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BUILDING A RADIO EMPIRE-CHANCE
Words: 4866 / Pages: 18 .... Advertising began to shape the media industry by 1631 with the first classified ads featured in a French newspaper. And, in 1833 a New York newspaper was sold for one penny, enabling this media to reach a mass market.
Radio. At first there was the print, and then there was sound . . . In 1821 an English man named Wheatstone reproduced sound. However, the future of radio didn¡¦t really begin until 1890 when Branly transmitted the first radio waves in France. In 1901 the American Marconi Company, the forerunner of RCA, sent radio signals across the Atlantic. And five years later, ¡§a program of voice and music was broadcast in the Uni .....
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The Cost Of Change
Words: 329 / Pages: 2 .... a new system called the Reign of Terror. Under this system, all disloyal people would by put to death by a way of the Guillotine.
In the course of only nine months, over 16,000 people were brutally killed. Victims soon added up to 30,000. People of all sorts who had any bit of disloyalty to the republic was soon found to be dead. It was a harsh system in which thousands of innocent people died by the blade. The changes in France had been a positive one, but for how long? The Reign of Terror can only change so much, until if finally collapses. And so it did, by the summer of 1794, Robespierre had been condemned and guillotined, and the Reign of Te .....
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New Years 2000
Words: 959 / Pages: 4 .... Mayan calendar even speculates a worldwide event on this day. Very intriguing from a culture that supposedly predicted its own downfall.
Christians refer to the book of Revelations for the foretelling of the Apocalypse and the seven seals, which tell how humanity will see its own destruction. Very detailed descriptions include famine, flooding, earthquakes, and celestial phenomenon. However, the turn of the millenium has many extremists worried that the world will end shortly and people are finding many “predictions” in everyday life. People have predicted enormous tidal waves, volcanoes, high winds, flooding on both sides of our con .....
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Dirtbiking
Words: 606 / Pages: 3 .... for this is because dirtbikes are
a lot better than they used to be. Now a days dirtbikes look better and go
faster. Dirtbiking is for everybody 4 years old and up. The divisions are
in increasements in engine size (cc's, cubic centimeters).For example, if
you are between the ages of 4 and 7 you would race the 50cc dirtbikes. If
you are between the ages of 8 and 11 you have a choice of racing a 65cc or
an 80cc dirtbike. If you are between the ages of 12 and 15 you could race
in the 80 cc or 125 cc class. If you are 16 years old or older you can race
125cc dirtbikes or larger.
Secondly, there are also a wide variety of dirtbikes. Some
dirtbikes are .....
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Differences In Education In US And Japan
Words: 412 / Pages: 2 .... countries. There are far too many add-ons and extras in our schools as well as far too little time being spent covering a specific subject so that they may be fully understood by all students. We tend in our schools to feel that if a student doesn’t quite get something, they will be able to “pick it up” the next year, but that rarely happens. In Japan, a student is not promoted until he has mastered his current level. Also in Japan, classes are set up heterogeneously because their belief is that slow learners must work harder -- high expectations tend to show better results. In the US, oftentimes expectations are not high enough and the stud .....
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My Lai: The Event, The Trial,
Words: 1502 / Pages: 6 .... truth of what was really going on in Vietnam. In reality, it was a blood bath (Almond).
When the truth of the extremity and the reality of the war broke ground and reached the public eye, society's realization of the truth collided head-on into the government's world of lies, and all hell broke loose. The people's opinion began drifting non-stop against the war, as opposed to their previous pro-war attitude. There were anti-war demonstrations and peace movements (Almond) that shut down colleges, and sometimes towns across the country. Then one day, as the media was delivering their daily recurrences of the horror that was Vietnam, reports o .....
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Madagascar: The Exotic Island
Words: 464 / Pages: 2 .... 83 inches (211 centimeters) in the northwest to 14 inches (36 centimeters) in the southwest. The drought-infested south is extremely hot and dry, and the west is hot and wet. Indian Ocean cyclones bring periodic heavy rains and destructive floods. Once covered by forests, most of the island now has a savannah-steppe vegetation with a few forests in the west and evergreen forests on the eastern edge of the central plateau. An interesting climate for such a unique place.
The animals there are also different and the likes of which not found anywhere else; not even in Africa. 50 species of lemurs inhabit the island, as well as 800 different t .....
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Chinese Architecture
Words: 769 / Pages: 3 .... Chinese
architecture it that they use a wooden frame structure with pillars and
beams. Wood has been a main construction product for thousands of years.
Nails are not used when building a structure, which is different from us.
Wood to the Chinese respectes life, and “life” is the main thing in Chinese
culture. This feature has been preserved up to the present. Builders
would apply a lacquer to the wood to preserve it. These lacquers were made
in bold colors, and this became one of the key ways to identify Chinese
architecture. The highly varied color found on a traditional Chinese
building have a symbolic meaning to the Chinese culture. Peop .....
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When Will We Learn
Words: 1123 / Pages: 5 .... least we thought they were. Or have we just spent our lives covering up every threat, masking every failure, and then proceed with advances with hopes that they will overshadow that horrible truth? The fact of the matter is, we have grown too comfortable. Spontaneity is dead and gone. Or maybe it is just buried alive, and someone or something will dig through the soil and revive the American Dream. Because it has been discarded from our minds. We have lost that motivation, that inner drive, that heart and soul of what made this blistered nation appear to be great. We’ve degenerated so far that now the warts are beginning to emerge from u .....
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The Dangers Of Diet Aids
Words: 1444 / Pages: 6 .... limit her food consumption.(Cottrell, 99) This feeling of fullness is often brought about by the ingredient guar gum, which
forms a gel in the stomach. It has not been proven, though, that guar gum has a benefit for weight reduction.(Cottrell, 99)
Amphetamines, which suppress the appetite, are a common ingredient in many over-the-counter diet aids. They are also commonly found in other drugs such as Speed, Crystal, White Crosses, 357 Magnums, Black Beauties, Crank, Ice, and Meth, most of which are illegal.(Cottrell, 99) Amphetamines increase heart and breathing rates and blood pressure, and dilate pupils. Users can also
experience a dry mouth, .....
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