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Advancement Of Science Mustapha Mond
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Author: 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
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The 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
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In 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
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... 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
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The 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
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Born 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
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The 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
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Art 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
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The 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
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Tauseef 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
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AUBURN 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
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... 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
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Made People Leisure Time
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Although 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
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The 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
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The 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
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OR 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
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Hybrid-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
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The 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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Final Project Outline Questions: I. Page 99
questioHow would you advertise a toothpaste at the
four different stages in its life cycle? 1.
Introduction Stage Risk seems to go hand in hand
with the introduction stage because the chance of
product failure is quite high. Profits will be
below zero due to low initial revenues while the
toothpaste company covers large expenses for
promotion and distribution. We will need to let
potential buyers aware of the new toothpaste
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Lower Middle Class Von Papen
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Hitler 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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