The United States in the Economy
Course material - 25 pages - International economy
Globalization is a contest content, it can have a negative view; responsible of outsourcing, massive unemployment (Europe), positive view; eliminate discrimination, global general culture, universalism. A complex reality, positive & negative sides. Is a process of interaction and integration...
Birthright Citizenship Control in the United States
Case study - 3 pages - Educational studies
Birthright citizenship is a federal law provision that grants all children born within the United States automatic citizenship regardless of their parental heritage (Lacey par 1). U.S and Canada are the lone developed countries that offer automatic citizenship to all children born...
United States foreign policy
Course material - 5 pages - Modern history
A period of political isolation intervened between the end of WWI and the entrance of the US into WWII. In the 1930s new threats to world peace appeared through Japan's invasion of China; Italy's invasion of Ethiopia; the Spanish Civil War; Germany's occupation of Austria; and...
United States as a Net Borrower
Case study - 9 pages - Educational studies
Performing a detailed scrutiny when an international debt crisis strikes, would reveal that struggling countries are guilty of pursuing a self defeating strategy in their build up to foreign debt. Most of the problems that besiege the modern economies are not in any way a swarm of locusts in the...
Study of the managerial culture and practices of the United Kingdom - published: 23/11/2010
Case study - 5 pages - Management
The United Kingdom consists of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It has been a part of the European Union since 1973, at the Safety advice of the United Nations, OECD and the Commonwealth. Its characteristic feature rests on its insularity, which...
Study of the managerial culture and practices of the United Kingdom
Case study - 4 pages - Management
The United Kingdom consists of four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. It has been a part of the European Union since 1973, at the Safety advice of the United Nations, OECD and the Commonwealth. Its characteristic feature rests on its insularity, which...
The United States from 1918 to 1945
Worksheets - 15 pages - Modern history
This is a study of the social, political and economic scenario in the U.S. in the crucial period from 1918 to 1945, when it faced new challenges. It gained an important role on the world stage at all levels, but at the same time experienced divisive forces and had to overcome internal...
Suffrage organizations in Canada and the United States
Thesis - 8 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The women's suffrage movement was one that held significance all over the world, as many different nations embarked on their own paths toward getting the vote for women. Compared to other English-speaking and industrialized nations like the United States, Canada began its...
Pragmatism and idealism in the process of nation-building (1781-1788)
Essay - 7 pages - Modern history
“Idealism without pragmatism is impotent. Pragmatism without idealism is meaningless. The key to effective leadership is pragmatic idealism.” (Richard Nixon). Were the very first years of the new nation, born of the American Revolution, marked by a “spirit of pragmatic...
The Effects of the Soviet Union's Foreign Policy on the United States
Essay - 6 pages - International relations
Relations with the Soviet Union have been a large concern for the United States since the end of World War II and the emergence of the Cold War. The Soviet Union and its foreign policy during that time prompted otherwise avoidable animosity and conflict for the United States, namely...
Trials and Triumphs: A look at the leadership of the nation of Islam 1930-2005
Essay - 5 pages - Modern history
The Nation of Islam is defined as “a religious and political organization founded in the United States in 1930 with a declared aim of resurrecting the spiritual, mental, social and economic condition of the Black man and woman of America and the world.” When the...
Environmental consequences of universalization: The maritime transport in the United States
Case study - 8 pages - Logistics
While entering a supermarket and by looking at the labels of the various products indicating the source of the manufacturers, we rarely find ‘Made in the USA' labels. A portable DVD costs less than 85 Euros and is manufactured in Singapore; the label of a T-shirt decorated with a character...
Immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States
Thesis - 11 pages - Civil law
The rapidly escalating immigration of highly skilled individuals to the United States demonstrates the diminishing role of national politics in an increasingly supranational global economy. Workers pursue opportunities beyond the confines of national borders, and corporations are able to...
Are there limits to the capacities of the president of the United States?
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
"The best government is which governs least." This quote from the third President of the United States of America, Thomas Jefferson, raises explicitly the central issue that transcends the American political system, namely the extent of presidential powers.It is interesting to note that...
Do the U.S. really constitute a united country?
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
The people who wrote the Constitution and those who voted it had a goal to create that is “a more perfect union”. Still what is the measure of the perfection? Two hundred years of independent history, of steady and reputed democracy? What does “a union” mean? Finally, does USA...
What kind of nation?
