Some educators believe that physical textbooks are superior to e-reader because they claim that physical textbooks are more convenient and less likely to distract the reader. ... This a cheap and easy solution to protect an expensive piece of technology. ... Most classes require textbooks and additional material to be purchased. ... With companies figuring out cheaper manufacturing costs, technology has gotten significantly cheaper and more accessible. ... Replacing physical textbooks with tablets only makes logical sense. ...

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The Internet makes everything easy, and it is also a good place to buy your textbooks come school time, or is it? It is common for web sites to sell textbooks cheaper than your local textbook store, but is it really worth it to order your books online? Are the books really that much cheaper? ... She found a website that sold her books for an average of 10 dollars cheaper than the bookstore. ...

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And finally, the textbook was mostly neutral, seeing both sides having justified actions. ... Colonists began smuggling cheaper Holland tea, which hurt the revenue of British East India Company. ... The Tea Act was only designed to make cheaper English tea for the colonists, and the colonies turned on them. ... That was the textbook's view. England must write the American textbooks, as it seems that the text agrees with them. ...

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Another reason why an in-state college is preferred is because tuition is offered and is cheaper for to the college attendee. The tuition is specified to be cheaper for students residing in the state where the college is located. ... Which indeed makes traveling home for the holidays, on the weekends, or if there were ever an emergency, easier and cheaper. ... You also have the option of living at home while attending colleges and save money for supplies and textbooks. ...

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How about textbooks? ... Well no, textbooks can very well be part of the reason and for some even the entire reason why a class that could actually be of value to his or her career as a student becomes torturous. By using the always-expanding resources of the world-wide-web, students can be given cheaper instructional books that will give them all their material in one place with updated content being added in near real time too. ... What good is a non-interactive static textbook that can never be updated and is next to worthless within the span of just five years? The current status of textbo...

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The company's mission is to help college students save money on textbooks. ... Professors usually change their textbooks once a year when newer versions of a textbook come out. ... According to the NACS 2010 Student Watch report, students ranked the ability to purchase used textbooks as the number one factor when considering what textbooks to buy. ... Used textbooks made up 35% of all textbooks sold. ... Competitors of The BookTrader includes traditional university bookstores, online textbook retailers, textbook exchange sites, textbook price comparison sites, online ...

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In our textbook, both the negative and positive social situation of minorities, specifically African Americans, is not considered a prejudicial issue but an economic one. ... Due to the fact that many jobs formerly occupied by inner-city inhabitants have been given to cheaper, foreign labor, many African Americans find themselves in a continuing cycle of unemployment and odd jobs; thus, creating a true underclass. ...

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But most importantly, Europeans were concerned with the quest for material goods and to grow rich (textbook pg. 878). ... These new improvements made expansion easy and cheap. ... Every powerful country used their colonies for "national security, military purposes, and international prestige" (textbook pg 877). ... Hobson, criticized that the hunt for empires "diverted popular attention away from domestic reform and the need to reduce the great gap between rich and poor" (textbook pg.880). ... These critics informed European countries what was really happening in the colonies, but still "most ...

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A majority of the country's Jews were reluctantly deported to the death or extermination camps where mass murder occurred through cheap but efficient circumstances. ... School textbooks had to be either approved by the Nazi party or re-written along the Nazi lines. Ilse McKee, a student who schooled during the Nazi reign stated: "Adolph Hitler's "Mein Kampf" became the textbook of our history lessons when we had finished we started again from the beginning." ...

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Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" In a literature textbook entitled The Informed Argument edited by Robert K. ... To show that Swift is not a card stacker, he believes that if any one can come up with an idea better than his that is cheap, effective and easy they should propose it. ...

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With the help of Braille displays and screen reader programs visually impaired individuals are able to go online and access email, research tools, textbooks, and also gain entry into library references such as periodicals. ... Even though adaptive technology is the future and is necessary in the progress of people with disabilities, it is not cheap. ...

