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Microsoft Vs Justice Department
785 wordsIn late October 1997, the Justice Department was again interrogating Microsoft. They have been at this since 1993, when they took over from the frustrated Federal Trade Commission. The computer industry of today is exploding more and more as time passes, and competition follows. I think this is a good topic because the world today is surrounded by computers, and it will continue to be this way. It is safe to say that Bill Gates and Microsoft are leading this new revolution, maybe even too much. ...
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Wall Street Journal Internet Explorer
1,674 words... p any competitor product they wish, but they are not allowed to disable features of our products, (Just Dept v MS 2). Second, the government is contending that the terms of Microsoft's non-disclosure agreements are an obstacle in the way of their attempts to gather evidence for their investigation. Microsoft says that their non-disclosure agreements are no different than those of most companies within the software industry, as well as outside it. Finally, there is the matter of the competiti...
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Divine Right Of Kings Church Of England
802 wordsHe was a believer of Absolute Power, as he himself believed he had power bestowed upon him by God (known as the Divine Right of Kings). While he occasionally passed statements in favor of the Puritans/Anglicans, he was believed to be (as most Stuarts) secretly Catholic. He was not exceedingly fond of Parliament, but had few skirmishes with them, he favored He was believed to be a homosexual, and married only out of responsibility to the throne. He believed in absolute power, and so decided not t...
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Ho Chi Minh Department Of State
1,427 wordsDescribe and assess the role of the USA in Indo-China in the period 1945 - 1954 In 1943 President Roosevelt suggested that Indochina come under the control of four powers after the war, proposing that the eventual independence of the Indochinese might follow in twenty to thirty years time. No one knew whether the policy would require American troops, but America was firm on the fact that independence could not be taken by the Vietnamese, but would be granted to the Vietnamese by the Great Powers...
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Sold Into Slavery Roman Empire
988 wordsSlavery has been around since the beginning of man. It took place in the Old Testament and in Babylon in the 18 th Century BC. It has not always been the same. It has changed dramatically. All of the slavery around the world in ancient times influenced and became slavery in the United States. In ancient times slavery was very different. The slaves were treated in a very different manner. They actually had some certain rights. They had a right to engage in business and to acquire property. They c...
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Law Making Bodies Plymouth And Jamestown Colonies
379 wordsJamestown and Plymouth were the first two successful English colonies in North America. Jamestown was established in 1607 and Plymouth in 1620. These two colonies were different yet had a number of striking similarities in Governments, reasons for settlements, and Jamestown and Plymouth had many similarities. For example they both had some sort of government in some way. Jamestown had the first legislative assembly among the western hemisphere in 1619. This would later be called the, House of Bu...
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Jane Addams Hull House
1,362 wordsJane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860, and the eighth of nine children. Her father, John Addams, was a prosperous miller and local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War, he was a friend of Abraham Jane's mother dies when she was only two. Her father remarried and her new stepmother brought along two new stepbrothers to add to the already large family. With the fact of Jane's mother passing away she w...
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Security Council Permanent Members
1,087 wordsUN Security Council is the organ with primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security, the UN Security Council must work constantly to enhance its potential for the prevention and settlement of conflicts. The Councils current structure is 5 permanent members (China, France, Russia, UK, the U. S. ) each with the right to veto, and 10 non-permanent members elected by the General Assembly for 2 year terms. Under the UN Charter, it is the only body that can take decisi...
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Test Of Time Amenhotep Iii
2,051 words... amarna Letters, which dates from the late reign of Amenhotep III into that of Tutankhamen. Scholars have long pondered an identification for the troublesome Habiru of the Letters, though have concluded these nomad-raiders must have been a separate (if possibly related) group from the Hebrews (Ibm), who still would have resided in Egypt at the time of the royal correspondence in question (according to the traditional dating which places their Exodus some 140 years later). With his New Chronol...
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White Settlers White Americans
673 wordsThis book brings to light, and places front and center, possibly the most significant event in American history. That is, the genocide and displacement of the native inhabitants of what was, or would become, the United States of America, thus enabling the formation of the worlds most powerful republic. It is difficult to imagine how most readers, particularly those who are American citizens, would not have their personal perspective or opinion altered, in some small measure at least, by the hist...
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Hester And Dimmesdale Puritan Society
1,110 wordsThe Scarlet Letter Puritan Society- In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, life is centered around a rigid Puritan society in which one is unable to divulge his or her innermost thoughts and secrets. Every human being needs the opportunity to express how he or she truly feels, otherwise the emotions are bottled up until they become volatile. Unfortunately, Puritan society did not permit this kind of expression, thus characters had to seek alternate means to relieve their personal anguishes...
