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The paper relates that in recent years, the small island nation of Haiti continues to sink lower and lower into the grips of abject poverty. The paper asserts that tragically, in a world increasingly characterized by intense global competition, Haiti appears unable to compete on any level. It follows that the current study addresses questions concerning the international community's role as well as the role of Haiti's rulers in perpetuating and/or possibly resolving the problem of abject poverty in Haiti.

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"In recent years, the small Island nation of Haiti continues to sink lower and lower into the grips of abject poverty. Tragically, in a world increasingly characterized by intense global competition, Haiti appears unable to compete on any level. It follows that the current study addresses questions concerning the international community's role as well as the role of Haiti's rulers in perpetuating and/or possibly resolving the problem of abject poverty in Haiti."

Tags:haiti, poverty, duvalier

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Native Son is the story of a young black man named Bigger Thomas growing up in Chicago in the 1930s. He and his family live in abject poverty. Driven by frustration, anger, and fear Bigger inadvertently kills a white girl named Mary Dalton. Trying desperately to cover up the crime, he burns the body to dispose of the evidence. Once the bones are discovered, however, Bigger is charged with murder. He is subsequently convicted and sentenced to death. All told, Native Son is a tragic story about a young man who is largely a product of a society that subjugates black men and treats them as inferior.

From the Paper
THE NATIVE SON INTRODUCTION The following discussion provides a sociological analysis of Richard Wright's book Native Son. Analysis is based on the theoretical perspective known as symbolic interactionism. Specifically, fifteen concepts inherent to this perspective are presented along with definitions and explanations of how the author used these concepts in the story. SUMMARY Native Son is the story of a young black man named Bigger Thomas growing up in Chicago in the 1930s. He and his family live in abject poverty.

Tags:native son, interactionism, thomas theorem

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This paper examines why Formula One racing has not succeeded in the US and examines the effects that it has on the attempts by global advertisers and FISA to create a truly global sponsorship platform. The paper makes the case that Formula One racing will not be successful in the United States in the future, despite the successful globalization efforts of many of its sponsors. It also demonstrates that F1's failure to capture the US imagination will result in a gradual decline in the importance of the sport to global commercial sponsors (although not for global governmental partners).

Outline:
Introduction
Media Growth through Sports
Interest of the Multinationals
Subject Population and Statistical Analysis
Coming to the United States
Benefits for the Participants
Recent Problems with the US
Conclusion: Making Formula One Relevant for the US Market

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"Coming to the United States: Benefits for the Participants
The rewards of extending Formula One1 to the US are clear. Although comprising only 5% of the world population, the US accounts for 30% of global GNP (Julius 2005) . Many of the world's largest and most-successful multinationals are headquartered in the US. And the US is the largest car market in the world (Roberts 2006). The potential for sponsorship should exist both inside and outside the US' borders: from multinational companies already sponsoring F1 teams that wish to extend their marketing reach in the sport to the US, to companies (like AT&T) that are headquartered in the US that would like to extend their brand recognition in an effective way to the rest of the world."

Tags:racing, global, sponsorship

Abstract
The paper explores the similarities and differences between Mike Kelley and Yoshitomo Nara's usage of the doll motif, and their true purposes in utilizing this unusual totem of popular culture. The paper explains that while Kelley employs the doll motif as a means of probing the nature of abjection, Nara's seems to be exploring adolescent alienation. The paper points out that Nara tends to favor static materials, such as paint, while Kelley's dolls are made of everything from fabrics to stuffed animals. The paper concludes by asserting that behind the work of both artists lies a certain amount of pain.

Outline:
The Abject: Mike Kelley
Totems of Adolescent Alienation: Yoshitomo Nara
Conclusion

From the Paper
"The motif of the doll features prominently in the work of both Mike Kelley and Yoshitomo Nara, two of the more famous contemporary artists whose playful deconstructions of the human figure probes questions of authenticity and artifice while simultaneously bowing to the supremacy of popular culture. While Mike Kelley employs the doll motif as a means of probing the nature of abjection, Yoshitomo Nara's prolific usage of the doll seems to be done for slightly different purposes - namely, as a means for exploring adolescent alienation. While the two artists certainly have a lot of similarities - the most obvious one being their mutual affinity for punk rock and their ties to various factions of the youth culture, as represented by their album cover art - it could also be said that they have profound differences as artists."

Tags:abjection, adolescent, alienation, punk, rock

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This paper reviews, discusses and analyzes the work of Mike Kelley. The paper reports that Kelley was born in 1954, the generation of the 60's that was part of a generation forced to come to terms with oil droughts, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. The paper discusses how the abject is one of the most essential elements that Kelley integrates into his installations, sculptures, paintings and drawings.

