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The 1893 World?s Fair, 2002.
A descriptive account of the events of the 1893 World?s Fair.
1,645 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses the 1893 World?s Fair and examines its importance in the historical context. It discusses how the fair was an opportunity for investors to show off their wares, which were characteristic of the time period known as the Gilded Age. The writer describes the social and cultural developments of the time, which were represented at the fair.
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"Also entitled The World?s Columbian Exposition, the 1893 World?s Fair held in Chicago, Illinois was a spectacular event that provided entertainment, commercial opportunity, and cultural enlightenment for millions of visitors. This huge event gave considerable insight into the state that America was in at the end of the ?Gilded Age.? America saw a great deal of turmoil in the early 1890s, and the fair represented an outlet for the representation of the conflicting ideas and interests in the forefront of American life. The early 1890s marked an age of accelerated fragmentation and confusion among the American population, due to widespread searching for personal and national identity. This was a time of transition. America was being transformed by the industrial and electrical revolutions, which replaced agriculture as the central focus of the American way of life. The end of the ?Gilded Age? also saw a shift in social control from the hands of the people and the government to the hands of big business. Americans were experiencing a gamut of emotions, ranging from confusion and a sense of being overwhelmed, to feelings of excitation and elation. The 1893 World?s Fair in Chicago provided a means of exploring the changes being experienced in America with an underlying appreciation of the virtues of American society."
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Chicago World Fair, 2005.
This paper examines the social, economic and political effects of the Chicago World Fair of 1893.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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The paper discusses how analyzing the social, economic and political effects of the Chicago World Fair of 1893 reveals the shocking hypocrisy that pervaded American society in the late nineteenth-century. In Gilded Age America, the wealthy and powerful were idealized and worshipped as social, economic and political icons, despite the fact that many of them were ruthless, corrupt, egomaniacs who considered themselves above the law. The paper discusses how the Chicago World Fair was a national monument to hypocrisy, for it was a microcosm of America itself in this era of greed and psychological self-delusion.
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World?s Fairs, 2002.
This paper defines and gives the historical background of the World's Fair.
1,738 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 56.95
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Initially the concept of holding national exhibitions was to introduce products for the purpose of stimulating industrial development. The writer looks at the popularity of these events and they way in which they brought people from around the world together to display new and innovative ideas and products.
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"The Chicago World?s Fair was configured as a gardened layout containing numerous separate buildings, spread over 686 acres. They were impressively high, having a uniform cornice height of 60 feet, and were all represented with plaster palace fronts and the ?White City? led to a resurgent interest in classical architecture throughout the country. The visitor found the first Ferris Wheel in a teeming amusement park at the center of the fair , and electricity was introduced to most Americans for the first time. Gross outlays amounted to $28,340,700, of which $18,678,000 was spent on grounds and buildings. More than 21,400,000 visitors attended the exposition and the cash balance at closing was $446,832, making it the first U.S. international exposition to turn a profit."
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Is Fair Trade Really Fair?, 2002.
An examination of the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the proposed (Free Trade Area of the Americas) FTAA on Mexico.
4,644 words (approx. 18.6 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 120.95
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This paper demonstrates that in order to improve free trade agreements and ensure that they include adequate protection for worker?s rights, food security and environmental regulation, the FTAA must be based on a new model, rather than on the failed model of NAFTA. It shows that unless this is done, the only people to benefit from these agreements will be the rich and powerful; and that the workers and traders of the poorer countries will continue to be exploited.
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"Free trade policies such as North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) are widening the gap between the rich and poor in a number of ways. This is particularly true in Mexico; a country that has always been concerned with the protection issues associated with major trading countries in the world, tight controls, high tariffs and other restrictive policies. These restrictions have been revoked however in response to the demands to promote export-oriented production, eliminate obstacles to imports, and loosen corporate controls over national domains and enterprises. The result has been a blatantly inequitable distribution of wealth and power both within Mexico and between Mexico and other countries. The track record of NAFTA has raised concerns that this inequity will only be augmented by any such agreement."
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From Old World China to the New World America, 2004.
