transformed. The Fluorescent Republic’s military budget alone was 13 Billion watt dollars per year! Over 71‚000 support personal were employed during the war. The lines were said to cover 2.6 miles long throughout the fighting. No bulb truly knew what caused the Lightbulb war‚ though many credited it to a Fluorescent
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Great Depression was a time in the 1930’s where the world faced many economic problems. Some of these included stock market crashes‚ overproduction‚ and The Dust Bowl of the 1930’s. Some causes were ‚however‚more relentless than others.These issues are what led to the economic downfall worldwide. A dilemma that the world faced was a stock market crash which is a fall of prices across the economy. In the article ‚Stock Market Crash of 1929 by A&E Television Networks states‚ “...production had already
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REACTION PAPER – THE ENRON SCANDAL FACTS OF THE CASE Enron Corporation was formed in 1985‚ led by Kenneth Lay‚ as a result from the merger of Houston Natural Gas and Internorth that specializes in natural gases and commodities. In 1990‚ the company hires Jeffrey Skilling to lead the trading of commodities under deregulated market and Andrew Fastow later that year (USA Today‚ 2002). Deregulation of the energy markets allowed companies to place bets on future prices‚ and Enron was poised to take
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poverty to run the streets. If the whole factory got shut down than there was much less chances of even getting work. Business caused the main fall of unemployment which evidently lead to poverty‚ People living on the streets and families cracking and falling
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started‚ yet is a factor in how it was caused. The idea of slavery fueled political and social relations between the North and South during the 1850s. Acts‚ such as the Fugitive Slave Act‚ hampered the sentiment towards the South‚ while the antislavery and abolition movement coalesced Southern opinion against the North. However‚ the feud between the North and South in attempts to gain power over the other‚ and the South’s eventual loss‚ is what primarily caused the Civil War. The political struggles
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Olisae Udemadu May 16‚ 2013 Core 2 The early 1900’s were a time of turmoil for farmers in the United States‚ especially in the Great Plains region. After the end of World War I‚ overproduction by farmers resulted in low prices for crops. When farmers first came to the Midwest‚ they farmed as much wheat as they could because of the high prices and demand. Of the ninety-seven acres‚ almost thirty-two million acres were being cultivated. The farmers were careless in their planting of the crop‚ caring
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DBQ: WHAT CAUSED THE CIVIL WAR? Proslavery and antislavery civilians clash. The "tea cup sitting close to the edge of the table" (Background Essay) begins to rattle heavily and almost fall off. The Civil War has begun. This "war between the states" shows that extremity of differences in opinions can lead to violence and death. There were over 618‚000 casualties by the end of the war‚ which lasted from 1861 to 1865. So‚ what lead to this wildness? The Civil War was caused by three main reasons: economic
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keep out as much dirt as possible. Farmers watched helplessly as their crops blew away. Families‚ tribes‚ dusted out‚ tractored out‚ homeless‚ and hungry. Modern American Poetry explains “Poor agricultural practices and years of sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl. Plains grasslands had been deeply plowed and planted to wheat. During the years when there was adequate rainfall‚ the land produced bountiful crops. But as the droughts of the early 1930s deepened‚ the farmers kept plowing and planting
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Managua‚ Nicaragua Sept 28th‚ 2013 ENRON Background In 1985 Kenneth Lay merged his company‚ Houston Natural Gas‚ with Nebraska’s InterNorth to create the Enron; a company to be the biggest natural gass corporation to exist in the U.S. During the 1980’s‚ under the presidency of Ronald Raegan‚ there was a considerable lack of regulations regarding the energy markets‚ thus allowing the company to buy and sell contracts for a delivery at some time in the future. By 1990 Jeffery Skilling joined as
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Throughout history there have been many revolutions‚ such as the French Revolution‚ that were caused by people rebelling against their governments. The French Revolution commenced after the Enlightenment became popular. The Enlightenment was a period in time where new ideas were spread and people started thinking differently about the world that they lived in. Enlightenment thinkers‚ like John Locke and Voltaire‚ begin inspiring the citizens of France to rebel against their government if they felt
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