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  • How an Assassination Escalated into World War

    How an Assassination Escalated into World War

    HIS 106B: Western Civilization II Paper 1 February 24, 2006 How an Assassination Escalated into World War During the early summer of 1914, people on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean knew that something momentous was on the horizon. On summer's first official day, June 21, 1914, many European leaders and the people they led were enjoying nice weather and time of leisure (Heyman 3). What those people didn't know was that in one week's

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    Essay Length: 1,377 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • 18th Century Commerce in the Western Hemishpere

    18th Century Commerce in the Western Hemishpere

    Colonial America during the Eighteenth Century gave people the opportunity to become land owners, explore their religious freedom, and to take part in a growing economy. Whether you were poor or rich, all free men and women had an opportunity to raise their standard of living. Along with the rise in commerce came more problems such as slavery, taxes, conflict with the natives, debt, and much more. As expressed already many positives and negatives were

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    Essay Length: 878 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Jack
  • Analytical Look at "traffic" and the U.S. War on Drugs

    Analytical Look at "traffic" and the U.S. War on Drugs

    How effective is the United States war on drugs? This a question that Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh, cracks wide open. Traffic follows three story lines and depicts the powerful force that is drugs. Robert Wakefield is the recently appointed drug czar who finds out his daughter Caroline is a drug addict. Javier Rodriguez is a cop in Mexico who is attempting his own war on drugs in the corrupt world of Mexican drug enforcement.

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    Essay Length: 633 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Kashmir - Causes and Effects of Wars

    Kashmir - Causes and Effects of Wars

    Our group topic: "Causes and Effects of Wars" provoked me to write about the threatening dispute of "Jammu and Kashmir" which has become more threatening after the nuclear capabilities of India and Pakistan. My main claim revolves around the theme that the burning dispute of Kashmir, between India and Pakistan can play a vital role in the emergence of third world war and can act as battle-field for a nuclear war. Due to geographical and

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    Essay Length: 273 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Total Quality Management

    Total Quality Management

    Management Holmes, Rustin L. Confronting TQM Resisters Head-On - The Medical Laboratory Observer 1996, p. 1-4 Abstract Total Quality Management involves employees working in teams toward a common goal to manage the organization. This is a spreading practice in the healthcare industry. However when first presented with this new method of management some people are often skeptical. Many have been working under one philosophy of management for so long that they may find it hard

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    Essay Length: 472 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: July
  • Civil War Reconstruction

    Civil War Reconstruction

    Southern plantation owners rebuild their devastated lands and attempt to negotiate new labor arrangements with their former slaves. When black men are given the right to vote, they elect hundreds of black legislators to state and national offices, even though the elections are preceded by threats and violence while some northerners travel South to enforce post-Civil War order and protect former slaves. White Southerners view the new arrivals as "carpetbaggers" -- opportunists and exploiters bent

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    Essay Length: 261 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Steve
  • How to Implement Total Quality Management in Strong Cultures: Alignment or Saturation?

    How to Implement Total Quality Management in Strong Cultures: Alignment or Saturation?

    How to Implement Total Quality Management in Strong Cultures: Alignment or Saturation? At the end of this case study, Bernal Flores asks if he should use the alignment strategy or the saturation strategy to implement Total Quality Management (TQM) at the San Juan facility. When the implementation process at Playa Negra and Bocagrande is evaluated, it becomes clear that better choices in implementation and management’s role could have been accomplished. For Bernal, it is a

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    Essay Length: 1,419 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Vika
  • World War I

    World War I

    World War I began with the death of an archduke. Archduke Franz Ferdinand beloved that slaves along with his empire required more power. Archduke Franz Ferdinand use to be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. On June 28, 1914, a group of Serbs who believed that the slaves belonged to them attempted an assignation of the archduke Ferdinand by trying to blow him up. The group was known as the “Blackhand.” This group failed to blow

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    Essay Length: 1,471 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Andrew
  • 19th Century American Slavery: Expository Synthesis Essay

    19th Century American Slavery: Expository Synthesis Essay

    19th Century American Slavery: Expository Synthesis Essay Every great civilization or country has had at least one dirty little time in their history that all would rather forget. America knows this feeling well, especially within the 19th century, the slave era. America was divided, the North was generally against slavery and all for letting the African Americans roam free in a colony in Africa. The South on the other hand viewed African Americans as tools,

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    Essay Length: 1,267 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: July
  • Why World War

    Why World War

    World war II, and why? After World War I, the defeated Germany, Disappointed Italy, and Ambitious Japan were anxious to regain or increase their power. All three of these countries eventually adopted forms of dictatorship; National Socialism and Fascism. This made their country supreme and called for expansion and invasion of neighbouring countries. These countries also set themselves up as enemies against communism, which gained them at least partial tolerance from the Western Democracies. The

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Victor
  • The French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War

    The French and Indian War begin in 14 and end in 1763. The resulted in France's loss of all its possession in North America and The British claims Canada and North American for themselves. Before the war, the most people were ignored the Navigation Act, and they don't pay their tax. Need the money for war, British's government started to forces people pay their tax. In 1764, The Sugar Act is passed by the English

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    Essay Length: 351 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: regina
  • Litigation - Total Compensation Methods

    Litigation - Total Compensation Methods

    Total Compensation Methods The importance of a company’s ability to maintain a balance between employee and company interests is significant. According to HR Guide (2006) compensation is defined as The methods and practices of maintaining a good balance in company interests of operating within fiscal budgets and attracting, developing, retaining, and rewarding high quality staff through wages and salaries, which are competitive with the prevailing rates for similar employment in the labor markets. An organization

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    Essay Length: 1,480 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Top
  • Civil War Events

    Civil War Events

    The Civil War was the bloodiest, most violent war in all of America's history. It pitted brother against brother and father against son and caused more deaths than all of America's wars before or since combined. The cause for the Civil War was not any single event or action, but a combonation of many events and actions. It was a sort of snowball effect, but this snowball had a rock in the center - slavery.

