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Advancement Of Science Mustapha Mond
1,722 wordsAuthor: Aldous Huxley was born in 1894, and died in 1963. He first went to Eton, and then to Oxford. He was a brilliant man, and became a succesful writer of short stories in the twenties and thirties. Besides short stories he also wrote essays and novels, like 'Brave New World'. The first novels he wrote were comments on the young generation, with no goal whatsoever, that lived after WW I. Before he became the writer as we know him, he worked as a journalist and a critic of drama. In his books,...
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Machine Guns San Francisco
1,473 wordsThe 1920 s were a time of changes in many areas of the American lifestyle. Examples include the changing roles of women, the African American struggle for equality, the changing sound of music, new forms of literature, growth of cities, and the development of airplanes and their uses. Major aircraft development started during World War I because America was striving to be stronger than any other country. War brought about the development of fighter and bomber airplanes; machine guns were mounted...
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19 Th Century 20 Th Century
1,554 wordsIn 1900 the average American traveled about 1200 miles in a lifetime, mostly on foot, and mostly within his or her own village or town. By the end of the century, the typical American adult would travel some 12, 000 miles by automobile alone, in just one year. About 8, 000 cars were registered in the America at the start of the 20 th century. There are now some half billion in the world, with one-third in the United States, where more than 1. 5 trillion miles are traveled each year. How the auto...
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The Two Countries That Invented Industrial Revolution
1,473 words... in 1830, a measuring instrument accurate to a millionth of an inch. Eli Whitney. The term "Yankee ingenuity" could have been coined with Whitney in mind. Americans solved issues of speed and mass production. In 1798, American Eli Whitney, secured a US government contract (for $ 134, 000) to produce 10, 000 army muskets. Whitney refined and successfully applied the "Uniformity-System" of production using inter-changeable parts. However, Whitney met bureaucratic disbelief and delays in impleme...
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Lead Acid Battery Electric Vehicles
1,670 wordsThe technology of electric vehicles has been around since the turn of the nineteenth century but faded as the gasoline powered engine took the spotlight. Now the future of electric vehicles is very bright. Their impacts are very significant ranging from economic, to new technology that can be applied elsewhere, to most importantly, the environment. Ford and GM, through its Saturn plant, have already begun production on their own version of the electric vehicle and have made them available to the...
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Henry Ford Assembly Line
319 wordsBorn in a farm near Dearborn, Michigan, on July 30 th of 1863, Henry Ford, an American industrial businessman, was known for his innovating methods in the motor industry. According to what History suggests, he was an excellent businessman. He made a great fortune. But workers did not agree with his being such a good man. In 1903, he created the Ford Motor Industry and in 1913 he introduced in his factory the assembly line system. This novelty was a success for him. These new ideas reduced produc...
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Impact Of The Automobile From 1900 1945
1,129 wordsThe impact of the automobile between 1900 through 1945 was immense. It paved the way for a future dependency on the automobile. To paint a better picture, imagine life without an automobile. Everyday life would be dull, cumbersome, and tedious. An individuals mobility would be very limited. Basically, the life without an automobile could not be fathomed. The importance of the automobile is often taken for granite. Society may not know what appreciate the impact of the automobile and effects it h...
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Brave New World Values And Attitudes
1,194 wordsArt is like a fractured mirror that reflects the society in which it was created. This reflection is a mosaic of images constructed by the artists own perceptions which in turn are determined by the values and attitudes, especially the fears and insecurities in his or her own contemporary society. The responder also has to acknowledge his or her own door of perception, as this would affect their interpretation of the art. This is especially evident in texts like Brave New World which are designe...
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U S Economy Prosperity Of The 1920
1,856 wordsThe Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U. S. history, and one, which spread to virtually the entire industrialized world. The depression began in late 1929 and lasted for about a decade. Many factors played a role in bringing about the depression; however, the main cause for the Great Depression was the combination of the greatly unequal distribution of wealth throughout the 1920 's, and the extensive stock market speculation that took place during the latter part that same de...
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Martin Luther King World War Ii
1,194 wordsTauseef Ahmed 09 / 01 / 03 "Ten most important people of the 20 th century" The world we see today has had a lot of changes and developments, which are contributed by some very important people. In the 20 th century there were some people who helped in the development of art, music, medicine, technology, government, and peaceful resolutions. Either in a good or in a bad way these people have greatly influenced the world. Although there are more than ten people who have had the world influenced g...
