-
Thaipusam Procession Thaipusam Festival Devotees
626 wordsThe documentary I watched is about Thaipusam festival. I watched it on National Geographic Channel and was amazed to discover the meaning, the process and the traditions and practices of Thaipusam. It was interesting to watch the procession yet at the same time learn more about it in detail. Every January/February, depending upon the lunar month - on a full-moon day in the Tamil month of Thai, the Hindus will celebrate Thaipusam in honour of their Hindu God, Lord Subramaniam (sometimes referred ...
Free research essays on topics related to: national geographic, hindu, caves, festival, month -
Amd Athlon Joint Venture
1,440 wordsInternational Production Facilities 6 Problematic Issues & Their Solutions 9 Appendix C Foreign Subsidiaries 13 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), founded May 1 st, 1969 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is one of the largest manufacturers of integrated circuits in the world. Founded originally by Jerry Sanders and seven others in a single room in 1969 with only $ 100, 000, AMD now employs approximately 13, 000 people worldwide and has annual revenues in excess of $ 2. 4 billion. In 1978, A...
Free research essays on topics related to: intellectual property, amd athlon, joint venture, flash memory, manufacturing process -
Justice Through Alternative Methods Of Punishment
692 wordsThroughout the years and around the globe there have been several types of punishment enforced upon criminals. Punishments ranging from calcification, flogging, whipping, caning, and of course imprisonment have been used. Imprisonment, the punishment of choice in the United States, does not serve the purpose Americans expect it to. Punishment should invoke remorse on the part of the criminal. Americans expect criminals to be punished in such a manner that it would present a criminal from committ...
Free research essays on topics related to: imprisonment, remorse, american justice system, form of punishment, bring back -
Standards Of Living Economic Growth
1,417 wordsToday's rapidly growing economies are classified as Newly Industrializing Countries or NICs and most of the NICs are located in Asia. Despite the current economic crisis, which remains as a mystery, NICs experienced a rapid economic growth over the last 40 years. Economic growth refers to an increase in the productive capacity of an economy. Japan was the first country to experience a rapid economic growth in Asia. Its economy continued to expand rapidly from the mid- 1950 s through the 1960 s. ...
Free research essays on topics related to: economic policies, standards of living, rapidly growing, economic growth, labour force -
Band The Juveniles Joyce Chan Mark
1,341 wordsMark detested himself for being so brainless at times, for the lack of ideas within his head when there was meant to be enough time to think. Our man reassured himself that he was not totally in blame. Song writing is a passion for him. The enjoyment of the gust and agony within the lyrics of songs by hard-rockers had served as a form of inspiration. He felt empathy, similarity to how the rockers feel about life. Marks collection of self-composed songs have hints of vulgarity every now and then,...
Free research essays on topics related to: secondary school, juveniles, aaron, band, marks -
Capital Punishment And Torture Unconstitutional Or
521 wordsCapital punishment and torture are often looked down on in todays societies because they are viewed as cruel and unconstitutional, but perhaps they would help in more ways then we would like to admit. They can be beneficial in many ways such as encouragement to be truthful, encouragement to live by the laws, and as a source of punishment. Capital punishment and torture are thought to be too painful, and the person doing the punishment is also committing a crime. Many people agree with capital pu...
Free research essays on topics related to: todays, capital punishment, todays society, committing a crime, torture -
South Africa National Language
1,261 wordsSouth Africa is diverse in culture but could be unified in language. English should be South Africa's unifying language. It is necessary to understand what nationhood is, so that you the reader realise that a national language does not alter a nation. It binds the nation. I will also discuss South Africa's diverse cultures and how a unifying language can merge these cultures. Lastly, I will demonstrate the links between language and identity. The concept of a nation is not easily defined. Nation...
Free research essays on topics related to: national language, national identity, common language, south africa, official language -
Al 2000 P Anorexia Nervosa
1,378 wordsCreating a profile of a developmental stage of the lifespan In this essay, I am going to discuss the developmental stage of the adolescent aged from 12 to 20 years old from the physical development like puberty and sexual maturity, the social development like peer pressure, popularity and rejection in school and the issues surrounding them like juvenile delinquency and gangs, eating disorders like obesity, anorexia nervosa and bulimia. I will also be touching on the causes of these issues. Physi...
Free research essays on topics related to: juvenile delinquency, juvenile delinquent, al 2000 p, anorexia nervosa, sexual maturity -
Al 2000 P Anorexia And Bulimia
1,345 words... nd to control or advice on their calories intake, thus their children become obese. When parents are around, they usually encourage their children to finish off all the food on their plates even though the children are already full is in fact encouraging them to ignore internal cues to eating. Obese adolescents may overeat as they rely on such external cues and disregarding internal cues to stop. Another reason could also be environmental. Print advertisements and TV commercials encourages p...
Free research essays on topics related to: eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, anorexia and bulimia, al 2000 p, children and adolescents -
Transformational Leaders Charismatic Leadership
1,332 words... ary. Such leaders are often very successful. They have visions and can communicate them successfully to their followers by linking them with the innermost desires of the followers, thus making these visions appealing to the followers and motivating them to work towards the visions. The reason why past research has almost always assumed that if a leader is charismatic, he / she is also a visionary could be that, most of the leaders that were studied by researchers on were very prominent, succ...
