...How Lakshmi Mittal Created Arcelor Mittal Steel and became a Billionaire The story of Lakshmi Mittal is such an inspiring story. Though he didn’t make our list of school drop out billionaires; he’s been nicknamed “Carnegie of Calcutta” after the 19th-century American drop out railroad tycoon; Andrew Carnegie. His story is that of a man, who rose from nothingness to join the coveted Forbes list of world’s richest top ten billionaires. He achieved this feat by creating ArcelorMittal; the biggest steel company in the world, worth over £100bn. Let me also bring to your notice that this Indian-born steel tycoon is the wealthiest man in Britain, with an estimated fortune of £30bn. He is also well connected to rich and powerful men such as Nicolas Sarkozy, Bernie Ecclestone, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton. Lakshmi Mittal was born in 1950 in a small town in India called Sadulpur, in Rajasthan. Being the eldest of five children, his parents decided to name him Lakshmi after the Hindu goddess of wealth. At the age of six, his family moved to Calcutta, where his father gained employment in a small British steel company. This gave the family the brevity to set up their own business, but it turned out to be quite challenging and tough. While his father worked night and day to build their new business, Lakshmi Mittal, who happens to be a shy and introverted teenager graduated from a Jesuit college, St Xavier’s. Mittal surprised everyone, including his parents by receiving excellent grades...
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...by hand. Houses were made out of mud, wood, and straw. The family had basically slept in the same bed for less consumption of space and for warmth. Not only did they live with the entire family, however they lived with fleas, rats, and lice. This allowed diseases to be spread and in effect, the population was very little because of the severity of the diseases. After the Revolution, the home is filled with less people because the people transport to other places. The home is filled with things that you can find all over the world. Houses are made out of steel frames, wood, glass windows, and very sturdy materials in addition to the idea that specialized workers made your home. The refrigerator and toilet were invented and people slept in different beds causing an increase in the population due to the decrease in disease. The elements of man and woman had changed as well. Man and woman married each other for survival. Man and woman needed each other for children and for each other’s work labor. Therefore, sex was a necessity for survival. Children were only acquired after marriage, if the child was born any other time, the couple was shunned by the community. Marriages were arranged by the parents and the husband between a money agreement. Once the couple married, no one left the farm but mainly lived their lives on the farm. Women married...
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...Courageous, powerful, influential and optimistic are words used to describe the famous Robin Hood. Ned Kelly was a man who is often represented as the Robin Hood of Australia. The many representations of the life of Ned Kelly have shaped different perspectives of his actions. The representation of the life of Ned Kelly was shaped throughout numerous key scenes from both the film “Ned Kelly” as well as the documentary. These scenes include “The Siege at Glenrowan”, “Stringybark Creek” and the “Background Facts Section”. Within the film and the documentary clip, it has been proved that Ned Kelly was an innocent person who was later influenced by revenge as a result of the marginalization, betrayal and unfairness he faced from the police officers....
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...Controversy over Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) shipments Axia College of University of Phoenix COM 125 Utilizing Information in College Writing Tasha Tillman September 17, 2006 Controversy over Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) shipments When someone says the word nuclear or radioactive most people panic and are scared to death. Would one be safer transporting a trailer loaded with 9,000 gallons of gasoline or would the same person be safer transporting a loaded trailer of transuranic (TRU) waste? Therefore, transporting any commodity can be as safe as the driver transporting the commodity or the opposing traffic makes the situation. With the continued controversy over the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site, the Department of Energy (DOE) has continued to transport transuranic (TRU) waste from different sites around the U.S. to the world’s first repository for radioactive waste. This paper will explain what the WIPP site does and where WIPP is located. Will explain the birth of the program and why. Will explain what TRU waste is. Will explain what the process of disposal is from birth to the grave. Will show what the public has to say about the program. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the world's first underground repository licensed to safely and permanently dispose of TRU waste left from the research and production of nuclear weapons. After more than 20 years of scientific study, public input, and regulatory struggles, WIPP began operations...
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...Protectionist policy has been deep rooted in the history of the United States of America since 1789 when Alexander Hamilton leveled an “average taxation level of about 8.5 percent on imported goods.” (Merry 2016) The theory and practice of protecting domestic products, industries, and labor from foreign competition by taxing imports is not novel. However, as a capitalistic society there is great controversy about the effectiveness and externalities associated with this theory. With the political realm igniting a new flame behind implication of protectionist policy the hot button debate is now center stage again. On the first day of the presidency of Donald J. Trump, he removed the United States from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). From...
