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- 431: Kurt Cobain: Biography
- ... produced their first album titled Bleach. It featured Chad Channing on Drums, Kurt Cobain on guitar and vocals, and Krist Novaselic on bass. Bleach only ending up costing $600 to produce and did not sell big. After recording Bleach the band made a short west coast tour that started in February of 1989 in Seattle and moved down the coast. However the band was just preparing for the tour for Bleach ... a thought. The band with it's new addition was ready to start recording again, this time it was another single and few more shows. Then on April 30, 1991 the band got it's big break, they signed with Geffen Records a huge record company. With a new record deal under their belt Nirvana started recording it's next full length album in May of 1991. Geffen sent the band ... in out of 47 people surveyed including fans, students, and teachers 20 said they believed that Kurt was murdered and 27 said they believed that Kurt committed suicide, almost an even split. Kurt left a big hole in the music industry and this was expressed by many of his fellow musicians including Eddy Vedder of Pearl Jam and Michael Stipe of R.E.M. Eddy had to say "I feel ...
- 432: Coke
- ... Baesa, and to reduce its costs abroad. Coca-Cola in early October also announced an array of one-time charges, mostly to close old plants and restructure its Minute Maid juice business. "There’s a big difference between Coke’s and Pepsi’s third-quarter write-offs," says Emanuel Goldman, Paine Webber’s beverage industry analyst. "Pepsi’s relates to mismanagement. Coke’s doesn’t." Coke makes up for its negative ... Roger will charm Karl into staying longer." Some people speculate that von der Heyden will spearhead a major strategic shift at PepsiCo, but the truth is that Enrico has already been doing that. To deliver big returns, not big revenues (sound familiar?), he’s moving capital away from restaurants and heavily into snacks. Fritos and Pepsi’s other munchies generate returns on investment that are twice as high as the returns from drinks ...
- 433: Trade Unionism
- ... agreement with management they reach decisions together on key issues. In bigger workplaces there will be a number of representatives, sometimes from different unions, speaking on behalf of different groups of workers. And in very big workplaces some of these union representatives will spend much of their working day dealing with union business, talking to management helping solve problems on behalf of their members. Most sensible employers welcome these arrangements. They ... Manchester in 1868) that is almost one worker in every three. Wherever people work there are union members - or potential union members. They include men and women; full-time and part-time workers; people in big businesses, and those in small ones; people who work for the government and those who work for themselves. Union members are no different from anyone else, except they tend to be better paid and have ... arrangements to involve workers more closely have been developed with formal "works councils". European regulations require such works councils for large companies that operate in more than one EU country. They also require consultation where big changes or redundancies are planned. Sometimes companies and unions have to find imaginative solutions to changes in demand for goods and services. The social partnership approach allows both sides to explore ways of working ...
- 434: The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll
- ... brings about the contrasting features of the house. This is also a good time to note that this contradiction of the two sides of the house signifies that Dr. Jekyll is obviously hiding a very big secret, and that there is a big difference between his public and private identity. Mr. Vetterson not knowing what Mr. Hydes connection with Dr. Jekyll is, is also a very big clue to the fact that even when Dr. Jekyll entertains his friends at home, he only has a certain part of the house that he puts on display. These parts on display are mainly ...
- 435: 1984
- ... ridicule existing conditions of society, or anti-utopias, which show possible future societies that are anything but ideal. In 1984 , George Orwell presents a terrifying picture of future as life under the constant surveillance of “Big Brother.” This book 1984 is an anti-utopian novel. The main character Winston Smith lives in the large political country Oceania, which is eternally at war with one of two huge countries, Eurasia and Eastasia ... Truth involves the constant correction of news. “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past,” the party slogan reads. Basically, Winston takes real news and twists it to what “Big Brother” wants the people to know. In the grim city and terrifying country, where “Big Brother” is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind, Winston is a man in great danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. He knows the party ...
