel amidst superfl...

Hesiod's Fable and Other Similar Works

Four political works in ancient history are examined. Athenian democracy is part of the inquiry but many issues pertinent to polit...

Response to Mass Casuality Events Like Beltway Snipers

Beltway. Initially, law enforcement officers thought there was just one sniper. They responded by processing each crime scene acco...

Athenian Imperialism and Democracy

the war with Persia Athens started to rebuild, but there was an interesting imperialistic view, perceiving all other Greek states ...

The Reforms of Cleisthenes and the Importance of the Trittyes

determined by birth were disposed of and ten trittyes (thirds) were created each called after called after local heroes (Leveque a...

Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (Qaddafi), Dictator of Libya

region. However, this period of calm was fleeting because when the Turkish Empire wrested control from the Arabs, a prolonged per...

Democracy in Europe

and perhaps within nations will act as springboards to the transfer of power to the centre in Europe" (Siedentop, 2001; p. 25), su...

Why Freedom of Speech is Vital to Democracy

apparel policy" ("Court cites landmark student free speech case in finding district unlawfully suspended students for protesting s...

A Comparison Between the British and French Governments

that of Britain. In France, there is the idea that the power is with the people, but in Britain there is a sense that one institut...

Philosophical Critique of Iris Marion Young’s Concept of the Distinction Between Self-Development and Self-Determination

later. In each, she focuses on what she regards as the two most significant values that must be preserved if social justice is to...

The Digital Divide - 6 Blogs

information and communication tools, such as the Internet, and those who cannot" that was given by The Digital Network; which is a...

Funding, Access and Teaching: The Canadian Experience of a Mass System of Higher Education

gradually Canadians as a whole were looked on in that same light. Not only were concepts such as fairness and justness responsibl...

Cultural Diffusion from the Ancient World

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

Democracy in the United States

Is it possible to have a true democracy in these conditions? The outlook is not promising. In a speech at the University of Calif...

Habermas on Nations, States and a European Constitution

the "state on the modern conception is a legally defined term which refers ... to a state power that possesses both internal and e...

Patrimonialism in Syria

is to compare it with Webers concept of patrimonialism where he described a system of leadership that is based upon military perso...