important non-milling use is to pump water‚ either for land drainage or to extract groundwater. Contents [hide] * 1 Windmills in antiquity * 2 Horizontal windmills * 3 Vertical windmills * 3.1 Post mill * 3.2 Hollow-post mill * 3.3 Tower mill * 3.4 Smock mill * 3.5 Sails * 3.6 Machinery * 3.7 Spread and decline * 4 Windpumps * 5 Wind turbine * 6 See also * 7 References * 8 Further reading * 9 External links | -------------------------------------------------
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around Jinda‚ described as a northern Thai beauty ‚ who is the daughter of a rice farmer. Her simple life changed when a group of university students‚ headed by Ned‚ probably a Thai prince charming in his own right‚ came upon her village to live among them so they could experience life in the rural area firsthand. Times were hard‚ as there was a drought. The rice stalks were light‚ not producing the bountiful yield of rice. Children starved to death. During the few times that Jinda’s older sister
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Exposing Puppy Mills Puppy mills have been in the United States for many years‚ they are underground run organizations so they are not easily monitored by animal control units. Puppy Mills are places where purebred dogs are kept in small confinements‚ are severely neglected and are forced to mate until their bodies cannot handle it anymore‚ which then they are inhumanely killed. The puppies then are sent off to pet stores‚ leaving the bitches and studs there to continue the abusive cycle. Animal
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\ Malden Mills Antonio Almeida Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Prof. Paul S. Napolitano November 10‚ 2011 The corporate culture of Malden Mills began in 1907 by Aaron Feuerstein ’s grandfather. His legacy was to continue to provide high quality‚ well-paying jobs to the people of Massachusetts. When Aaron Feuerstein became CEO of the family business Malden Mills‚ he continued his grandfather ’s legacy and continued to
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Thomas Dublin in “Women‚ Work‚ and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills” In Thomas Dublin’s article‚ “Women‚ Work‚ and Protest in the Early Lowell Mills‚” he talks about the conditions of factories. He describes the work and the personal problems that women endured working in factories during the Industrial Revolution. Lowell was originally a rural area. “In 1820‚ there had been no city at all-only a dozen family farms along the Merrimack River in East Chelmsford.” (Dublin 264). A year later‚ a group
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value primarily on the labor theory. Without a clear grasp of the concept of demand‚ Smith‚ Malthus and Ricardo often raise confusing and self-contradictory explanations of the definition of “value.” The utilitarianists‚ like Jeremy Bentham and J. S. Mill‚ offered a revolutionary approach to understand the demand-side of the economy. They consider the usefulness of the product as a whole rather than its process of production. In the development of the utilitarianism‚ reformists present a much more realistic
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Nader Mohsen Obaid 42382 John Stewart Mill‚ On Liberty. Chapter 2 In his essay "On Liberty"‚ Mill suggests that the government shouldn’t act by the appeal of the people and their wants because the public shouldn’t have the authority of force over their elected governor. The government is much more unsafe when it relies on unreliable public belief. Definitely‚ public opinion and belief is the well-liked response of mankind‚ but making this opinion requires suppressing a lot of others. This error
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Making Animals Lives Better Puppy Mills Puppy mills usually house dogs in overcramed and dirty conditions without very good veterinary care‚ food or water. To maintain maximize profit‚ female dogs are bred at every time possible with little to no time to recovery between litter. Puppy mill puppies‚ often as young as eight weeks of age‚ are sold to pet shops or directly to people over the Internet‚ throughout newspaper ads and flea markets. In a puppy mill‚ dogs are often kept in cages with wire
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Instructor Gallup Kant or Mill 14 November 2011 The topic of Kant and John Stuart Mill produces much debate. Both scholars have their own beliefs that they deem to be appropriate point of views in the way man should view a moral life. In this paper I plan on elaborating on both Kant and Mill’s point of views. This paper will first talk about John Stuart Mill’s beliefs on morality and what he deems appropriate. Then in the next segment of the paper‚ Kant views will be dissected and discussed
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John Stuart Mill’s account of Utilitarianism claims “that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness” (Mill‚ 7). In addition‚ “the happiness which forms the utilitarian standard of what is right in conduct is not the agent’s own happiness but that of all concerned” (17). Individuals are often confronted with a choice which benefits others but fails to contribute something in return. Before deciding how to act‚ one evaluates
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