A capitalist's argument towards this statement would be that the governments" legal monopoly on utility companies prevents people from starting their own company. ... During the Civil War he served in the War Department under Scott, who was in charge of transportation for the military and a government telegraph service. After the war Carnegie left the railroad and formed a company to produce iron railroad bridges. ... In 1901 he sold his company to the United States Steel Corp. for $250 million and retired. ... They would buy out all competition, so those consumers would have to buy from ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Assignment Discuss the intellectual history of Anglo-American economic geography since the Second World War. ... In this essay the specific economic geography of Anglo-America will be explored following the Second World War. ... In the UK the years immediately following the Second World War were a time of rebuilding a crippled economy. ... For example large industrial firms, such as Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), Rover Company and the British Motor Corporation, became the focus of economic geographers' attention. ... The post-war economic boom ended in the early 1970s. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

War is what we use to justify protecting our countries' ways of life. ... War also a phenomenal source of profit, and in today's capitalist society, everybody wants a "share" of that. ... Like Yossarian, Milo is able to partially see through the political charades of the war. ... Milo's pathological avarice leads him to make a series of bargains with both sides of the war to satisfy his drive for profit, rather than abandoning the war and refusing to partake in the taking of innocent lives. ... He has his squadron's planes' "laudable ideals as Courage, M...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Advertising methods that had been developed to build support for World War I were used to persuade people to buy such relatively new products as automobiles and such completely new ones as radios and household appliances. ... The prices of stocks were rising far beyond the worth of the shares of the companies they represented. ... The Great Depression came to an end with the starting of World War II. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Thus, a news organization that is funded by a particular product would not report any information that is not deemed good for the company. ... There was more time given to a traffic accident, a police chase, and the weather than to the developments with the possible war with Iraq. ...

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For example, take into account the Cold War; the United Sates claimed that it wanted to help develop other countries, but in reality it's obvious that its only intentions were to create allies against the Soviet Union. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For example, an oil company executive wants higher prices for oil so that she/he makes more profit, but the industry that uses oil wants the prices to stay low so they make more profit. ... For example, at the end of World War II when the USSR brought the "iron curtain" down across Eastern Europe this changed the whole world's future dividing it into two camps, the Communists and the Democrats. ...

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It was one of the first merchant ships sent to purchase furs for Van Tweenhuysen Company of Amsterdam (Hallowell, 1974). ... After the homogenization of goods, trade was carried out in wider circles which created a "competitive edge that was sharpened by strong feelings of nationalism", this lead to societal upheaval and produced wars. ...

• Word Count: 1870
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate