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  • Economic Concepts Worksheet

    Economic Concepts Worksheet

    Economic Concepts Worksheet Concept Application of Concept from Personal Experience Reference to Concept in Reading Scarcity and Choice means that people want more than what is available. I worked for a clothing store and I was there for a long while and I figured that I would ask or a raise or see how I could get a promotion and get more money, well the manager of the store told me that there was no

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Fatih
  • What Were the Major Political and Socio-Economic Changes Introduced by the British Colonial Authorities in Kenya. What Did the Authorities Seek to Achieve by These Changes?

    What Were the Major Political and Socio-Economic Changes Introduced by the British Colonial Authorities in Kenya. What Did the Authorities Seek to Achieve by These Changes?

    What were the major political and socio-economic changes introduced by the British colonial authorities in Kenya. What did the authorities seek to achieve by these changes? When the British colonised Kenya in the late nineteenth century they brought about many political and socio-economic changes, including changing the mode of production to capitalist, the introduction of an improved infrastructure and the establishment of chiefs in 1906 when Britain established affective political control over the Kenyan people,

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    Essay Length: 890 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Economic Impact of Sept 11

    Economic Impact of Sept 11

    Economic impact of Sept 11 September 11, 2001 was a day that Americans and the world for that matter will not soon forget. When two planes went into the twin towers of the World Trade Center and two others went into the Pentagon and a small town in Pennsylvania, the world was rocked. Everyone in the United States felt very vulnerable and unsafe from attacks that might follow. As a result, confidence in the CIA,

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    Essay Length: 1,401 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Monika
  • China one Child Policy

    China one Child Policy

    China’s “One-Child” policy is a temporary “solution” to solving overpopulation in the world’s largest country. This policy states that couples living in urban areas are only aloud to have one child. This policy does not apply to citizens living in rural areas and minorities. I have read that it is restricted to ethnic Han Chinese living in urban areas, the policy however does fluctuate and adapts depending on circumstance and environment. There are few exceptions

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    Essay Length: 425 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Bred
  • Society’s Drug Policies - Drug Problems

    Society’s Drug Policies - Drug Problems

    Society’s Drug Policies Introduction In the world today there are many policies and ways to deal with the use and abuse of illegal drugs. The abuse of drugs alone has been shown to cause negative economic, social, and mental problems in society. This negative externality is a problem in almost every society but each society has developed different ways of approaching this issue. In this portfolio, I will review two different views that policy makers

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    Essay Length: 1,033 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Steve
  • Government Corruption

    Government Corruption

    Over the last few years, the issue of corruption--the abuse of public office for private gain--has attracted renewed interest, both among academics and policymakers. There are a number of reasons why this topic has come under recent inspection. Corruption scandals have toppled governments in both major industrial countries and developing countries. In the transition countries, the shift from command economies to free market economies has created massive opportunities for the appropriation of rents, excessive profits,

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    Essay Length: 1,149 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Economic and Political Causes for the American Revolution

    Economic and Political Causes for the American Revolution

    There were many reasons for the American Revolution. Two of them were the economic and political changes that the colonies were going through. Only the southern colonies were bound to England by the tobacco trade and the New England and Middle Colonies, unable to find markets in Britain. Any attempt to stop this trade would lead to rebellion and consequentially ensued. This was a restriction upon economic prosperity of the New England colony. England had

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    Essay Length: 378 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • Social & Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina

    Social & Economic Impact of Hurricane Katrina

    In the last century in the United States there have been approximately sixty-five-hundred deaths incurred from hurricanes when taking into consideration only the top twenty deadliest. The numbers are incredibly difficult to verify when trying to account for a cumulative total and become especially staggering if taking into consideration the more than sixteen-hundred lives lost just last year in Hurricane Katrina, which was the second deadliest hurricane known to the United States. (source 5) While

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    Essay Length: 1,730 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • Americas Economic Debate

    Americas Economic Debate

    Government that governs least governs best.” Thomas Jefferson 43% percent of the National Income (spending) is controlled by state and local sectors instead of the prominent private sector. Why do they immediately control how deep in debt the whole country is in? In the end it is the following generation that will unwillingly be endowed with this record high national debt and growing deficit. It is said that in America our government has marginal influence

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    Essay Length: 1,574 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Vika
  • This Research Paper Explores the Intricacies of Technology, Training and Education as Related to Economic Development.

