Essays Tagged: "Scarcity"

Marijuana

ather than for psychoactivepurposes.During the prohibition, marijuana was widelyused because of the scarcity of alcohol. Prohibitionwas repealed after just thirteen years while the prohibitionagainst ...

(2 pages) 90 0 5.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Control of Reality for the Masses (Specific Analysis of altered reality in 1984)

Party Controls Reality:How does the party controls history?How does it affect the present?How does scarcity affect human psychology?What role does Big Brother play?Outline:Introduction: State Topics: ... istory: Explain RevisionismIts ProcessHow it affects the presentParagraph 2: Psychology: Artificial Scarcity: Affects human behaviorMaslow Theory of Human behaviorParagraph 3: God: Big Brother has tak ...

(4 pages) 72 0 3.0 Nov/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Muli-lingualism in Hong kong...pros and cons

true normality is very different. Over time, I have taken for granted, the impact, and more so, the scarcity of multilingualism.There is no doubt that multilingualism is an aid to a successful futu ...

(4 pages) 50 0 4.1 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

This is Study Notes for (The Economy Today 8e, by Schiller) Principles of Economics I Chapters 1-12 most notes straight from the book

Chapter 1: Economics: The Core IssuesScarcity exists because of the imbalance between our desires and available resources, forces us to m ... le resources, forces us to make economic choices, and implies the need to use resources efficiently.Scarcity exists because of a lack of enough resources to satisfy all desired uses of those resources ... will decrease the amount of other goods and services that can be produced that year.As a result of scarcity no matter what one has, it is never enough, getting more of one thing means less of somethi ...

(69 pages) 982 1 4.3 Feb/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Slavery and the Underground Railroad.

cording to whomyou are talking. Slavery in America thrived and continued to growbecause there was a scarcity of labor. Cultivation of crops onplantations could be supervised while slaves used simple r ...

(5 pages) 81 0 4.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Tired of taxes- the REAL story behind 1776.

e mentality that land equals power, 2) the colonies were becoming seriously overpopulated, and 3) a scarcity of land for farming and especially animal grazing occurred. The British Crown tried to damp ...

(9 pages) 62 0 3.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

God, is he really exist?

(so act now, hurry and save your soul forever before it's too late). This of course sounds like the scarcity law you learn in your marketing class.The second point is of common sense amongst those who ...

(2 pages) 72 2 3.2 Jul/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Will the World Be Able to Feed Itself in the Foreseeable Future?

igher demand for food. For a short time some foods may become scarce. Rising food prices due to the scarcity will prompt agronomical researchers and farmers to invent better methods of producing food ...

(5 pages) 68 0 4.0 Sep/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Slavery.

rding to whom you are talking. Slavery in America thrived and continued to grow because there was a scarcity of labor. Cultivation of crops on plantations could be supervised while slaves used simple ...

(6 pages) 112 0 4.7 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Bankruptcy of Our Natural Resources.

Natural resources are a scarcity that we can ill afford to waste. In the past the government has protected our natural resou ...

(7 pages) 118 0 4.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

This essay about marijuana.

er than for psychoactive purposes. During the prohibition, marijuana was widely used because of the scarcity of alcohol. Prohibition was repealed after just thirteen years while the prohibition agains ...

(3 pages) 57 0 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Microeconomics theory and analysis is useful in understanding and predicting the behaviour of firms and industries. Discuss.

aviour of firms and industries. Hence it could be said that the firms' behaviour will depend on the scarcity of these resources, as a lot of rational choices have to be made in the everyday running of ...

(10 pages) 304 1 2.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Good essay on the Ironbidge- took me very long. About Abraham Darby and many others.

orks were too expensive for the poor people. The iron industry was doing poorly at this time due to scarcity of the original fuel, charcoal. However Darby had an idea, he thought that he could use cok ...

(7 pages) 34 1 4.5 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

In what ways has Channel 4 altered the landscape of British television broadcasting for its competitors?

ision. Channel 4 can without question be seen as crucial in 'breaking open the habits of the era of scarcity, in leading the development away from concepts of balance and towards that of diversity of ...

(9 pages) 78 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

How do technology and economic growth affect our sense of time and the way of spending time?

ll that time is short. As a result of producing and consuming time, we are experiencing increase of scarcity of time. As technology grows, so is the need for people to produce to match their consumpti ...

(1 pages) 34 1 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Become an Organ Donor

rs provide coverage, and private and public organizations often pick up the parts not coveredNor is scarcity....there's lots of organs out there....Indeed there are literally millions of organs that c ...

(3 pages) 115 1 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

The Economics of Department of Defense Base Closures

ary infrastructure outlined in Aldridge's briefing help to illustrate the macroeconomic concepts of scarcity and supply and demand in a heavily regulated "market".The most recent effort, EFI, amends a ... tary forces in the most efficient manner possible, the Defense Department can ease the pressures of scarcity on their limited annual budget.From a macroeconomic standpoint, EFI and BRAC are attempts t ...

(3 pages) 53 0 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Military & International Conflicts & Security

A description of what the Beige book is

ffort to slow it down. This may happen because of strong consumer spending, booming stock prices, a scarcity of available workers, plus new hints of rising prices and wages. They use the report of the ...

(3 pages) 33 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Overpopulation

he individual, but to the Earth and the human race itself. Overpopulation results in the increasing scarcity of natural resources including agricultural goods, leading to malnutrition, economic declin ... "one-two-four household," with one child supporting two parents and four grandparents (Longman 208).Scarcity and an unstable economy lead to yet another hazard of overpopulation, mass violence. "Scarc ...

(6 pages) 124 1 4.7 Jul/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Keynes econmic essay

o the savings in labor and time. The economic problem according to Keynes is solving the problem of scarcity since our forefathers had to deal with survival from day to day to meet their most basic ne ...

(2 pages) 32 0 0.0 Oct/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers