It is a partnership between the landowner and the developer wherein the former contributes his rawland while the latter undertakes and finances all the costs to convert the land into a finished homesite. On the part of the landowner, joint venture is resorted to when he does not have...
Observations on As You Like It As You Like It will be for many of you a rather difficult play to appreciate and interpret simply on the basis of a reading. The reasons for this are not difficult to ascertain. The play is, as I have observed, a pastoral comedy, that is, a comedy which...
The law is a set of rules wich form the pattern of behaviour of a given society. The laws with which we have to deal differ from the laws of nature which are rules derived from observation of the physical universe. One school of thought which has persisted through the ages, and which...
Copyright Infringement and Napster Napster is a combination of the features of existing programs: the instant-messaging system of Internet Relay Chat, the file-sharing functions of Microsoft Windows and the advanced searching and filtering capabilities of various search engines...
With victory won, Washington was the most revered man in the United States. A lesser person might have used this power to establish a military dictatorship or to become king. Washington sternly suppressed all such attempts on his behalf by his officers and continued to obey the weak...
Charles Dickens, Charles John Huffam Dickens was born February 7, 1812, in Ports Mouth, Hampshire. In his infancy his family moved to Chatham, where he spent his happiest years and often refers to this time in his novels (1817-1822). From 1822 to 1860 he lived in London, after which he...
I Introduction Lenin, Vladimir Ilich (1870-1924), Russian revolutionary leader and theorist, who presided over the first government of Soviet Russia and then that of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Lenin was the leader of the radical socialist Bolshevik Party (later...
Northern Ireland, an integral part of the United Kingdom, elects members (currently 18) to the lower house of the British parliament, the House of Commons. In recent years some of those elected-usually from Sinn Fein-have chosen not to go to London, usually in order to protest against...
Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and the mind. This definition contains three elements. The first is that psychology is a scientific enterprise that obtains knowledge through systematic and objective methods of observation and experimentation. Secondly is that...
Europe, throughout its history, has had a very tumultuous evolution of nationalist and xenophobic movements. Every one of the major countries on the old continent has had a history filled with wars for survival or expansion with the other major European powers, and the suffering each...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on Nov. 30, 1835, the sixth child of John and Jane Clemens. Several years later, in 1839, the family moved to nearby Hannibal, where Clemens spent his boyhood years. Clemens newspaper career began while still a boy in Hannibal. In...
Many of us, the romanian people and not only us, but also the people of other nationality, all gathered under the title of europeans, have wondered at a certain point of our lives: What is, in fact, the European Union? and In what realities or aspects of the societ can and will be...
In 1985 Klaus von Klitzing won the Nobel Prize for discovery of the quantised Hall effect. The previous Nobel prize awarded in the area of semiconductor physics was to Bardeen, Shockley and Brattain for invention of the transistor. Everyone knows how important transistors are in all...
Romania, a more or less gorgeous country from Eastern Europe, has a society which is a far cry from the societies of the other countries from the same region. No one knows exactly why, although some people blame it on the Communists, which had the control of the country for some...
An option contract is a contract between a buyer and a seller. The option is connected to something, such as a listed stock, an exchange index, futures contracts, or real estate. Options have one feature that sets them apart from all other existing financial instruments: the holder of...