America Online. Inc. (AOL) Q1. Prior to 1995‚ why was America Online (AOL) so successful in the commercial online industry relative to its competitors CompuServe and Prodigy? First mover advantage – AOL was a leader in the development of a new mass medium: online services‚ Internet‚ multimedia‚ and other interactive technologies. It constantly developed and added new offerings to customers. AOL’s competitive advantage stemmed from its continued development of the evolving mass medium for interactive
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the morale down and took the heart out of the team. We lost most of our games that year‚ and it wasn’t because we didn’t have the ability to win. We were just told we couldn’t‚ and unfortunately we believed it. Henry Ford’s quote is very powerful‚ in that‚ it is very simple yet very true. Everyone’s ability is limited or unlimited based on how much they believe in
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apart and there were many reasons behind its failure. It never managed to obtain parliamentary support for the Charter. In July‚ 1839 a petition with over 1.25 million signatures in support of their aims was taken to parliament and it was rejected three times‚ by a vote of 235 against and 46 in favour. The middle-class people ignored‚ shunned or condemned Chartism. Even the government handled the movement firmly and calmly. Chartist demands were also very drastic and there was too much diversity in
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The first European Americans When people think about the new world‚ they might think why did European sail across the globe to the new world? Why did Chinese‚ for example‚ did not want to sail? The answer to that is Europeans‚ unlike Chinese or any other group of people‚ had two main reasons that made them interested to sail to the new world. Europeans were motivated by their poverty‚ and their motive to convert the world to Christianity. In other words‚ Europeans were motivated by “God‚ gold‚ and
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prayers to saints‚ and all the issues surrounding Mary and the Pope‚ etc.‚ lies the biggest rift between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism: the issue of authority. How one answers the authority question will generally solve all the others. When it comes down to deciding a theological issue about defined Catholic dogma‚ there isn’t really much to discuss on the Catholic’s side because once Rome speaks‚ it is settled. This is a problem when trying to debate a Roman
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Harriet Tubman The United States has a long history of using African slaves to cheap labour. The slaves worked on plantations under very bad circumstances‚ their lives were miserable. Many times‚ slaves tried to riot or escape from the plantations. The Underground Railroad is the name of an escape route that many African slaves used in the 19th hundreds. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery but used this route to gain freedom. Later she went back to help other runaways‚ she became an important person
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Many reasons were behind European Colonization of the New World‚ which‚ in countless ways‚ shaped the lifestyle we know today. However‚ three of those reasons stand out most in assessing what made the colonization of the Americas possible. New trade routes‚ religious freedom‚ and ambitions of wealth all played major roles in colonizing the Americas. When Columbus set out west‚ he was seeking a new‚ faster route to Asia. He did discover an important route to somewhere. While the route to the Americas
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Why were the Bolsheviks successful in the October Revolution of 1917? During the October revolution of 1917‚ The Bolsheviks were substantially strengthened by the weaknesses of the Provisional government and how it appealed to them as well as through their own methodical and carefully constructed policies and layout. One of its weaknesses was the futile leadership of Kerensky enforced by his costly mistakes. He not only undermined the prevalent growth in strength of the Bolsheviks but also the
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Egypt Child Labor a Somber Reality By AFP First Published: June 13‚ 2008 [AFP PHOTO/MARWAN NAAMANI ] AFP PHOTO/MARWAN NAAMANI CAIRO: Thirteen-year-old Essam Hussein spends his days lugging exhaust pipes in a little repair workshop in central Cairo‚ one of hundreds of thousands of children forced into labor to secure a future. "I hate school‚ I like it here‚" says Essam who dreams of owning his own repair shop with his brothers one day. "I’ve been working here since last year‚" he says
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Alexander the Great. The ruler of Greece from 356-323 B.C.E. He walked right into military and political aspects. Alexander was an awesome young man and wanted the world to know that he would become just as great of a ruler as his father. It was a must that once he gained the power that all should know he was competent in his work. Alexander will forever be recognized for being a dynamic ruler to the people of Greece. For that alone he leaves behind a legacy that will never fade from history. Admittedly
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