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2002 Winter Olympics' Pairs Skating Controversy

In five pages this paper examines the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics of 2002 and discusses the pairs figure skating vote fixing sc...

Gold Standard and President Lyndon B. Johnson

that in a permeable political system, namely, one in which information is able to filter through to the elite, then any important ...

'Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Robert Frost

understands that youth and life cannot remain, for "nothing gold can stay." Metaphor When we take the poem in its entirety, and...

Analysis of 'Desert Places' by Robert Frost

contemporaries, Frost sees no meaning in nature. It is simply emptiness. There is no God there, no Creator, just emptiness. In the...

Motivation and Money in the Works of Plautus and William Shakespeare

(Aristotle). According to Aristotle, comedy involves the imitation of men who are less than average. Furthermore, Aristotle indica...

Sub Saharan Gold Trade and Islam

of the cultural impacts resulting from the extensive trade which characterized the period revolved around controlling the trade ro...

Individual Companies' Financial Considerations and Exchange Rate Mechanisms

was only 90% fine. The actual outcome was a foxed rate of $4.55 to the ?1 (Anonymous, 2001). This mean that although each country ...

Interwar Years and Gold Standard Failure

then be repaid in gold or undepreciated paper. Such countries as France, the UK and the US took to the gold standard contingent r...

Business Practices in Early History

resulted from the Spartan takeover of Athenian silver mines; therefore, the need for the minting of replacement, silver-plated bro...

Modernity and What it Means

In five pages this paper attempts to derive modernity's meaning in an examination of All That is Solid Gold Melts into the Air by ...

Africa, Asia, and the Influence of the West

In six pages this paper discusses how such countries as Ethiopia, Morocco, Kenya, the Gold Coast, Sudan, China, and Asia were infl...

An Analysis of the Film, Ulee's Gold

time keeping them at arms reach. While he approaches the hives surely and unhesitantly, braving the stings as he may receive them...

San Francisco's Development and the Impact of the Gold Rush of 1849

In sixteen pages this paper discusses the short and long term effects of the 1849 gold rush on the city of San Francisco. Twenty ...

1812 to 1860 Manifest Destiny in the United States

an old concept, and the meaning changes from what was the original intent. The author also looks at the concept with a focus on ce...

California's Gold Rush and Women

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the little known tales of California's gold rush as told by women. Six sources are cited in...

Three Decades of Cinematic Representations of Their Respective Times

In six pages this report analyzes how Gold Diggers of 1933, Casablanca, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers each represent their re...

Gold Rush and East to West Change of Locations

In seven pages this paper discusses the changes associated with moving from the East to the West during the time of the California...

1930s' UK and Economic Recovery

In five pages this paper examines how during the 1930s the United Kingdom was able to recover from the Great Depression in a consi...

Meaning, Modernism, and Postmodernism in the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

In eight pages a search for meaning and the literary transition from modernism into postmodernism is presented in a discussion of ...

Gold Standard Problems

In seven pages this paper discusses the problems associated with the Gold Standard. If additional information is needed, please c...

Gold Standard Return?

In eight pages this paper examines the bull market in this consideration of whether or not there should be a return to the gold st...

Pre Civil War America

This paper examines pre Civil War America in an overview of increasing regional tensions, politics, slavery, and the gold rush in ...

Gold Standard Policy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

In five pages the 1930s gold standard economic policies of FDR are discussed in terms of their objectives and changes they represe...

'Tikkun Olam' and Commitment of Jewish Athletes

World War II after the Japanese bombed military installations in Pearl Harbor. He volunteered for active duty in the Marine Corps...

Faith, Good Sportsmanship, and Goodwill Promoted by Jewish Athletes

a high school player, Mother would go over to the box... and drop some coins in the box... I asked what she was doing and she said...

Currency Markets and the Foreign Exchange

help "stabilize the value of their money" (Schnarr, 2004). "By pegging it to a more stable currency ... a country can stop their ...

Unique Spirit of California

diverse. It is important to note that California, at the time the gold rush started, was not a state. Like many other territories ...

Jewish Literature and the Jewish Family's Decline

family. He reveals that the stereotypical image of the money hungry Jew is in a sense a reality, that desperation can turn even th...

Investing in the Stock Market

growth, but they also have the luxury of taking on additional risk and therefore additional return potential. Generally, the high...

The Marketing of Neptune's Gold Seafood

to consider their core competences and develop a way forward looking at these, not only at the past strategies (Stalk et al, 1992)...