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Essays 181 - 210

St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Organized Crime

In eleven pages this paper discusses Minnesota's Twin Cities in an organized crime historical overview that includes Machine Gun K...

Assimilation of History's Lessons with Thatcherism

In nine pages theoretical comparisons are made between Look Back in Anger, a play by John Osborne, Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Or...

Democracy, Asian Style

In five pages this paper argues that Asia does indeed have its own style of democracy with the example of Singapore provided. Fiv...

Financial Crises Correlations Between the United States and Asia

In twelve pages the 1990s' economic crisis in Asia is compared and contrasted with the great 1929 U.S. recession in terms of influ...

Economic Growth and the Influence of IT

In fourteen pages Taiwan and Asia are examined in a consideration of how information technology influences regional as well as glo...

Issues in Business

6 pages and no sources cited. This paper provides rhetorical discourse on three different topics that have to do with business op...

'Asian Tigers' Rise and Fall

This paper examines the detrimental impact of foreign investment in southeast Asia in this chronicle of the 'Asian Tigers' rise an...

Asia and American Sports Industry

In eleven pages this paper contrasts and compares Asia and the United States in terms of the sports merchandising industry. Twelv...

Southeast Asia Dam Projects

In five pages large and quite costly dam projects of Southeast Asia are considered with examples of Aswan High Dam of Egypt and Th...

'King Leopold's Ghost' by Adam Hochschild

In this paper consisting of five pages the King's search for a Belgian colony is discussed along with the fear that overtaking Asi...

Vietnam Policies of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon

the US response on a "day-to-day basis," seldom examining the overall implications of his actions (Herring, 1979, p. 107). However...

Economic Recovery, Capital Controls' Role and Malaysia

In ten pages this paper examines Malaysia and speculates upon the role of capital controls following the currency crisis in Asia d...

The State in Southeast Asia

such as Marx and Weber each falsely attributed many Asian characteristics as reasons for the growing gap between the continents ("...

Pacific and Asian Tourist Industry

In eight pages this paper examines the tourism industry in Asia and the Pacific and considers how tourist expectation takes place....

The Southeast Asia Buildup of Arms

In a paper consisting of six pages the reasons behind the buildup of arms in Southeast Asia is discussed with linkage between the ...

Structural Engineering and Ethics

In seventeen pages the collapses of several structural buildings in Asia are discussed in a consideration of design ethics and com...

Asian Economic Crisis and its Impact

In six pages and two parts this paper discusses how global institutions were affected by the economic crisis in Asia and also cons...

Asia Expansion of a Cincinnati Business

In eight pages this paper examines a hypothetical scenario in which a business situated in Cincinnati is to expand into Asia in a ...

Old World Encounters Cross Cultural Contacts and Exchanges in Pre Modern Times by Jerry H. Bentley

that have brought forth cultural influence as it is known today. "On the basis of its global analysis, the book identifies severa...

Economy of Japan

horizontal keiretsu bank may represent a "symbol of Japans closed corporate society" (Tezuka, 1997, p. 83), when in reality it is ...

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...

American Imperialism and Vietnam

same. Because of this, the American people found it easy t believe that the South Vietnamese were, "or soon would be," just like ...

Questions on Currency Exchange

lose value for several months until it had lost nearly 60 percent of its original value by the time the slide halted (Shameen 2005...

Investment Capital Issues

in the direction of the companies in which it invests, increasing the likelihood of attractive return on its investments. Onsets ...

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...

Islam and Buddhism Spread Throughout Asia

the silk trade in general, laid the groundwork for the spread of religion. One might compare the phenomenon to the Internet today....

Buddhism's Spread Throughout the East

several different schools" (Anonymous The History of Buddhism, 2002; history.html). From this we can perhaps understand that these...

Economic Crisis of East Asia and its Global Ramifications

In five pages this paper analyzes the economic crisis of East Asia in a consideration of its widespread global ramifications with ...

Religions of Asia

over the centuries, and in those changes we can see the way in which the teachings of the religion have turned outward to impact t...

East Asia Negotiations

is macho, it is akin to war, something that reflects their concept of masculinity (Martin et al, 1999). They have already decided ...