By maintained unequal social status, poverty and chaos inside the country, these leaders received a gigantic benefit from landowners and foreign investors. ... Keith successfully signed a contract with Costa Rican government to build a railroad track, connected the capital city of San Jose to Limon, the contract also included 800,000 acres of lands along the route and 99 years tax free for operation of the train. ... In 1936, United Fruit broke a contract with Guatemalan government, released it from its obligation to build a Pacific port: responded to a "plea for help" of Internation...

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Statehood can also be defined as a human community that can manage to legitimately use its physical force within a given territory (Coase 1960; North 1990), while Olson (2000) argues that the concept of the state is more focused on the relationship between the state and its citizen, namely the "social contract ", in which individuals would surrender some of their personal freedom to make a social contract with a sovereign government " the state " in order to receive peace and security in return. ... Based on the common "social contract " concept as previously mentioned, Zartman (1...

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The principle is that ability, qualifications, and merit, independent of race, national origin, or sex should prevail when one applies for a job or promotion, or for selective institutions for higher education, or when one bids for contracts. The reality is that strict adherence to this principle would result in few African Americans getting jobs, admissions, and contracts" (1998). ...

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The principle is that ability, qualifications, and merit, independent of race, national origin, or sex should prevail when one applies for a job or promotion, or for selective institutions for higher education, or when one bids for contracts. The reality is that strict adherence to this principle would result in few African Americans getting jobs, admissions, and contracts (1998). ...

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As the physical economy of the developed countries contracted, demand for the raw materials of the Third World contracted as well. ... This 'New International Division of Labor' helped to artificially prop up the living standards of the United States, while its physical economy continued to contract. ...

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Black prisons were at the forefront of social criticism in issues of race and class. ... Prisoners such as Eldridge, Cleaver and George Jackson fostered the liberation ideology and the development of a black consciousness and revealed radical critiques of the American social order. ... Black political and social activists within prisons were important because they provided an in depth criticism of the American criminal Justice system. ... Imprisonment has become the response of first resort too far too many of the social problems that burden people who are ensconced in poverty. ... When pr...

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In fact, philosophy became a practical method of social and political persuasion. ... John Locke presented the reinvented theory that, symbolic of a social contract, there must be a compromise between the sovereign and his subjects whereby respect for the ruler receives an equal respect for the liberties and rights of property of his people, as opposed to a complete surrender of rights for nothing in return, in which case the contract should be dissolved. ... Certain aspects of seventeenth century philosophy left room for human err, such as the easily influenced mind and its ability to misrepr...

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Beth Rubin, in Shifts in the Social Contract, speaking of the post war period, says, "The labor-capital accord emerged in the unionized core of the economy, particularly in manufacturing industries, in the immediate post-war period. It coordinated the interests of workers and employers by restructuring their relationships around a new social contract. ...

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Contrary to mercenaries, private military and security companies are transnational corporations legally registered which obtain contracts from governments, private firms, intergovernmental and non governmental organizations. In low intensity armed conflicts or post conflict situations such as Afghanistan and Iraq their employees, contracted as civilians but armed as military personnel, operate in "grey zones" as unlawful combatants without oversight or accountability, under murky legal restraints2 and often with immunity. ... This principle was reaffirmed by the United Nations Decl...

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Liberalism started attacking the monarchy in Britain but soon moved on to social change. ... Feminism is a movement for social, political and educational equality and change. ... This was because, since women did not have the right to vote they had no influence on common law, work related laws and contract laws to name but a few. ... However before the late 19th century, social attitudes were not challenged in mass. ... Even the common and contract law was the same. ...

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The reason for this was that social and religious custom did not approve or look kindly upon women or girls being in public with an uncovered head. ... Instead of a meetinghouse being the center of the community, the waterways and roads became a place of social life a brief moment for colonists to sit back and relax was very rare and very savored. ...

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Discourse, or social practices as Fairclough (1989) specifies it, is an object of analysis. ... Whereas the latter refers to the fact that language occurs in the specific social contexts. ... The point is that language is not used in isolation but within broader social contexts (Gee, 2008). On the basis of this explanation the above stated question could be answered as follows: CDA analyses all the social practices in their extensive social contexts. The social context can be better understood when looking at the already mentioned Fairclough's term 'social practices' and its ex...