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Nova Scotia North America
388 wordsFor Historic Culture Historic Culture For hundreds, perhaps thousands of years, the native Mikmaqs hunted and fished the bountiful lands and waters of present-day Nova Scotia. Soon after John Cabot's exploration of North America in 1497, European fishermen sailed to the shores of the new land, eager to take advantage of the seemingly endless cod stocks. In 1605, the French established the first permanent European settlement in what is now Canada. They named their small settlement Port Royal, and...
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Bill Of Rights Glorious Revolution
1,090 wordsKing James Ii Introduction The monarchy I thank God, yet had had no dependency on Parliament nor on nothing but god. (1) James like his brother Charles, was determined to rule without the consent of Parliament and to reintroduce Roman Catholicism, which made King James Stuart II the cause of the Glorious Revolution. The Revolution of 1688 was also known as the Glorious Revolution because it was achieved without war. From- 1685 - 1688, James ruled England, Scotland, and Ireland. (2) James being t...
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Archaeological Evidence Agricultural Production
368 wordsFinley / Jones Model stressed view that agriculture dominant economic activity in Roman empire Most products consumed locally and not traded. Most urban centres, except Rome and Alexandria, consumption centres financed by taxes and rents? transport poor so communications similarly poor. Lack of mass market meant trade limited to luxuries? local tradesmen who did become wealthy bought land, landowners commerce was a side issue. ? ? Land bought status and status involved displays of wealth by priv...
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Invasion Of Privacy Crime Rate
1,314 wordsGovernment surveillance in Surveillance Surveillance Government surveillance in the United States is controversial for many citizens. There are many questions facing citizens, a few being: what are the costs and benefits, should we give up privacy for a lower crime rate, and what will the future look like? Great Britain already has an extensive government surveillance system with 250, 000 cameras with full pan, tilt, and zoom, and still has plans to increase that number (? Are You Being Watched?...
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Human Activity Human Environment
559 wordsReconstruction of local area? terrain, availability of water ground water, susceptibility to flooding. ? Conditions over different years. Loss of sits through erosion, inundation and burial under sediment. Glaciers can give us clue to possible resources of earlier ages Varves etc layers of sediment thickness explaining climate Rivers: important as settlement often nearby due to settle deposits, changing course through natural processes shows lots of changes. ? Rough chronology of sites from rive...
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German Confederation Prussian War
826 words1809 -Austria lose to Napoleon again and lose, conclude reform is bad. 1813 - Prussia fight against Napoleon again and are vicious persevere with reform. 1815 -Vienna settlement, Prussia gains Ruhr, North Saxony, Aachen-Cologne-Krefield triangle. German confederation set up under the leadership of Austria. 1818 -Prussia removes customs barriers (domestic tariff system) 1834 - Zollverein launched including 18 states. 1836 - Zollverein extended to 25 states. 1846 - 7 - Disasterous corn harvests an...
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Stop Smoking Hypnosis Didnt
979 wordsLife or Death: Stop Smoking NOW! By James T. Smith Everyone was starting to notice that I had a problem. My wife would ask, Are you O. K. ? as I hacked and coughed every morning. My friends would joke about how I would run short of breath just from walking to the car. My wallet was really talking to me! Somehow I managed to lose five or six dollars a day somewhere between home and the convenience store. But the only voice I would heed had to come from within myself. Finally one day it did. I had...
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Divine Right Of Kings Church Of England
879 wordsJAMES I James I ruled from 1603 - 1625. He was a believer of Absolute Power, as he himself believed he had power bestowed upon him by God (known as the Divine Right of Kings). While he occasionally passed statements in favor of the Puritans/Anglicans, he was believed to be (as most Stuarts) secretly Catholic. He was not exceedingly fond of Parliament, but had few skirmishes with them, he favored instead, the Lords. He was believed to be a homosexual, and married only out of responsibility to the...
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Thoughts And Feelings Mistress Hibbins
806 wordsIn Nathaniel Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter, life is centered on a Puritan society. In this society, people are not allowed to express their thoughts and feelings. Every human being needs the opportunity to express their thoughts and feelings; otherwise the emotions become bottled up until they begin to hurt a person. In this Puritan town, they were not allowed to do that. Luckily, for the main characters, Hawthorne has created a forest to give them a shelter. The forest offers a sanctuary from ...
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