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  • Social Problems in America

    Social Problems in America

    Social Problems In America How are we doing? Is the G.D.P rising? Is the stock market strong? Are businesses prospering? Is inflation low? Is the deficit shrinking? Are exports increasing? These questions are all important economically and socially in the world today. If I knew the answers to all these things right now I would be a millionaire. Corporate businesses and wealthy people are taking over the world as we know it, and these things

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    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Analysis of Haier Group’s Expansion into China

    Analysis of Haier Group’s Expansion into China

    The Haier Group is one of the world’s largest whitegoods manufactures with over 50 000 employees worldwide. The group was founded as “Qingdao Refrigerator Co.” in 1984 in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. Haier Group has become a multi-billion dollar multinational with presence in over 100 countries (The Haier Group, 2007). Throughout the course of Haier Group’s history, the firm has pursued an aggressive globalization strategy. Over the past twenty years, the group has expanded from

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    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Vika
  • Americas Involvement in World War Two

    Americas Involvement in World War Two

    Americas involvement in World War Two When war broke out , there was no way the world could possibly know the severity of this guerre. Fortunately one country saw and understood that Germany and its allies would have to be stopped. America’s Involvement in World War two not only contributed in the eventual downfall of the insane Adolph Hitler and his Third Reich, but also came at the precise time and moment. Had the united

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    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Monika
  • Does America Still Work

    Does America Still Work

    Abstract Outsourcing has become a resource utilized by American companies to remain competitive in today’s global economy. There has been much discussion about the loss of American jobs due to outsourcing and free trade organizations. Many of the articles in this case deal with identifying two remedies: education and training, and flexibility. Experts in the field vary widely on what is the best practice and what these terms mean for the American worker. There is

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    Essay Length: 1,592 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Education in America - Failing Schools

    Education in America - Failing Schools

    Education in America: Failing Schools Education in America is one of the most important issues that face our nation. If the education in America is not thought of one of most serious issues we face, our nation as a whole will fall. There are many debates and they seemly extend to all walks of life. The debates range from the decline in education, school vouchers, and the no child left behind law. As a nation,

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    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • Cherokees in America

    Cherokees in America

    There was an impending doom coming to the small town of Calamity. Unbeknownst to the citizens it would come firstly upon a church on the outskirts of a town. A few people were inside as the doom came closer. Preacher Tom was the first one in the church to sees what would haunt the town and was scared out of his wits. He pushes a young woman out of the doorway as he speeds into

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Max
  • Interracial Couples in America? What’s the Deal with That?

    Interracial Couples in America? What’s the Deal with That?

    Interracial couples in America? What’s the deal with that? AS we head into the new millennium, marrying mix dating across cultural lines seem to be increasing at record rates. Almost anywhere you go these days, you will encounter mixed-race couples: at the grocery store, the mall, the theater, at a company function, at: a concert, even at church. And while for years the Black man-White woman couple was more prevalent, today many social observers

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America”

    Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington's Futile War on Drugs in Latin America”

    Book review: “Bad Neighbor Policy: Washington’s futile war on drugs in Latin America” Edited by Ted Galen Carpenter Overview Introduction 3 I Modest results after thirty years of war 4 The war on drugs consequences on the drugs crops cultivation 4 The war on drugs consequences on the Latin American opinion 5 II The American strategy on the drug war: definitively a bad strategy? 8 The United States’ strategy on the war on drugs

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Artur
  • Can America Win the War on Terror?

    Can America Win the War on Terror?

    Can America win the war on terror? Just to comment briefly on the question, America's war on terror is a highly simplistic characterisation of something so complex. Saying war can be easily waged against terror makes it seem as if it can be easily won. America's war on terror is like waging a war on littering or waging a war against racism (which still goes on in the US and most parts of the world)

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Dear America

    Dear America

    Dear America, And so it has come to this. Your once-great nation has fallen into madness, an affliction of mass denial that brings shivers up the spines of millions outside your borders. Your’s is a sick nation. But most of you carry on as though nothing at all is the matter. Dark, evil operations run rampant in the secret corners of your government institutions. A dubiously constituted government pursues war at will anywhere on earth,

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: regina
  • What Effect Might Tesco Plc Planned International Expansion Have on the Countries in Which It Creates New Outlet?

    What Effect Might Tesco Plc Planned International Expansion Have on the Countries in Which It Creates New Outlet?

    Introduction What effect might Tesco Plc planned international expansion have on the countries in which it creates new outlet? Throughout this investigation I will be investigating what effects might Tesco Plc planned international expansion have on the countries in which it creates new outlet? This is part of options 1 in module 5 & 6 for A2. I chose this question as I feel it would be interesting to investigate how Tesco Plc are expanding

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Andrew
  • America

    America

    The history of American religions is dominated by the presence of Christianity brought to the New World by European settlers. Columbus's discovery in 1492 marked the beginning of a massive "white" invasion that would consume the entire continent of North America over the next four centuries. Although Christianity manifested itself in countless denominations, it was, nevertheless, the umbrella under which most Europeans in America gathered. It served as common ground on which white settlers could

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Illiteracy in America

    Illiteracy in America

    America, the most technologically advanced and affluent of all nations on the earth, seems to have an increasingly larger illiteracy rate every year. This has become and continues to be a critical problem throughout our society as we know it. According to the National Adult Literacy survey, 42 million adult Americans can’t read; 50 million are limited to a 4th or 5th grade reading level; one in every four teenagers drops out of high school,