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The Medieval curriculum focus was on study; they used textbooks and examples from the ancient Greek and Roman worlds simply because they never saw a need to write new ones. ... The printing press made books cheaper and more widely available. ...

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Often there are few too little minority role models located in the textbooks teaching the present eurocentric ideals and way too many negative attributes associated with African-Americans and other minorities mostly through the press. ... By creating culturally aware students early on, any employee or their best existing employee would be able to conduct a company's business overseas worry free and also probably cheaper. ...

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Under Graham, Buffett learned a tremendous amount of information about investing, but he soon became bored with the "strict rules" of Graham's investing style and started to " wonder if it made as much sense to buy good businesses at a fair price, rather than dying businesses on the cheap." ... This business was a textbook example of the type of opportunity that Graham's philosophy focused on. ...

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Whether you duplicate movie rentals or photocopy the science textbook you are infringing on rights to royalties. ... Also many potential customers have bought their own cheaper versions of the photographer's equipment. ...

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The campaiging 'business' is not a cheap enterprise. ... But since, according to the American Government textbook, individuals are only allowed to contribute 1000 dollars maximun, and organizations, 25,000 dollars, shifty fund-raisign practices ensue. ...

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In many history textbooks, he is even labeled as a "Robber Baron" or "Predatory Thief". ... He made oil readily available to the classes at a cheap price, he invented manufacturing ideas which are still being used today, and his business strategies are still being analyzed in top business schools worldwide. ...

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They were considered by many as "cheap labour". ... When the Ford Model T car (seen below) first became available it cost $1200, however by 1928 it was a mere $295 (k) thanks to the efficient production line (seen over page) Ford (also seen below) recognised that if cars could be more cheaply produced, demand would be greater and the company would sell more cars actually increasing profit. ... Along with the availability of cheaper products, this method contributed to the happiness of Americans, as they were able to pur...

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Out textbook lists four questions that must be answered in order to resolve an international dispute: 1. ... Some countries are blessed with resources like diamonds and oil which they can exploit for their economic gain; and, other countries have resources such as cheap-labor, these types of countries can mass produce labor intensive products cheaply. ... Many US companies have labor intensive manufacturing factories in developing countries where labor is cheap. ...

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In their textbook Introduction to International Business, Dimon & Gomez (2014) explain that since the 1990s, Japanese firms have actively resisted foreign investment because they fear foreign companies would restructure the firms too harshly. ... The Japanese consumers are now becoming more brand name-oriented, with a shifting mindset from equating cheap products as poor in quality, to a culture that accepts that products can be cheap and of good quality. Today, family budgets are tighter and of more concern, and the Japanese now have their eye on cheaper products made from quality materials--...

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The first we call publishers, which are firms such as Prentice Hall, Harcourt Brace, Oxford Press etc. who wish to reproduce excerpts of Statistics Canada data for reprint in textbooks and other media for sale and profit. ... Although that converts to less than 17,000 pounds, the living expenses in Ottawa are much cheaper than in Manchester. ...

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When they have to go to five of their plants world-wide, use $10-$20 of their own money and install machines that will breakdown harmful gases, it is not cheap. ... Economic concept from Ch. 3: This article and its statements about carbon trading in the world is highly related to the economic concept of Demand and Supply, which is located in Ch. 3 of our textbook. ...

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Moreover, spending more money on instruction reflects how dependent colleges have become on textbooks and other reference materials. ... No matter how effective a college education may be, one can still receive an education and experience that is similar at a much cheaper cost from a high school. ...

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well forever the french have been losers about war wwII they give up and hardly put up a fight to germany then call to America for help,Same with Vietnam the FRENCH occupied part of it then N Veitnam invaded and they called to America to save them, then 9/11 happens they say to us: "violence should not be met with violence we need a proper way to solve this" because they dont want stuff to happen with iraq, the UN has had a embargo on iraq so we wont trade stuff with them so the french trade with iraq all the time because they can get their gas and other stuff real cheap with the embargo in pl...

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