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The Caribbean Sea: The Depth of a Region, 2003.
An overview of the history and geography of the Caribbean Sea.
1,342 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper ventures into the Caribbean Sea through the eyes of a tourist traveling to the region for the first time and seeing many wonderful revelations. It discusses the history of the Caribbean Sea, including both the body of water and the region, from its discovery by Columbus in 1492 to its use by the U.S. Navy. It looks at how it is the lifeline of an entire region, helping many nations subsist as a food, travel, and trade source, and how its effect on the world has been immense.
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"But while tourists bring money and jobs to the region, they are also destroying the Caribbean?s most valuable asset. In one study, tourists were found to use over three times as much water as local inhabitants of the islands. Sleeping in lush hotels, tourists demand that linens and towels be washed every day using harmful soaps and chemicals that will be later dumped into the sea. The coral reefs in the Bahamas, for example, are being killed by the pollution drifting atop the water which blocks necessary sunlight. Tourists also often wish to take home the reefs and end up picking away the most beautiful of the water?s possessions for sale or souvenir (Young Reporters)."
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The Politics of Language in the Caribbean Region, 2008.
This paper looks at the American influence in the Caribbean region and discusses the politics of language.
2,249 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 69.95
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In this article the writer discusses American patterns of shaping public support for policies that are often little understood in their foreign contexts. The writer looks at developments in the Caribbean region influenced by U.S. policies upon which most economies and governments depend. The writer maintains that the politics of language in the Caribbean reflect marketing features familiar to most North Americans and that the politics of language also involve a strong American role in shaping all matters of economic planning and development and diplomatic relations. The writer concludes that most Caribbean countries have dual economies of growing gaps and no solution in sight for enlarging under-classes apart from the symbols of the stability orientation in more enforcement development and security, more incarceration or other punishment, all factors manipulated in different ways by American interests.
Outline:
Introduction
Selling to the Caribbean
The Caribbean as Sold
The Political Language of Stability
The Politics of Language and Caribbean Criminality
Discussion
Conclusion
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"There is a growing media role in all processes of tourism in the 21st century led by the imperative of selling a particular rendition of The Caribbean as tropical paradise that is in competition with various other paradises of the kind that are in development. Air distances between North America and the Caribbean no longer guarantee simple equations of choosing Nevis over Florida or Antigua over Arizona for air-miles and other incentives make South America, the Mediterranean and Southeast Asia more accessible. Obviously, the way in which Caribbean countries are marketed to North Americans and Europeans obscures often severe socioeconomic troubles borne by the poorest classes. Tourism depends on an impression of local happiness and especially indications of the stability that visitors expect when buying what is often a vacation package. Consumers ask about present crime levels in Jamaica in particular aware that the economic slump of the later 1990s has escalated violent drug-related crime."
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The Caribbean Small States, 2002.
A discussion of whether regional integration is essential to the survival of the Caribbean small states for the 21st century.
23,101 words (approx. 92.4 pages), 71 sources, MLA, $ 249.95
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This paper examines the problems of globalization and the implications of globalization for the small Caribbean states. It looks at how information technology and the liberalization of markets are expected to accelerate in the twenty-first century and how the small states of the Caribbean must respond effectively to these changes and challenges if they are to participate productively in the emerging global economy.
Outline
Introduction/Preface
Introduction to the Study
21st Century Challenges
Globalization
Deficits of Small Caribbean States
Regional Integration As A Solution
Introduction Endnotes
Chapter I ? Small States and Regional Integration
in the Caribbean
Introduction
Defining Small States
Defining Small Caribbean States
Theories of Integration
Integration in the Caribbean
Chapter Summary and Conclusion
Chapter Endnotes
II ? Challenges in the Global Environment for Small Caribbean States
Introduction
Evolving Global Environment and Implications For CARICOM
Treaties and Protocols Affecting Small Caribbean States
WTO and Small Caribbean States
CBI, CARIBCAN, FTAA, NAFTA, and Small Caribbean States
Chapter Summary and Conclusion
Chapter Endnotes
III ? Problems And Opportunities For
Small Caribbean States
Introduction
Internal Deficits in Small Caribbean States
Opportunities for Small Caribbean States
Chapter Summary and Conclusion
Chapter Endnotes
IV ? Prospects for the Future for Small Caribbean States
Introduction
Economic and Political Outlook for Small Caribbean States
The Drug Trade Issue
International Aid and Small
Caribbean States
Chapter Summary and Conclusion
Chapter Endnotes
V ? Regional Integration as an Imperative For Small Caribbean States
Introduction
Regional Integration As An Imperative
Pitfalls of Integration
Caribbean and Latin American Generally
Legacy of Colonialism
Study Conclusion
Chapter Endnotes
Bibliography
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"In 1980, a report to the Caribbean Common Market Council of Ministers by a "Group of Caribbean Experts," concluded that while CARICOM had achieved some meaningful levels of integration, the level of integration attained was insufficient to serve as a basis for effective participation in the global economy. The most serious breaches involved failures to observe trading rules; however, many other challenges were not addressed by the organization. By 1992, however, the West Indian Commission concluded that the number of functioning regional organizations in the CARICOM family numbered an "impressive" 200. The Commission concluded also, however, that the test will be "whether or not this Community of Member States has matured to a degree where it can accept temporary member difficulty, and even pain, without drawing back, in order to move towards a Community of closer union for the larger and longer-term benefit.""
