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China and India as Economic Threats

the competition in many respects. For example, its GDP supersedes that of India by quite a bit (Karmali, 2006). Also, Shuja (2002)...

Financial Services in a Global Context

billion passed through the hands of currency traders in New York, London and Tokyo every day. By 1995 daily turnover had reached a...

Practical Application of Game Theory

a matrix, the game looks like this: I keep quiet I snitch You keep quiet We both serve 1 year I go free, you get 5 years You...

U.S. Muslim Families

precedent in relation to establishing official recognition of Islamic religious holidays in American schools. Two major Islamic h...

Global Social Mores Decaying

point accusing fingers at countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, and Rwanda where horrors like female genital mutilation and wa...

Racism Within American Culture

to secure benefits for themselves "at the expense of African slaves and their American-born descendants" (Clark, 2003). Whites hav...

Distinctions That Shaped the U.S. Culture from Old Europe

This "novel way of life" according to Pringle (1998), "then diffused across the Old World" (p. 1446). However, these societies Ne...

U.S. and Japan Health Care

(Wise, 2005). One of the major health issues in the U.S. and other Western countries is obesity (Wise, 2005). It is estimated tha...

U.S. and Australia Country Facts

processing, steel, industrial and transportation equipment. Exports of $103 billion each year are oil, natural gas, coal, meat, g...

Telecommunications Industry

with the existing customers as well as gain new customers with a high level of marketing (Euromonitor, 2005). The market is expec...

Second World War and Racial Propaganda

In the eyes of propaganda, the American cultural commitment to individualism was transformed into overwhelming self-interest and a...

U.S. in the Terrorism Age

nations whose autocratic ways are threatened by such a possibility. Having started out as diplomatic in nature, the terrorists ha...

Westphalian Sovereignty by David Held

to do as they like without any interference from other nations. And it is precisely this thinking, Held argues, that has to stop b...

Promoting Democracy Through Imperialist Power?

to the extent that, for instance, the dominant party can dictate the terms of trade to its advantage; more broadly, cultural persp...

Uninsured and HMOs

citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years, the general system also has been char...

Comparison of Obscenity

Tin Drum, was a co-winner of the Cannes Film Festivals coveted prize, the Palme dOr, for Best Picture in 1979, and the next year, ...

Admission Essay

and customs to the University" and toward that end this year we held an information event on campus. The Embassies of Saudi Arabi...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....

US Panama Invasion and The Commanders by Bob Woodward

plans for the invasion of Panama; Bush himself takes almost no part in the discussion. Instead, in the days immediately preceding ...

Cultural Production and Liberalization of Trade

(Galperin, 1999) as to whether it is appropriate to include them in trade liberalization agreements in the same manner as other ty...

Sociological Comparative Analysis of Ethiopia and the United States

food, and visual arts, while non-material culture is the unseen - language, music, and literature. In America, buildings are tall...

China and America's Business Relationship

services and manufacturing (The Economist 69). It has a long way to go to pose any threat to Indias stronghold in BPO and other co...

Democracy in the United States

Is it possible to have a true democracy in these conditions? The outlook is not promising. In a speech at the University of Calif...

HOFSTEDE'S CULTURAL DIMENSIONS: U.S., VIETNAM AND CHINA

Some years later, Hofstede added a fifth dimension, that of Long-Term Orientation. LTO determines the degree to which a society em...

Divorce Rate

a substantial number of divorces that would not have occurred otherwise" (Why Divorce Rates Increased, 2008). This is something th...

The Use of Leading Indicators to Project Demand in the Housing Market

in 2008 of 1.2%, the recovery is expected to continue into 2009 when the GDP is expected to grow by 1.7% (Office of Economic Analy...

Should the US Adopt a Universal Healthcare System?

potential for a greater degree of efficiency. The question is whether not there should be a universal healthcare system adopted in...

WHY THE UNITED STATES SHOULD CONTROL HUMAN CLONING

Before determining why the U.S. would be a good keeper of cloning, it might be a good idea to describe, what exactly, cloning is. ...

ISSUES IN TRADE, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND PRODUCT ROLLOUT

is because the U.S. is becoming a service-oriented economy -- while the country is certainly a net importer of goods, its exportin...

Discrimination Against Homosexuality And Women In The United States

a national telephone survey of 1,283 heterosexual, English-speaking adults to establish their beliefs and prejudices about how AID...