This paper reviews three novels, based on the generational transition from China to America: Amy Tan?s ?Joy Luck Club? and ?The Bonesetter?s Daughter? and Maxine Kingston?s ?The Woman Warrior".
835 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper explains that Amy Tan and Maxine Kingston?s central themes reflect the inherent difficulties faced by the foreigners in a different land. The author points out that, in ?Joy Luck Club?, Amy Tan employs the stories of four Chinese women and their highly Americanized daughters, bred and born in America. The paper states that Maxine Kingston reveals a great deal about the Chinese convictions pertaining to their culture and traditions, which have many superstitious beliefs in her book, ?The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts?.
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"However, the basic problem that thoroughly reflects the uneven, unbalanced and highly disturbing transformation from the old world to the new world is that of the lack of comprehension and interest of the young girls that belonged to these four Chinese women. Born and brought up in America, Jing-Mei, Lena, Rose, and Waverly all exhibited little emotional attachment to the culture they never experienced living in a foreign land and consequently showed clandestine aversion towards their own native cultural values. The four Chinese women who were also good friends, wanted comforts, luxuries and all the positive American values for their Chinese American daughters but also desperately wanted to inculcate a strong sense of discipline arising out of the Chinese traditions and cultural values into their daughters."
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Worlds Within Worlds, 2002.
Examines the hidden lives of women in works by feminist writers de Beauvoir, Wollstonecraft and Woolf.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper will compare and contrast the one theme that binds all these three authors which is the dual role of women in society. The first role being that of the public woman (performing the duties that societies expect them to play) and the second is the private woman (the woman who realizes that what they desire does not always blend well with what society expects from them).
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'The Harper Collins World Reader - The Modern World', 2002.
A critical analysis of 'The Harper Collins World Reader - The Modern World'.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, $ 44.95
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A paper that answers specific textual questions from the stories within the 'The Harper Collins World Reader -- The Modern World' written by Mary Ann Caws and Christopher Rendergast in a concise and clear manner.
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The Causes of World War I and World War II, 2002.
A comparative analysis of the origins of the two World Wars.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper identifies the major causes of World War I and World War II. The causes of both wars lay in the political and military rivalries and consequent alliance building among major European powers. However, the rise of fascism and the Great Depression put World War II in different contexts. The scale of destruction is greater in World War II, but major changes in Western ideas emerged from the destruction of World War I.
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World Food Supply Verses World Population, 2002.
A look at the growing population and what this means for world food supply.
2,010 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 3 sources, $ 63.95
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This paper analyzes the food supply available in the world and compares it to the rapidly growing world population. The author examines world food distribution and how it effects world hunger arguing that distribution is unequal. Includes arguments by various critics.
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"The increase in food production over the past 200 years has been greater than the increase in population. So we ask, Why do nearly twelve million children per year die of hunger? That number is more than the number of people who died each year in World War II, and these are children, not soldiers, we are talking about. (Lappe 2). It has been proven that there is enough food in the world for everybody to be sufficiently healthy. The problem is that this food has not been distributed equally among countries. With the world?s population expected to grow fifty percent by the year 2050 to 9.37 billion, What are the odds we can feed everybody then when we can?t even do it now? This is a question that has been studied, pondered, and written about extensively for years. Many people have different thoughts and opinions about it. Something definitely will have to be done in the future. The question is what."
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The Developing World versus the Developed World, 2008.
This paper discusses the power held by the developed nations over the developing world.
861 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 30.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the G7 nations of Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, and the United States remain some of the most powerful economic forces in the world today, yet they seem unable to exert any real pressure upon China according to Reuters reporter Louise Egan. Their conflict with China over China's currency value exemplifies the greater power held by developing nations in the current world economy. The writer points out that despite increasing pressure from the G7 nations to ensure that China's currency more accurately reflect its real value, China seems unlikely to allow its currency rise according to G7 demands.
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"Once upon a time when the U.S. caught an 'economic cold,' the rest of the world, particularly the G24 nations would catch the flu. Now that has changed. Furthermore, of the powerful, developed nations, the EU block countries rather than America and Japan exercise more dominance and have more confidence in the wake of difficulties when negotiating with the developing world.
