Annalyn Lovell #12 Informational Essay The Berlin wall was built in Germany on August 13‚ 1961. This separated western and eastern Germany. It surrounded all of east Germany and was built a little bit after World War two. This was such a big event because several people died trying to escape‚ and many families got separated. Of course this wall of danger and depression got torn down on November 9‚ 1989. First a question about this wall would be. Why was it put up in the first place? Well the
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Explain the reasons for the rapid rise and spread of Islam and its status as a near-global religion by 850? Read pgs 138-142 for a description of pre-Muslim Arabian peninsula society. What were the problems and conflicts. What people would have welcomed a religion that unified the clans and allowed trade and travel possible? What was the status of women? Think of the cities and how their vitality was threatened by the traditions of the Bedouins. Read starting pg 142 for a description of Muhammad’s
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The Rise and fall of Napster It started as an accident. Shawn Fanning was just experimenting and thinking of an easier to go through a search engine for music. What was a simple idea turned out to be a phenomenon in the Internet world. The creation of Napster led to many problems and brought about new issues that involved the entertainment industry and piracy laws. Napster is a software where a compilation of all of its user’s files are held in a central unit and each user is able to use its
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During the 1960’s the Berlin wall was built to try to stop the number of emigrants crossing the border. It completely cut Berlin in half‚ the east were communists and the west were democrats. They built the wall within days‚ which ever side you happened to be on that night is the side you stayed on. There was no getting back across for any reason. They immediately had guards‚ guard dogs‚ and traps all along the wall to kill anyone near it. The people tried to fight against it‚ it did not benefit
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Case Study The Rise and Fall of WorldcomThis case study is about Bernard Ebbers CEO of Worldcom‚ Inc. and Scott Sullivan CFO of Worldcom‚ Inc. once they were boosted the company growth and they got awards. Later on they made frauds by using their influential tactics on employees and company’s board. Those are Assertiveness: it involves applying legitimate and coercive power to influence others by threatening or giving punishment. This tactic was used by sullivans office where they berated and intimidated
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The rise and fall of Nokia Nokia represent the level of manufacturing industry of Finland in the IT area. Several types of Nokia mobile helped Nokia to open up the market. Back to the old days‚ when Motorola is know as mobile gangster‚ Nokia introduced a clear sound‚ smart appearance‚ with large proportion of screen and scrolling text menu mobile phone‚ which had unprecedented sales‚ at the same time whole world remembered the name “NOKIA”. From1992‚ Nokia introduced
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The Berlin Wall‚ three words which bring to mind some of the most turbulent and confusing years twentieth century Germany had ever seen. Often‚ when discussing this topic‚ most of the focus mainly surrounds the construction and destruction of this great barrier. Although these topics will be discussed at length‚ the reasons for its construction and later destruction began long before any sign of an official barrier made an appearance. After World War II‚ Germany was divided into four zones
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The Ghosts of Berlin: Confronting German History in the Urban Landscape by Brian Ladd examines the past political controversies and recounts Berlin’s troubled history. The value of this source is that there is meaningful information about the impacts on Berlin and the world after the war. He examines the decisions that were made to erect the Berlin Wall and the ramification of those decisions. A limitation of this source is that it was written in 1997‚ 36 years after the wall was built‚ political
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1. IBM as a product centric organization before its near failure was a bloated organization with 400 000 employees heavily invested in low margin‚ transactional‚ commodity-based businesses. As technology progressed‚ the demand for IBM’s inventions began to diminish. The entire organizational structure was also growing redundant‚ making it more challenging to face off competition from smaller and less diversified competitors. As Louis Gerstner‚ Jr embarked on turning the entire company around‚ there
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Introduction The rise and fall of Parmalat was an important event as it highlighted the corporate governance issues in the corporate world of Italy. Parmalat was found by Calisto Tanzi‚ CEO and Chairman‚ in 1961 with a pasteurisation plant in Italy. The company was headquartered in Italy and had grown to be a multinational company into all sorts of milk products‚ beverages and bakery goods. Three decades later‚ in 1990‚ it became a publicly traded entity and was listed on the Milan stock exchange
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