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...Sex is everywhere. Sex is on television, billboards, magazines, radio stations, and basically anywhere you look and listen. Companies use sex to advertise so it is very hard for a person to avoid it. Sex appeal is used in advertising all the time, and people love it because according to Steel, 'sometimes people listen better with their eyes than their ears' (Steel 138). Sex in advertising is an effective technique so it helps companies successfully sell their products to the American public. Nevertheless, sex has to be directed at the right audience, and sold at the right places in order for it to work. Sex in advertising has been around for a long time now. A great example of sex in advertising is the Maidenform fantasy that happened over twenty years ago. It showed women in their Maidenform bras and had different schemes to each one. Maidenform was showing that if they wore this bra and look sexy they could be successful in their careers and leave their housewife lifestyle. These provocative advertisements made women feel sexy and convinced them to quit being just a housewife, which many of them were back then. Of course these ads brought some controversy, but when an agency is dealing with sex appeal in their ads it’s expected to be somewhat controversial as perceived by the society. This was a story of the past, what about sex in advertisement today? Many companies that use sex appeal in their ads today. For instance Victoria’s Secret is the top seller of lingerie. They...
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...The march of the expedition was slow and under extreme weather conditions, considering they were in the middle of the summer: “The day the king left Mans was excessively hot, as was to be expected, for it was the middle of August, when the sun is in its greatest force” (Froissart 1813 c). The King was not completely recovered, and according to Froissart, he was suffering of recurrent episodes of fever while he was planning the expedition. He refused the advice of his council to defer the expedition, and he was feeling frustrated because he couldn't advance to Brittany. During this time, his physicians and uncles noted that he started to have unusual behaviors. Froissart didn't give a further description about what kind of behavior he was displaying, but he used the term “derange” to describe it (Froissart J 1813 c). On the other side the Monk of Saint Denis wrote that since the first days of august the king started to show “signs of dementia”, speaking senseless phrases and through unworthy gestures in a king (Monk of Saint Denis 1839 b). During the Brittany expedition, a strange and never explained episode occurred....
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...and basically anywhere you look today. People cannot get away from sex in advertising because so many companies use it. Sex appeals are used in advertising all the time, and people love to look at it because 'Sometimes people listen better with their eyes' (Steel 137). Sex in advertising is an effective technique that is used today. It helps companies successfully sell their product in our market. Of course it has to be directed at the right audience, and sold at the right places in order for it to work. Sex in advertising has been around for many years now. Ever since the Maidenform fantasy over twenty years ago. Here is a great example of sex in advertising. It showed women in their Maidenform bras and had different schemes to each one. Maidenform were showing that if they wore this bra and look sexy they could be successful in their jobs and get out of the house. Basically these ads made women feel sexy, and more confident about their bodies. Quit being just a housewife, which many of them were back then. It was now ?The Maidenform Women. You never know where she?ll turn up? (Moog 109). The Maidenform bra ads symbolized the exciting but frustrating longings of the past (Moog 109). Of course this brought some controversy, but when you are dealing with sex appeal in your ads it?s kind of an automatic. That was then, what about now? There are many companies that use sex appeal in their ads today. For instance Victoria Secrets is one of the top sellers in lingerie. They show...
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...of both the employee and the management should be the training and development of each individual in the establishment, so that he can do the highest class of work for which his natural abilities fit him. Taylor demonstrated that maximum prosperity can exist only as the result of maximum productivity, both for the shop and individual, and rebuked the idea that the fundamental interests of employees and employers are necessarily antagonistic. Taylor described how workers deliberately work slowly, or “soldier”, to protect their interests. According to Taylor, there were three reasons for the inefficiency: First. The fallacy, which has from time immemorial been almost universal among workmen, which a material increase in the output of each man or each machine in the trade would result...
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...The Real Inventor of Marconi’s Wireless Receiver Varun Aggarwal, Div. Of Electronics and Comm. Engg., NSIT, Delhi, India 1. Introduction The aim of the present article is to acquaint the younger generation that the real inventor of wireless was not Guglielmo Marconi (Italy), but Jagadish Chandra Bose (India). The classic paper of Dr. P. K. Bondopadhyay [1] published by the IEEE has now established this fact. The article is organised as follows. In the second section, the motivation of this article is discussed. In Section 3, the technical details of the experiment conducted by Marconi in the year 1901, where he claimed to receive trans-atlantic waves on a radio for the first time are given. Next, Section 4 discusses the controversy surrounding the experiment and provides substantial evidence that the receiving device was invented by J. C. Bose. Thereafter, in Section 5, the technical aspects of the receiving device and its working is discussed. Finally, Section 6 concludes the given report. 2. Motivation This article takes you into the past into the history of radio invention. In this section, I will like to discuss the motivation for choosing this topic. 1. The choice of this topic is apparently linked with the irritation of a student of electronics and communication engineering (studying in India) that the fact that Marconi’s wireless was actually invented by Sir J C Bose is not well-known among engineering students, academicians and professionals...
