Abstract
This paper is a brief description of the creation of both the Panama Canal and Suez Canal, and the historically significant changes in their usage both by the military and private sector transportation systems.
The paper explains that the Panama Canal and the Suez Canal were debuted as international maritime innovations that would completely revolutionize the entire all-water transportation industry; trades routes involving all-water shipline movement were drastically reduced, carriers turns were increased, and cargo were moved faster through the canals in much reduced time. The paper notes that, at first, the Panama Canal was considered the fastest point connecting Asia, North America, and Europe, while the British used the Suez Canal to gain control of her colonies in the Middle East and Far East. The paper concludes that, although the landbridge system now offers greater advantages, the canals brought about a major trade breakthrough, connecting many different parts of the world at the time of their creation.

From the Paper
"The use of these canals, as stated earlier, have been of a significant value over the years. Today, the reconstruction of Panama Canal is scheduled to be completed by 2014 (Rosenberg, 2007). This is an attempt to increase the size of the canal so that bigger containership vessels can travel through the canal. Bigger containship operations have since resulted to use the land-bridge system across North America to transport their container cargo from Europe to the Far East. This system allows containerships to unload their cargo unto a train on the East Coast and then move the cargo across the US to the West Coast, where they are then loaded onto another containership for the next leg of the journey to the Far East."

Tags:transportation, fleet, Navy, intermodal

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In this article, the writer discusses the history, shipping and strategic use of the Panama and Suez Canals.

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"The Panama and Suez Canals though located across the world from each other share a number of features. Both represent major engineering feats that transformed shipping and military travel dramatically. Both represent a case in which new technology and its products were employed by foreign interests to create entities that were then controlled externally and not by the countries in which they were located. Additionally though the mechanisms by means of which the Panama Canal was placed under Panamanian control and the ..."

Tags:Suez Canal, Panama Canal

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The paper speaks about the engineering marvel of the Panama Canal which was the culmination of one of modern history's great negotiating processes. The paper describes how America deliberated with the French and the Columbians to secure the rights to complete the project.

Outline:
Executive Summary
Introduction to the Problem
Identify and Define the Problem
Types of Interest
Alternative Solutions
Common Goals and Objectives
Commitment to Work Together
Building Trust
Conclusion

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"The Americans also had to build trust with the workers who would ultimately dig the canal. Many workers for the French dig had died from the poor conditions, and the Americans needed to avoid a repeat in order to keep work moving. Unfortunately, the project got off to a poor start in 1904, when project leader John Findlay Wallace duplicated many of the French mistakes ("TR's legacy," No date). Conditions were unsanitary, the food supply was terrible, and disease began to spread again, prompting many workers to leave the project. When Wallace was replaced by John Stevens, Stevens' first priorities were to build better facilities for workers, improve sanitation efforts on the project, and to make sure the workers were well fed. These steps built trust with the disenfranchised workers, and historians widely believe that the canal would not have been completed without Stevens' intervention."

Tags:Panama, Canal, engineering, workers

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The paper discusses how the Canal was a tremendous boon to the regional economy, fostering the growth that made New York City the commercial capital of the nation. The paper describes how it played a similarly influential role in the second Great Awakening and also shaped the political landscape for the entire ante bellum period, creating a working alliance between the North and the Midwest against the South.

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"Economically, the Erie Canal proved a remarkable boon to inland trade for the United States. Suddenly, merchants from New York could ship goods into the interior easily and cheaply, and farmers and producers in the interior could get their products to the great port of New York. This economic connection between the North and the Midwest quickly fostered a political connection as this great northern belt became a rising force in national politics, with its growth quickly outstripping the growth of the South, which had north-south transit along various rivers, but was not able to develop an East-West route to rival the Erie Canal during this period..."

Tags:canal, erie, growth

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This paper examines the Suez Canal crisis and President Eisenhower's anger at Great Britain and France. The paper discusses Eisenhower's anger from the point of view of historians and analyzes it in relation to the historical context at the time. The paper mentions the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and how his reaction was influenced by the realities of geopolitics of the time.

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"The Suez Canal Crisis: An Analysis of Eisenhower's Response In order to understand the Suez Canal crisis and President Eisenhower's anger at Great Britain and France, it is necessary to examine the historical context of this event. Historians are in general agreement that Eisenhower's reaction to the Suez Canal crisis was influenced by the realities of geopolitics at the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. Eisenhower reacted angrily to the Suez Canal crisis primarily because his highest foreign policy priority was the containment of communism, but this strategic goal was undermined by the military actions undertaken by Great Britain and France in the Middle East in 1956. "

Tags:suez, canal, crisis

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This paper discusses the Suez Canal, the origin and outcome of crisis, the impact on the status of Nasser in the Arab world and ramifications of crisis regarding relations between Egypt and Israel.

Tags:suez, canal

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This paper depicts the economy of Panama presently providing a background of the Panama Canal and the effect of the American pullout on the economic conditions.

Tags:panama, canal, economy

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This paper explains that the never completed Love Canal became a dump site for chemical wastes from Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corporation, a local company and subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum Corporation. The author relates that, in 1978, twenty five years after the Hooker Chemical Company stopped dumping into the Love Canal, it was suspected that carcinogens were leaching from their containers causing birth defects, miscarriages, breathing problems and burns. The paper states that the Department of Justice, acting as a representative of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), won lawsuits against these companies. The author reports that, in 1980, Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, known as Superfund, which enforced a tax on industries with chemical and petroleum products and made it easier for the Federal Government to respond to hazardous waste exposure.

Table of Contents:
An Introduction to Love Canal
The Love Canal Chemical Incident
The United States vs. Hooker Chemical
Funding for Relief Efforts
Love Canal and the Creation of Superfund
The Road to Recovery and Normalization
Present Day Love Canal

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"Prosecutors requested that the court order an immediate remediation of all four disposal site, the construction of walls to barricade the chemicals that remained, and to install water and air monitoring systems, all to be funded by Hooker Chemical. Complete medical service for each person living in the Love Canal and Hyde Park areas of Niagara Falls was also requested by prosecutors, at the expense of Hooker. This medical program requested was to include all past and present residents and their offspring, and health coverage was proposed for the rest of their lives."

Tags:carcinogens, barricade, endangerment, relocation, cleanup

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This paper explains that the Suez Canal was not built for solely architectural wonder or utility but for the economic wealth that Ferdinand de Lesseps envisioned it was to bring the shareholders of The Suez Canal Company. The paper relates the complex social, economic and political history of the building of the canal and bases the analysis of this narration on Marxist theory. The paper underscores that the corvees, with the aid of the British, were able to delay the entire timeline of the building Canal thereby affecting the Egyptian society economically, just as Marxist theory predicts.

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"To pay for the canal, Egypt took shares from the company and agreed the shares would not be entitled to a dividend in 1894. Although England was opposed to the canal in the beginning, they were the first country to profit from the use of the canal. After the opening of the canal in 1869, two-thirds of the tonnage passing through was British. However, while England was making money, Egypt was losing money.
"After this transaction England had acquired 44% of the Company, causing it to become a minority shareholder. This was a fantastic economic move on the part of England."

Tags:wealth control, working class, revolt british

Abstract
The Yellow Fever as it is known hampered the completion of the Panama Canal. This paper explores the many problems caused by the yellow fever in the building of the Panama Canal. .