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U.S. Steel Industry and Legacy Costs

represent approximately $12 billion in legacy costs, which include health-care payments, pensions, insurance and other benefits (M...

Jazz and its Influence

In nine pages this paper discusses the influence of jazz in the US. Nine sources are cited in the bibliography....

Problems of Open Borders and Solutions

laws to get it. There are no dearth of people who slip across the northern or southern borders of the United States; many are so d...

A Letter to a Senator Involving Iraq War

the waging of war, but by the ability to wage war; not necessarily by the demonstration of our defense capabilities, but by the vi...

America's Democratic History

the Declaration of Independence. While two-thirds of mankind suffers undernourishment, our own upper classes revel amidst superfl...

The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy

the blog sites of Volpac, a conservative political action committee chaired by Senate majority leader Bill Frist. One of the curr...

US-China Trade 2008

Chinas "Exports to the U.S. rose 9.9 percent in the first seven months of 2008 from a year earlier after gaining 8.9 percent in th...

International Relations and Economics

United States was not always at the center of this development, particularly in the beginning. It came to be at the center, howev...

China's Role in the International Steel Industry

and put them to sound business use meant to be the only ones doing so. Business people did not recognize the value of competition...

Cultural Diffusion from the Ancient World

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

Women's Contributions and Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

to drop, though it often seems to hold them loosely." He admires them for these qualities and then discusses how the American peop...

Models of Liberal Democracy and Interpretations

of freedom to pursue material wealth" and other objectives, according to Participatory Democrats (Hudson 10-12). Protective demo...

Social Life and Intellect in Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

and find neither peril nor advantage in the free interchange of their thoughts. If they meet by accident, they neither seek nor av...

Philosophical Critique of Iris Marion Young’s Concept of the Distinction Between Self-Development and Self-Determination

later. In each, she focuses on what she regards as the two most significant values that must be preserved if social justice is to...

Democracy in Europe

and perhaps within nations will act as springboards to the transfer of power to the centre in Europe" (Siedentop, 2001; p. 25), su...

Why Freedom of Speech is Vital to Democracy

apparel policy" ("Court cites landmark student free speech case in finding district unlawfully suspended students for protesting s...

A Comparison Between the British and French Governments

that of Britain. In France, there is the idea that the power is with the people, but in Britain there is a sense that one institut...

What Herodotus' The Histories Teaches Us About Government

chosen, and the people give over their will, that is good too (Herodotus 185). It suggests that others can have democracy, but the...

The Digital Divide - 6 Blogs

information and communication tools, such as the Internet, and those who cannot" that was given by The Digital Network; which is a...

Black Odyssey The African American Ordeal iIn Slavery by Nathan Irvin Huggins

a primary component of the transformation to African-American status, Huggins delves deep into the historical and cultural foundat...

Democracy and Indonesia

is not as simple as having elected officials in office. Many of these officials while elected by the people, are not supported by ...

Free Market and Monopolies

of the act is sometimes difficult. What Can Governments Do About Monopolies? In the governments camp is the Sherman Act in whic...

Japan's Post 1991 Reform Failure

the crisis took place, they were all but a part of an even bigger force: the fact that a majority of Asian countries are all seeki...

Democracy and the Implications of the Internet

market economy which many believe are the keys to a natural development of democracy and the Internet plays a central part to this...

How Democracy Has Been Affected by the Internet

which were formerly not based on democracies and its link to the market economy can only result in individuals from all nations gi...

Aristophanes on Democracy

to see that Aristophanes was a conservative through and through and seemed to prefer an almost aristocratic rule to a democratic o...

Experience and Education by John Dewey

its time schedules, and classification systems and rules (18). Here, due to this, Dewey points out that schools are therefore mark...

Democracy Theories

on this subject might want to explore various opinions on democracy and society. Socrates claimed that democracy--because it is ...

The Foundation of Merit Public Service in American Democracy by Patricia Wallace Ingraham

one needs the combination of power and government in order to enact any level of civil service politics; however, it can also be c...

Analyzing An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

In all honesty, Dr. Stockmann fails to think outside his scientific reasoning. He is, in a sense, blind to those who do not believ...