From the Paper " John W. Gardner's On Leadership provides a comprehensive discussion of the essential qualities of effective leaders and leadership development. Although it is difficult to determine which individuals can develop leadership qualities and fulfill their potential, future leaders need a motivating environment to cultivate these qualities. Every phase of a person's life, from childhood to adulthood, constitutes significant turning points in leadership development (Gardner 162). At home, young children acquire values and standards of behavior from their parents. In schools, teachers can also inculcate leadership values within the students. One of the important changes that needs to be made within school and college curricula is specialization. While it is important that students become well-versed in certain subjects, leaders need to be knowledgeable in a variety .."
Focus on subjugation & victimization of women. Context in which sex industry developed incl. Vietnam War, emigration, demographics. History of sex trafficking of Southeast Asian women.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 7 sources, 2001, $ 31.95
From the Paper "Introduction
The sex industry in Thailand represents a major social problem in a developing part of the world and contributes to the continued subjugation of women in the region. The trade is fueled by young women migrating from rural to urban regions, often recruited for this very purpose, and also depends on the importation of women from rural regions in nearby countries, notably Burma. The trade has shifted much of the population, as might be expected, and so has also reduced the number of women agricultural workers remaining in rural regions.
Context
The Vietnam War has direct responsibility for the development of the sex industry in Thailand because during that conflict, U.S. troops used Thailand as a rest and recreation.."
From the Paper Roger Daniels, in Prisoners Without Trials: Japanese Americans in World War II, makes clear that the internment of Japanese-Americans was not simply a fluke that was justifiable during wartime. To the contrary, that internment was part and parcel of both the long American history of prejudice and discrimination against minorities in general (Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, etc.) and especially against Asian Americans.
The argument that the interment was justified because Japanese Americans posed a threat to the security of the United States ignores the fact that Italian Americans and German Americans were not rounded up and placed in internment camps. This was true despite the fact that Germany and Italy were enemies in World War II along with Japan. The racism of the..."
Discusses book that chronicles lives of the sisters from post-Reconstruction 19th Century to 1993. Combines personal experiences with historical accounts of life of African Americans in U.S.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, 2001, $ 55.95
From the Paper "n Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters, First 100 Years, siblings Sarah Louise ("Sadie") Delany and her sister Annie Elizabeth ("Bessie") Delany share poignant and humorous details about their lives during the post-Reconstruction 19th century, Jim Crow, two World Wars, the exhilarating days of the Jazz Age of Harlem and how they managed to survive it all (Moore, 34). Co-author Amy Hill Hearth opens the narrative of the lives of Sarah Louise ("Sadie") Delany and her sister Annie Elizabeth ("Bessie") Delany by noting that they are among the oldest living witnesses to American history (Delany, Delany & Hearth, 3). Sadie was born on September 19, 1889. Bessie followed almost exactly two years later on September 3, 1891 ..."
Abstract This paper examines "Culture and Imperialism" by Edward Said, illustrating imperialism through various modes of culture. The paper outlines Said's explanation that imperialism is an ideology that justifies, supports, and legitimates the conquest, control, and domination of lands that are inhabited by other people, who speak different languages and have other traditions. The paper also describes various literary works of the same time period and claims that Said viewed imperialism as the central theme of European literature in the 19th century.
From the Paper "Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism postulates that imperialism is not about a moment in history, but rather, about a continuing, interdependent relationship between a people and the dominant peoples and the dominant dialogue of an empire. Said sees "the disputed value of knowledge about imperialism . . . (as) a compellingly important and interesting configuration in the world of power and nations. There is no question," he insists, "that in the past decade the extraordinarily intense reversion to tribal and religious sentiments all over the world has accompanied and deepened many of the discrepancies among polities that have continued since . . . the period of high European imperialism.? "
Tags: 19th, century, colonialism, european, history, ideology, literature, traditions
From the Paper "During World War II, the United States interned Japanese residents of the Western states in internment camps such as that at Manzanar in California. The reason was indicated in Executive Order 9066, signed in 1942 by President Roosevelt to give authority to the War Department to define military areas in the western states and to exclude anyone who might be seen as threatening the war effort (Houston and Houston xi-xii). Japanese living in the Western states were seen as potential subversives and were summarily removed to camps to prevent this. The camps operated until after the surrender of Japan, though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled at the end of 1944 that loyal citizens could not be held in detention camps against their will (Houston and Houston, 1973, xii). The United States was wrong to place any Japanese who had not committed any offense into these..."
From the Paper "This study will compare two books on the nature of political and military leadership and power, Two Lives of Charlemagne, by Einhard and Notker the Stammerer, and The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli. The authors of the two biographies of Charlemagne focus on an historical personage and explore leadership and power as expressions of his specific life. Machiavelli focuses on the theory of leadership and power as he urges it to be practiced by the ideal prince, but he uses historical examples of past effective and ineffective exercises of power to bolster his arguments. Despite this difference in the two books' focus, the study will argue that the authors take the same essential position with respect to the subject: political and military power can be maintained only by a leader who is willing and able to use whatever means are necessary to bring obedience from one's ..."
From the Paper " James A. Michener, in his epic novel The Source, has written a history of the Jews from their genesis to the creation of Israel in 1948. Michener shapes this history into the form of a novel by anchoring the past with the present through the work and relationships of a group of archaeologists on a dig in 1964 in a fictional region of what is today Israel.
Michener grounds the story in this dig and in the changing eras which are represented by the finds on the dig. Through this method, Michener creates intrigue and tension among the archaeologists, in personal, professional, political and religious terms. The fact that the archaeologists live in the modern era allows them, and the author, to comment on, and argue about, the significance of the events which make up the history and evolution of the Jewish people."
