How Star Trek Revolutionized American Television

American Diversity on Television While present television promotes cultural diversity as an impacting and influential means of communication, it didn’t always used to be this way. During the late 1940’s the United States was full of negative outlooks toward the underclass society that at the time was occupied by people of African American descent. At this time there was discrimination and segregation between the whites and the colored people. Whites were receiving more privileges than the people

Abstract Because our future depends on it, humanity must continue to invest in space exploration.. Technologies from the space program can be used to benefit the world and everyday life. Space flight encourages scientific aspirations and therefore more college educated people. The answers to the most deep-rooted questions of humanity lie in space. Who are we, why are we here? Are we alone? Why spend money on spaceflight when we have plenty of problems here on earth? The money that we spend on spaceflight

E SSAYS ON TWENTIETH-C ENTURY H ISTORY In the series Critical Perspectives on the Past, edited by Susan Porter Benson, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig Also in this series: Paula Hamilton and Linda Shopes, eds., Oral History and Public Memories Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life Lisa M. Fine, The Story of Reo Joe: Work, Kin, and Community in Autotown, U.S.A. Van Gosse and Richard Moser, eds., The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in

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ability in business. 2. Technological innovations. 3. Entrepreneurship. I. Gregersen, Hal B., 1958– II. Christensen, Clayton M. III. Title. HD53.D94 2011 658.4 '063—dc22 2011008440 The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Publications and Documents in Libraries and Archives Z39.48-1992. 100092 00 i-vi r1 rr.qxp 5/13/11 6:52 PM Page v Contents Introduction 1 Part One Disruptive Innovation Starts

performance costs and that forecasting programs confront in establishing the economic determinants of corporate planning? In addition to these challenges, many analytical and strategic evaluation approaches that are used in an attempt to identify and project how well a company is performing have been overwhelmed by the frequency and magnitude of these economic groundswells. In today’s competitive climate, where the changes outside a business exceed the productive changes within a business, a company’s future