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...in 50 years which received criticism from both the Labour and Conservative parties. However in later years the monetarist policies have since been credited with the sustained economic growth of the 90’s but at the time it was still a very controversial policy because it helped shaped the culture of consumerism and unemployment was not tackled. Privatisation started in 1981 and 82 by selling shared in BP and National oil cooperation. However it was controversial because raising money was neither the origin nor the initial point if this policy, it was the ideology behind it that made it so disputed. Howe, Lawson and Thatcher equated the undergoing ownership of private property with freedom and democracy. This was a controversial idea to man yin Labour because it appeared Thatcher was...
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...Africa dating back at least 64,000 years ago. The Sibudu Cave is an important Middle Stone Age rock shelter on the Tongati River near the KwaZulu coast of South Africa. This finding pushes back the age of the bow and arrow which raises a lot of controversy. Along with this finding there were 16 quartz blades, in which only two had no trace of blood. Over half the blades appear to look as though they were designed to be attached to arrows. This finding indicates that arrows were first discovered in South Africa, not in Europe. “The real startling upshot of this finding is that it challenges longstanding archaeological beliefs that important changes in projectile technology only occurred very recently, less than 30,000 years ago, after humans dispersed in Europe.” This evidence only suggests bow and arrow use, and also challenges the archeological beliefs about the age of this weapon. There is obvious controversy over the time periods of this ancient weapon; nevertheless, the bow and arrow helped civilization move forward from the spear throwing days. Long before the invention of the bow and arrow man hunted animals with a spear. Animals such as cave bears, mammoths, and saber-toothed tigers had to be killed at short range putting man in potential danger. The spear was most effective when being used by a number of hunters in unison, whereas the bow could be used by a lone hunter. The art of spear hunting was revolutionized by the invention of the spear thrower (atlatl). The...
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...The double life of Utopia: the skyscraper 1. the reproduction of the world Each plane of a skyscraper is considered as a virgin land, which the architects have no control over the specific programs. The skyscraper becomes the great metropolitan destablizer that promises perpetual programmatic instability. Considering that Manhattan is separated from the continent by two rivers at each side, which excludes the possibility of expansion, the skyscraper is the only choice for the growing business demand. The skyscrapers are seen as repetition/reproduction of the site/earth by Rem Koolhaas. The lobby of the skyscrapers accommodates social facilities such as shops and bars, which competes with the street and finally makes the surrounding streets deserted. Like the Unite de Marseilles, they have the ambition to become “a city within a city.” The Model of the 100 Stories Building The building is interrupted every 20th floor by public plazas that separate different functional sectors: industry at the bottom, business in the second quarter, living in the third and a hotel in the fourth. The 20th floor is a general market, the 40th a theater, the 60th a shopping district the 80th a hotel the 100th an amusement park, roof garden and swimming pool. And it has a temperature and atmosphere regulating system. The forthcoming model of the skyscraper is the combination of three attributes: 1.the reproduction of the site (seen in Flatiron Building). 2. The introduction of a tower (Metropolitan...
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... 1981) Introduction The crown jewel of the Queens Museum of Art is the Panorama of New York City that was created for the 1964 World Fair. Though considered to be an architectural wonder, the artistry behind cannot be denied. Known for its topographical accuracy, the Panorama was conceptually created by Robert Moses, though it took hundreds of workers (from architects to construction workers) to see it to fruition. Understanding the “Moses Era” Robert Moses was considered the number one builder of the mid-20th Century. His influence on New York City is undeniable, his vision of city landscaping being responsible for thousands of the city’s bridges, highways, buildings and parkways. At a time, he was arguably the most powerful man in New York City. However, his ideology of architecture and constant development left much to be desired by many people from government officials to local artists. Many blamed him for pushing out the middle class of the city and the emphasis on highways and not public transportation. His industrialized thinking is what brought both the World’s Fair (in 1939 and 1964) to New York and in connection the Panorama of New York City. The Panorama, with its structuralized detail dazzles both architect and artist alike. Furthermore, it may have been one of the only works of Robert Moses that can be appreciated by such a general group of people. Structural Integrity One of the Panorama’s most profound facts is that it was built to scale. The...
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...The crusades a number of holy wars fought in the 11th century by ordinary men. They killed and lived for the cross which they all bared inside. They explored the Middle East, encountered by blasphemers of the church, and exchanged with only the steel of their swords. It was at the closing end of the 11thcentury, 1070 where all the chaos began. Western Europe had emerged as a powerful nation but was still less powerful than the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine were from the eastern part of Europe and were mostly Christian. The Byzantine Empire was losing control though over some territory. Who was taking it? The Seljuk Turks commanded by a sultan, who ordered them to take the land. The Byzantine were defeated in a battle at 1071 which...
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