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Issues of the Civil War

    Issues of the Civil War

    Beginning with the Revolutionary War, and followed by the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights, the United States carried a mentality for warfare into the time of the Civil War. The pursuit of happiness and liberty, along with the right to bear arms boosted the environment of a civil war. In conjunction with political motives there were also economic and cultural reasons to begin war. The Southern states wanted their own governing

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Anna
  • The Roles African American in Civil War

    The Roles African American in Civil War

    In the history of the United States, African Americans have always been discriminated against. When Africans first came to America, they were taken against their will and forced to work as laborers. They became slaves to the rich, greedy, lazy Americans. They were given no pay and often badly whipped and beaten. African Americans fought for their freedom, and up until the Civil War it was never given to them. When the Civil War began,

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Media Complicity and the Iraq War

    Media Complicity and the Iraq War

    May 18, 2004 Mahdi Nawaf had not slept much the previous night. It was not the sound of gunshots, nor was it the resounding boom of cluster bombs exploding in the darkness, that had hindered his rest. No; by now, he had become accustomed to this soundtrack of war, that played day and night right outside his front door. Today was his wedding day. Mahdi, a simple Iraqi carpenter, had met a woman named Samira.

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    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: regina
  • Terrence Malick’s "the Thin Red Line" and Hollywood’s Traditional Depictions of War

    Terrence Malick’s "the Thin Red Line" and Hollywood’s Traditional Depictions of War

    THEThin Red Line is a three-hour epic about the World War II, directed by Terrence Malick, who made his comeback to the film industry after 20 years with a subject that had been neglected for almost as long.(1) The film is based on James Jones’ novel, published in 1962, which was first adapted for the big screen by Andrew Marton in 1964 rather unsuccessfully. For many years, the book seemed to defy cinematic adaptation due

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    Essay Length: 3,878 Words / 16 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Bred
  • Total Quality Management

    Total Quality Management

    Total Quality Management: What is Tqm and how can it be implemented in industry today? In society today quality plays an important role in customer satisfaction. A classic example of customer's being discouraged due to poor quality would be the case of Skoda cars. In the 80's and early 90's Skoda was known for it poor quality and this in turn affected both the brand image and also sales of the company. Once the Volkswagen

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    Essay Length: 490 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Fonta
  • War on Iraq

    War on Iraq

    War on Iraq Since the commencement of the controversial war in Iraq, people have been looking for other solutions to the conflict. Many suggestions have been voiced, but none so much and so loudly as the suggestion of simple assassination. People do not understand that assassination is not only impossible, but also never an end to conflict. Assassination of Saddam Hussein is not a viable option to end the U.S. conflict in Iraq. The first

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    Essay Length: 398 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Edward
  • Winning the War on Terror

    Winning the War on Terror

    In the normal course of events, Presidents come to this chamber to report on the state of the Union. Tonight, no such report is needed. It has already been delivered by the American people. We have seen it in the courage of passengers, who rushed terrorists to save others on the ground -- passengers like an exceptional man named Todd Beamer. And would you please help me to welcome his wife, Lisa Beamer, here tonight.

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    Essay Length: 3,125 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Computers: The Greatest Invention of The Century?

    Computers: The Greatest Invention of The Century?

    Many people consider the computer to be a once in a lifetime invention. Almost everywhere one goes and looks, there is always a computer. They are found in basically every household in America. It is such a powerful device that it changes the way people run their lives. The question is, are computers all good or are there some downfalls to this incredible gadget? In order to answer this question, it is best for

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Top
  • The War on Drugs: A Losing Battle?

    The War on Drugs: A Losing Battle?

    The War On Drugs: A Losing Battle? In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami’s demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the

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    Essay Length: 4,278 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Fatih
  • The War on Drugs: A Losing Battle?

    The War on Drugs: A Losing Battle?

    The War On Drugs: A Losing Battle? In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami’s demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the

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    Essay Length: 4,278 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • Unjust Iraq War

    Unjust Iraq War

    The Iraq war has been a very sensitive and divisive issue in today's society. Although we can not ignore the cloud around this administration when it comes to potential incentives that going to war presented, (such as oil for profits and retaliation to Saddam Hussein for the Gulf War and treatment of President Bush Sr.), I will look beyond these potential motives to explain why the U.S. involvement in the Iraq War was unjust simply

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    Essay Length: 1,465 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Roles of Important Women During the Civil War

    Roles of Important Women During the Civil War

    Women played an important role during the American Civil War but it wasn't until 100 years afterwards that they received recognition. Even today history books skip over the important roles women had during the Civil War. Wives, mothers, daughters, and grandmothers impacted the War both at home and on the battlefield. Their lives changed in many ways with the onset of the Civil War. Women took on many different roles that helped their side during

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Tommy

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