American History 7 March 2013 The Positive Effects of Social Media In the winter of 2004‚ a networking site based out of Harvard University known as Facebook‚ launched. Drawing from its predecessors‚ such as MySpace‚ the site made social media relevant to the masses. This began the era of Social Media. Two years later‚ another social networking site‚ Twitter‚ came onto the virtual scene‚ bringing with it more than 500 million users in just over five years. With social media phenomena gaining
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War veterans have been experiencing poor service dating back to an article released in 1974‚ these issues are still occurring today‚ and they are ending fatally (WND Staff‚ Military and Defense par. 1). The Veteran Health Administration (VA) was established in 1778 and provides medical care‚ benefits‚ and burials/memorials for all American veterans. To get into the VA system one must be discharged from the armed services and then enroll in the system. Patients must undergo a test to review their
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With many flaws in this new revolution‚ does however‚ also come some positive impacts. Our time is a time of evolving‚ learning new things to share with the world‚ which the industrial revolution allows. We are learning from clocks that the spinning wheel could make cotton fibers. We use the water wheel to produce energy and as long as we have a supply of cotton our factories could grow bigger. We look at the dark side of things but in the time of the bad we have goods like making a social progress
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the opposite of peaceful protesting‚ but instead causing abusive riots and violence against the black community. Though it may seem like this pandemonium is causing the clashes of the black and white communities‚ it is actually achieving the desired effect. When one wants to win an argument‚ they emphasize the good qualities of their side‚ while making the other side look inferior.
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this time to help the United States‚ in order to protect the Republic of Vietnam (known as South Vietnam)‚ against the posed threat by insurgents reinforced by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). Australian commitment to the Vietnam War lasted 13 years‚ beginning in 1962‚ and withdrawing in 1975. The experiences faced on the battle front had a greater impact on Australian returned soldiers‚ compared to the anti-war sentiment on the
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The positive effects of open sourcing Gavin Hoffman In recent years open sourcing has begun to attract the attention of many economists and social scientists for two main reasons: the growing importance of the open source movement in the software industry and some of the features of open source development appear quite paradoxical to traditional economic reasoning or intellectual property rights. But what is the open source movement and how is it impacting on the software industry? How does
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To what extent did US public opinion have an impact on the Vietnam War? Public opinion did have an impact on the Vietnam War to an extent. The Vietnam War was fought between 1959 and 1975‚ between the communist government of North Vietnam and the democratic government of South Vietnam and its allies‚ the most actively involved of these being the USA. At the end of the conflict‚ neither side were defeated‚ however‚ it is considered a military failure and is seen as a very controversial conflict.
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Unit 1 D6: Ideology‚ Conflict and Retreat; the USA in Asia‚ 1950-73 A: The Korean War‚ 1950-53; causes‚ course and consequences Background to the Korean War Korea had been under Japanese occupation since 1910. With the defeat of Japan in 1945 the USA and USSR agreed to divide the country into two zones along the 38th Parallel. The United Nations demanded free elections for the whole country and was supported by the USA which did not see this as a permanent division and believed that since
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Gloria Pollock was 16 years old when the Vietnam War began. When the war first started‚ Mrs. Pollock did not think much of it. She just thought of it as another war that the United States would take care of. It was not a big deal to her‚ until further into the war‚ when she realized it could affect the US in a pretty big way. Although she‚ or anyone in her family‚ did not fight in the war‚ she knew a few people that had entered the war. Most of them were her friend’s fathers or brothers. When asked
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Business opportunities for companies Businesses in New South Wales won A$1bn worth of contracts from the Sydney games and an additional A$300mn was generated by local business. Over 55‚000 people received employment related training. If London hosted the Olympic games‚ thousands of UK firms could be involved in supplying everything from construction to manufacturing‚ catering to merchandise. (http://www.sportengland.org/2012_uk.htm) Boost to tourism The tourist industry won’t just boom during the
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