Personal Response for" The Other Drug War" After watching the video "The Other Drug War", I was deeply surprised by "The Other Drug War" debate. I never noticed the battle between the consumers and pharmaceutical companies before. ... The pharmaceutical companies spend massive amounts of money advertising. ... I don't think advertising is important for drug companies. ... In addition, drug companies should change their way of thinking. ...

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One of the significant concepts in The Things They Carried is that of the importance of certain objects or feelings used by the soldiers of Alpha Company to survive the war. ... This bond that the soldiers form helped them to survive, excluded someone who was outside their group, and helped the men of Alpha Company to cope with the war after they returned to the United States. ... The men of Alpha Company trusted each other with their lives. ... When the soldiers returned from the war they find a country that does not want to talk about the war and is even trying to forget it happened. ... Wit...

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One of the significant concepts in The Things They Carried is that of the importance of certain objects or feelings used by the soldiers of Alpha Company to survive the war. ... This bond that the soldiers form helped them to survive, excluded someone who was outside their group, and helped the men of Alpha Company to cope with the war after they returned to the United States. ... The men of Alpha Company trusted each other with their lives. ... When the soldiers returned from the war they find a country that does not want to talk about the war and is even trying to forget it happened. ... Wit...

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The Vietnam War, unlike the Korean War and World War II, was the war that US television brought images of devastation, suffering and tragedy of Vietnamese people to the Americans every night. ... From there, the war protest began. ... Whole companies and naval units mutinied and refused to carry out orders. ... The Legislative composed of anti-war elective officials handcuffed the Executive by laws which progressively made President Nixon lose power in the war. ... The war also left behind a painful America. ...

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This was an obvious fear of death in war. ... It was understood that Tim would go to war. ... Erik did not want to be in the war. ... While under Alpha Company, Tim and the soldiers planned ambushes and gunfire in My Lai and Pinkville. ... The reasons why Tim did not want to go to war did not match other people's reasons for going to war. ...

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Nineteen forty-five set the end of World War II. ... Nonetheless, the war had left its mark on numerous countries, especially the USA. ... The war not only affected whites, but also affected black people in America as well. ... The war also shaped the economy in various ways both during and after the war. Companies that had been previously dormant were now overflowing with activity. ...

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By August 1899, Ford had raised enough money to start his own company, the Ford Motor Company. ... On the outbreak of the First World War in Europe, Ford made it clear he opposed the war and supported the decision of the Woman's Peace Party to organize a peace conference in Holland. ... After the war Ford became increasingly interested in politics. ... Although he was against war and the fast enclosing Second World War, after Pearl Harbor, Ford turned over his vast production resources to his country. During the war the Ford plant at Willow Run produced over 8,000 Liberator bombers for t...

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Winter's men now excel through training and quickly become the Army's best unit of the war. ... This victory, though critical in the course of the war, came with a heavy casualty and death toll on E Company. ... The men drink, celebrate the war, and enjoy their stay in the luxurious houses. ... Post war relationships last the rest of their lives, and slowly they pass, one by one. but nothing can describe the bonds of the men and loyalty to one another that the man of Easy Company had. ... These men helped win the war against a purely evil enemy, and without them, we might not be he...

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From 1908 and on, film companies began to cluster around Hollywood, and the Nestor Film Company was the only company to actually settle at a location in Hollywood. ... Here is where the company's first real star and bankable holding were created. ... With the success of Rin Tin Tin, other companies began to see the Warners as competition. ... The Warner Brothers were, without a doubt, the quickest expanding film company in Hollywood. ... World War II caused many European filmmakers to travel to America, which definitely made Hollywood in the thirties and forties unique. ...

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Weyerhaeuser's business was booming before the First World War and, after the onset of the war Weyerhaeuser began making sending spruce from Weyerhaeuser forests to build World War I airplanes. ... Post-war Weyerhaeuser paper company continues to grown expanding there ability to ship all over the world after the construction of the Panama Canal. ... When the country was again hit with hard times during the Second World War and the company turned to the women to step up and keep the mills running while the soldiers were away. ... The company continued to turn out new products during t...

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With the Civil War over, there was another war to be fought. This war, although not physical, was a war to reconstruct the union and rebuild the failing economy. ... The Civil War was a defensive war for the south. ... The transcontinental railroad led the way for various new railroad companies to develop. ... Jay Cooker, a banker from Philadelphia, helped to finance the railroads when he took over the transcontinental line, the Northern Pacific; however, Cooke outran his investments and in 1873 his company went bankrupt. ...

