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Aviation Industry's Air and Noise Pollution Management

nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides and hydrocarbons - not to mention the carbon monoxide from ground vehicles - was the cause of the c...

1995's The Landlord and Tenant Act

not covered by this legislation, which may or may not be covered by this act, depending on the way in which the lease has commence...

A Discussion of Acid Rain

of fossil fuels from coal-powered plants and automobiles), the pH scale, which measures acidity, drops, meaning a component is mor...

'Homeplace' by Scott Russell Sanders

a threat to society and he argues that "devotion to a home to be the base for devotion to anything else. I believe it is importan...

Plot Development in Two Novels by Antonio Lobo Antunes

instructions from a police inspector, who states, "Give the bozo some electric shocks and hell swear he killed his aunt, if necess...

1960s' Protests

off students who are volunteers onto bus trips. These bus trips were intended to "test the implementation of new laws prohibiting ...

American Democracy Legitimacy and Global Perceptions

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright chairs the Pew Centers ongoing series of worldwide public opinion surveys. O...

Monetary and Fiscal Policies during the Recession of 2001

answer this particular question, it would be helpful to define what the differences between these two policies are. Moneta...

Toy Industry Marketing

the worlds largest retailer. By the end of 2004, Brown (2004) reported that Wal-Mart was expected to have 22 percent of the toy m...

Truck Maintenance

vehicle safely. Engine oil is the lifeblood of a motor, the most expensive "replacement part" a vehicle can come to need be...

Industrialization as a Metaphorical Monster in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

There were also images of pollution with billows of smoke pouring out of factory chimneys and thick coatings of ash on sidewalks, ...

Thucydides and his accuracy as a historian

the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...

HRM at Large Airline Company

(Southwest Airlines Co., 2009a). Southwest acquired Morris Air in 1993. This gave Southwest an opening in the Pacific Northwest...

Socrates, Religion And "The Apology"

millennia worth of philosophical comprehension of mans existence. For those who depend upon traditional practice to shepherd them...

Contemporary Muslim Women

womans role in relation to her society in somewhat different ways. The differences between the Shia and Sunni sects are particula...

Quelling Creativity and Spontaneity Through Misperception

in the educational arena, a young child who is standing obediently in line in the hall waiting for his class to take their respect...

Will Customer Service Improve with Employee Training?

an investment rather than a cost. In many instances the basis of the study is theoretical, or based on case studies in other count...

The Concern Over Anorexia

the stimulation derived from the aberrant behavior even after treatment and recovery has ensued (Evans, 2006). This condi...

God, Understanding Morality, and David Hume

In five pages David Hume's definition of morality as a sympathy concept is applied to his contention that moral views do not stem ...

World Perceptions of the Victorian Era

In five pages this paper discusses how Victorian Era individuals perceived the world in a comparative analysis of Angela Thirkell'...

Tolerance, Freedom of Speech, and J.S. Mill

in his views. Freedom of speech should be given precedent over the reaction which that speech may cause. This precept has been u...

Marx, Goethe, Galileo, and Machiavelli on Belief, Identity, Nature, and Power

In fifteen pages this report examines how these theorists perceive these concepts as reflected in their respective writings. Five...

Booker T. Washington According to W.E.B. Du Bois

book The Souls of Black Folk, in which he presented his own sociological theories concerning race relations. It was with the publi...

Christianity and Marital Submission

Submissiveness as described in Ephesians 5, verses 21 through 23 is the focus of this consideration consisting of fifteen pages of...

Vertical Integration as a Means of Expansion: the Case of BMD

The writer discusses the case of BMD, a lumber yard company, which attempted to expand and maximize profits by acquiring other com...

Rene Descartes, Aristotle, and Plato on Reality and the Soul

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how this trio of philosophers perceived the soul and reality in a consideration of...

Questioning the Holocaust

Anti-Semitism is a factor that has characterized many eras in history that substantially precede the rise of Hitler and the Third ...

Societal Perspectives of John Kenneth Galbraith and Adam Smith

differences. Some have suggested that Smith, whose real name is George Goodman, has a more cynical view of society. Goodman seems ...

John Rawls and Thomas Hobbes on Various Philosophical Issues

In ten pages this paper discusses the fool's argument, the personal contract, the prisoner's dilemma, and the assurance game as pe...

U.S. Foreign Policy 1945 to 1970 and Anti Communism

In a paper consisting of eight pages two theories regarding American foreign policy and the role of anti Communism are examined wi...