"The IMF has been somewhat caught in the middle of this war between the G7 and G24 war for dominance. Because it has an inclusive membership policy for all nations, it strives to be accommodating rather than polarizing, especially after it was criticized for being unduly harsh to developing nations when they were suffering their own financial difficulties. "
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The Post World War I World Economy & The Plunge Into The Great Depression, 1987.
Reviews the weakness of the post-WWI British economy & the hesitancy of U.S. policymakers of the era as the primary causes of the Great Depression.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 31.95
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" With the end of World War I, international efforts were begun to restore the workings of the international economy and the gold standard. But the restoration of the gold standard also meant the re-establishment of the old political order. Britain, however, lacked the economic power to fulfill the role she had played in the prewar system and the United States, her major economic rival after the defeat of Germany, was not prepared to fill the vacuum. This analysis will maintain that Britain's economic weakness and the inability of the United States to use its economic power to bolster the international economy were key sources of the structural weakness of the interwar gold standard. This general factor, combined with the financial complications of (...)"
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Imaginary Worlds in C.S. Lewis' Stories, 2005.
A look at how author C.S. Lewis drew analogies between the imaginary world and the real world in his stories.
1,072 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper discusses and analyzes stories by C.S. Lewis and looks at how they challenge the reader to make sense of the secondary worlds and to imagine themselves in the place of the heroes and heroines who populate those worlds. The paper explains that, in his stories, Lewis supplies the imagination with information that the reader uses to distinguish what is true in the primary world from what is not in the secondary world.
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"In Prince Caspian, Lewis uses the metaphor of faith as seeing and the mystery that faith in the primary world is able to apprehend. The characters, Prince Caspian and Lucy Pevensie stand out as characters whose faith in the figure of Aslan is severely tested. Each rises courageously to the occasion and as a result serves all of Narnia. Lewis depicts the final fulfillment of faith and courage in the seventh concluding book of the Narnia series, The Last Battle. In this book, wickedness conspires against the primary world values of goodness and wins the struggle, and all of the heroes and heroines of Narnia end up on the other side of death in a better world. They have passed beyond the "Shadow-lands" where it is always "the morning" (The Last Battle 228)."
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New World Order, 2002.
A look at the world's attempt to make a new world order.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper discusses the new world order, i.e. the steady efforts by the nations of the world to forge a world system that can secure for humanity the possibility of peace, justice and prosperity.
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Poverty and the World Bank, 2002.
A paper which studies the problem of poverty in the world and questions the World Bank's policies to educate the poor.
2,995 words (approx. 12.0 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 88.95
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This paper examines the efficacy of the World Bank?s educational policies as perceived through various literature that has been devoted to the subject recently. It determines whether the World Bank is truly addressing the root of the problem of poverty by investing so many millions of dollars yearly on educating the poor. This paper utilizes, primarily, two articles that deal specifically with the efficacy of the World Bank?s education programs: ?The Impact of Education on Economic Growth? by Francisco Rivera-Batiz and ?The World Bank?s Mission Creep? by Jessica Einborn. In addition, the paper uses several New York Times articles that question the World Bank?s role in alleviating poverty.
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"The result was apparent in India during the 1970s and early 1980s. India spent a large part of its government and private resources on educating its work force. The result was perhaps the most technologically literate and advanced workforce in the world -- at least among India?s middle-classes and upper-middle classes. But a huge number of these skilled laborers like doctors and engineers simply left the country en masse to America, Britain, the Middle East and Canada. India called the phenomenon the ?Brain Drain,? but indeed, it drained India?s spirit as well."
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"A World Lit only by Fire", 2002.
A review of William Manchester's Medieval world in a "A World Lit only by Fire" and a discussion of the historical events of the year 1500.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper describes the Medieval world that William Manchester reveals in his book, then describes the shattering that this world underwent after the year 1500 due to the brilliance and daring of great individuals such as Savonarola, Copernicus, Da Vinci, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, and Luther.
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