President Reagan's Conservative Fiscal Policy explores how the Reagan administration's (1981-1988) fiscal policy changed the national economy and adversely impacted unemployment among African Americans. This work features detailed analysis of Reaganomics, supply-side fiscal policies, and major budget cuts to domestic employment training programs, such as the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Program, as they relate to African Americans' unemployment levels and President Reagan's style of leadership and conservative ideology.

"The Tunnel under the World" was first published in 1954 in Galaxy magazine. On the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming out of a dream. It was more real than any dream he had ever had in his life. He could still hear and feel the sharp, ripping-metal explosion, the violent heave that had tossed him furiously out of bed, the searing wave of heat. He sat up convulsively and stared, not believing what he saw, at the quiet room and the bright sunlight coming in the window. He croaked, "Mary?" Pinching yourself is no way to see if you ...

A Study Guide for Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birthmark," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.

The Shades of the Wilderness: A Story of Lee's Great Stand, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work, and hence their text is clear and readable. This remarkable volume falls within the genres of ...

This book provides a multidisciplinary assessment of the salience of the ethnic and religious realities of shaping various South and Southeast Asian nations. It offers a deep appreciation of the challenges that these societies confront in integrating and/or responding to specific ethnic- and/or religious-based conflicts and tensions.

This collection of scholarly essays examines reality television. The first show, Survivor, inspired a national craze when it aired in the summer of 2000. Ever since, successors and copycats have been on each of the four largest networks. The basics stay the same: put a group of people into situations bound to cause conflict, and watch them squirm. Rather than criticize the series' voyeuristic appeal, this work evaluates what goes on within the text of such shows and how they reflect or affect our larger culture. Contributors include researchers from ...

Questo libro si concentra sulle applicazioni software progettate secondo il modello architettonico orientato ai servizi. Queste applicazioni sono costruite componendo diversi servizi Web provenienti da fonti diverse e operanti insieme, indipendentemente dalla loro posizione, al fine di ottenere funzionalità complesse. Durante l'interazione tra questi servizi Web, si verifica una serie di eventi, tra cui il degrado della qualità del servizio, i guasti dei servizi distribuiti, ecc. Questo porta a interruzioni della comunicazione. Questo lavoro ...

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Arroz y Tartana es una novela escrita por el autor espa�����ol Vicente Blasco Ib����������ez en 1894. La trama se desarrolla en la ciudad de Alcira, en la Comunidad Valenciana, y se centra en la vida de los arroceros y su relaci������n con la sociedad local.El personaje principal es una mujer llamada Carmen, una joven arrocera que lucha por mantener su independencia y su libertad en una sociedad dominada por los ...

With the launch of easypaisa by Telenor Pakistan in 2009, the Pakistani market experienced its first taste of Mobile Banking services. For a population of 200 million with banking penetration as low as 18% and mobile penetration as high as 75%, the easypaisa service proved to a God send. Within a year of launch, easypaisa started seeing millions of transactions a month and exponential growth in revenue. A new industry had been born in Pakistan! This success very quickly brought in competition from other Mobile Network Operators and Banks, all racing to enter ...