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Translating to “wealthy clique” the Zaibatsu were the conglomerate businesses created during the Meiji restoration where one company comprised of one family held complete control over all subsidiaries while maintaining a monopoly of the industry sector. Dating back to the Tokugawa period the prominent large merchant houses would transcend to become Zaibatsu and during this time companies were just beginning to form with little separation between shareholders and management. Their economic growth…

“December 7th 1941, a date that will live in infamy.” Said by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt two days after the Pearl Harbor attack. One of the largest attacks in American history and the main reason the United States entered battle in World War II. After the attack, the American people looked to the leader, who was enter his fourth term as president, for advice and what was going to happen to their country. Roosevelt gave many speeches before, that were broadcasted on the radio. He…

Concussions and other forms of traumatic head injuries have become a serious problem in high school, collegiate, and professional athletics. Over the years, many young athletes have suffered a concussion, which can, in turn, have a long term effect on the athlete’s mind. A concussion can occur from any type of contact to the head or neck area resulting in a small leisure on the brain. Although this injury is physically small, a bruise on the brain is a significant injury and should be treated as…

While growing up, parents always tell their children to work hard at everything they do to have a better life. What would be the best way to start the road to have this better life? Some will say to go to college, get a degree, and get a high paying job; and some will say to get a job, work hard and work your way to the top. It’s fine to be settled with one of the two options, but what benefits are included when starting off? In the United States Armed Forces, one can go to college to obtain a…

Josh Bahlmann 17 April 2018 Banzai Babe Ruth Review Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage, & Assassination is an extreme narrative that accounts for the events of an attempted goodwill tour of Japan by some of the United State’s Major League Baseball’s top talent ballplayers. The book covers much of the brainstorming and motivation behind the tour’s goals and ambitions as well as the events that occurred on the field while at the same time making connections of those event’s influences on…

Over the context of this paper, I will observe and implement my own culture through a magnifying glass to get a perspective of an outsider, and I will compare an aspect of another culture from an insider’s perspective in order to become more aware with the motivations behind the practice. Specifically, I will discuss the condition of higher education in America, contrasted with the practice of polygyny among African families to show how Sub-Saharan Africans view as “normal” in a larger context,…

Macy’s and Dillard’s are both major department stores in the United States. How these companies position themselves to customer are similar yet different. The Segmentation groups, geographical, demographical, psychographic, and behavior aspects are relevant toward the targeting and positioning made by these companies. What kind of targeting these department stores use, and the value proposition the companies have. These factors determining their positioning. After an analysis of the department…

inherited by family members. For those who have Familial, a fifty percent chance of passing it to offspring is at risk. Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist, discovered this disease in 1869 (“What is ALS?”). In the 1950’s, cases of ALS skyrocketed in Guam, for unknown reasons (“Forms of…

become scarce. The panic of 1893 further encouraged the search for new overseas markets. In 1898, America 's victory in the Spanish-American War ended the colonial Spanish empire in the Western Hemisphere. As a result of the war, America obtained Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. America also annexed Hawaii during the war (The Spanish-American War, 1898). These foreign land gains helped America…

Surveillance System (BRFSS) is a state-based, random dialed telephone survey of the United States population ages18 years or older (CDC, 2015). The BRFSS is conducted in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 3 United States territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands). Statistics from the BRFSS have been shown to be dependable and legitimacy assess CVD risk factors (CDC, 2015). BRFSS consists of self-reported data on high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes,…