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Relationships in the Caribbean, 2002.
A discussion of the disappearance of the caste system and the establishment of peaceful relations between Muslims and Hindus in the Caribbean region.
3,400 words (approx. 13.6 pages), 16 sources, $ 124.95
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This essay in Caribbean thought is in two parts. The first part is a critical discussion of the "disappearance" of the caste system and the peaceful relations between Muslim and Hindu in Caribbean contexts. The second part of this paper is a critical analysis of the "invisibility" of Indian and south Asian identity in Caribbean theory and discourse
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Weighing the Options: Regional Integration, 2002.
An analysis of free trade and regional integration in Latin American and Caribbean Countries.
2,775 words (approx. 11.1 pages), 12 sources, $ 102.95
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This paper will evaluate the role of free trade on the possibility of regional integration. It is the conclusion of the author that a wide-ranging free trade agreement would, in fact, pose serous dangers and may, in fact, work against the ideal of regional integration.
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Drug Trafficking in the Caribbean, 2001.
The paper discusses the drug problems of the people of the Caribbean and the drug trafficking that goes on there. It also deals with the dangers that drug trafficking causes to other countries and their people.
3,650 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 101.95
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This paper is about the drug trafficking problems of the Caribbean. The author examines the Caribbean region as a long standing area where illegal substances have been grown and sold. The people are poverty stricken and sell drugs as a means to make money. The author looks into the Caribbean?s climate and location which make it an ideal place to grow and sell drugs. The people are able to transport drugs to other countries through the use of planes, boats, etc. The paper goes on to discuss how this poses as a threat to all countries because it makes drugs available which leads to drug problems for their citizens.
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"The Caribbean is known for its agriculturally equipped weather conditions, which makes for most islands to be very fertile. Many farmers in the Caribbean grow drugs as part of their produce to earn more money. They can then sell the illegal substances to islanders, tourists, and then ship the rest off to be sold to other countries? citizens. This poses as a threat to the health of all people who are able to buy drugs as a result of drug trafficking in the Caribbean. It also poses a threat to governments because they have to use their funding on programs to educate citizens about the dangers of drugs as well as rehabilitate those citizens that are addicted to drugs and suffer from drug abuse."
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Caribbean Culture and Cultural Imperialism, 2007.
A discussion on whether the Caribbean society is too receptive and diverse for its own good.
1,633 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper examines the Caribbean culture and at how its dynamic polyglot, diverse nature - and its ability, and even willingness, to accommodate different cultures and ethno-social traditions - has actually made it vulnerable on a number of profound levels. It explains that the Caribbean nations have shown a marked inability to throw off the cultural, linguistic and educational encrustations of the European nations which took over the region generations ago and which re-shaped their new fiefdoms in ways that effectively did away with pre-European values, codes, religions and dialects. The paper also looks at how many Caribbean young people attend English or French schools and prepare themselves for entry into a "global village" that is controlled by the very ethno-racial groups which turned their own lands "upside-down" in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. In essence, the paper shows that by looking at the fragmented nature of the Caribbean world and by looking at the impress of foreign language upon its peoples and formal structures, a region is revealed that has lost much of its ability to marshal its forces against external imperialistic forces. The writer believes that the Caribbean must start doing a better job of privileging its indigenous traditions and dialects or it will finally, ineradicably, lose them forever.
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"Many observers are of the view that the Caribbean is a melting pot; that it is a place wherein European and non-European types "creolize" and thereby shed their different historical-national identities in favor of one that is "West Indian" in nature. This argument, however, has been vigorously challenged by others who assert that the Caribbean is really a collection of different regions which have their own unique, distinctive features. Simply put, while there may be regional similarities vis-a-vis food, music, dance, dress and a host of other elements, there are many more (or at least as many more) differences as there are similarities (Allahar, p.1-2). Simply put, Allahar appears to be to arguing two things: firstly, West Indian/Caribbean is diverse; secondly, despite this diversity, the region has certain societal features that distinguish it from other regions and which bind together its disparate elements."
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Growth of Regionalism, 2005.
Provides an analytical account of the new wave of regionalism in the world since the 1990s, presenting and critiquing the view that regionalism is a reaction to the failures of the WTO.
