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The Significance of the Space Race

important part of scientific and political history and has a great deal of significance. Yet, in delving into the history of space...

BRIC Nations as an FDI Destination Compared to Other Developing Economies

assess the potential for future growth and attraction for FDI. It is generally agreed that the BRIC nations are in a...

The International Monetary Unrest in the Late 20th Century

This 8 page paper discusses the reasons for the financial turmoil of the late 20th century. The writer argues that the unrest star...

Russian Visual Art and Influence of the West

as the line of demarcation between the East and the West. It is important to point out that our concept of...

Authoritarian States, Democratization, Why Germany Succeeded and Russia Failed

and cultural characteristics that define them, each of which have a profound effect upon the transition to democracy (Pei, 2002). ...

Nuclear Energy Waste Disposal and the Role of Russia

twenty-eight people died within four months from radiation or thermal burns, nineteen have since died, approximately nine more dea...

Tolstoy's Ideas of Nonviolence and Their Impact on Russia

and the American religious sect Society of Friends (Quakers), Tolstoy espoused nonviolence and strongly lobbied for the dissolutio...

Stalinist Russia and Jewish Life

with jaw-breaking rolls? These were the difficulties growth. Someday soon, a new, modern just society would arise from the backwar...

1917 Petrograd, Russia Fictional Story

the pressure and approved wage hikes, however, they quickly evaporated as inflation crept into the warring city. Gordei and his c...

Russia Corruption

malady that the World Bank proclaimed corruption as the most serious detriment to Third World economic progress (Zuzowski 9). Rus...

Russian Modernization and 'the Liberator' Peter the Great

and embarked on a plan of self-improvement that would later define his leadership (Riechers, 2003). An impatient man who had tire...

Brief Overview of 5 Monarchies of Western Civilization

territories" a process that wasnt stopped until the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 (Holy Roman Empire, 2005). As to the various empe...

Russian Organized Crime

to the Russian Mafia are members of an organization that has "hundreds of gangs" and its membership numbers in the thousands (Meye...

America And Russia: Tensions And Impact Upon Global Community

Russia possessed considerable political strength, there has remained an unsettled climate between the two nations ever since. As ...

The Polish Free Elections and the Breakup of the USSR

control over the military.1 Thus, the nation faced dual rule, and was (and remains) in transition. This is relevant to our questio...

Marie Antoinette and Alexandra Feodorovna

the Columbia Encyclopedia. It says, quite succinctly, that "Alexandra Feodorovna, 1872-1918," was the last Russian czarina and the...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

A Local Smoking Ban: Controversy Verses Reason

to do so. Those of us that do not smoke resent the fact that everywhere we go we are confronted with second hand smoke. When you...

A Personal Narrative on Moving

in just a week and I didnt know anyone - no teachers, no other kids, no one. My fear turned into resentment as I focused my panic...

Personal Ethics Awareness Inventory

good. It is essential to do the right thing with the right consequence. For instance, debating about processes or procedures or ev...

Wright/Armageddon in Waco

presents views that see the tragedy at Waco as entirely due to the mistakes of government agents in handling the situations and no...

Fast Food, Dietary Additives, and Other Food Concerns

Our conception of the ideal diet is shaped by a number of factors. As Pollan observes, many of these factors are political and sh...

Geothermal Energy

the footprint we leave on the world. Geothermal energy is made possible because of the heat differential that exists betwee...

Uniform and Adaptive Strategies in International Business; Which is Best?

a company has made the decision to globalise there are many consideration, the decisions not enough. George S Yip outlines a pract...

"Sorrow Of War," "Perfume Dreams" And "In Country" - Review

one can readily argue how the expectations of such a first-hand experience lend themselves to the overlapping of uncontrolled chao...

Criminal Justice I

doctrine established in Plessy v Ferguson in 1896 that kept the black and white races legally separate for 70 years. The aparthei...

Education and Health Promotion

fundamental differences between the two concepts. Whitehead (2004), for sake of clarity, delineates the foundation of health-rela...

Economic Rationality of Terror

to some extent is better than experience which is always subjective. In tackling the problem of which school of thought is correct...

The Development of a Methodology for the Study of Urban Immigration 'New' Immigrant Communities of the West

An overview consisting of 8 pages that provides a methodological perspective on historically studying new populations of immigrant...

Bioengineered Foods: Pros and Cons

Genetically altered food stuffs offer an avenue of meeting our food needs on the limited areas which we have available. G...