Coursework Questions to Alan I. Taub‚ Automotive Materials: Technology Trends and Challenges in the 21st Century‚ MRS Bulletin‚ Volume 31‚ April 2006‚ 336-343 Read this article and answer the following questions on its basis: 1. What is the percentage of automotive vehicles that are powered by petroleum products? 2a. When did the area end where automobiles were a cost + margin = price business? 2b. Into what did this equation change to? 3. What is the primary challenge in improving automotive
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SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION IN INDIA: A CASE FOR ECONOMIC CITIZENSHIP Barbara Harriss-White** and Aseem Prakash* I: Introduction Through the Constitution the Indian state promises equality to all its citizens. The various provisions of the Constitution elucidated in the chapters on Fundamental Rights (justiciable) and on Directive Principles of State Policies (non-justiciable) delineate the state’s obligation to provide equal opportunities to all its citizens in social‚ political and economic spheres.1
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The Great Gatsby as a Social Commentary After the First World War‚ American society enjoyed prosperity as the economy soared. At the same time‚ Prohibition created millionaires out of bootleggers. Consequently‚ materialism and superficiality immediately filled America. F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ a witness of people’s spiritually empty lives‚ wrote “The Great Gatsby” which gave him literary importance even today to reflect this ill society. As one of the greatest Modernism work‚ “The Great Gatsby” successfully
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Corrections Trend Evolution Roshanda Washington CJA/394 July 10‚ 2013 Tamra Washington Correction Trends Evolution Prisons are at a higher demand in this economy. As our world expands there are more crimes that are on rise and more individuals who are being sloppy and being caught for the crimes that they are committing. With more people being captured that leaves less space to house these criminals. We face more problems now than we did in the earlier years‚ now individuals are committing
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Educational and Social reforms of Peter the Great. From January 1‚ 1700‚ Peter the Great introduced a new chronology‚ making the Russian calendar conform to European usage with regard to the year‚ which in Russia had hitherto been numbered “from the Creation of the World” and had begun on September 1 (he adhered however to the Julian Old Style as opposed to the Gregorian New Style for the days of the month). In 1710 the Old Church Slavonic alphabet was modernized into a secular script. Peter was
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Political‚ economic and social issues in the Weimar Republic to 1929 Year 12 Modern History 2013 * Mrs Lynch Jenni Hamilton Due Date; 26th of March 2013 Word Count; 1‚665 The collapsement of the Weimar Republic was due to many social‚ political and economical issues within. From its birth it faced numerous political problems‚ for which the causes were many and varied. These problems included political instability‚ deep divisions within society and economic crisis; problems were constantly appearing
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Social and Economic Impacts Of Haiti and Japan Earthquakes Haiti Social Impacts 3 million people affected Over 220.000 deaths 330.000 injured 1.3 million people made homeless Several hospitals collapsed Economic Impacts 30.000 commercial buildings collapsed Business destroyed Damage the main clothing industry Airport an port damaged Japan Social Impacts The disaster will weigh on Japan’s economic growth through negative impact on consumption‚ capex projection‚ and
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The Reconstruction Era lasted up to 1877 from the time just after the Civil War. The Reconstruction failed to bring about social and economic equality to the former slaves due to the southern whites’ resentful and bitter outlook on the matter‚ the Ku Klux Klan‚ and the Jim Crow laws. After the Civil War‚ the southern whites were extremely resentful and bitter. In 1865 the southern states began issuing “black codes‚” which were laws made subsequent to the Civil War that had the effect of limiting
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Urbanization Trends The world has experienced two major urban revolutions in the past‚ with the first one starting around 8000 B.C.E. and the second one starting around 1750‚ spawned by the Industrial Revolution (Macionis‚ 2011). The third urban revolution has now begun‚ however the rapid rate of urban growth is concentrated mainly in low-income nations. This trend is thought to be caused by falling death rates and migration of people moving toward inner cities in search of better jobs‚ education
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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences‚ IIT Kanpur Changing Population of China and its impact on future economy and society of China- A Demographic comparison with India Ved Prakash‚ M.Sc. Mathematics‚ Indian Institute of Technology‚ Kanpur Abstract: China had a population of just 694‚581‚759 in the year 1964 and a GDP measure of216462 Million US Dollar in 1978.But today China has a population of 1.34 Billion and a GDP of 7321508 Million US dollar. Population explosion in China was
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