Neoliberalism in Latin America From the 1930s until the 1980s state intervention and protection were key components of most Latin American economies. In these years many Latin American countries were used an Import-substitution industrialization based economy trying to reduce dependence on foreign imports and replacing them with domestic production. Due to the use of an Import-substitution industrialization based economy Latin American countries were forced to keep high tariffs to protect
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A Brief History of Telescopes 1608 AD – Hans Lippershey‚ German-born Dutch lens maker‚ applied for a patent for his refracting telescope (using 2 lenses)‚ he intended them for use in the military. 1609-1610 – Galileo Galilei built his own refractor telescopes to observe the sky‚ and discovered Saturn’s rings‚ Jupiter’s moons‚ and along with many other significant discoveries. 1655 – Christian Huygens‚ a Dutch physicist and astronomer developed powerful lenses for refractor telescopes with his
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*Brief History of Windows After reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800‚ Gates contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS)‚ the creators of the new microcomputer‚ to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform. In reality‚ Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS’s interest. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo
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A Brief History of Finland When looking through the main events in Finnish history‚ broadly speaking‚ it can be divided into three chapters: the Swedish period prior to 1809‚ the Russian period from 1809 to 1917‚ and the independent period from 1917 to the present day. Finland was part of the Swedish Empire from 1150 to 1809. As we are focusing on the main events in Finnish history‚ we are going to begin from the 17th century. During the 17th century‚ while Finland was under Swedish Rule‚ it
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF PHARMACOGNOSY In 780 AD ‚ a Greek pharmaco-botanist Pedanios Dioscorides wrote and described about 600 plants with medicinal properties in his book “De materia medica libre cinque(concerning medical matter in five volumes). Galen was a Greek pharmacist-physician who lived in Rome and who describe the method of preparing formulas containing plant and animal drugs and the term ”galenical pharmacy” was originated. In 19th century material medica (medical
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Mayixuan Li Ms. Reilly International Relations: Conflict and Cooperation in Global Politics October 22 2012 Neorealism‚ a concept of international relations that emerged in 1979 by Kenneth Waltz‚ is a theory which forces on demonstrating how the world works instead what the world ought to be. Neorealism thinkers claim that international structure is established by its ordering principle‚ which is anarchy‚ and by the distribution of power‚ measured by a number of great powers‚ which have the
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A Brief History Of Computers The history of computers starts out about 2000 years ago‚ at the birth of the abacus‚ a wooden rack holding two horizontal wires with beads strung on them. When these beads are moved around‚ according to programming rules memorized by the user‚ all regular arithmetic problems can be done. Another important invention around the same time was the Astrolabe‚ used for navigation. Blaise Pascal is usually credited for building the first digital computer in 1642. It added
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Brief History of the NRA The National Rifle Association in its simplest form is the largest gun club in the world. The organization was founded in 1871 by former Union Army officers to encourage sport shooting in order to have a fine tuned militia in case of emergency. The Union officers believed that a well regulated militia was integral for the security of a free state. It is an organization that opposes gun control‚ it believes in the individual defense of the uses of firearms‚ and it is
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Cited: Bello‚ Walden. “Neoliberalism as Hegemonic Ideology in the Philippines.” Tni.org. Transnational Institute. 27 Oct. 2009. Web. 15 Nov. 2013. --- Desierto‚ Dr. Diane A. “Corruption‚ Climate‚ and Congress: Preying on Philippine Resilience and Faith.” Gmanetwork.com. GMA News
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Brief history of prostitution Note by the author This document owes a lot to Max Chaleil’s work. His book‚ ‘Le corps prostitué : le sexe dévorant’ is the main reference of this file. This historical summary will mainly concern France‚ even though there are a few comparisons with the situation of prostitution in other countries. 1. The Beginnings : Sexual hospitality and sacred prostitution It is not so sure that prostitution is the oldest trade in the world; the Europeans admitted to it during the
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