Free research essays on topics related to: transformational leaders, charismatic, charismatic leadership, e g, organizational behavior -
Oil And Gas Oil Gas
1,829 words... Oil/Gas Exports. The impact of the East Asian economic crisis on the direction of non-oil / gas exports is not simple. As one would expect, there has been a sharp decline in exports to slumping economies such as Japan and Korea. In fact, Japan has, until 1998, been the largest single national market for Indonesia's non-oil / gas exports (Table 21). The sharp drop of non-oil / gas exports to Japan (- 23. 1 %) and Korea (- 17. 5 %) contrasts with the relatively good performance in Singapore (1...
Free research essays on topics related to: capital goods, oil gas, hong kong, electrical machinery, oil and gas -
British Airways Airline Industry
241 wordsAirline Industry I have chosen to compare three companies operating in airline industry. I will focus on British Airways, company that has been amazing both investors and researchers with the modern approach to doing business, as well as the passengers with the exceptional quality of service and constant price reduction policies for the existing customers. In the following research paper I will attempt to present my research on British Airways and express my personal opinion and findings on this...
Free research essays on topics related to: airline industry, airways, british airways, airline, airlines -
Hours A Week Husband And Wife
1,740 wordsThe Family Even today, being a woman itself is a disadvantage in most contemporary society. Women are not allowed to make the first move on men, or we would have been seen as easy. A single woman with power in a company is likely to be laughed at for being too unfeminine to be liked by any man. A single woman is always pressured to find herself a man and settle down, even if that is not what she wants. It is often assumed that women need to feel secure and a woman who does not marry is deemed to...
Free research essays on topics related to: allen unwin, hours a week, contemporary society, husband and wife, boys and girls -
Telecommunications Infrastructure Developing Countries
2,125 words... French households by France Telecom. Yet Americans had much of the functionality of the Minutes through widely available facilities, including telephone access to audio text services and growing access to personal computers equipped with modems. Today, Canada, the European Union and Japan are all concerned that they will be left behind the United States if they do not implement their own information infrastructures. Notably, the report to the European Union states: The first countries to ent...
Free research essays on topics related to: developing countries, european union, telecommunications infrastructure, european communities, york wiley -
Sir Charles Miles South
1,263 wordsOur Most Renowned Aviator Sir Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, known to the world as Smithy remains one of the most celebrated pilots of international aviation's golden age. For seven years, from 1928 to his death in 1935, he was the most revered public hero in Australia. His epic and dangerous oceanic flights, through destructive weather in fragile aeroplanes, were followed on radio around the world like the moon missions of 40 years later. At the end of his great pioneer journeys crowds of 200,...
Free research essays on topics related to: flying, sir charles, cross, 3 m, miles south -
Ability To Manipulate Conventional Wisdom
1,493 wordsAs a first clarification, it should be pointed out that we will not be concerned with artistic creativity. Though there are no doubt some close connections between creative art and creative thinking we will not investigating the abilities involved in playing the violin or painting a picture, but rather the abilities involved in thinking, creatively. What is thinking? A general definition is probably impossible, but three very broad cognitive processes which constitute the core of our ability to ...
Free research essays on topics related to: ability to manipulate, conventional wisdom, deep blue, bill gates, creative thinking -
Trading Partners Cash Flow
905 wordsWithout doubt EDI can create a significant impact to organizations. These can generally be classified into strategic, operational and opportunity benefits and will vary in emphasis across different organisations, depending on why and how EDI has been implemented. Initial EDI applications have concentrated on corporate efficiency by improving data flow and error reduction. In these instances the business case for EDI was based primarily on direct cost savings. With EDI, businesses can eliminate t...
Free research essays on topics related to: trading, cash flow, trading partners, jit, strategic -
Spheres Of Influence Won The War
885 wordsAfrica and Asia Imperialism Imperialism is political, social or economical one country that rules an alien country. During the 1800 s, European Countries and the United States started imperialism in Asia and Africa. In 1841, Dr. Livingston started exploring the African Interior, which produced promising information of the land and rivers. Explorations of gold and diamonds in Africa by Rhodes spurred excitement in the Western Countries. Two European nations had already had colonies in East Asia i...
Free research essays on topics related to: great britain, raw materials, won the war, spheres of influence, east asia -
Radin Mas Ayu Decided To Marry Pangeran
590 wordsLong ago in the kingdom of Java, there lived a young Sultan and his brother named Pangeran Adipati Aug. An able and strong man, the young Pangeran was much loved by his people. One day, during a palace celebration, the Pangeran fell in love with a beautiful dancer and decided to marry her. However, his brother the Sultan objected because she was a commoner and a palace dancer. In spite of this, the young Pangeran decided to marry her secretly. The marriage bore them a beautiful daughter who they...
Free research essays on topics related to: singapore, one day, mas, princess, sultan -
Melting Pot Job Opportunities
659 wordsIt has been a long debated topic whether or not America should continue to let immigrants enter the country. Often, the immediate response would be to withhold more immigrants to come in since there are many existing immigrants already living everywhere around the United States. But the truth is that the immigrants who come in are undoubtedly helping America much more than they harm it. Examples of how the immigrants help would be the economy becoming more powerful, diverse culture, more variety...
Free research essays on topics related to: melting pot, job opportunities, immigration policy, variety, immigrants
Customer center