1,950 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 14 sources, APA, $ 62.95
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Many prominent scholars, and even the World Trade Organization (WTO), have attributed the wave of regionalism during the past decade to developments in the WTO, such as the slow, difficult, or failed negotiation process. This paper shows that frustration with the WTO negotiation process is not the principal explanation for the expansion of regional integration (RTA) in the past fifteen years. Although several developments in the WTO have contributed to the expansion of regional integration (RTA), there are other accounts that are relatively important, such as systemic, societal, and ideational that have to be considered. First, the paper reviews the account centered on the frustrations with the WTO negotiation process and brings it under the umbrella of broader developments in the WTO, which have encouraged RTAs. Second, the paper demonstrates that there is a political economy process behind the formation of RTA in which state relations, domestic interest groups, and ideas all play important roles. Third, the paper discusses the effects of changing international political conditions on the expansion of regional integration. Prior to the concluding remarks, the paper mentions the domino theory in order to move beyond the distinctions that give primacy to one account of RTA. Finally, the paper provides concluding remarks.
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"Central to the societal-state explanation is the ideational account of RTA expansion. This relates to the rethinking of neo-liberalism underway by the end of 1990s, which is crystallizing into the emergence of a new mode of market governance. A key element revolves around the notion of public power and its deployment within the confines of a broadly neo-liberal model. Emphasis has squarely fallen on the state in governing markets in order to make the capitalist structure more legitimate and sustainable. This signifies a movement towards market making role of the state, in particular in the Southern Cone and other developing countries."
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Globalism vs. Regionalism, 2004.
A study of the issue of globalism versus regionalism in the U.S. involvement in Iraq.
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 36.95
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This paper examines globalism vs. regionalism as it pertains to U.S. foreign policy in Iraq. It defines globalism as a policy that looks at the world as a whole and seeks global solutions to regional problems. It explains that regionalism looks at certain regions of the world as homogeneous units with similar cultures and beliefs. In the regionalist philosophy, the nations within these regions will naturally band together and form alliances, and regional bodies will solve problems within the region.
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"In recent years, globalism has come to have a great focus on terrorism and terrorists. It focuses on the worldwide existence of terrorists and looks for global solutions to the terrorist issue. In vowing to keep the world safe from terrorism, the United States has expressed a very globalist philosophy. Efforts to exterminate terrorism have expanded worldwide, and most countries that are involved in the United Nations now have ongoing anti-terrorism efforts. Further, these countries are cooperating with other nations in order to apprehend and detain suspected terrorists. Those convicted of terrorism now face the very real possibility of being tried in an international court of law. Terrorism and its threat have brought the nations of the world together as never before."
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Tourism in the Caribbean, 2004.
An in-depth research paper on ways to sustain the uniqueness of the Caribbean Islands within the tourist industry.
14,500 words (approx. 58.0 pages), 81 sources, APA, $ 249.95
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With the tourism industry becoming more consolidated and attracting bigger players, sustaining the economy of the local region is important. Cruise lines, air travel charters, and hotels, resorts, and spas are becoming part of the landscape of the Caribbean islands. The flush economy of the 1990s in the more industrialized nations and the increase in disposable income among the middle class population has spawned a market for vacations and holidays in the Caribbean. This paper shows, however, that the industry also has the potential to seriously impact the environment of the region. Sustainable tourism development is therefore critical and necessary. Preserving the natural beauty, culture, and social structure of this region is necessary if this industry is to grow and prosper in the near and distant future. In order to understand the impact that different factors have on the profitability and marketability of these islands to the vacationer comprehensively, the paper shows that research has to be conducted to identify the salient factors that have attracted the present clientele. Cultures, purchasing power, beliefs and customs, the impact of science and technology, homogeneity of population, and addressing the needs of local population are but some of the issues that have to be evaluated. This research, therefore, identifies ways by which their uniqueness can be preserved and marketed for a long time to come. The paper includes a map of the region.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: The Sustainable Travel and Tourism Industry
Chapter Three: Factors Need to Support Sustainable Development
Chapter Four: Conclusion and Recommendations
Bibliography
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"Often, the benefits of spending all the money on the infrastructure needed to support ?big? tourism and commercial international tour operators are outweighed by the negative impact on the local populations. As the big businesses have the negotiating power, the wages and salaries often paid to the workers in the tourism industry are not adequate. Sustainable development can encourage native populations to get more involved in the process, thereby offering them sufficient incentive and payback to get involved with the different sustainable programs being introduced."
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The Tale-Telling Tradition of Women in Caribbean Literature, 2002.
This literature essay compares two stories written by Caribbean women authors, and discusses these in relation to women's oral histories and traditions in Caribbean cultural contexts
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This literature essay compares two stories written by Caribbean women authors, and discusses these in relation to women's oral histories and traditions in Caribbean cultural contexts. Referring to the post-colonial and feminist theory, the author of this paper analyzes women's writing as a reflection of traditions with story-telling, women's "voice," and histories that are particular to women and Caribbean culture.