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This socially constructed condition does not fade much because of the perpetual nature of humans to pass down beliefs and culture from one generation to the next. ... This shows that most of the information we receive on social events comes from articles and reports of the media. ... Media manipulation makes racism a socially constructed condition, and an awfully lucrative one. In fact, in 2012 the combined budget for the most obvious federal agencies whose role is to favor blacks, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the HUD or Housing Urban Development, the Office of Federal ...

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It is very clear that urban schools are not as equip as schools in the suburbs or rural areas. It is safe to say that not all urban schools are in bad situations when it comes to low-test scores, and the students" performance in the classroom, but most urban schools are performing unsatisfactory. This is because of its economic background, educational environment/ community/ family, and policies in terms of educational programs. This paper will provide an extensive overview on urban education, which will include a comparison of black and white test scores; the effects urban communities and f...

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Eugene Genovese believed that slaveholders were more concerned about social status and power that they received from owning more slaves. ... This caused the value of the slaves to increase and owning slaves showed social status. ...

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These initiatives can be found at the core of the new social contract being negotiated between employers and employees. "The basic outline of the social contract, as it has emerged during the past several years, calls for workers to commit their best contributions and greatest energies to the job in return for interesting work, respectful treatment, developmental opportunities, and an environment that responds to individual needs. ...

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Proposition 54 Ward Connerly, a leader in the passage of Proposition 209 to end affirmative action, now has gathered enough signatures to put another proposition on the October recall ballot. Proposition 54, the Classification by Race, Ethnicity, Color, or National Origin (CRECNO) Initiative will appear on the October 7, 2003 ballot. CRECNO amends the California Constitution to ban the state or local government from categorizing individuals by race, ethnicity, or national origin for any reason. If passed, Proposition 54 would prohibit public agencies, schools and employers from maintainin...

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Globalization has taken over, allowing countries to lower transactions costs across areas of economic trade and social interactions. This has prompted international governments to create trade, social, and security connections with one another. ...

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Education inequality has been a social issue in the United States between white and ethnic minorities. ... Charter schools are administered under a three to five year contract, which within those three to five years charter schools are held accountable to meet or even exceed the ambitious goals that are set for the student performance, and if the goals are not met, then charted schools will run the risk in being sanctioned by the home state. ...

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In video 8 we learned that former President Bush had declared Panama had been freed and that Democracy had been restored. Named Operation Just Cause, the United States military campaign was condemned throughout the region as a violation of Panama's sovereignty and their right as a nation to determine who was legitimately in charge. This was one of the latest interventions by the United States in the Caribbean. This military action was an obvious threat to the self-government of Panama. The US government had known that Noriega was involved in drug trafficking since at least 1972. ...

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John Burgess maintained that uncivilized populations will become civilized through natural social evolution. ... Clearly it was not hostility but social responsibility that caused the mass genocide of the native American people. ...

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Around the world, unemployment or the threat of it remains one of the main challenges to long-term social sustainability. Indeed, the experience of recent years has underscored social sustainability as key to longer-term competitiveness, and thus to sustainable growth. ... More recently, in order to better place the discussion of competitiveness in the societal and environmental context, the World Economic Forum has begun exploring the complex relationship between competitiveness and sustainability as measured by its social and environmental dimension. ... Government attitudes toward markets a...

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In the North-Central Mexican city of Juarez, times are often pretty rough. Crime is decreasing as of 2016, but the percentage of violent crimes in Mexico is still higher than almost all major cities in the country to the north, the United States. In fact, poverty is extremely prevalent with "494,000 Juarez residents living in poverty or extreme poverty" (Isaad). As Virginia Isaad points out "a new study from the UNICEF says that 5 out of 10 children in Mexico live in poverty" (Isaad). Juarez is indicative and symbolic of most cities in Mexico where many fear for their lives due to drug cartel ...

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Women executives are frequently excluded from social activities and often describe the "clubbiness" among the men that exists at the top. ... The goal of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is to promote equal opportunity. ...

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When people hear the term "plastic surgery," they almost immediately think of the negative connotations of that phrase. While it is certainly true that many Americans have had elective plastic surgery, there are far more types of medical procedures that fall under this category than the stereotypica...

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