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 ...

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 Since then, money as we once knew it has been replaced by an unstable new global medium of e...

Outsourcing America The outsourcing by definition is not a new concept: the procuring of services or products, from an outside supplier or manufacturer in order to cut cost. Historically, companies have sought ways to lower cost and increase profitability. Often, these two desires have run counter...

The use of computers in school classrooms has evolved throughout the years, and has become revolutionary in changing the way we teach and learn. Our classrooms should no longer be confined to four walls and a few teachers who are considered to be experts in knowledge. Our classrooms need to keep up ...

Globalization is an apparent concern in our world today. Not only are countries trading goods and conducting business with one another, they are also exchanging cultures and religious beliefs on some levels. While there are still many drastic differences between the developed countries and the und...

In an era of sound bytes, television attack ads, political blogs, and twenty-four hour national news cycles, it can be difficult to imagine that politics once was different. For one, it was more local. In the Nineteenth Century, and through a good part of the Twentieth Century, Democrats and Repub...

Ten years ago a pill was developed in France, it was informally called RU-486, it's intent was to give women wanting an abortion an easy alternative to surgery, but is America ready for this revolutionary pill? Since the late 1980's when America first got wind of the fact that Europe had developed ...

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 Since then, money as we once knew it has been replaced by an unstable new global medium of exchange that is called ...

A group of junior high students assembled outside of their school early one morning. The teachers instructed the students to form lines facing towards the school when something caught one of the student\'s eyes. Soon the other students noticed what appeared to be an airplane in the sky. They all ...

SynopsisEnthusiasts have long argued that share option schemes provide management with a powerful motivation tool. Stock ownership aligns employee and shareholder interests will strengthening employee levels of commitment. In an increasingly competitive business environment, options are a way to att...

Andrew Dees Mrs. Jones Honors English 1129 April 2004The 70s Outline: Daily Life Thesis: During the 1970s, the Vietnam War gripped the hearts and minds of people across America. It influenced anti-war demonstrations like Non-war rallies and Streaking. I. Anti-war demonstrationsA. Jacks...

During the industrial revolution in the United States, tremendous economic prosperity resulted in social and political unrest. It seemed the rich were getting richer while the poor remained poor. The middle class was forged out of the industrial revolution but would be challenged at this time. La...

I decided that I wanted to be a teacher when I was at the age of thirteen. I decided this because I always wanted to know what was on the other side of being a student, what it was like to be the teacher teaching, not the student learning. But throughout my education I have learned that learning i...

Was the invention of the atomic bomb the creation of just another weapon, or the creation of a doomsday device? For over fifty years, the controversy over whether or not it was necessary to drop the atomic bomb to conclude World War II has continued to question America and the rest of the world. In ...

American values are a tricky thing. It seems that the value set changes with each individual. "American pragmatism is actually rooted in deeply held anti-authoritarian, individualistic, egalitarian, activist ideals, which privilege personal choice, flexibility, and technical efficiency with the pu...

Today's generation of youth from diapers to age twenty have their own name,just as the 50-some baby boomers have: It is the Net-generation or N-geners.This population, which is 80 million strong, is the first generation togrow up surrounded by digital media. Computers can be found in homes andschool...

Why do many highly trained people from developing nations seek employment in advanced countries? Why are these highly educated people apparently more productive and highly paid in these advanced countries than they are in their home countries? Over the years the United States has been called a nat...

Whya do many highly trained people from developing nations seek employment in advanced countries? Why are these highly educated people apparently more productive and highly paid in these advanced countries than they are in their home countries? Over the years the United States has been called a na...

Social Mobility in the United States?Abstract:The focus of this paper will be social mobility in America. My expected findings were that upward social mobility is declining in America, social mobility depends on race, income, mother and father occupation, and ethnicity. The method of research that ...

War Against MarijuanaA total of 3,470,545 Americans have been arrested for marijuana offenses. In 1997 state and local law enforcement arrested 695,200 people for marijuana violations. That number is the highest ever recorded by the FBI. Of the 682,885 arrests made in 1998, approximately 88% were fo...

The United States tax system is in complete disarray. Republicans and Democrats agree that the current tax code is complex, unfair, and costly. The income tax system is so complex; the IRS publishes 480 tax forms and 280 forms to explain the 480 forms (Armey 1). The main reason the tax system is ...

Dominique Tappy 7F - 04 October 2000The Origins of the Cold WarThe Cold War was a struggle between conflicting universal values. In the West, the concepts of a market economy and a multi-party democracy were cherished as necessity. In the East, single party statism and a command administrative econo...

The 1960's were a time of major political and social change. These changes were primarily fuelled by the youth of the time. Their parents had come from life in both the great depression of the 1930's as well as World War II, and were on a whole more conservative than their children, a fact the young...

*NOTE* This essay was written in a comparison between Scout (To Kill A Mockingbird) and a person.Small Town WarfareMany events can happen in a person's life that can affect that person deeply: a death of a family member, moving to another town, conflict between family, an introduction of a person in...

THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMBTHE CHAIN REACTION BOMBAtomic bomb imagined The New York Press reports: "New hope for releasing the enormous stores of energy within the atom has arisen from German scientists". World famous Niels Bohr of Copenhagen and ...