In the book "Labor Control and the Postwar Growth Model in Latin America," Ian Roxborough argues that the economic model known as import substitution industrialization (ISI) was employed amongst the Latin American countries after World War II as a compromise to meet the ever growing social and political demands within those countries. ... As these two forces engaged in this political struggle, Latin American policy makers were also seeking outside capital from the United States further causing the implementation of the ISI model to be more conservative. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The "accordion maker" calls the early blues that he hears in New Orleans bars as "kitchen music" (Proulx). ... That's why the son of the accordion maker decided to change his family name to an American name so he can be part of the main society not the minority. What can be learned by reading this book are the problems that immigrants faced when coming to America, what they had to go through. ...

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The book is based on the life of the 'one minute manager' who never seems to have time for himself. ... The book attempts to point out a number of ways to deal with these monkeys and management. ... The book offers a four step procedure to accomplish this. ... In the book, "The Truth About Managing People", Robbins attempts to draw attention to common faults of the field of management. ... This includes the policy makers in the government, top executive in banks, insurance companies, and other agencies. ...

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It is now for the social policy maker to take up the issue and make scientific studies to understand the problem and propose measures to tackle it in the general interest and welfare of the UK society. ...

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In order to enforce this law, certain civil action groups have persuaded law makers to adopt a test for discrimination based on proportionality rather than opportunity and interest. ... Gavora, an expert on the Title IX debate and author of the book "Tilting the Playing Field," the key to restoring equality of opportunity to Title IX lies in making the actual interest of the students rather than their representation in the student body the benchmark for apportioning athletic opportunities (Gavora). ...

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Our country has been experiencing one of the worst recessions ever for quite a few years now. Many people are just making enough money to live on. The working class has been struggling the most because they don't have the best jobs out there and if you don't have a good job you are probably making m...

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Therefore, since Microsoft is pretty much the only maker of operating systems, everyone in the world is required to buy a copy of Windows from them for whatever price Bill Gates decides upon. ... We have all booked our cabanas through the same 800 number in Colorado. ...

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Therefore, since Microsoft is pretty much the only maker of operating systems, everyone in the world is required to buy a copy of Windows from them for whatever price Bill Gates decides upon. ... We have all booked our cabanas through the same 800 number in Colorado. ...

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Aside from discussing differing opinions on issues, this process allows for the training of future big business leaders under the supervision of the current leaders, and allows for the influence of the opinion of important decision makers and the entire country through the publishing of the opinions of the same experts the ruling class heard and agreed-upon in their meetings. ... As Ben Bagdikian writes in his book The Media Monopoly, "A corporation dependent on public opinion can call upon its media subsidiaries to help in what the media are clearly able to do - influence public opinion- (B...

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Hitler had come to power a few weeks earlier and he immediately began the plan, as outlined in his book Mein Kampf, to eliminate "the eternal mushroom of humanity - Jews".2 German Jews were stripped of their citizenship by the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 and had their businesses and stockholdings seized in 1938. ...

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Throughout the course of human history, there have always been the oppressed, deprived, and subjugated minorities that suffer under the constraints of the majority. The ideologies based upon the Eurocentric and Protestant groups proceed to be key figures of oppression and racism. The mannerisms in which minorities are dealt with and looked upon show the true forms of intention and persecution these groups feel because they do not and can not assimilate to the majority party. It is a keepsake that revolves upon the premise and ideas that the majority will always be in power and that it is a...

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Some of the judge's roles are interpretation of the law, assessing the evidence presented, controlling how hearings and trials develop in their courtrooms but most importantly judges are impartial decision makers in the search of justice. ... Most court judges faced a massive number of sentences were in some situations are easy to handle and by the book responses. ...

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In the nineteenth century, as white Americans proceeded to build and delineate their nation, they carried on a process they had started as colonists, settling a new world, and transforming its landscape, which had been modelled by Native Americans up to that time. Meanwhile, this landscape profoundly affected postcolonial United States. It was a time where one discovered complicated links between material conditions, ideology and power. It affected the physical context of the American environment and the changing experience of American life. The nineteenth century saw the con...

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Capital Punishment is a new idea or way of dealing with criminals. This has been around for ages and dates back as far as the 18th century B.C. With more and more liberals stepping forward, more and more laws and bans have been placed and issued concerning the death penalty, or capital punishment. W...

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While at first there were only professional jewelry makers who made jewelry from hair, middle class women started learning how to make the jewelry as well. ... Helen Shumaker in her book, Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hairwork in America, describes the fashionable rise of hairwork jewelry made at home with love. ...

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Propaganda among other sorts of techniques are used in three ostensibly opposed forms of governance to achieve similar goals. Bernays equated what propaganda is to a democratic society to what force is to a dictatorship. Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National S...

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The National Elder Abuse Incidence Study Executive Summary Introduction and Background America's burgeoning elder population has affected every segment of the social, political, and economic landscape. Public debate of the issues surrounding the special needs of the approximately 44 million persons in this country age 60 years and over has heightened national awareness and concern. As a result, public policies relating to issues such as retirement security, affordable long-term care, and quality of life are changing to meet the unique needs of the aging population. Yet, as the pu...

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