... a different manner. A commercial is an amazing component of advertisement. By definition a commercial is "an advertisement on television or radio"(Dictionary 175). One commercial only lasts an average of thirty seconds and, if run in a good time slot, costs anywhere from fifty-five to one hundred thousand dollars (Baldwin 2). To think that a thirty second commercial can cost one hundred thousand dollars is outrageous. If it costs that much money for so little time then what is the logic behind airing commercials on television instead of placing an ad in the newspaper or dictating an advertisement on the radio? Originally, commercials began on the radio sim ...
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... led the long resistance of Brittain against the invaders. According to legend, Arthur was the son of Uther Pendragon, king of Britain. Kept in hiding during childhood, he was suddenly presented to the people as their king. He proved a wise and valiant ruler. He gathered a great company of knights in his court problems of introducement were avoided by the use of a round table at gatherings. With his queen, Guinevere, he maintained a magnificent court at Camelot, where the Brittians longest maintained their hold. His wars and victories extended to the continent of Europe, where he successfully defied the forces of the Roman Empire until he was called home because of ...
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... and its current economical position. China started as a mainly agricultural based society with the subsistence group; the family. For more than 2000 years the Chinese economy operated under a type of feudal system; land was concentrated in the hands of a relatively small group of landowners whose income depended on rents from their peasant tenants. Agricultural taxes levied by the imperial government and crop yields subject to drought and floods kept agriculture relatively underdeveloped and organized in small units with the use of primitive methods for basic subsistence. The conclusion of the Opium War of 1840 formally initiated a period of Western penetratio ...
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... the states. Some people oppose this decision and say that it is based on “emotion, personal vendettas, and irrational, sound public policy, nor backed up by statistical data.”( DWI Dilema, Internet source) However, I disagree. We need to send the message that it is not acceptable, nor is it constitutional to drive under any influence of alcohol, weather it be .08 or .20. “Drunken driving was once treated much as car accidents—a regrettable but unavoidable part of life on the roads. But a vocal grass-roots movement led my MADD (Mothers Against ) persuaded much of the country, over two decades, to view it as a type of criminal negligence. Publ ...
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... from 2,000 dollars to 5,000 dollars and many other minor modifications must be made which also increase cost. Nitrous, is something totally different from turbo. Nitrous is a gaseous mixture that is either directly injected into your engine’s pistons or into you intake manifold. Nitrous is cheap and gives you a lot of power. It costs about 500 dollars and depending on how much you want to spray is how much horsepower your engine will receive. A 50 shot of nitrous gives you about 45 more horsepower. What is impressive about nitrous, is that you only use it when you want because all you have to do is flip a switch and then it works. The down side of nitrou ...
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... (Affirming self-esteem 1). But then there are the small numbers of people that actually don’t regret . There are ways to show the partner in a relationship that there is a lot of love for them without engaging in sexual intercourse. Instead of sex something’s that people chose to do are, go for a walk on the beach, give each other a massage, have a snowball fight, or make dinner together. Touching may be okay as long as you don’t exchange body fluids. Sex is only okay within the boundaries of love, and with out love it just isn’t worth it. There are so many responsibilities that go along with being sexually active especially when in a relationship. People ha ...
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... in the 1980’s, people convicted of marijuana offenses face penalties ranging from probation to life imprisonment, plus fines and forfeiture of property. In addition to criminal justice efforts, the federal government, state government, and local communities spend hundreds of millions of dollars annually on prevention programs such as Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE), in which local police officers visit schools to teach young people to refrain from trying marijuana and other drugs. However, public controversy has been growing over the two assumptions-high abuse potential and no legitimate medical use-that underlie marijuana’s status as a ...
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... styles of clothes all come together wearing similar pants, shirts, ties, and shoes. A required dress code and hair restrictions, helps everyone to be more comfortable by wearing similar clothes, otherwise, people may feel different with less cool clothes. Hairstyles help ease this integration as well by giving each person similar styles making everyone feel more at ease. The overall unity helps the students realize that although people may look similar, the idea that everyone will be greatly different. These different ideas are in everyone, and and hair restrictions help show us that just because someone looks the same, they do not think the same. When the student ...
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... it’s own communications system. The Iowa Telephone association, however, objected to this motion and eventually took the case all the way to the Iowa Supreme Court. When the case was reviewed in October of 1998, state judges ruled in favor of the association ruling that municipal communications companies defied federal regulation of communications companies. In a rare case, though, state judges reversed their view on this issue when Hawarden citizens asked for a rehearing. After reviewing the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 (which deregulated federal control of communications companies), the judges decided that federal law allowed for the creation of ...
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... NASDAQ Stock Market is the largest electronic, screen-based market in the world with the capacity to handle share volume in excess of one billion shares a day. Known for its innovative leading-edge growth companies, NASDAQ has two tiers. The NASDAQ National Market, with NASDAQ's larger companies whose securities are the most actively traded, and the NASDAQ Small Cap Market, with emerging growth companies. The current market value of the NASDAQ National Market is around 2,553.2 billion dollars. The market and its value reflect the tendencies of the American people regarding their finances. If the market is up and the volume is up then the economy is thriving and bo ...
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