... services. Nearly 400 million, which is 67 percent of India's labor force, works in agriculture, which supplies 30 percent of the country's GDP. Production, trade, and investment reforms since 1991 have given new opportunities for Indian business persons and an average of 300 million middle class consumers. Many of the country's fundamentals which includes saving rates (26 percent of GDP) and reserves (now about $24 billion) are healthy. Inflation eased to 7 percent in 1997, and interest rates dropped to between 10 percent and 13 percent. However, the Indian government still needs to restore the early momentum of reform, especially in continuing to reduce ...
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... like Freedom of a Christian, stressing salvation by faith alone. This first division of the church in to Protestant caused many more religious groups to form on each interpretation of the bible. The next important long-term change, Capitalism stemmed from Calvinism. Calvinism was a religious movement which believed in the individuals responsibility to reorganize society according to "God's plan". Max Weber, the famous German sociologist, in his study The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, argued that these ideas led to the development of Capitalism. Secular life was able to develop in this environment. The last important change came from ...
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... Communist party, the people owned all the economic areas of China, and these would be controlled by the Communist government. All of the people would work for the common goal of the country. As a result, Chinese socialism was born. The pre-communist history of modern China has been essentially one of weakness, humiliation and failure. This is the atmosphere in which the Communist Party developed its leadership and early growth. This resulted in strong determination by chairman Mao to eliminate foreign influence within China, to modernize the country and envision a strong economy under Communist control. Therefore, a series of radical reforms w ...
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... internal affairs of the academy ruled the next 20 years of Plato's life and he wrote nothing. Many Greek youths were attracted to the new school. Plato then went to Syracuse to supervise the education of the ruling prince. Plato was not certain about the success of this adventure although he felt he could not refuse this opportunity of putting his ideas to a test. It did not work out for Plato and he returned to Athens in 360 B.C. He then devoted himself to teaching and lecturing at the Academy. He died at age 80 in Athens in 348 B.C. Before his death Plato completed the Sophist, the Politicus, the Philebus, the Timaeus and finally the Laws. (Inter ...
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... should have aid of counsel.” Oral arguments were heard on January 15,1962 and the decision was announced on March 18, 1963. However, Gideon was wrong. The rule applied by the Supreme Court at that time was in fact exactly the opposite. The Constitution, it had held, did not guarantee free counsel to all felony defendants that are unable to retain their own. Since1942, when Betts v. Brady was decided by a divided Court, the problem of defendant’s federal constitutional right to counsel in a state court has been a continuing source of controversy and litigation in both state and federal courts. Since Gideon was proceeding without funds, it gave the Justice a chanc ...
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... the election. Soon after he made himself absolute dictator, calling himself the Fuhrer which means "Leader". By the end of the 30's he was already sending Jews off too concentration camps to meet a horrible death. I believe that Hitler was one of the greatest causes of . Although there are many other reasons, he was definitely one of them. Another reason was the Treaty of Versailles. This was the treaty that was signed at the end of World War 1. This treaty outlined the rules that Germany must follow because of their defeat by Britain and France. Many Germans were angered by the treaty, for most of the rules in the treaty were unfair and Germany lost a great ...
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... his record of pitching 29 consecutive scoreless innings in World Series play and his total of 714 major league homers not including 15 World Series homers. George Herman Ruth was born in Baltimore, Md., on Feb. 6, 1895. His father, a saloonkeeper, placed him in St. Mary's Industrial School when George was 7. There he learned to play baseball. In 1914, through the help of one of the priests who taught at the school, Ruth began to play with the Baltimore Orioles of the International League. The Orioles' manager, Jack Dunn, paid him 600 dollars for his first season. Although Ruth later earned such nicknames as the Sultan of Swat and ...
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... their lifetime. I believe with Lessing's statement because young people today are not interested in history. I believe that children and young teens think that history is just merely boring facts and do not find any significance behind the historical events that have happened. People who actually find history boring do not realize how much our ancestors have done to get us where we are today. Many also do not recognize the importance of history and how it has evolved. The young should appreciate that history is a part of how the people and events of the past have gained so much freedom for all of America. I particularly never appreciated history. I always thou ...
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... minority within Serbia The Albanians of have held free elections in which they have chosen their leadership and have expressed their determination for the independence of in the 1991 referendum, and the Kosovar parliament has declared the independence of , first from Serbia, then from the Yugoslav federation, after its disintegration. The present crisis began in early 1998 when fighting broke out, resulting in the displacement of some 300,000 people. A cease-fire was agreed in October 1998, which enabled refugees to find shelter. A Verification Mission was deployed under the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). However, violence c ...
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... They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. This was more roads, railroads, and canals. The South, on the other hand, did not want these projects to be done at all. Also the North wanted to develop a tariff. With a high tariff, it protected the Northern manufacturer. It was bad for the South because a high tariff would not let the south trade its cotton for foreign goods. The North also wanted a good banking and currency system and federal subsidies for shipping and internal imp ...
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