The 1920's was a time marked by social change in America. ... Now a giant population of the United States was brought together through a common taste in music. ... Now all across America drinking alcohol was somewhat of a cultural event meaning that a large portion of the population did it. ... Such illegal activity had hardly been seen in American history. After this example of the commercialization of popular culture dividing Americans and dramatically changing American society I will now close. ...

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The FTAA, currently being negotiated by 34 countries of the Americas, is intended to be quite possibly the most far-reaching trade agreement in history. The FTAA stands for the Free Trade Area of the Americas, a name given to the process of expanding the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to all the other countries of the Western Hemisphere except Cuba. With a population of 800 million and a combined GDP of $11 trillion (US), the FTAA would be the largest free trade zone in the world. ... They would also handcuff governments' public interest policymaking and enhance corporate co...

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British Columbia produces only 48% percent of all the food its population consume; therefore half of their population would go hungry without importing essential items (Pelletier, 1). ... In a country such as Ghana, where thirty percent of the nation's population lives in poverty, it's certainly a nation actively engaging the global food supply chain (Wollan, 1). ... This partnership allows for the inhabitants to enjoy the same chicken us American's love, at a more affordable price than purchasing from a local farmer. ... The American economy, as a whole, benefits as well, not o...

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Modernization theory involves five steps, as stated by one of the most influential American modernization theorist ever, in our course reader, W.W. ... An example of this would be how it took 40 years for Americans to collectively own 1 million radios, but more recently, it took only 15 years for Americans to own 1 millions computers. ... First world countries like America are indirectly allowed to set standards of Third world countries by making unfair, but unavoidable, deals. ... After presenting this to the country who cannot pay for its own reparations the United States will require them t...

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Many impoverished countries find themselves reliant on participation in criminal practices in order to survive, for example, 20% of the Colombian population are able to upkeep their livelihoods through their involvement in cocaine production, which thrives due to strong demand from the West. ... Glocalisation is also explicitly seen within the drugs trade, as Class A drugs on the streets of the UK are unlikely to have been produced here but rather in places such as South America. ...

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The notion of Asian values has increasingly been deployed by Lee Kuan Yew and the Singaporean elite to legitimise and maintain the power of the PAP state and generate unity among a multiethnic population. ... The key exchange in the Pacific Asian area in the post-Second World War period has been that of the Japanese and the Americans. ... Yet in conclusion, it seems clear that the global industrial-capitalist system is slowly forming into the three distinct blocs of the Americas, the European Union and Pacific Asia. ...

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Nevertheless Hernan Cortes and his army battled their way through the Native American superpower of the Aztecs and further see their downfall to nothing more than history. ... Hernan Cortes came with 1,300 men to South America, whose population may have truly exceeded one million people; this was just statistically ridiculous to think about. ...

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