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  • 1984 and Brave New World

    1984 and Brave New World

    1984 And Brave New World In Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Huxley’s Brave New World, the authoritative figures strive for freedom, peace, and stability for all, to develop a utopian society. The Utopian society strives for a perfect state of well-being for all persons in the community, and over-emphasizes this factor, where no person is exposed to the reality of the world. As each novel progresses we see that neither society possesses family values nor

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    Essay Length: 2,420 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: April 8, 2010 By: Mike
  • Malaysia Finance / Banking Industry 2008

    Malaysia Finance / Banking Industry 2008

    Malaysia Finance / Banking Industry 2008 Malaysia economy, in the third quarter of 2007, has strengthened with a real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rising to 6.7% that is led mainly by strong activities within the services sector and was fortified by unremitting construction activity and a pick-up in both the agriculture and manufacturing sectors. For the fourth quarter of 2007, Malaysia economy registered an even stronger economy growth of real GDP raised to 7.3%,

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    Essay Length: 356 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Top
  • The Us Entering World War Two

    The Us Entering World War Two

    The U.S. Entering The War In WWII president Roosevelt was greatly supported for his humane and fair actions taken to prevent the U.S. from entering the war. However, Several things about the events surrounding pearl harbor do seem a bit odd. Could it be that Roosevelt was only delaying war until an ample opportunity arose? Or could it be that he wasn’t waiting but rather planning his own event to occur in order to create

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    Essay Length: 894 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Max
  • World War 1

    World War 1

    World War 1 World War 1 began in August of 1914. The war lasted until November of 1918. The war was know as "the Great War". World War 1 began as an argument over land. The 2 countries were fighting over "no man's land." They were fighting so that one side would win the land then they would stop fighting, that is why this war is also known as "the war to end war." The

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    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Weapons of World War 2

    Weapons of World War 2

    As the world went into World War One, it faced new technological advances that turned the view of battle forever. With the invention of many new killing machines, soldiers were now in the deadliest battlefields ever. From artillery blasts to machine gun fire, from air power to biological and weapons of mass destruction, the outcome of World War One would be deadly. It would be the first war to be the greatest motivator for technology

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    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Several Research Questions on the Causes of World War 1

    Several Research Questions on the Causes of World War 1

    World War One  Account for the feelings of hostility towards the Austria-hungry Empire by Serb nationalists in 1914:  Austria was what stood in the way of progress of the Serbian nation. Serbia was a direct threat to the survival of the multinational Austrian Empire and for that reason Austria felt it necessary to thwart Serbia's plans for growth and development. The Serbs desired more land, especially a coastline with an all important sea

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    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The World of Computer Hacking

    The World of Computer Hacking

    The World of Computer Hacking Computer hacking isn’t something you here about everyday on the news. Really people don’t have any knowledge about computer hacking. Everyday our identities go through about eight hundred computers a day. Every time we swipe a card, make a telephone call or connect to the internet our digital identities are recorded to keep track of who is doing what. Now the records are kept by different companies. The government also

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    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Development of the Heliocentric World View

    Development of the Heliocentric World View

    The Scientific Revolution in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe included the development of the heliocentric theory. The Geocentric world ivew wash what many people believed and used before the development of the heliocentric world view by Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo. The first scientist to come up with the idea of a heliocentric world view was a Polish astronomer known as Copernicus. He figured from astronomers' observations that eh the Ptolemaic, or geocentric world

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    Essay Length: 470 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 10, 2010 By: Mike
  • Askari Bank and Atm

    Askari Bank and Atm

    INTRODUCTION IT has evolved banking a lot recently. Now banking has become computerized and digitized. It has become faster, easier and widespread. Now almost any thing can be done online. If we go 10 years back, we will find a lot of change in banking style. Now we will see how exactly banking has changed and how IT has evolved banking. If we rewind to 10 years back, we used to use ledger books to

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    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: Fonta
  • A Perfect World Is Non-Existant in Brave New World

    A Perfect World Is Non-Existant in Brave New World

    As demonstrated in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World the idea of a world that is perfect is non-existent. But the similarities in the errors that are made by Huxley’s society while trying to achieve this perfection are strangely similar to those made in our day and age. Children playing with complicated machines, world leaders wanting to increase consumption in order augment cash flow, children participating in sexual activities, scientists trying to play God, no distinctiveness,

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    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Edward
  • Brave New World and Pleasantville

    Brave New World and Pleasantville

    In the societies of Brave New World and Pleasantville their way of living is based on stability and happiness. In both societies happiness and stability are created in the beginning in the hopes of good and not evil. The temporary stability and the happiness in society allows people to feel that they belong until it is further realized that their society is not what they expected it was. The depravation from a normal society withheld

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    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Arena Football in a Disneyized World

    Arena Football in a Disneyized World

    Ever since the beginning of the 1970s, Disney World has become an influential blueprint that many companies have used do business in society. Disney World has many different techniques and ideas that have allowed them to produce maximum gain in all facets of society. This is known as ‘Disneyization,’ “the process by which the principles of the Disney theme parks are coming to dominate more and more sectors of American society as well as the

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    Essay Length: 2,517 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • How and Why Did China Lose Its Position as a World Leader During the 19th Century

    How and Why Did China Lose Its Position as a World Leader During the 19th Century

    Before the 1800s, China was a super power before the time the Europeans came to their country. They comprehended further more about the world than the Europeans did, and had already started trading there. China had the largest known market in the world at the time, selling all sorts of exquisite products. This meant that China was home to one of the major economies on the planet. But it was even the smallest of things

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    Essay Length: 607 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Mike
  • Why in the World We Need Derivatives

    Why in the World We Need Derivatives

    Why in the World we Need Derivatives Many years ago humans discovered that with the use of mathematical calculations many things can be calculated in the world and even the universe. Mathematics consists of many different operations. The most important that is used by mathematicians, scientists and engineers is the derivative. Derivatives can help make calculations of anything with respect to another event or thing. Derivatives are mostly common when used with respect to time.

