In 1992, America was under economic distress and uncertainty as a country. America had experienced high unemployment, big deficits, high interest rates, low productivity gains and falling real wages for average Americans. After twelve years of national drift and economic decline, President Clinton c...

The purpose of this research paper is to prove that technology has been good for the stock market. Thanks to technology, there are now more traders than ever because of the ease of trading online with firms such as Auditrade and Ameritrade. There are also more stocks that are doing well because t...

The Thunder of Hooves and the Thrill of the Race: Technology and the Horseracing Industry There is quite possibly nothing more thrilling than standing at the rail of Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky as a field of thoroughbreds comes charging around the turn; unless it is standing at ...

Is Technology Always for the Better?Where would America be without the technological advancements of our age? Would we be a third world nation? Maybe not even a nation at all. Is there such a thing as too much advancement? Technology has integrated itself into our society. It affects how we work...

Today, telecommunications technology affects lives to a greater degree than ever before. Communication has evolved over many years from the earliest attempts at verbal communication to the use of sophisticated technology to enhance the ability to communicate effectively with others. Every t...

Today, telecommunications technology affects lives to a greater degree than ever before. Communication has evolved over many years from the earliest attempts at verbal communication to the use of sophisticated technology to enhance the ability to communicate effectively with others. Every time a tel...

Resistance to Technology Technology. What would we do without it? Probably have a lot less fun and have a lot shorter life span. Think about it, you couldn't watch Dawson's Creek or Friends every week. That would mean that the lives of millions of teenage girls in America woul...

Email, Cell phones, Internet, Television, Pagers, and Computers is the way of the future, or is it now trademarks of everyday life? Today in 2002 peoples lives seem so interconnected with the ways that technology has been able to bridge the gap in communications. Fifty years ago, you had limited op...

Spring lingers in Alaska and the glaciers in the Sierras are melting - bringing with the sense of possible doom as well as a reminder that the technology that is the lifeblood of the modern world comes at a distinct price. But while we might think that the hand-wringing that is ...

Over the past half century, computer technology has transformed our world by providing us with incredible tools for processing and communicating information. A number of organizations have recognized the importance of computer technology. The computer has come a long way since it was first invented...

America has experienced many changes in terms of high technology of communication since last century. One of these devices and the most common to my consideration is the Television. The TV has made possible the transmission of important news and events worldwide. It also has educated and entertained...

MultimediaAs a technology, it is called multimedia. As a revolution, it is the sum of many revolutions wrapped into one: A revolution in communication that combines the audio visual power of television, the publishing power of the printing press, and the interactive power of the computer. Multimed...

How the Computer Has Changed American Culture When trying to envision the world of today without computers, I imagine that our lifestyles would be extremely different. "As exciting as technological developments may be...it is important to remember that people who lack the skills or the machines to t...

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank you for coming here tonight and those of you at home watching. This election could be a major turning point in history. We have two choices. The first choice is to remain how we are now, a nation who is being lied to. We could remain a nation whose ad...

Summary: This article summarizes how businesses are watching outbound emails within their company that contain sensitive or law breaking information. It also explains how companies are dealing with spam and viruses. According to a June survey by Forrester Consulting, about 30% of 140 businesses ...

Preventing Medication Errors "Mistakes are a sign that a safety problem exists, not that a nurse is doing a bad job" (Cohen, 2003, p.38). In hospitals across America nurses are making mistakes by administering wrong medications or the wrong dose to the wrong patient. While in nursing s...

The Training Issue We already said that the Commission was concerned about the level and extent of training provided by America's businesses. The National Alliance of Business quoted Bureau of Labor Statistics survey data to outline the extent and pay-off from worker training. They found that...

History is the study of the past. For historians the past dates back to 4,000 B.C., when events were first marked by writing, until present day. In its content history is everything. Historians spend their whole lives figuring out which events are more substancial than others. In order to achie...

Currency, the Beginning, the Present , and the Future "Money - in the traditional sense no longer exists. It died two decades ago when Richard Nixon forever abolished the gold standard. Since then, money as we once knew it has been replaced by an unstable new global medium of e...

The 20th century was filled with many impactful and life changing events for Americans. There were wars, depressions, technology and inventions that changed the way Americans would live forever. The most significant of all these events was the invention of the Computer. In the 1930's America ...

Natural resources, business management, and capital and technology all played a major role in the development of industrial America from 1865 to 1900. Many industries in the U.S. including oil, salt, sugar, tobacco, and meatpacking were highly stimulated. Competition soared and that's when these fun...

The democratic values involved here are, liberty in the fact that your privacy is stripped from you every time your baggage is x-rayed. Equality comes to mind when they do "random" searches, they have to use some kind of profiling to pick the people to search. Although these civil rights a...

Some inventions have changed the world, such as the telephone in the early part of the 20th century, and the television in the 50's and the 60's. Today not many inventions can change the course of history like the printing press and the automobile did, but one invention has paved the way f...

After viewing Enemy of the State, one can not help but feel vulnerable to the technological advances of our government. However, most Americans find it difficult to believe that they are being watched by agents of the United States government. When Americans do accept that their privacy is being inv...

Economics has been an integral component of human enterprise ever since goldsmiths began utilizing their clients' bullion to support unrelated endeavors. The goldsmiths' simple process provided the model for present-day corporations to invest their net-worth in labor expansion and new tech...