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Operating Profit Four Cylinder
1,963 wordsAUBURN HILLS -- After being on death's door in the early ' 90 s, Volkswagen is back in peak form with U. S. sales breaking records month after month. And the German-based automaker is promising more of the same going forward. It is hoping to boost sales with the introduction of turbocharged versions of its high-volume Jetta and Golf models. "The question now is how high is up, " says David Huyett, VW of America's marketing director. Last year, VW sales topped 315, 000, up 44 percent from 1998. T...
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Luxury Car Eight Years
1,987 words... the powerful D 1 sedan, the company's first foray into the luxury market under the VW name. He even seems to have settled on his heir apparent -- Bernd Pischetsrieder, the former boss of BMW and a supremely able executive in his own right. Looks like a job well done. Pich has already rewarded himself by buying a 102 -foot yacht to sail around the world with his family. The boat is the talk of nautical circles. The gossip is that the $ 15 million yacht, being built by the top-notch Dutch ship...
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Made People Leisure Time
1,015 wordsAlthough automobiles were developed before the 1920 s, this is when the automobiles created a revolution in US life. Almost every American during the nineteen twenties thought driving a car was exciting, and they eagerly listened to the radio to see if any new speeds were broken for that day. This paper will be about how the automobile changed America, and about advertising. First, it changed the economy. They opened up new companies to meet the growing demand for vehicles. Since the Assembly li...
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Lead Firms In The Automotive Commodity Chain
1,234 wordsThe United States is the world's largest consumer market for passenger cars and light trucks. The "Big Three" U. S. automakers - General Motors, Ford Motor Company, and Chrysler Corp. (now part of DaimlerChrysler following its merger with Daimler-Benz AG) - accounted for 68 % of the passenger cars produced in the United States in 1997. The remaining 32 % of U. S. -made cars came from Asian and European "transplant" firms. Along with these giant assemblers, the automotive commodity chain also inc...
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First Choice College Student
1,665 wordsThe first person that I have interviewed is Ella, she is an NYU Graduate who is working as a Web Designer and is earning approximately $ 45, 000 a year. She lives in Brooklyn, New York for seven years. Ella claims that she liked "Dodge Grand Caravan" as her first choice. First of all, she likes the ad because it's a family car that serves / fits all her needs. Secondly, she likes this ad because the color red is her favorite color. According to Ella's interpretation, she feels that by looking at...
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Electric Motor Filling Station
1,249 wordsOR EVEN ABOUT SQUEEZING a few more miles out of each precious tankful. But among the special-edition Ferraris, bizarre Cadillac studies and a whole new crop of gas-guzzling SUVs, not all that many people were talking about cheaper and cleaner ways of getting around. The section of the show dedicated to 'New Energies' was a tiny corner on the second floor of Hall 2, behind the stands of the insurance companies. There were exactly two exhibits. The lull is deceiving. Never have so many automakers ...
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One Of The First Electric Vehicles
2,512 wordsHybrid-Electric Vehicle Through the early period of the automotive industry until about 1920, electric automobiles were competitive with petroleum-fueled cars particularly as luxury cars for urban use and as trucks for deliveries at closely related points, for which the relatively low speed and limited range, until battery recharge, were not detrimental. Electrics, many of which were steered with a tiller rather than a wheel, were especially popular for their quietness and low maintenance costs....
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Miles Per Hour Seat Belts
2,158 wordsThe making of automobiles started in the year 1770. In 1770 a man named Nicholas Joseph Cung not from France built a large steam-driven vehicle. The vehicle didn? t last long because the vehicle could only be driven for 12 to 15 minutes before running out of steam and the vehicle was too heavy and had poor balance and made it difficult to steer. Nothing more had been done until in the 1784. In 1784 James Watt made a patent on a steam carriage, but nothing became of it. Then in 1785 John Fitch in...
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Target Audience Advertising Strategy
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Lower Middle Class Von Papen
3,859 wordsHitler and the rise of the Nazis Ruben the Rat Account for the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party The explanation of the rise of Nazism cannot be restricted to one specific time period or one specific event the source of many Nazi ideologies are found before WWI. Many pre-war conditions (but especially the gradual collapse of liberalism, of which I will write later) helped to prepare the public psyche for National Socialist policies. Equally, I disagree with Historians who, for their own...
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