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On television and radio I hear how large financial companies become bankrupt because of greed and many investors loss all their savings put into the company. ... Why do companies create scams to gain greater investments? ... Every company wants to be successful but sometimes misfortunes can occur and in order to prevent bankruptcy Enron and other companies self-indulgence for money lead to the demise of their companies and to significant job loss. ... That's all these oil companies care about, nothing else! ... Bush declared war on Iraq many thought that he only did this to have complete ...

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First thing the author does is describe the war some, describe his leader lieutenant Jimmy Cross and the other members of Alpha Company. ... Later he changes the setting back to the war and then back to after the war. ... He starts with a story of when he barely joined up with Alpha Company, then he starts reminiscing about his first girlfriend who died of cancer, his first death experience ever. ... Because Tim makes the war seem real to the audience, it makes then question, what is war really? ... The war had its moments too. ...

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By 1930, eight large companies dominated the film industry. ... It is also shocking that almost all of these companies are still on top of the film industry. ... Disney is one of the biggest companies today. ... The film studios were hard-hit during the war, but even the devastation of the war and the reforms of American occupation could not loosen the major companies" stranglehold on the industry. ... Once the war was over, black-market profiteering ran unchecked. ...

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King Philip's war was named after a Pokanoket leader (not after an Englishman) who was from the Pokanoket tribe. During King Philip's war, there were many acts of violence. ... He had the power to get the Pilgrims and the Pokanokets into a war. ... Philip's hatred started King Philip's War. ... Avarice over land was one of the reasons King Philip's war started. ...

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In our case, we used the strategy of primarily buying unpopular companies because we figured that by doing so, the companies stocks would slowly rise as they became more commonly known. ... This company gave us a profit of $363.00. ... The third most profitable company for our portfolio is STONERIDGE. ... The cause for this fall was the rapid increase in gas prices due to the War on Terror. ... Our second worst drop, was our investment in the company EBay. ...

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Religion has played a key role in wars and death. ... This conflict has been marked by six bloody wars. ... Charlemagne he made his wars of aggression definitely religious wars. ... New York: Henry Holt and Company Wells, H.G. 1949. ... U.S.A: Doubleday & Company Wells, H.G. 1925. ...

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Cold War To be or not to be, digital that is. ... It is a cold war that will eventually come to and end. ... Picture an accountant trying to do their financial duties to a company. ... Computers run most schools and companies but we still don't learn to type in grammar school. ...

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The British East India Company was a trading company. At one time the company was the leading power in India. ... The Spanish American War was a 5-month war dealing with Cuba. ... When pleas to Queen Victoria were unanswered, Opium grew into a war. The Opium War (1839-1842) resulted in the Treaty of Nanking (1842). ...

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When Perry's profile does not turn up, Richard is assigned to Charlie Company and will begin to go on patrols. ... He says the war is different now. ... The army forms immense bonds between soldiers in a company, which is almost brother-like. This book showed me that the Vietnam War was a horrible and questionable war. ... Charlie Company was a great group of soldiers. ...

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The worlds first working machine gun was invented by an engineer named Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, the founder of Maxim Gun Company. ... Sir Maxims guns came in many different sizes and were primarily used during world war one. ... Can you picture war today without a rapid firing weapon? ... Since the 1800's to present, this weapon has been the key ingredient to successful war-time strategies. ...

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After a while he was assigned as the assistant adjutant because the former one, Lieutenant Schwartz, was going to take command of a rifle company. ... Not long after, he volunteered for a line company in the First Battalion. There, he was put in charge of a Platoon leader for C Company. ... These things all display how war can affect man; war truly is a nightmare. ... A Rumor of War is one ...

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Actions that would fall into this category would be things such as prices war, which is where a company lowers a price below the cost level in order to gain market control, and contracts between suppliers or others that make it impossible for others to compete. ... Rockefeller also made agreements with the railroad company that transported his oil. ... Price wars were common against the Standard Oil Trust and other oil industries. ... Once the government looked into the practices of the Standard Oil Trust company, it filed a lawsuit against the company in 1906. The Standard Oil compan...

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This war was called the French and Indian War or the Seven Years War. ... In 1774, the British government passed the Tea Act, which granted a monopoly of tea trade in the Americas to the East India Tea Company. ... There, they boarded the East India Tea Company ship and started throwing 90,000 pounds of tea overboard into the harbor. ... This act closed down Boston harbor until the East India Tea Company received compensation for the tea. ... The treaty officially ended the Revolutionary War. ...

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Philip Caputo, author of "A Rumor of War," was born in 1941. ... "A Rumor of War" is divided into three sections. ... The last section Caputo titled "In Death's Grey Land" and it is in this section when he gets reassigned to his rifle company. ... He states in his book that, "this is simply a story about war, about the things men do in war and the things war does to them." Caputo stated that his purpose of the book was just to inform American readers and all readers about the Vietnam War, including the whole ugly truth of the Vietnam War and wars in general. ...

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