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Brand Loyalty Net Income
1,254 wordsGenerally increasing sales revenue since 1991 Dealer contracts that my be inhibiting Internet sales Sales declines in Europe, Asia, Latin America New international markets: China, India, Russia New international markets: Internet sales Size still matters and Goodyear has size. Its 1999 sales were $ 12, 881, 000, 000 representing a one-year sales growth of 2 %. Its net income was $ 241, 000, 000, a lot of money but a decrease of 64. 7 % from one year earlier. Despite that drop in net income, Good...
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Mauna Loa Carbon Dioxide
1,498 words... locked into the melted minerals. If volcanic rocks erupt on the earth's crust, such as the Andean volcanoes, then magma can interact with carbonate rocks such as chalk as it travels up through the mantle or lower crust, picking up carbon dioxide on the way. In subduction zones, where the ocean floor goes down into the mantle some carbonate rocks do get taken down and melted, recycling their carbon dioxide content, but this is a minor source compared with the mantle. Carbon is quite common de...
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Noble Eightfold Path Noble Truth
1,161 wordsToday's Western religions revolve around a central God that is one and the same for all of the followers of that religion. For instance, a Catholic goes to Church and prays to the same God as the person sitting beside them. There are many Eastern religions where that is not the case. Buddhism, one of the world's oldest religions, is one such instance. Buddhism, in fact, stresses a more individual approach to spirituality. In 563 B. C. , in India, a man named Siddartha Guatama was born into the r...
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World War Ii Middle Eastern
549 wordsThis is Audie Murphy's life story. At the tender age of 12, he becomes the head of the family after his father deserts them. He joins the army at the age of 18 and through the course of the war is decorated for valor nine times thus becoming the most decorated combat soldier in World War II. Audie does one of the bravest acts any soldier ever did during the war. He climbs aboard a burning tank destroyer and single handedly keeps the enemy from advancing on his position. He spends almost an hour ...
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World War Ii Made It Clear
1,766 wordsWhat is war? Websters Encyclopedic Dictionary describes it as: an armed clash between nations or factions in the same nation. Thats how a dictionary describes it, but in fact, it is something much worse. War is the epitome of what is wrong with human nature. War is devastating. Perhaps no other war was as devastating as World War II. (1) World War II killed more people, destroyed more property, disrupted more lives, and had more far-reaching consequences than any other war in history. It brought...
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Prisoners Of War Concentration Camps
1,397 words... The scientifically planned crematoria should have been able to handle the total project, but they could not. The whole complex had forty-six retorts, each with the capacity for three to five persons. The burning in a retort lasted about half an hour. It took an hour a day to clean them out. Thus it was theoretically possible to cremate about 12, 000 corpses in twenty four hours or 4, 380, 000 a year. But the well-constructed crematoria fell far behind at a number of camps, and especially at ...
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Byzantine Empire Second Crusade
944 wordsAfter the death of Charlemagne, king of the Franks, in 814 and the following collapse of his empire, Christian Europe was under attack and on the defensive. The Magyars, nomadic people from Asia, ravaged eastern and central Europe until the 10 th century. Around 800, several centuries of Viking raids disrupted life in northern Europe and even threatened Mediterranean cities. Nevertheless, the greatest threat came from the forces of Islam, very militant and victorious in the centuries following t...
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Darius I The Great Reign
1,309 wordsArrogant, powerful, wise, heroic, conqueror, and a superior leader are a few words that describe Darius I reign and the life that he lived. Darius I is one of the greatest leaders of any nation to ever live. Darius was always well dressed; he was clearly distinguishable from others by his gold scepter, long square beard, fancy jewelry, and a high flat-topped tiara. He wore robes of purple embroidered in gold, fine crimson trousers, and boots. He sat underneath a purple canopy all people were to ...
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14 Th And 15 Trade Routes
646 wordsThe idea of a global village in modern terms brings up thoughts of a world that is completely connected on each continent by telephone, media, and Internet. The idea of a small world has become a part of everyday life only recently. Although the world has not gotten smaller since the 13 th century, it has become more closely connected. This connection was thought to be the work of Western Europeans during the age of exploration and furthered during the imperial age, but now historians using an e...
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World War Ii Cold War
503 wordsWhy was the Cold War named the cold war? It was named the Cold War because it possessed the longest length of time of any war, in modern history, in which two nations were at odds without engaging in direct battle. The Term Cold War was used to describe the shifting struggle for power and prestige between the Western powers and the Communist syndicate from the end of World War II until 1989. After World War II, the West felt threatened by the continued expansionist policy of the Soviet Union. Th...
