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- 7691: Capitalism and Communism
- ... Communism uses communal ownership and has a hope of better economical equality. Communists want to spread the wealth more evenly throughout the people. Carl Marx started the idea of Capitalism, or Socialism, during the Industrial Revolution. He witnessed the horrible conditions the proletariats were living under, and how wealthy the factory --owning bourgeoisie were becoming. He wanted to create a more fair system. However, it is not fair at all. Capitalism ...
- 7692: Fiscal Retrenchment And Privatization
- ... the volunteerism was a good way to help, the most significant change was the privatization of services. Privatization “may well be seen by the future historians as one of the most important developments in the American political and economic life in the late 20th century” (Knox, 363). By using privatization, cities were able to fund projects that could have been cut out of the budget or just left “on the drawing ...
- 7693: Florence Nightingale 2
- ... on Nursing, was the first textbook for nurses, which was translated into many languages. In 1861, Florence Nightingale advised the United States Secretary of War on setting up army hospitals for those injured in the American Civil War. She also advised on improving health conditions in India. In 1860, Florence Nightingale founded the Nightingale School and Home for Nurses at Saint Thomas's Hospital in London. She used the money that ...
- 7694: Industrial Transformation: Economic Development between 1865-1900
- ... can be attributed to the inventions, and the demand for goods and services. Also the technological advances. Between 1850 and 1900, they were making leaps and bounds in the industrial areas that fueled this magnificent revolution The "Rockefeller’s", could be seen as threatening the our democracy with the way they "bought" the public. They bought elected officials, threatened other industry that they depended on, i.e., the railroads, miners, and ...
- 7695: Frank Lloyd Wright 2
- ... sides of the Atlantic, Wright began to reinforce the philosophical underpinnings of his innovative building style. In keeping with his rural learnings, Wright proclaimed that the structural principles found in natural forms should guide modern American architecture. Architecture is the nature and substance of whatever is ( quote Frank Lloyd Wright ). He praised the virtues of an organic architecture that would use reinforced concrete in the configurations found in sea shells and ...
- 7696: Flesh-eating Bacteria
- ... rapidly destroys the connective tissue between skin and muscle and two more deadly variants- STSS, which causes multi-organ failure, and even rarer necrotizing myositis which attacks the muscles themselves. (Macleans s, pg.48) The American puppeteer Jim Henson died in 1990 from STSS, a disease that has claimed up to 80 percent of its victims. (Maclean s, pg.48) Of the diseases caused by group A streptococcus, questions have risen ...
- 7697: How The New Economics Effects Modern America
- ... gets is a clunker parked on the street, and a dingy apartment in a low rent building,” says Time Magazine (Jan 30, 1995 issue). This means we have created a new lower class. Making the American dream that much harder. Our government provides children with a free education. Allowing many to earn a high school diploma. This means that anyone, regardless of family income, could be educated to a level that ...
- 7698: Fredrick Douglass 4
- ... paper which spook out against the racial prejudice he found in the north. Although Frederick Douglas was born into slavery in the south, he lived to become one of the most influential figures in African American history and his actions had a great effect on the society of that time. On February 20, 1895 Frederick Douglas passed away after a heart attack at age seventy-seven.
- 7699: The US Stock Market
- ... these companies use to slash costs. And although they have been effective in many cases, these cuts cannot continue forever. Some stock prices have already mildly suffered from this realization by investors. As another example American Express stock fell by 3% on the day that it announced that its fourth quarter earnings for 1996 grew by 17% and beat analyst expectations. The reason for the drop in stock price was because ...
- 7700: Freud 2
- ... in what he termed splendid isolation. By 1906, however, a small number of pupils and followers had gathered around Freud, including the Austrian psychiatrist William Stekel and Alfred Adler, the Austrian psychologist Otto Rank, the American psychiatrist Abraham Brill, and the Swiss psychiatrists Eugen Bleuler and Carl Jung. Other notable associates, who joined the circle in 1908, were the Hungarian psychiatrist Sándor Ferenczi and the British psychiatrist Ernest Jones. Increasing recognition ...
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