From the Paper " INTRODUCTION
The Lincoln-Douglas debates were a defining moment in American political history, affording Abraham Lincoln a major opportunity to create an image for himself on the wider public stage. Stephen Douglas was an established political figure and had distinguished himself in numerous congressional battles, while Lincoln was the newcomer, a lawyer who had made his mark in the courtroom and who had served a stint in Congress as the only Whig representative from Illinois. The Illinois newspapers saw the significance of these encounters and played them up big in print. The fact that these debates were being held in different locales helped conserve the time of busy rural voters, gave both candidates larger audiences than they might have reached on their own, and made possible a true clash of arguments and ideas."
Abstract This paper examines Diplomacy by Henry A. Kissinger. The plan of the research will be to set forth the theme of and pattern of ideas in the book and then to discuss the style, emphasis, sources, organization, bias of the author, and other features that comprise the means by which the theme is elaborated, as well as Kissinger's career
From the Paper "The purpose of this research is to examine Diplomacy by Henry A. Kissinger. The plan of the research will be to set forth the theme of and pattern of ideas in the book and then to discuss the style, emphasis, sources, organization, bias of the author, and other features that comprise the means by which the theme is elaborated, as well as Kissinger's career--all with a view toward providing an evaluation of the contributions it makes to an understanding of the subjects it undertakes.
The theme of Diplomacy has a double perspective, one historical and the other critical. From one point of view, it is a historical survey of some three hundred years worth of international relations in and among the nation-states of Europe and the United States. The survey seems partly meant to show that certain problems now being faced by the West have roots as far back as .."
From the Paper "It is often assumed that postcolonial states have very little in common with the colonial versions of themselves. In Morocco, however, there is a very significant degree of continuity between the political-economic policies of the governments of the French Protectorate (1912-56) and the post-independence state. In those regions where the European powers set themselves up as new rulers, their goal was to make the colonies profitable. But economic success was elusive in those primarily agrarian societies where no mineral deposits or oil could be easily harvested. In such colonies the Europeans developed plans for exploitation that usually combined a profound lack of knowledge about the region with a belief in the universal applicability of European methods and technology and a relative indifference to the fate of the indigenous population. In..."
Abstract "In Alex Haley's transcribed work, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), readers are treated to several valuable lessons in sociology. Without summarizing the book in great detail, the story of Malcolm X reveals the significance of social and economic stratification in affecting people's religious beliefs and people's perspectives on social problems and life chances
From the Paper "In Alex Haley's transcribed work, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965), readers are treated to several valuable lessons in sociology. Without summarizing the book in great detail, the story of Malcolm X reveals the significance of social and economic stratification in affecting people's religious beliefs and people's perspectives on social problems and life chances. This story shows a Malcolm X who grows out of a socialized value system emphasizing violence and hatred, into a de-socialized system emphasizing a new ideological orientation on race relations, to a re-socialized system nearing the viewpoints of Martin Luther King--a civil rights leader once despised by Malcolm. This research will examine this process of social development through the eyes of Malcolm X.
The Nation of Islam began in the early 1930s in the United ..."
An analysis of foreign policy decisions, diplomacy and military events leading up to, during and after the 1990-91 war between the Western allies and Iraq.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 10 sources, 2000, $ 71.95
From the Paper "This research paper summarizes and analyzes the United States foreign policy decisions and military events which led to, perpetuated and ended American involvement in the Persian Gulf War, including the military strategy employed by Iraq and the United States during that war.
The Persian Gulf War was precipitated by the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq in August 1990 and the determination by the United States that its vital interests were thereby threatened. American foreign policy, because it sought to maintain a balance between Iraqi and Iranian power in the region, sent Iraq mixed signals which failed to deter the invasion, but many other factors lay behind Saddam Hussein's decision to invade. Thereafter, the United States effectively built up its forces in..."
From the Paper "Introduction
Slavery was called the "peculiar institution," and it was stoutly defended by those who benefited from it, the white plantation owners in the South, just as is was vehemently opposed by abolitionists in both North and South who saw it as an evil. Slavery was a business for some, an economic necessity for others, and for those enslaved, a way of life from which they could only rarely escape. The image of the abolitionist has been of white Northerners who formed societies and agitated for change, serving a swell as part of the underground railroad to free slaves. However, there were also black abolitionists who played a prominent and important role, and African American leaders among the freed slave population served a particular role in that they had been victims of slavery and were now able to..."
This paper is a detailed, well-written account of the Charles Keating / Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal that rocked the U.S. in the 80's and led to the S&L downfall.
Abstract This paper discusses the Savings and Loan crisis of the 80's that was an economic and bureaucratic disaster; wherein, one case alone, Charles Keating, cheated over seventeen thousand of investors and cost the American taxpayers more than $3.4 billion. The author explains how the S&L, traditionally one of the slowest sectors of the American economy, became involved in this scandal. The paper details the role of Keating, his legal battle and the bailout that cost taxpayers $2.5 billion.
From the Paper "This narrow opportunity for profits was a result of the extremely little latitude they were given in the scope of their investment portfolio. Whereas investment banks could hold securities that were on average riskier but more profitable, S&L's could hold nothing but the safest securities (government-backed). Federal laws and regulations prevented S&L's from doing much else. As a result, they did not pay their customers high interest at all and were hard pressed to compete with even the well-regulated commercial banking industry."
Tags: bureaucratic, disaster, investors, bailout, mortgage, state