    This Research Paper Explores the Intricacies of Technology, Training and Education as Related to Economic Development.

    Introduction This Research Paper explores the intricacies of technology, training and education as related to economic development. We will examine the usage of technology to generate economic development and growth and look at how technology can and has impacted our education, training and development both in Jamaica and the Caribbean region. Table of Contents Introduction 2 Table of Contents 3 What is Technology? 4 How Technology fits into the 21st Century Landscape 5 Technology transfer?

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    Essay Length: 411 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: July
  • Economic Look at Toothpaste Industry

    Economic Look at Toothpaste Industry

    The toothpaste industry is a monopolistic competitive market. There are several different brand names available to the consumer all with varying claims. Some toothpaste varieties are designed to give surface whiting to the user. Other varieties focus on fluoride and still others purport to give the user fresher breath. There are even toothpastes available that offer help for sensitive teeth. Whatever the consumer is in need of for their dental health there is bound

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    Essay Length: 531 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Monika
  • Corporate Governance and Investor Activism

    Corporate Governance and Investor Activism

    Tenacious headlines and publications of institutional investor discontent and activism continue to emerge within the world’s financial news. Since the concentration and span of ownership by institutional investors is increasing worldwide their influence has grown considerable as well as their willingness to use it. Large potential benefits of their input into the monitoring process of management boards is also recognised and activism is encouraged by various committee reports, such as illustrated by the Combined Code

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    Essay Length: 2,864 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Jack
  • Privacy and Public Policy

    Privacy and Public Policy

    While not expressly written in the Constitution nor any amendments, we, as citizens of the United States of America, have an inherent right to privacy. The framers clearly understood the need for privacy, where the need for anonymity at that time was also a matter of life or death. They also understood the power of information. Thomas Jefferson is credited with saying “[i]nformation is the currency of democracy.” In fact, information is power. We are

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    Essay Length: 849 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Mike
  • Social, Political and Economic Effects of Ww 1

    Social, Political and Economic Effects of Ww 1

    Social, Political and Economic Effects of WWI "Everywhere in the world was heard the sound of things breaking." Advanced European societies could not support long wars or so many thought prior to World War I. They were right in a way. The societies could not support a long war unchanged. The First World War left no aspect of European civilization untouched as pre-war governments were transformed to fight total war. The war metamorphed Europe socially,

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    Essay Length: 2,165 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Economic Systems

    Economic Systems

    Economic System “Resources are scarce but demands are unlimited.” (Anderton, 2000: 273) Therefore, resources have to be allocated in terms of what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to produce. (Case & Fair, 2004) Economic system is a way of answering the three basic economics problem. “An economic system is a collection of laws, institutions and, activities, that provide a framework for economic decision-making.” (http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/lesson2.htm) Each part of it interacts with each other

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    Essay Length: 1,220 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Corporate Governance

    Corporate Governance

    Abstract The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that those companies which are more multinationals have higher corporate governance practices. While analyzing the two companies, Bozec’s recent empirical research on corporate governance was regarded. The first section of this study determines whether the companies are domestic or multinational and the second part of the study compares corporate governance practices of the two companies. The results justify precision of empirical research conducted by Bozec. Introduction

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    Essay Length: 1,601 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: July
  • Media Effects on Governing the Mass Media

    Media Effects on Governing the Mass Media

    Malik Pokks Speech 245, 711 May 8, 2005 Professor Greener PAPER 2 Media Effects on governing the mass media has played a major role in American politics since the formation of our country. So much so that it has been called by many, "the fourth branch of government." Originally, media power was only vested in the papers, but today radio and television are the more prominent forms of news. Since the administration of Franklin Delano

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    Essay Length: 1,152 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • Was the Foreign Policy of the United States Primarily Isolationist or Expansionist Through 1865-1914?