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The Economy of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2004.
An analysis of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
2,591 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 78.95
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This paper discusses the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), which has been the main source of information and analysis of that area. A subsidiary organization of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, it was founded for the purposes of contributing to the economic development of Latin America and to reinforce economic relationships among the other nations of the world. The paper explains that the organization is guided by rules that govern its purpose. The paper outlines and examines these mandates: reinforcing economic relationships among the member countries and with the other nations of the world; promoting economic and social development; gathering information by organizing, interpreting, and distributing information about the region; providing advice to governments; promoting and executing cooperation for member country developments; organizing meetings, workshops, and conferences; and communicating global concerns to the region and regional concerns globally.
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"Social development was later included among ECLAC's primary objectives. Over the past fifty years, ECLAC has primarily provided research and analytical data on the social and economic state of Caribbean and Latin American countries. ECLAC's research covers a huge range of issues. They have conducted research on topics from fishing to taxation. The ECLAC's commander-in-chief is the Secretary General, and consists of many different divisions, units, and offices for all types of information, research, and services."
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Caribbean Cultural Diversity, 2007.
A discussion of the diverse Caribbean society and the impact of globalization.
1,214 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 41.95
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This paper examines creolization, globalization, and cultural imperialism in Caribbean society. It explains that each country in the Caribbean has such diversity in its ethnic, religious, social, and national practices that it can be considered as a separate country and that people in the Caribbean cannot even agree on what it would mean to be patriotic. The paper notes that the basic problem is that, instead of thinking of culture, one has to consider the Caribbean in terms of numerous subcultures and that this means that there is no possibility for a united and integrated community, and no way that the Caribbean can relate as a whole to the global community. The paper also highlights the fact that whereas colonialism imposed division on the Caribbean, the exact opposite problem is imminent at the present time because of globalization. In conclusion, the paper shows that the Caribbean is made up of numerous subcultures that are actually small cultures which are relatively isolated from one another, and while there are similarities between those subcultures they are marked by too many differences to ever be brought together in unity. Whereas the process of creolization is effective for mixing the subcultures into a general form, globalization has the potential to completely destroy those subcultures.
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"Caribbean intellectuals are quite aware of the forces of globalization and of the need to situate their communities on the world scale. According to Gyssels (2001, p. 1), these intellectuals "have been working out ideals of trans-nationalism and multiculturalism, and have studied the dialectic connection between the colonies and the ex-colonies". Other attempt are being made in the Caribbean to protect, promote and preserve the elements of the cultural heritage such as the Carnival in Trinidad (Scher, 2002). Critical reflection on creolization is basic to the quest for identity because authentic cultures are in danger of being lost through the process of globalization and in great part because of the technological superiority of Western countries."
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U.S. Policy In the Asia-Pacific Region, 1999.
Examines U.S. interests in the region and the current American policy and proposes improved regional strategy. Discusses economics, military, diplomacy, environment, politics, global issues, objectives, trade and weapons of mass destruction.
4,725 words (approx. 18.9 pages), 10 sources, $ 135.95
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Examines U.S. interests in the region and the current American policy and proposes improved regional strategy.
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"United States Strategic Appraisal for Asia-Pacific
This paper will formulate a regional strategic appraisal for the United States in the Asia-Pacific region. The first part of the paper will exam the U.S. interests in this region, briefly describing the vital and important interests which must drive U.S. regional strategy. The second part of the paper will discuss current U.S. policy in the Asia-Pacific as it relates to the stated interests. The third part of the paper will propose a regional strategy designed to best further these interests.
U.S. Interests in the Asia-Pacific Region
Vital Interests
There are three vital United States interests in the Asia-Pacific region: (1) open access to economic markets; (2) a region free from domination by a single power or power bloc; and (3) ..."
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The Dead Sea Scrolls, 2002.
Examines the history of the discovery and current issues surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls.
2,162 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 67.95
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What started out as an exploration of some ancient scrolls discovered in the Dead Sea region has become a career for some people, a controversy regarding control of the material and a matter leading to interpretation and reinterpretation of central issues in Christianity. The paper examines the story of the Dead Sea Scrolls, describes the controversies and sets forth current findings.
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"One of the best overviews of the Qumran project is provided by Hershel Shanks (1998). Shanks was part of the basic editorial team, involved with the archeological excavations, and the initial work on the scrolls. He was part of the group which decided, in the 1990s, to open up the Qumran scrolls to general access. He discussed the political machinations of the group, as well as the relationship of the scrolls to numerous. For example, one issue is the nature of the Copper Scroll and whether that is essentially a fantasy or a real treasure map."
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