Chris Hedges’s book conveys its central theme in its title: “War is a force that gives us meaning.” However, it is not any single concept, but the composite, multi-faceted nature of war that makes it appealing. It is the purpose, the challenge, the sense of belonging, and the self-growth often created by war that causes […]
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While papers such as Klepper (2002) and many others argue that technological innovations lead to shakeouts, Scherer (1965), Mansfield (1968, 1983), and Mueller (1967) suggest that market concentration and large firm size are only weakly associated with innovation. Alexander (1994) shows one case, the music industry, in which technological changes actually resulted in a de-concentration
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By the beginning of the 1960’s the cultural and political influence of television newscasts on the American public was undeniable. The rise to prominence of American TV news media during this time was prompted by a number of economic and historical factors. The prosperity of the 1950’s meant that such technology was now financially viable
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I love video games. Lots of us do. Yet our love is not always shared, and many have asked about the potential social impacts of games: do they cause violence? Do they cause deviant, disruptive, or otherwise antisocial behavior? Since the tragic Columbine shootings, whose perpetrators were players of the revolutionary first-person-shooter Doom, video games
When the Second World War ceased hostilities with the formal surrender of Japan on September 2nd, 1945 the curtain had been brought down on the most catastrophic of all the wars perpetrated by mankind. Only twenty one years earlier, the armistice of November 11th, 1918 had signaled the end of the “war to end all