Thesis - 5 pages - Political science
James F. Simon makes an interesting statement in his book, "What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States," Simon proclaims that the tension between Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall played a huge role in the shaping of our...
The impact of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy on the nation's capital
Essay - 9 pages - Political science
When John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected President in 1960, he was the youngest President in the history of the United States. Deciding to bring a new style, a new look and a new vitality to the White House, he had a major asset: his wife. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy was only thirty-one,...
The power of eminent domain in the United States of America
Thesis - 4 pages - Constitutional law
Since its self-declared independence in 1776, the United States of America has always shown its will to become a grand nation. To fulfill this dream and set itself up as one of the greatest powers in a various domains on the international scale, it has gone through centuries of...
Eradicate crimes committed by homeless individuals and the related gangs in the United States
Case study - 5 pages - Educational studies
According to the recent research by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the number of homeless individuals across the country has grown to over 600,000; however, a worrying trend associated with the increase in homelessness is their involvement in crime (Saul, 2013). An...
President Obama Did Not Have Legal Authority to Order Operation Geronimo
Case study - 2 pages - Political science
President Obama, by order of May 2, 2011, started the secret military operation Geronimo; it was the end of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Indeed, the departure of the founder and the leader of al-Qaeda was an undoubted triumph in the War on Terrorism; however, grave legal problems...
How Effective Have Peace Operations Become in Resolving Conflicts?
Essay - 4 pages - International relations
Peace operations have become one of the most paramount foreign policy instruments the international community relies on to establish lasting peace and stability worldwide. These multipurpose actions, taken by an organization composed of the United Nations (UN), have been changed...
An analysis of why Canada's regulation of competition is weaker than in the United States
Thesis - 9 pages - Political science
Canada, with its more or less 30 million people, is one of the United States biggest trading partners. As a matter of fact Canada is the US largest market for its agricultural export in the northern hemisphere. This importance of the Canadian market had been numerously acknowledged by the...
Industrial relations in the United States: A way from confrontation to cooperation
Essay - 6 pages - Labor law
The industrial relations characterize the employee-employers relation in a company. In the United States, the term “industrial relation” really appeared with the creation of the Commission on Industrial relations in 1912 after two leaders of the Structural Ironworkers Union...
A Comparative Analysis of the Welfare States of Germany, Sweden, and the United States
Essay - 12 pages - Economy general
A welfare-state is a state in which organized power is used to provide social services to a society that cannot provide these things for itself through market-based transactions. Studying the welfare-states of Germany, Sweden and the United States will provide us a valuable perspective in...
Margaret Anstee's peacekeeping mission in the Angolan civil war
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
In February 1992, Margaret Anstee took the head of a peace-keeping mission in Angola, UNAVEM II, under a mandate of the United Nations. The initial UN mission in Angola was supposed to last 7 months but the circumstances obliged Margaret Anstee to stay in the country for 17 months,...
Is the fragmentation of International Law a pathological phenomenon or the sign of a healthy pluralism?
Essay - 4 pages - International law
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development Articles of Agreement of 1944 emphasizes that the World Bank must disregard political factors and solely base its decisions and operation on economic grounds. Highlighting that the consent-based nature of the international legal system...
Why Euro-centric isn't so appropriate: Why the history of the United States matters
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Christopher Columbus was the gentle white man who co-existed peacefully alongside the indigenous people. Thomas Jefferson indeed was the savant who penned our nation's most admirable document. And Abraham Lincoln, the lanky, equitable man who inherently felt the plight of the slaves, these...
US Foreign Policy: Multilateralism vs. Unilateralism
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
In the course of international relations, the United States, as usual, faces a challenge that consists of two choices in strategy dictating methods of dealing with international problems. A feature of multilateralism, not a unilateral one, is international cooperation and participation...
Fostering sustainable global growth through green finance
Dissertation - 5 pages - Finance
The ideas and goals of the United Nations (UN) in the areas of environment and development are at the origin of environmentally friendly finance, or green finance. In 1992, 178 countries met in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to discuss environmental and development issues for the 21st...
Microeconomics: United States Economics
Thesis - 5 pages - Economy general
Most people I know have iPods, drive high-horsepower automobiles with complex inner workings, and pay little attention to newspaper articles regarding oil, stocks, and debt. First off, nobody wants to think about the avalanche amount of debt that's accumulating and what it can do to an economy...
