The Halls, Liberty Bell & Betsy Ross While Pennsylvania was coming into its own statehood, and developing our major city, Philadelphia (which was helped along in conception by William Penn as well) was serving as a very important meeting place for important members of the New World who sought to form a more complete government (History, 8). Indeed, Philadelphia has been serving as the nation's capitol, and Andrew Hamilton has designed a building whose main function will be to house meeting for Congress, as well as any court proceedings (Taylor, 4)
Franklin is known as a philosopher, a thinker, a genius and a man of the people. He is responsible for organizing many of our fine institutions, including a public lending library, the fire station, a political discussion club, and the American Philosophical Society (who also own the Philosophical Hall) (Uldrich, 31)
As Boyce (2001) points out, there is more than one way to discern information and gain knowledge. The scientific method is not the only way to obtain knowledge about the world (Boyce, 2001)
Christian Science Many of the most famous scientists in world history also happened to believe in God: including Copernicus, Bacon, Kepler, Gallileo, and Newton ("Famous Scientists Who Believed in God," n
Some high profile scientists today are willing and courageous enough to profess their faith. For example, Frances Collins, the former director of the Human Genome Project, also happens to be an evangelical Christian (Sullivan, 2009)
American System Henry Clay gave his famous speech in support of the American System to the House of Representatives in 1824, although Alexander Hamilton had used the same term decades before. It rested "on the idea of harmonizing all the segments of the economy for their mutual benefit and of doing so by active support from an intervening national government" (Baxter 27)
He came to embrace the ideas of protectionists like Matthew Carey and Hezekiah Niles, and openly rejected the free trade, limited government, and laissez faire philosophy of Adam Smith (Baxter 28). Clay demanded federal measures to "promote American industry and eliminate foreign competition," and praised the new standardized mass production methods for rifles, revolvers, agricultural equipment and sewing machines (Hounshell 15)
Tetsuya Wakuda Famous international chef Tetsuya Wakuda came from the Japanese town of Hamamatsu. Wakuda came to Australia at the age of 22 with "nothing more than a small suitcase and a love of food" (About Tetsuya 2012)
Necessary Loss Napoleon's fall was necessary for the expansion of France, and led to the Congress of Vienna. This was "the first modern attempt at the total military domination of Europe and the first modern attempt to construct a new international order in Europe to preserve peace and order (Gash)
" This resolution allowed Europe to enjoy 50 years of international peace and played a part in "all the significant political developments in Europe for the next century and a half (Gash)." Economically, Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo led to Dutch aid to England in terms of "constructing a fiscal state capable of funding the naval power required to lower protection costs first for its own merchants, financiers, shippers and industrialists, and secondly, for its friends and allies (O'Brien)
One night, for a reason no one, not even me, can understand, I went to Gauguin's bed and stared at him while he slept. My staring woke him up (Charles)
And besides, what do you care? My greatest works of art exist because I was crazy. As one biographer states of my work: "all of it produced during a period of only 10 years, hauntingly conveys through its striking colour, coarse brushwork, and contoured forms the anguish of a mental illness that eventually resulted in suicide," (Pioch)
Under Friedman's argument, however, there is no ethical conflict inherent in a corporation existing solely for the pursuit of profit. At its heart, Friedman's view is rooted in deontological ethics, which at least in their Kantian form are rooted in the idea that society sets norms for behavior and those norms must be upheld (Alexander & Moore, 2007)
The pressure to which Friedman was responding, however, was from elements of society that sought to see a shift in the social contract by which business operates. The shift sought -- the move towards a more comprehensive view of corporate social responsibility -- appears to derive more from consequentialist ethics, wherein the merit of a deed is measured by its outcome (Sinnott-Armstrong, 2011)
He argues that it is not compelling to the responsible parties to take action when all they hear are ideas. For any improvement, there must be the real action (Friedman)
His argument is that the generation does protest; only that it uses other means. He gives an example of the social media and the manner in which the generation has maximized on its potential to vent out their feelings (Handler)
This creates an attitude where they do not have to rebel physically to raise their points. The students contribute a lot on community development projects (Heller, 68)
This is because there was no room for consultation and looking for peaceful settlements. In the modern world, there is a significant chance that there is room for peace in mediations (Pryor et al
It is also worth noting that the company may simply have a preference for equity financing. Firms tend to make adjustments to their capital structure slowly (Huang & Ritter, 2009)
For a company like Wal-Mart, the situation would be entirely different. In addition, firms with high exits (liquidation) costs have shown to be more risk averse than other firms, and therefore to carry less debt (Titman & Wessels, 1988)