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Iron Chancellor Otto von Bismarck

typical Junker and espoused these conservative, even reactionary, views. With this background, its not surprising to read that Bi...

Questions on Macroeconomics Discussed

fired), but most is completely voluntary and generally is temporary as those affected by it actively seek other employment. Effec...

Traditional Clothing in the United States and China

generations who have borrowed heavily from Western influence. Jeans, T-shirts and other casual wear are more readily seen in toda...

3 Views on Freedom, Equality, and Tolerance

no longer solve the most pressing problems of the modern world." In other words, one has to reevaluate what is socially conscious ...

Decolonization and the UN

by delegates from 50 nations (Howard, 2005). Two months later they had completed the charter for the UN (Howard, 2005). The United...

Lesser Developed Countries and Economic Development

no collective voice. It is them that we must be concerned about. If we are to effect positive change in these countries...

British and the Zulu Threat During the 19th Century

1998). Shaka died in 1828 and was succeeded by his half brother Dingane who was involved in the assassination with another half b...

The U.S. in Asia, 1945-1980

stocking bomb shelters. School children were participating in disaster drills. The focus of this paper will be the invo...

Exporting Process and Delivery Ex Ship

If we consider the process though which a Greek export company will have to go to ship goods outside of the EU there will be a ran...

Ancient Egypt and What it Means to Be Part of an Empire

king of Egypt was unwilling to commit military to defend northern Syria" (The Gathering Storm, 2005). Perhaps because of their res...

The Indian-Pakistani Conflict

In the 1930s came the notion of a newly named region, and the name Pakistan came from an idea one man, Chaudhuri Rahmat Ali, posse...

The Americans by Daniel J. Boorstin

and lapse of time meant that Britain had trouble controlling the colonies; this is in part the "vagueness" of which Boorstin speak...

Abraham Lincoln and His Civil War Involvement

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

Impact of the Baby Boomer Generation

food is a thing that is sold. It is a physical substance or an article of commerce. People think of commodities as corn or grain ...

'The Clash of Civilizations' by Samuel P. Huntington

the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankinds ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal d...

Sovereignty and Globalization

but was the beginning (Biersteker and Weber, 1996). Todays concept of sovereignty and the social contract where sovereignty and c...

U.S. and Influential Schools of Economic Thought

Thought Schools of Political Economy Neoclassical Schools Alternative Schools Thematic Schools Pre-Classical Anglo-American Heter...

U.S. and Schools of Economic Thought

and that and other factors were wreaking havoc on the national economy. It was the position of John Maynard Keynes that gov...

Will Cancelling Debts to Global Financial Institutions Help or Hurt Developing Nations?

and indirectly. Therefore the issue is not only the financial burden, but the conditions that were attached to the loans and the h...

The Good Ship "Lead Balloon"

aluminum alloy." One of the problems is that the Saturn 5 was built by a bunch of different contractors, and there is now no compl...

Economic Development's Effect on World Peace

In some cases, the charges have been valid. Many Asian and other nations see no real problem with sweatshop conditions or child l...

Global Poverty Reduction

International releases an annual Corruption Perception Index, which does not seek to measure actual levels of corruption present i...

The Politics of Social Security

system and the alternatives that politicians bring. First, a look at the history of Social Security and its design is appropriate....

Universal Prescription Drug Coverage

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

Mexico and Industry

suggests that the growth in factories and industry is not really proving positive for the society in Mexico. It is also per...

Bowling for Columbine

emotions and sympathy for the Columbine victims and families. For example, it is difficult not to agree with Moore that the decisi...

Guarding Against Terrorism

Osama Bin Ladin and others like him are. He and his terrorist network known as al-Qaeda (translated to mean "the base") is believ...

In Pursuit of Small Government

to negotiate with governmental powers ultimately ended in the form of the Revolutionary War in which the colonies won their indepe...

"Heart of Darkness" and "Apocalypse Now"

become a renegade, a murderer, and set himself up as a sort of king over the natives of the region. Conrad makes the exploitation...

Is Islam Compatible With Democracy?

political values," which are necessary in order for representative democracy to flourish, values such as "separation of religious ...