    Was the Foreign Policy of the United States Primarily Isolationist or Expansionist Through 1865-1914?

    Was the foreign policy of the United States primarily isolationist or expansionist through 1865-1914? At the turn of the century, and after gaining our independence, the United States land mass more than doubled through the use of purchasing, annexing, and war. However, the foreign policy of our government took a predominately isolationist stand. This was a national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries. General Washington shaped these values by upholding

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    Essay Length: 912 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Edward
  • Monetary Policy, Inflation and Growth

    Monetary Policy, Inflation and Growth

    Monetary policy is the government or central bank process of managing money supply to achieve specific goals, such as constraining inflation, maintaining an exchange rate, achieving full employment or economic growth. Monetary policy can involve changing certain interest rates, either directly or indirectly through open market operations, setting reserve requirements, or trading in foreign exchange markets. It must be universally agreed that low and stable inflation is a primary and essential goal for monetary policy,

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    Essay Length: 2,304 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Economic Consequences of Software Crime

    Economic Consequences of Software Crime

    ----------------------------------- HarryG Dec 28, 2004 Economic Consequences of Software Piracy ----------------------------------- Economic Consequences of Software Crime In 1996 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $15.2 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $5.1 billion in the North America alone. Some sources put the total up-to-date losses, due to software crime, as high as $4.7 trillion. On the next page is a regional breakdown of software piracy losses for 1994.

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    Essay Length: 634 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Bred
  • Russia’s Economic Woes

    Russia’s Economic Woes

    Russia’s Economic Woes Sheng Zhou Period 6 In a dramatic and memorable end to the reign of the Soviet Union, the so-called worker’s paradise, on December 25th, 1991, the Soviet flag was mournfully lowered from the Kremlin walls for the last time. Finally the reforms and decentralization of the Soviet state that had started in 1980’s had met its climax with the destruction of the state itself. The last president of the Soviet Union,

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    Essay Length: 1,394 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Max
  • In the Novel Fahrenheit 451 How and Why Does the Government Control the Population?

    In the Novel Fahrenheit 451 How and Why Does the Government Control the Population?

    Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is a novel set in a dystopian world full of ignorance, domination, betrayal and most importantly, control. In the book Fahrenheit 451, we learn few people oppose the government’s regime. This is because it is considered a serious crime, especially since the government has implausible power and control over the population. The government exerts its control over the population in a number of ways. One of the ways the government

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    Essay Length: 674 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Locke’s Second Treatise of Government

    Locke’s Second Treatise of Government

    Locke's Second Treatise of Government, by far, is his most influential and important piece of writing. In it he set forth his theory of natural law and natural right. He shows that there does exist a rational purpose to government, and one need not rely on "mysticism and mystery." Against anarchy, Locke saw his job as one who must defend government as an institution. Locke's object was to insist not only that the public welfare

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Bred
  • Summation of Intro to Australian Policy

    Summation of Intro to Australian Policy

    The following report is intended to explore policy making in relation to technology. The report will be structured by firstly providing a summary of an excerpt from “The Australian Policy Handbook” (Bridgman & Davis, 2004). This will also identify the key concepts and ideas from the article. The report will then look at policy making around technology and whether or not this is important for an individual, personally and professionally. The chosen reading “The Australian

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    Essay Length: 342 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Vika
  • Economic Vietnam

    Economic Vietnam

    Vietnam The purpose of this paper is to describe a brief history of Vietnam’s people and geography as well as some major economic indicators to help better understand the characterization of their people, geography, and economy. Vietnam is a communist country located in Southeast Asia with a total population of 84,402,966 people. Out of a 1,000 person statistic, the birth rate of Vietnam is 16.86 and their death rate is only 6.22. On average, each

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Mikki

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