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    accompanying visual digital media. Leisure devices also portray society as a sum of the many who accept Bradbury's portrayed lifestyles. These astounding predictions were also noted in a 2012 Washington Post article, which cites, “The people in the " Taurus 451" society sport "seashells" and "thimble radios," which bear a striking resemblance to earbuds and Bluetooth headsets... Members of that futuristic society are also as obsessed with their large, flat-screen televisions as are today's…

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    Sociological Autobiography

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    I was born July 25, 1978 at Midwest City Hospital in Midwest City, Oklahoma. I was the first for my parents, Tony and Irene. It was my dad’s second marriage and my mom’s first. Two of my mom’s younger sisters were nurses at that hospital and so that was where she wanted to be. I am my dad’s princess out of the three daughters that he has. I believe that I am also his favorite of all his five children. My younger sister Amelia is 5 years younger than me. From my dad’s first marriage he had three…

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    was incorporated in 1925 with capital of 500,000 pesos ($250,000). Adrian Rene Lajous, a Mexican of aristocratic parentage who was appointed managing director of the firm, knew President Plutarco Elí Calles personally and negotiated customs, tax, and railway freight-rate concessions from the government. Ford obtained a 50 percent rebate on duties for materials imported into Mexico. The company also was promised by the government that there would be no problems with the unions; however, a union…

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    Although multinational growth extends back to 1920s, when Ford and General Motors established their European subsidiaries, until the 1970s the world auto industry was made up of fairly separate national markets. Each of the larger national markets was supplied primarily by domestic production, and indigenous manufacturers tended to be market leaders. For example in 1970, the Big Three (GM, Ford, and Chrysler) held close to 85 percent of the US market, VW and Daimler Benz dominated the market in…

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