HAIER : Taking a Chinese Company Global Overview: Haier Group found in 1984 was a failing refrigerator company when Director Zhang came into force.At that time he did what he will be doing best in the coming years and signed a licensing agreement with German refrigerator company Liebherr. In 1986‚ Haier reached a profit of 1 Mio RMB. Altough there was a huge market demand‚ the company resisted mass production and continued to focus on quality and brand-building instead.The company’s target was
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Canadian Women in the Workforce: 1940’s to the 1970’s The 1940’s to the 1970’s were 30 short years‚ but resulted in a huge revolutionary change to Canadian women and their place in the workforce. The women who lived during this time period fought for the rights that working women have today. Women went from working in their homes to working in stores‚ factories‚ and running the farm. There were plenty of things women had to overcome during this time‚ such as; filling in the job market during WWII
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COMMENTARY Free Speech in the Digital World under Threat? Kirsty Hughes We are at a moment where the digital world can go either way – it can become a space of genuine free expression‚ one enjoyed by ever larger numbers of people or it can become a controlled and monitored space. Like any battle for free speech and fundamental rights‚ governments and other major players – in this case big web companies and internet service providers – must be held to account and challenged to defend our rights
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Reconstruction in the 1800’s can have a lot of different meanings. For some the reconstruction was the rejoining of the two sides that fought in the civil war‚ the North and the South. For others in government it was the presidential reconstruction after the death of Lincoln. Most importantly for some reconstruction mean finally being a free man with right and who could vote and provide for his family. The African Americans were a big part of reconstruction‚ just being freed by the passing of the
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The Second Amendment: A Threat to Civilized People? Gun control has recently created a massive uproar throughout the United States because of the recent‚ and sincerely unfortunate‚ Sandy Hook school shooting that occurred last December. In response to this tragedy‚ Democratic leaders have been attempting to capitalize on the incident and push forward their respective agenda of limiting gun rights. As one can imagine‚ there are a surfeit of opinions on the subject‚ but despite this fact‚ I have come
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The Independent Record Labels of the 1950’s and 1960’s History of Music Production Eric Eller Throughout the 1950’s and 1960’s‚ a wave of new musical movements by independent record labels and new artists emerged in the United States. This movement is captured in the stories of those label creators and owners‚ and in the turbulent journey through their successes and failures. The first emergence was fueled by multiple factors: competitive economic circumstances‚ up-and-coming local musical
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In this essay I am going to discuss how Crusaders were a threat to the medieval society. Crusaders were dangerous. There is not a lot these men wouldn’t do‚ they thought it was perfectly acceptable to butcher an estimated one million people because it was “what god would have wanted.” When I was revising this topic‚ I actually had to take breaks between reading my book “Perfect Heresy” because what actually went on during the years 1209-1229 were abominable. The Crusaders brought fear across the
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MORDENISATION OF INDIAN ARMY F INSAS…. The F-INSAS program[edit] F-INSAS has been taken up to equip Indian infantry with advanced weaponry‚ communication network and instant access to information on the battlefield.[1] This program is similar to the future soldier programs of other nations. F-INSAS includes a fully networked all-terrain‚ all-weather personal-equipment platform‚ enhanced firepower and mobility for the digitalised battlefield of the future.[2] The weight carried by soldiers
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During the era of the 1950’s‚ at the height of the Cold War‚ McCarthyism arose as a result of fear of the spread of communism in the United States. McCarthyism‚ named after Senator Joseph McCarthy‚ was a term which described the lack of evidence and false accusations used against people who were considered communists. Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible because he wanted to show how the relationship of McCarthyism in the 1950’s and McCarthyism in the witch trials during 1692 because the danger of people
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affects society as a whole‚ and also helped inspire organization to fight for equal rights. I relate to equality because I don’t always get treated fairly just because I am part of a minority group. Martin Luther king jr. says “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” If anyone gets treated unfairly it makes it easy for people to treat everyone else like that and it makes it hard to to treat everyone with the equality and respect that they deserve. Everyone deserves equality no matter what
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