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Aboriginal People and European Diseases

author notes that "On the night that the Aztecs drove Cortez out of Mexico City, in their retreat the Spaniards left behind an inv...

The Retailer of the Century: Wal-Mart

undermine a great deal of what Sam Walton had hoped to create with his original stores with "down home" feeling. Wal-Mart Weakness...

The Economist, the World Bank, and Development Economics

In five pages this report considers an article that appeared in The Economist in March of 1997 pertaining to development economics...

Destroying the World's Rain Forests

numbers of subsistence farmers and increased growth of land controlled by large holdings. Today, "one-thirtieth of the total numb...

Policy of the United States Military from Nixon to Clinton

In seven pages this paper refers to The Logic of World Power An Inquiry Into the Origins, Currents, and Contradiction of World P...

The Wilding of America by Charles Derber

and this becomes a motivation that people pursue over and above everything else. Derber asserts that we distance ourselves from s...

The World Before the First World War According to Barbara Tuchman

In six pages Tuchman's text on the period just prior to World War I The Proud Tower is examined. There are no other sources liste...

Asia and Western Expansionism

The ways in which modernization in Asia was influenced by Western expansion are examined in five pages with references made to She...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare and the Natural World's Superiority

In five pages this paper examines how the characterizations of Antonio and Gonzalo represent the superiority of the natural world ...

Central European Politics from 1910 to 1939 and Modernist Art

of art. Europes turbulent, social and political changes offered (and still offer) suitable conditions for artistic temperament to ...

Global Finance and the Implications of the Euro Currency

firms that have not adequately prepared for during the advent of the Euro. Numerous economic forecasters and business theorists ar...

Four Questions on God, Man, Life and Death and Religious Philosophy

In six pages this research paper examines the philosophies of the world's most influential religions and how each answers these 4 ...

The World Bank as an Investment Opporunity

This 3 page paper considers the World Bank as an investment opportunity as discussed in the book, World Bank Investments. The writ...

Second World War's Mythological Nature

In four pages this paper examines the myths associated with the Second World War in an analysis of Michael C.C. Adams' The Best Wa...

'The Global Democracy' and U.S. Foreign Policy

In three pages this essay discusses how America's intention of introducing the world to democracy infringes upon people's rights t...

Kindleberger on the World Economy

the overall health of a nations citizens can be used as an indicator of economic primacy is certainly debatable; however, the Worl...

The Possible or Probable Causal Factors for the First World War

5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of the possible or probable causal factors for the first World War. This ...

The Two-Part War

rhetoric; this is the charismatic leader theory (A summary of the causes of World War II). The mob mentality theory is supported b...

Motivation Theory and the Developing Economies

the safety needs, such as the need for stability and security, following this there is the need to feel belonging, which may be pa...

Women in Rock and Country Genres

direct attacks at those who scorn them (e.g. Taylor Swift). Instead, todays country music stars talk to magazines about diet, exer...

What Caused World War Two?

The writer argues that there are at least two schools of thought about what caused World War II: one that it was caused by World W...

The Causes of the Second World War

The writer argues that the basic cause of World War II was World War I. The paper also argues that the Great Depression did not ca...

Looking at the Universality of Religious Tradition

terms, as something couched in deep traditions. This, for the most part, is an appropriate way to undertake the study of religion,...

The Financial Crisis and Multinational Corporations

(Wharton University 2009). Some major multinational corporations are living through this economic downturn but they are few and in...

Differing Ecological Viewpoints

"same freedom for imagination and desk-top investigation" that is utilized by empirical ecologists in the field (Wu, 1994). Both o...

Supply Chain Management at Carrefour

Belgium (History, n.d.). Carrefour went public in 1970. Promod?s created the convenience store format in 1977; the two merged in...

Analyzing the World's Largest Auction Site

logistics, also. The deal is made between the seller and buyer and it is the buyers responsibility to ship the item to the buyer. ...

Changing the World

arose a class of professional officers who "tended to dominate the civil authorities" ("Causes of World War I"). In addition, all ...

The Relationship between Positive Accounting Theory and World Dimensions of Habermas

warming. This has been seen by many as a claim rather than a fact, arguing that there is insufficient proof, it was this reasoning...