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Cold War Space Race
1,370 wordsWar is an event that represents the situation of a state and how it is revolutionized. It introduces new factors that sometimes force nations others to join in the enhancing of ideas. In particular, the new face of the ideological or new age concept was brought up. The United States of America and the former Union of Soviet Socialists Republic engaged in an ideological conflict known as the Cold War from 1945 to 1989. It was a time of differences between democracy and communism. The other main c...
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Cold War Space Race
1,371 words... d to the USSR. Now, the cold war had established a permanent space race. The U. S. Army's attempt to launch America's first satellite into orbit failed in a launch pad explosion. Two months after the Soviet Union's successful launch of Sputnik, this failure further emphasized America's lag behind the Soviet Union in the space race. Having already lost the race to launch the world's first artificial satellite to the Soviet Union, the United States accelerated its plan to develop an unmanned M...
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Communications Technology Global Information Infrastructure
2,381 words... munications. APEC members include not only the industrialized economies of Japan, Singapore, the United States, and Canada, but also countries with much greater gaps in their infrastructure, such as China, Thailand, and the Philippines. Gill: Promise or hype? Against this background, why all the hyperbole about electronic superhighways? Several themes recur in these information infrastructure initiatives. There are dual assumptions that converging technologies will result in information serv...
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Warrior Overlord Napoleons Relatives States
545 wordsThe question asks what was Napoleons treatment of his European subjects. However first we need to learn what these subjects were and distinguish the differences between them. The states of the Grand Empire fell into one of two categories - lands annexed directly to France, or satellite states under French control but allegedly enjoying a modicum of independence. The extent of Napoleons influence varied, depending on the length of time a particular country remained under his authority. Examples o...
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Cuban Missile Crisis U S S R
2,004 words... R. was putting down unrest in its Eastern European satellites, trouble was stirring in the Middle East. The United States feared Communist expansion in that area. Both the U. S. S. R. and the West sought Egypt's support by offering aid for its development plans. Each side offered to help build the Aswan High Dam. After Egypt courted Communist aid for the dam and bought Communist arms, the United States and the United Kingdom canceled offers to help with the project. President Gamal Abdel Nas...
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Video Satellite Phones Chaos In The Media People
585 wordsMargaret Engel and others believe that video satellite phones, and successor technologies based on more traditional mobile-phone networks, may be as liberating a force in journalism as the Internet has been. These technologies have made it possible for the average person to act as their own personal camera crew and reporter. It puts the power of the media in the hands of people worldwide. Are these new technologies going to change the media in an unfavorable way? Thomas B. Rosenstiel, a writer f...
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Electromagnetic Waves Intelligence Gathering
805 wordsThis is the job of Multidisciplinary Counterintelligence (MDCI). How does the government know that lines are secure from signals intelligence of foreign adversaries? One of the main tasks of MDCI is the "communication line" of the American Government. Radio waves can easily be detected with the right equipment anywhere within the area, and even microwaves can be detected with a receiver in the right place. MDCI combats these problems with encryption for messages and secure lines for voice commun...
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Walt Disney Company Remain Competitive
637 wordsTwo Page Case Analysis Paper The main issue of Ken Belong article is identifying possible strategy that Comcast Cable will have to adopt, in order to remain competitive. Industry Analysis: Comcast is the largest U. S. cable television provider with 21 million subscribers nationwide. Its structure is largely defined by programming investments: Entertainment Television 60. 5 %, Outdoor Life Network 100 %, The Golf Channel 99. 9 %, Style Network 50. 1 %, G 4 93. 6 %. There are also a few more, less...
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Cellular Telephones Electronic Surveillance
1,737 wordsOverview The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986 was adopted to address the legal privacy issues that were evolving with the growing use of computers and other new innovations in electronic communications. The ECPA updated legislation passed in 1968 that had been designed to clarify what constitutes invasion of privacy when electronic surveillance is involved. The ECPA extended privacy protection outlined in the earlier legislation to apply to radio paging devices, electronic ma...
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World War Ii Played A Role
2,799 wordsThe causes and reasons for the decline and ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union are many and of a vastly varying nature. Yet, despite the various schools of thought on this issue, these causes can generally be placed into two differing scopes, those being the domestic and international arenas. Much emphasis is placed on the role that international factors played in the demise of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). But particular domestic factors that the Soviet Empire was faced with...
