Before Dwight D. Eisenhower became president of the United States in 1953‚ he had been a career military man.Shortly after the end of World War I‚ then-Lieutenant Colonel Eisenhower participated in a War Department project.It involved a convoy of army vehicles driving from the East Coast to the West Coast.Right? Well‚ at that time‚ there were few highways.The War Department hoped to make a point: There was a desperate need for better‚ safer‚ and faster highways in America.The convoy‚ consisting of
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Are Magazines Really Useless? In the essay “Reading and Thought‚” New York intellectual Dwight Macdonald explains the reasons society should not be wasting their time reading magazines because of ineffective knowledge gained from them. Macdonald clarifies his points by specifically including quotes from two different magazine companies and provides his own opinion about what people should really know about them. The connection that reading irrelevant passages and the thought we have after is how
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Steve Jobs: Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24‚ 1955‚ in San Francisco‚ California‚ to Joanne Schieble (later Joanne Simpson) and Abdul Fattah "John" Jandali‚ two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave their unnamed son up for adoption. His father‚ Abdul Fattah Jandali‚ was a Syrian political science professor and his mother‚ Joanne Schieble‚ worked as a speech therapist. As an infant‚ Steven was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs. Clara worked as an accountant
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|Argued December 9‚ 1952 | |Reargued December 8‚ 1953 | |Decided May 17‚ 1954 | |Full case name |Oliver Brown‚ et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka‚ et | | |al. | |Citations |347 U.S. 483 (more) | |
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A Case of Cerebrovascular Accident by David F. Dean‚ Department of Biology‚ Spring Hill College Case Presentation Samuel Dexter is a -year-old African-American man who is both a husband and father. He is moderately obese (bmi of )‚ and has smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for the past years. He awakes one morning with weakness on his right side. He is a bit confused‚ sees double‚ and his speech is slurred. When he attempts to walk to
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Facts: The Negro plaintiffs in these cases were denied admission schools attended by the white children under the laws requiring or permitting segregation according to race. All the court adhered to the “separate but equal” doctrine and held that the plaintiffs were not admitted to the white schools (except for the plaintiff in the Delaware case). In the instant cases‚ the plaintiffs contend that segregated public schools are not “equal” and they are deprived of the equal protection of the laws.
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Pepsi Cola Products Philippines‚ Inc. (petitioner) v. Honorable Secretary of Labor (respondents) 1. Facts: a. June 1990: The Pepsi-Cola Employees Organization-UOEF (Union) filed a petition for certification election with the Med-Arbiter seeking to be the exclusive bargaining agent of supervisors of Pepsi-Cola Philippines‚ Inc. (PEPSI). i. Med-Arbiter granted this stating that PCEU-UOEF was an affiliate of Union de Obreros Estivadores de Filipinas (or the Federation) with two (2) rank and file
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Case #4 Fighting Grime (Clorox Company) This is a fun case in that it involves branded products that students will recognize yet probably do not associate with Clorox. A good way to introduce the case could be to bring in product samples or show the brand names of their many products and ask students what they have in common? The case is short and vivid and can be assigned ahead or simply read in class. It is an easy case to grasp quickly yet provides some very clear examples of strategic
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Case Name: South East Asian Economic Crisis An economic crisis‚ which erupted in Thailand in mid-1997 and which soon spread to neighbouring countries—Malaysia‚ Indonesia‚ Philippines and South Korea— came to be popularly referred to as South-East Asian economic crisis (although South Korea is in East Asia and only the other countries are in South East Asia). A currency Crisis shows up when there is a speculative attack on the exchange rate‚ resulting in a devaluation of a pegged currency or sharp
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caseF&C INT CASE 4.2 F&C INTERNATIONAL‚ INC. Synopsis Over two centuries‚ the Fries family of northern Kentucky and southern Ohio built a dynasty of sorts in the flavor industry. Alex Fries‚ a German immigrant with a background in chemistry‚ settled in Cincinnati during the early nineteenth century and a few years later established a flavor company. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries‚ Fries and his descendants owned‚ operated‚
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