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Expansion of British Power

    Expansion of British Power

    By the beginning of the seventeenth century, Spain dominated Mexico and Central and South America with the exception of Portuguese Brazil. In the late part of the seventeenth century, Spain's two great rivals, Great Britain and France, began establishing their own colonies in North America. They wanted to reap the benefits that Spain had experienced in the New World like finding gold and silver. At the beginning of the seventeenth century there were no permanent

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Obesity in America

    Obesity in America

    Obesity in America Obesity today is a widely spread nutritional disorder that can affect anybody at any age across North America, majority of the reason being because there are so many fast food restaurants at just about every corner. With its low prices people are not going to be making the right decisions in what type of food they consume in their diet. Some examples of the junk food would be: Microwave dinners, snack foods

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Roman Civilization and Contemporary America

    Roman Civilization and Contemporary America

    Roman Civilization and Contemporary America The civilization of the Roman Republic and the Empire that followed it was the first of its kind. Earlier civilizations had been based on a more abstract worldview that led humans to be creative for the will of the gods or to preserve the institutions that fostered rational thought. Rome started as a simple, self-reliant nation made up of farmers who lived the best they could to support their families

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Jack
  • Absence of Historical Sense in America

    Absence of Historical Sense in America

    Absence of Historical Sense in America American culture focuses on the future and ignores the past. We ask our youths, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” The technology of today attempts to advance towards the future. The popular phrase “the future is now” embodies the future-centric attitude of America. George Santayana stated, “Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” While his words ring true, most Americans

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Jollibee Global Expansion

    Jollibee Global Expansion

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Jollibee was able to attain a competitive advantage over McDonald’s by doing two things: (1) Retaining tight control over operations management, which allowed it to price below its competitor and (2) Having the flexibility to cater to the tastes of its local consumers. While Tony Kitchner was hired to develop these competitive advantages abroad, his international strategy of “planting the flag” and “targeting expats” was executed haphazardly and resulted in losses for the

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Yan
  • Policing in America

    Policing in America

    Policing as we know it today has developed from various political, economic, and social forces. To better understand the role of police in United States society, one has to know the history of how policing became what it is today. The following paper discusses the views of the historical context of police which helps us better understand how political, economic, and social forces have shaped the social institution of policing. First, in "The Evolving Strategy

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Janna
  • Is Wal-Mart Bad for America?

    Is Wal-Mart Bad for America?

    In 1962, Wal-Mart opened their first store in Rogers, Arkansas. In 1970, Wal-Mart’s first distribution center and home office in Bentonville, Ark. open and Wal-Mart went public on the New York Stock Exchange. Just nine years from that, Wal-Mart’s annual sales exceeded one billion dollars. In 1988, Wal-Mart super centers opened across the country. In a merely three years from that, Wal-Mart opened their own store in Mexico City, Mexico; making Wal-Mart an international corporation.

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Comparing and Contrasting Female Figures from Ancient Mesopotamia and Central America

    Comparing and Contrasting Female Figures from Ancient Mesopotamia and Central America

    Running head: COMPARING AND CONTRASTING FEMALE FIGURES FROM ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA AND CENTRAL AMERICA Comparing and Contrasting Female Figures from Ancient Mesopotamia and Central America Jose Limardo March 31, 2007 The Female figurine from the Halaf period (6th millennium B.C.) shown here, (http://www.louvre.fr/media/repository/ressources/sources/illustration/atlas/image_65162_v2_m565769830698503.jpg,) is a full-round, painted terracotta sculpture measuring 8.2 cm (3.2 in.) tall by 5 cm (2 in.) wide by 5.4 cm (2.13 in.) in depth. This symmetrical and smooth textured sculpture depicts a

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Latin America - Colonialism and Dependence

    Latin America - Colonialism and Dependence

    Colonialism and Dependence In "Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism", Lenin warned, in refuting Kautsky, that the domination of finance capital not only does not lessen the inequalities and contradictions present in the world economy, but on the contrary accentuates them. Time has passed and proven him right. The inequalities have become sharper. Historical research has shown that the distance that separated the standard of living in the wealthy countries from that of the poor

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Edward
  • Immigration in America

    Immigration in America

    Immigration in America “…Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…” (Lazarus l.10-12). These powerful words are inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, which extend an invitation to immigrants who desire to seek a better life in America. Many immigrants come to the United States with a vision of improving their lives by taking advantage of America’s many positive qualities. Immigration to the United States is one

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Jazz: America’s Classical

    Jazz: America’s Classical

    Jazz has been called, among other things, America’s “only original form,” showing it’s clear cultural roots in America. In addition, jazz historians have touted jazz’s pedigree as “American’s Classical Music.” An appreciation and analysis of jazz history forces one to question both the “American” and “Classical” descriptors that past historians have used to label jazz music. Using primarily sources such as “From Somewhere in France” by Charles Delaunay and “An Interview with Wynton Marsalis”

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Steve
  • Dream America

    Dream America

    America is viewed by its residences in many different perspectives it can be a nightmare to be able to survive in this country, or in an instant you can become a greater power house to our country. In America many people gain power and respect by the money they have and the connections they have made, in this perspective you can live wealthy and happy until the day you die. America’s basis is on freedom

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    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Janna

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