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Shatt Al Arab Billion A Year
2,100 wordsIraq: A Country on the Rise Lauterbach, Kevin History, Period 4 January 7, 1996 Iraq is a country that is on the rise. After being crushed by allied troops for their invasion of Kuwait, they have begun the slow rebuilding process. In this report, I will discuss the basic geographic features of Iraq, and other various important features such as mineral wealth, vegetation, ect. Iraq's total area is 271, 128 square miles (just slightly more than twice the size of Idaho). Its capital, Baghdad, is lo...
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21 St Century End Of The World
2,308 wordsThe word future in the dictionary means: The indefinite period of time still yet to be; time that is to come. The future in other words is what will happen next year, month, tomorrow, the next minute, or even the next second after you read this essay. The future is all that is unknown. Since the future is relatively unknown, every prediction or hypothesis in the following is merely a guess and nothing more. The future holds much in store for Americans, From that of the pair of shoes you will wea...
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Cable Operators Coaxial Cable
1,060 wordsSome cable television companies have been sending music across coaxial cable for years. But until recently, these were sent in an analog format using an FM frequency. Now companies are experimenting with sending CD-quality music in digital format across the same coaxial cable. In September 1991, International Cablecasting Technologies began selling a premium cable service, called Digital Music Express (DMX), to subscribers in 146 cable systems. DMX offered 30 channels of music programs, from cla...
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Federal Communications Commission Time Warner
2,018 wordsA little over one week ago, on May 1, 2000, millions of Time Warner Cable customers? 3. 5 million to be exact? woke up without the American Broadcast Company (ABC) on their TV dial. While these 3. 5 million, which pondering the coming of the Apocalypse without Regis, Kathy Lee or Susan Lucci for a day, news spread across the country about the reality of the situation. After the two companies failed to reach an agreement on a transmission deal, after five months of negotiating, ABC service was cu...
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Geographic Information Systems Earths Surface
1,655 wordsGeographic Information Systems Geographic information systems (GIS) technology can be used for scientific investigations, resource management, and development planning. For example, a GIS might allow emergency planners to easily calculate emergency response times and effected areas of the ocean during an oil spill based on the spills location. You may ask, what is GIS? In the strictest sense, a GIS is a computer system capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically r...
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U S Military Global Positioning System
1,395 wordsIn the 1800 s, most things were done using manpower, not machines. To plow a field it used to require a team of horses and a plow. To make butter it required a hand churn. Life was simple and people depended on themselves. In the 1920 s the automobile was a very important technological machine. Instead of a team of horses and a carriage, one could move about more efficiently in an automobile. Through the following years many advances in technology occurred: electric machines, televisions, radios...
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Type Of Energy Build The Base Satellite
302 wordsOne of the big problems not fully appreciated with current ideas in nano technology research is the energy requirement for the development of shuttles and using it to carry the bots to other planets. First of all, the design of the shuttle would have to be very intricate because it would have to be able to manage to intense cold since it has to travel farther and farther away from the sun. And as for the probes that are going to build a base for colonization, it requires a new type of energy unl...
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Ground Controllers Satellite Orbit
474 wordsSatellites orbit the earth doing our bidding in ways that enrich the lives of almost all of us. Through electronic eyes from hundreds of miles overhead, they lead prospectors to mineral deposits invisible on earths surface. Relaying communications at the speed of light, they shrink the planet until its most distant people are only a split second apart. They beam world weather to our living room TV and guide ships through storms. Swooping low over areas of possible hostility, spies the sky mainta...
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Ground Controllers Satellite Orbit
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Rotation Period Wide Open
2,643 wordsSaturn is the outermost planet of the planets known in ancient times. The earliest known observations of Saturn, by the Babylonians, can be reliably dated to the mid- 7 th century BC, but it was probably noticed much earlier, since Saturn tends to shine brighter than most stars. To the naked eye it appears yellowish. The Greeks named it after Cronus, the original ruler of Olympus, who in Roman is the god Saturn. Saturn is the 6 th planet in order distance from the sun. It cannot approach the pla...
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