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The Middle East and the Development of the Industrial State

the increasing development of centralized state powers devoted to the development of industry in countries such as Iran. The Ott...

MACULAN GROUP: CASE ANALYSIS

company tripled its number of employees and quadrupled its gross revenue. It increased these things through vertical integration -...

4 Accounting and International Finance Dissertation Topics

the news circulated of such a monumental occurrence, there was immediate reaction from several societal sectors, including small b...

Yugoslavian State Breakdown

Yugoslavia). Although the fighting stopped for the most part, there was no effort made for the various parties to actually resolv...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Harriet Jacobs, Maya Angelou, and Their Memoirs

a very large life. In the end, both of these women have shown by example, that the struggles which life presents can...

Enron Corporation's Collapse

the Enron candidate bought Baileys campaign manager (How Enron Did Texas). Although Bailey did win, it was by an exceptionally na...

Russia and Tsarism's Collapse

the country based on more equality, not further separation (Lewin, 2002). Russia at this times was quite literally in "the thro...

Reasons Behind the Creation and Collapse of the Roman Empire

influence" (Anonymous, 2002) upon the way in which people lived their lives, Roman law proposed to "govern all with equal justice"...

Economic Collapse of Mexico Analyzed

correction to the exchange rate of the Mexican peso but the confidence was soon shattered as the crunch began to be felt in financ...

Korean Corporations and the Practice of Nepotism

Korean business - at one point, Hyundai, Daewoo, Samsung, LG and SK, the five largest chaebol, had hundreds of subsidiaries betwee...

Corporate Greed and its Psychosocial Effects

life savings and retirement plans of countless employees who had worked hard to save their funds - but because of corporate greed,...

Ongoing Debate Regarding WorldCom

disturbing facts is that the WorldCom documents that were released in July to the special Financial Services Committee of the U.S....

Flood Stories Among the Toltec, Maya, and Navajo

(variously called Teocipactli) and Xochiquetzal survived to repopulate the earth (Leon-Portilla). In the Toltec version of ...

Was the Fall of the Roman Empire Inevitable?

Empire was in decline "from 180 CE onward" but that both society and the state continued to function well, in spite of military de...

Jared Diamond: “Collapse”

that Diamond discusses are the Anasazi and the Maya. "Anasazi" is the name given to various groups of Native Americans living in t...

James Churchward and the Lost Continent of Mu

intellectual timidity or even of complicity in some elite plot against regular folks" (Rotella, 2007, p. 11). Pulp history retains...

The Reason for the Fall of the Roman Empire

(Elton, 1996). Then, when the Barbarians would invade, the internal problems in the Empire would see battle losses (Elton, 1996). ...

Cod Collapse

unclear. Years ago, it was believed that overfishing was the culprit. Particularly after the "factory boats" arrived and indiscr...

The Failure of Communism

been a great deal of speculation about communism and why it had failed. Russia is perhaps the most relevant example in this contex...

Retail and Electronic Commerce

what customers will logically expect from these companies. As can be expected, new models are being created for these so-called "...

Enigma of 1989 by Jacques Levesque

of the U.S.S.R. and what it all means. One is left with a sense that what occurred in the headlines is really more than the defeat...

Enron and the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Act

audit functions were in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), hiding debt in dummy corporations, as wel...

Second World War and Nazi Germany

said in hindsight. Consider that the average German citizen blamed Weimar personally for acquiescing to the contentions of the Tre...

Trading Practices, the Barings Group, and Nick Leeson

As he has been pointed out in much of the financial media that has covered this issue, the derivative instruments that ended up ca...

Western Civilization and the Roman Empire's Collapse

and was replaced by Claudius (41-54), the emperor whose forces conquered Britain. Nero followed him and when he was overthrown, Ro...

Roman Republic's Collapse

conquered territory, when Pompey had returned he found he did not have the assistance of the Optimates and his requests were oppos...

Capitalism and its Destruction

are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative." It does seem to be the case that for example the Republican party in the Unit...

The 2001 and 2002 Collapse of Argentina's Economy

Argentina has suffered many types of economic angst in the past, and flat exports, decreased household demand and high unemploymen...

History of the Berlin Wall

the flow of emigrants leaving East Germany (Harrison 9). Sources that have become accessible since the fall of the Soviet Union sh...