- 436: George Orwells 1984
- ... takes place in London, Airstrip One, formally called England, before it joined with North America, South America and some small European countries to form Oceania. The political system is known as Ingsoc, this consists of Big Brother, the Inner Party, the Outer Party, and the working class. The basic plot in 1984 is a simple one; it follows a man through his struggles to rationalize his existence in an upside down ... captured. Then, he's resistant to the captures, and thinks they can never get to him. When he faces his greatest fear, rats, his spirit is broken. Then, he goes into realization that he loves Big Brother. One of the two minor characters is Julia. She was a bold-looking girl of about twenty-seven, with thick dark hair, a freckled face, and swift, athletic movements. She also works in the ... encounters O Brien, but this time not as a partner of rebellion, but a conspirator of the Party. He takes Winston through the stages of confession, torture, and acceptance. Finally Winston declares that he loves Big Brother. The theme conveyed by Orwell is that no matter how strong an individual, a communist society would destroy any hope that that soul had of surviving, and that no matter the reasons told ...
- 437: The North American Free Trade Agreement
- ... today, this topic was hotly debated. Many people vehemently argued that job loss and low wages would plague the United States and Canada inflicting more damage on these two already struggling economies. The pro-NAFTA big business sector reportedly coughed up between 20 and 30 million dollars for lobbying. This seems to make sense considering that 86% of the companies listed on Fortune magazine's top 500 list has operations in ... left with a $2 billion dollar net improvement in their trade balance with Mexico. North to Canada, our exports increased by 12.7% in the first 10 months that NAFTA has been functioning. If the Big Three automakers are any barometer of what is to come from NAFTA, this has been one of the wisest economic trade alliances this country could have entered into. According to the Commerce Department, Big Three automobile exports from the U.S. and Canada to Mexico for the first quarter of 1994 reached 9,925 units, compared with 9,479 during all of 1993. In addition, Chrysler, Ford, and ...
- 438: Three Gorges Dam
- ... because of sediment deposits on the riverbed, while dikes can no longer be raised safely. Third, it will make the upper part of the Yangzi more navigable, "raising the river's navigable tonnage by a big margin". Improved navigability would allow ocean-going freighters to penetrate the depths of China's remote Southwest, bringing much needed economic development and prosperity to the region. The project is also expected to develop reservoir ... Wu, senior scientist from Florida Water Management District) Another problem is the fact that the Yangzi carries a large amount of silt. This silt can be carried all the way to the dam and a big 'mud pond' could result. There is no such technology available to divert or collect the silt at the dam. From an ecological point of view, the dam will be clogged by the large silt deposits ... United States and Chinese energy research institutes, which compared conventional sources with advanced generating technologies, cleaner alternatives, such as smaller gas turbines or cogeneration plants were found to be more economical for power generation than big hydro dams. Combined cycle gas turbines could provide power with lower capital costs and greater reliability than the Three Gorges dam and with far fewer emissions than conventional coal plants. Combined cycle plants are ...
- 439: Death Of A Salesman 5
- ... what we want to be and further more, others can't become what we want them to be. In the play Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller, Willy wants to become a very successful, big, respected salesman. But as he could not reach his longed for dream and as his reality starts to sink, he starts to use his very vivid memory to escape his present problems. The ways in ... going to ask his boss to be relocated is when the next journey into the past occurs. The point of the play during which this episode takes place is so dramatic that Willy seeks a big hit of the flashback drug. Such a big hit in fact, that he is transported back to what was probably the happiest day of his life. Biff was going to play in Ebbets field in the All-Scholastic Championship game in front ...
- 440: "Goin’ to Chicago."
- ... them, because they did not want to leave their families and communities. Chicago seemed to be the most common place to go, because of the highways and trains lead straight to there. Chicago gave two big attractions, one being jobs and the other housing. These jobs mostly consisted of manufacturing, but the pay was well worth it. The housing mostly consisted of one room units called kitchenettes. Now that African Americans were doing better off in Chicago, more and more of them came. Overcrowding became the next big issue. Public apartment complexes were poor quality and even over priced. African Americans were refused to buy houses. But later in time, white home owners were warned about African Americans being moved into white neighborhoods, and this started a big controversy. The growing African American communities put pressure on officials to help the demands of African Americans. Whites now had competition for jobs and housing. This new housing for African Americans lead to riots ...
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