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Commercialism and Idealism in Post-War American Writing, 2004.
A examination of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Saul Bellow's "Seize the Day" in the context of post-war capitalism and the myth of the American Dream,
2,915 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 86.95
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This paper examines the languishing of the American Dream during the post-war era, as rampant capitalism engendered an unequal mercantile system at odds with these earlier ideals. It looks at how Arthur Miller's quintessential salesman, Willy Loman and Saul Bellow's Tommy Wilhelm epitomize the disillusionment felt by many Americans as the rise of commercialism left many hard-working men struggling to survive and to come to grips with the emerging paradigm. Pointed quotations from formative Americans such as Thomas Jefferson and Henry Ford are juxtaposed with excerpts from the literature to provide a rich and multifaceted context for the analysis.
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"Arthur Miller's "quintessential American play," Death of a Salesman, deals directly with the conflict between romanticized notions of success and realities of economic marginality in the 1950s. Although the play was composed during a period of relative national prosperity, Miller's own experiences of financial hardship during the Great Depression still resonated strongly, and he infused his drama with skepticism toward the lofty ideals of the American Dream. "There is a feeling at the back of the brain," explained Miller, "that the whole thing can sink at a moment's notice." This sense of doubt appears most recognizably in the character of Willy Loman, a sixty-three year old salesman whose mediocre career contrasts sharply with his idealistic expectations."
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Post-Modernism, Post-War Critical Theory and Marxism, 2003.
A comparative analysis of post-modernist theories with post-war critical theory.
3,148 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 91.95
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This paper embarks on an examination of the work of post-war critical theorists Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse who capture the dominant themes of post-war Critical Theory well. It proceeds to show how many parallels are evident between post-war Critical Theory and the more recently formulated postmodernist theories. An examination of postmodernist theories then ensues, taking as exemplars the work of Baudrillard, Jameson and Harvey. It concludes by arguing that postmodernist theories do indeed revisit the critique of modern culture, which post-war Critical Theory began and they do so without the political commitment to Marxism. An explanation for this follows, discussing the events which ?shattered a whole generation of French intellectual?s beliefs in the moral supremacy of Marxism? and sheds light on the climate which ultimately paved way for the emergence of postmodernism.
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"Advertising encourages individuals to view themselves primarily as consumers, and under the guise of entertainment, audiences are manipulated into accepting and conforming to existing society. Kellner captures this sentiment well claiming ?advertising progressively fuses in style and technique with the entertainment of the culture industry, which in turn can be read as a series of advertisements for existing society and the established way of life? (1989:33). The culture industry is designed to discourage individuals from challenging the given order, to think critically and indeed, think for themselves. ?The need, which might resist control, has already been suppressed by the control of individual consciousness? (1995: 121). Adorno and Horkheimer show how the products of the culture industry are similar to those produced in a factory, sharing their belief that ?under monopoly all mass culture is identical?. (1995: 121)."
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The Need for Stability and Post- War America, 2002.
Examination of the relationship between the prosperity of Post-War America and the changing social structure of Post-War America.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper examines the relationship between the post- war prosperity, the development of the suburbs, and the perceived need for conformity in the United States. These factors, while apparently extremely different in appearance, are all connected through the changing social structure of America. The main cause of this change is best explored as that of a need for stability and the new finances that allowed the new American middle class to chase after that stability.
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Security Post Cold War, 2004.
This paper examines the transnational security environment during the present post-Cold War era.
1,430 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper explains that the post-Cold War age, which resulted in a decline of the bipolar system, has created a very complex political struggle with a new security duality: On one side, (1) a uni-polar system, with the United States acting as a single hegemonic power, combined with a multi-polar system, emphasizing multinational cooperation and globalism, versus the other side, (2) nation-states, which are splintering into terrorist societies. The author points out that, while the causes of conflicts during the Cold War were ideological and territorial issues, post-Cold War conflicts are caused by much more eminent and diversified factors such as ethnicity, religion, governance and poverty. The paper relates that the intensity of religious fanaticism, which founded and flamed the conflicts between the Western and Arab worlds for thousands of years, assures that terrorism will continue to challenge world security because neither side will back down in the wake of new cultural and social ideals.