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York New York 1982 York New York Rainbow
1,076 words... ain bow. This theory is also seen in tribes of Africa and civilizations in Brazil. It is an important figure in rites of initiation and rainmaking, carrying often a dangerous and destructive character. The rainbow is said to be the cause of draughts in those parts of the world. The rainbow draws the water up to the sky, from where it falls down to the earth again. This in itself is not a bad thing but since the water is drawn up from everywhere, rivers, lakes and wells, it is a danger to hum...
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Endangered Species Million Acres
1,220 wordsWith all the new and advanced technology that is accessible today, who has time to enjoy or care about the great outdoors? Unfortunately, much of the wilderness and the animals within it are gradually fading away. There are many animals that have already been extinct and many more will soon be put on the list of extinction. In the second issue of Target Earth, Tim Stevens found in 1975, the grizzly bear was listed as a threatened species, under the Endangered Species Act. Stevens also stated, To...
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Balkan Peninsula Roman Empire
1,068 wordsRomania: Not Just a Catchy Title Northernmost on the Balkan Peninsula, Romania stands at the westernmost border of the Black Sea. Lying between 43 oN and 48 oN latitude, and between 20 oE and 29 oE longitude, Romania is situated in a temperate climate zone. It is located north of Bulgaria, south of the Ukraine, east of Serbia and Hungary, and west of Moldova. Romania lies within central Europe, where it sits in line with many other countries which have had revolutions of late. Romania is divided...
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Protestant Reformation Martin Luther
973 wordsReligion is a predominant force in our world today. It also had a strong impact on the lives of those alive during the Protestant Reformation. Many changes were brought along by this historical chain of events. Recently, many incidents have occurred to change the way people view religion. Examples include the Holocaust and, more recently, the Branch-David ians in Waco, Texas. Even a more spectacular event in history occurred when a group of people decided that just because everyone around them h...
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Confession Is Unknown Confession Of Sin One
714 wordsForgive me Religion: Confessions con? fes? sion Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. This simple phrase from Roman Catholic dogma conjures up images of famous Hollywood confessions and dramatizations, but the real root of the phrase has a much more obscure past. Not only found in modern Catholicism, the confession of sin, along with the confession of faith, can be seen in religious practices throughout the world. The simplest definition Webster gave the confession of sin is a written or oral st...
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Write A History Peter Stanford Heaven
732 wordsVanilla skies Heaven Peter Stanford 3844 pp, HarperCollins St Augustine thought nobody farted there. St Thomas Aquinas saw it as a celestial Trades Union Congress a place where the communion of the saints ruled co-operatively. But the Scandinavian version meant a lot of singing, boar-eating and mead-drinking. Heaven cant always wait. Peter Stanford's brisk popular theology a mixture of creeds, anecdotes and history shows how the waiting turns into imaginative star-gazing. To write a history of h...
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Acid Rain Sulfur Dioxide
1,127 wordsAcid rain is precipitation of higher than normal acidity. Manmade increases in the acidity of precipitation are traced mainly to the burning of coal, oil, and gas by heavy industry and electrical utilities. Burning these fuels releases sulfur and nitrogen oxides (Sox and Nox) to the atmosphere where they combine with water vapor to produce sulfuric acid (H 2 SO 4) and nitric acid (HNO 3). The acids in the atmosphere are carried and deposited on the earth s surface in the forms of rain, snow, and...
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Love And Affection Role Model
1,052 wordsCodes And Values There are certain standards, codes, ethics and values by which people live their lives. It is these standards and codes that determine what is right and wrong. In other words, they create a boundary that draws a line between what is considered unethical or immoral. These standards or codes in certain peoples lives are set by their respective religions. On the other hand, the groups, communities or tribes in ones life set these standards. In eastern societies these standards are ...
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House Of Commons Prime Minister
1,017 wordsCanada is a country full of excitement and interesting information. There is a population of over 20, 004, 000 in Canada. Seventy out of every hundred canadians live in cities or other communities of more than 1, 000 people. About 45 % of the canadian people live in metropolitan areas. Canadas family life is very similar to that of American life. The typical family consists of 3 or 4 members. Canadians earn a little less money than do Americans, but they have about the same standard of living. T...
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Thoughts And Ideas Objective Reality
1,155 wordsReality is an objective matter and should be treated as such. There is no such thing as subjective reality, therefore, an objective reality is the only thing that is arguably correct. There are many different worldviews around the world, through the course of this essay a few of those worldviews and their systems of thought will be presented. Throughout this essay I will try to remain completely objective myself, but by the very nature of my argument, it cannot be done completely. For my first e...
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