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"Kelley understood the comic strip series as a modeling of the nuclear family during the Sixties. The characters in the series had specific roles that the children could connect with in relation to their own surroundings. New characters were introduced after the Sixties started to become more complex in regard to the shifting ego. The Sadie, who looks just like a female incantation of the Sad, becomes his female alter ego. Both of the characters in the new series represented the female and the male aspect of the child. Also within the series, there were sibling and father figures of the family. Additionally he introduces the Sarge, who is a representation of a maternal substitution. In effect, the Sarge is the identifiable father figure within the nuclear family. This patriarchal character represents the male figure as a dominant being in the world of the comic strip yet alludes to the feminine, which is surprising. "Kelley plays with double meaning and mistaken identities. Thus he draws Sarge into patriarchal figure of general, whose eyebrows become Sarge's female breast."

Tags:sexes, maternal, sublimation, abjection, psychological, subconscious, artist, visual

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Bolivia as a nation, and more specifically, the Cochabamba Valley as a region, have had significant problems recently with the lack of access to safe water resources, exacerbated by the pervasiveness of abject poverty of both the country and the region. This paper shows that the privatization of water services has been implemented as a solution to this lack of access, but so far, these reforms have been anything but successful, especially according to the majority of Bolivians. The paper shows that the results of privatization have included extreme increases in water prices, little improvement in expansion of access and extensive political protest, some of which became violent. However, the paper explains that the alternative of re-nationalization, or returning ownership and control of water resources to the state, has both potential benefits and drawbacks of its own.

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"The policy of the privatization of Bolivia's water resources was implemented for many economic reasons, and was intended to improve upon the water industries already in place and under the ownership and control of the government. This issue has been characteristically unique from other types of privatization policies for one reason: the necessity of water for human beings to exist. Because of this universal human need for clean, drinkable water, many Bolivians claim that access to it is a right, rather than a privilege. Yet in the midst of a complete lack of alternative sources to safe water, some people will turn to possibly unsafe sources such as rainwater, lakes, and rivers. In the past, this has caused outbreaks of serious diseases such as cholera. In Bolivia, where the problem of poverty is extremely dire and millions of people cannot afford or obtain clean, safe water, the privatization of state-owned water companies has been the government's policy solution to the extreme lack of access to water."

Tags:divestiture, SAP, SEMAPA, El, Alto

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This paper is a personal account of the writer's experiences with lawyers. The paper asserts that the lawyer has come to represent all that is wrong in American society, from dishonesty to abject greed. The paper provides real-life scenarios to illustrate the points made.

From the Paper
"My father, on the other hand, perhaps due to his greater financial resources, seemed to have a different kind of attorney, the kind who actually prepared for court, as well as seemed to have some grasp of what he was doing. You see, according to my mother, while she made her best showing in professional attire (no matter that she worked the night shift in a grocery store and purchased her getup at Goodwill), my father, who was at the time living in style with his new mistress, showed up in a faded work shirt and threadbare blue jeans. As my mother tells it, she went home without the child support increase she so desperately needed, burned the unused documents, notes, and receipts she had so carefully prepared for her "useless" attorney, and cried herself to sleep in her secondhand suit."

Tags:legal, attorney, court, family

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This paper will take a close look at the process of globalization and the effects it is having on the Indian economy. It will show that the effects to date have been bitter-sweet. On the one hand, the Indian economy is getting some much needed foreign investment, its traditionally pampered industries are being exposed to a healthy degree of competition, and the overly regulated and efficient administration of the country is being forced to revamp and increase its accountability and transparency. On the other hand, poverty inequality is increasing, which is a major blow given the country's already high degrees of abject poverty. It can also be argued that the country's democracy is being tested to the limit.

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This paper provides an overview of Eva "Evita" Peron's life. The author discusses how Eva spent her early years in abject poverty and as a misfit in Argentine society. The author also discusses how she, after a school play, decided to become an actress and trekked to Buenos Aires. While Eva struggled as an actress, her numerous lovers provided her with security and would eventually allow her to meet the Juan Peron, the up-and-coming military command who would eventually become president of Argentina. Eva eventually married Peron, and acting as First Lady, held a considerable amount of power, power which she used to benefit the poor and feminist concerns. While often compassionate, she despised (and was despised by) the upper classes and could be harsh toward dissidents. After her death by uterine cancer in 1952 at age 32, the country went into mourning.

Tags:biography, evita, peron

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This paper explains that author Dominique Lapierre researched this book by living with the people of India and the people who try to help them for three years. The author states that critics have called "The City of Joy" one of the most important books on the culture and sociology of India. The paper points out that the author does not look at the topic through rose-colored glasses; he shows the abject poverty in enormous and memorable detail.

From the Paper
"This is a story of people who are used to hardships and have learned how to deal with them through courage and good humor. Rather than bemoan the loss of everything he had worked so hard to obtain, Prodip Pal revels in the joy of his sons. "What a blessing those sons were" (Lapierre 7)! This is the central conception to the book, and one from which everyone can learn important lessons. These people do not feel sorry for themselves rather they revel in the joys they can find, because they "shared in a communal world and respected its social and religious values, maintaining the ancestral traditions and beliefs" (Lapierre 45). This is why the decrepit slum is called "The City of Joy." It is more than clear they are poor, but they are happy, and it becomes a joy to read about it, even though many of their experiences are quite simply unspeakable."

Tags:india, hardship, courage, poverty, community