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Yan
  • Orwells Political Message to the World

    Orwells Political Message to the World

    Many authors bring in the theme of politics into their work in order to make their creations more appealing and as a form of expressing their personal views. George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-four” is a novel that contains many political messages to the world. Orwell felt that part of his role as a writer is to serve as a voice of conscience to our society by trying to express the truth as he saw it. The

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Victor
  • Hinduism - a World Religon Report

    Hinduism - a World Religon Report

    Hinduism: A World Religion Report Introduction Hinduism - stands for the faith and the way of life most of the people who live in India. Hinduism is such an ancient religion that has many types of beliefs and religious practices. Around 10 BC Aryan invaders from central Asia settled in North - West India and introduced their own religious ideas (Wikipedia, 2006). Slowly the Hindu came to accept the idea of the existence of an

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Anna
  • Macroeconomics for Banking and Finance Coursework

    Macroeconomics for Banking and Finance Coursework

    AFEAEM734 Macroeconomics for Banking and Finance Coursework Explain, with reference to one real world example, the role played by central bank independence in improving inflation performance. Introduction The aim of the assignment is to evaluate and analyse the role played by central bank independence, henceforth CBI, in improving or lowering inflation. There have been countless investigations into this and the general consensus points out that the relationship between CBI and inflation is negatively correlated, meaning

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Fatih
  • China Becomes the World's Third Largest Consumer of Luxury Goods

    China Becomes the World's Third Largest Consumer of Luxury Goods

    China Becomes the World's Third Largest Consumer of Luxury Goods 12/09/05 -- Goldman Sachs released a report yesterday on China's luxury goods market. It stated that excluding private aircraft and yachts, China's purchase of luxury goods reached 6 billion USD, bringing its share in the global luxury goods market to 12%, but only about 2% of this amount comes from domestic purchases, with Chinese tourists' purchases abroad comprising about 10%. Goldman Sachs predicts that by

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    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Americas Involvement in World War Two

    Americas Involvement in World War Two

    America's involvement in World War Two When war broke out , there was no way the world could possibly know the severity of this guerre. Fortunately one country saw and understood that Germany and its allies would have to be stopped. America's Involvement in World War two not only contributed in the eventual downfall of the insane Adolph Hitler and his Third Reich, but also came at the precise time and moment. Had the united

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    Essay Length: 1,532 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Victor
  • World Religion

    World Religion

    Religion is a hard word to define. Some might define religion as believing in a high power, deities, or a single God. Others define it as a belief system that has more to do with culture and traditions being past down from generation to generation than anything. According to Ask.com (n.d.), religion is define as the belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe. No

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    Essay Length: 2,178 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Citi Bank N.A and Pay Link Service to Customer

    Citi Bank N.A and Pay Link Service to Customer

    1. Introduction 1.1 Objective: The main purpose of the study was to compare the theoretical knowledge with practical scenario. It was to help us to understand the basics of Operational design and process analysis as well as apply those concepts in reality. To gather a more hands-on experience, we conducted process analysis on the process followed by Citibank, N.A. to provide pay link service to its customers. 1.2 Goal of the Project: The goal of

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    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: Steve
  • Banking Sector Germany

    Banking Sector Germany

    1 HISTORY GERMAN BANKIN INDUSTRY The development of the German banking industry is closely related to Germany’s history and its evolving industry. The development of the banking sector was a respond to the industrialization and the accompanying financial needs. Until 1870 the banking sector was dominated by private bankers and influential “banking families”. Some of them are still known today, such as Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. The privat bankers were financed only by equity

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    Essay Length: 436 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: Fonta
  • The Role of Investment Banking in the Us Financial System

    The Role of Investment Banking in the Us Financial System

    Introduction to Investment Banks The roots of investment banks are varied. Some are bankers or merchants who started guaranteeing other merchants’ bills, others are outgrown brokerages, but most are products of the Glass-Steagall Act. Originally, the term “investment bank” comes from the United States of America, while some other variations include ‘merchant bank’ in the United Kingdom and ‘securities house’ in Japan. With the globalization of US investment banking, the term has become a generic

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    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: Fatih
  • International Business Around the World

    International Business Around the World

    Executive Summary As organizations are growing increasingly competitive, the need to extend to other entry modes varies considerably in terms of not only cost incurred by firms but also benefits and disadvantages. This essay will discuss the relevance of environmental scanning and its fundamental importance in deciding what the firm’s strengths and weaknesses are as well as external environmental factors. The second part will then look into exports as to why it is the best

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    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: Jack
  • Males and Females: Two Different Worlds

    Males and Females: Two Different Worlds

    The story of the fall of my freshman year of high school, in my opinion, encompasses all of the innate tendencies male individuals possess. Furthermore, I believe this story delves deeper into our reality as human beings and the consequences we are destined to face as a result of our physical makeup. The consequences, for me, proved violent, physically painful, and eternally fulfilling. This is a strange statement because when these incidents occurred it was

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    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: Mike