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"Presently, nations are becoming ever more intrinsically connected, affecting economies, politicalization, social issues, and citizenry. Today's interdependence is the intertwining of nations in a globalized world. Economically speaking, countries are not as self-reliant as they once were in terms of markets, commodities and exchange rates. Investments are being made by corporate American all over the world in terms of increasing profits and opening markets. General self-rule and flexibility is lost by individual states as we move towards a global economy and, "at a minimum will raise serious questions about the meaning of internal and external sovereignty.""
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Post Cold War Stability, 2002.
An analysis of scholarly theories about post Cold War.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 62.95
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This seven-page undergraduate paper examines the stability of the post Cold War international system. The author discusses what if anything is fundamentally distinctive about the post Cold War system and analyzes how these "new" characteristics make the system less stable.
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Doing Business in Post-War Iraq, 2003.
An overview of issues the confronting international businesses operating in post-war Iraq.
6,900 words (approx. 27.6 pages), 21 sources, APA, $ 135.95
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This paper provides an overview of the various political and economic risk issues confronting international businesses operating in post-war Iraq. The paper examines a plan for building a Web design company in the UAE, which would do business in the Middle East and post-war Iraq. The paper uses this company as a case study, exploring what factors the company should consider and aspects of international marketing.
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"Today's business world stretches well beyond national borders. Multinational and global companies have been existence for hundreds of years, but on a limited basis until the twentieth century. During the twentieth..."
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Japanese Post-World War II Economic Development, 2002.
A look at the cultural advantages of Japan's post-war economic miracle.
3,650 words (approx. 14.6 pages), 16 sources, $ 133.95
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This paper argues that some elements of pre-World War II Japanese culture proved to be advantages to the processes of economic reconstruction as they took hold in the first decades after 1945. If the Japanese recovery is looked at in terms of class and economy only, the Japanese defeat in World War II signaled a complete break from the imperial ethos, which had dominated national culture and contributed to practically every aspect of Japanese cultural and economic life. When Japanese post-war economic development is explored in ways which include cultural advantages, however, the so-called "miracle" of reconstruction begins to seem somewhat more predictable.
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The Post-Cold War World, 2006.
A critical review of three readings dealing with building peace in a post-Cold War world.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper presents a critical review and response to three readings. The readings include Boutros Ghali's "An Agenda for Peace: Preventive Diplomacy, Peacemaking and Peacekeeping", Michael Small's "Peacebuilding in Post-conflict Societies" and Carrie Manning's "Local Level Challenges to Post-Conflict Peacebuilding". All three address the topic of peacebuilding in the post-Cold War world.
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"In An Agenda for Peace, Ghali discusses the purpose of the United Nations, as well as gives an analysis and recommendations on ways the UN can strengthen their means for preventative diplomacy, including peacemaking and peacekeeping. These two fundamental components of preventative diplomacy are quite different, despite both centering on peace. With peacemaking, actions are used to end hostilities. However, peacekeeping involves not only making peace, but maintaining it as well, once it is achieved. With the end of the Cold War, there came the opportunity for globalized peace on a scale never before known, and the UN has been charged with the task of acquiring and maintaining this international peace and security."
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Post Cold War, 2005.
A look at the way that the United States developed post the Cold War into the world's superpower.
2,487 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 75.95
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This paper examines various theories into how and why the United States developed so quickly into being the world's only real superpower following the Cold War. It looks at the country's unsurpassed military capabilities and its political agenda. The writer concludes that the real geo-political organization of the post-Cold War world is a single pole of world power that constitutes the United States at the peak of the industrial west.
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"Presently, American military expenditure enhances that of the next twenty countries altogether. Its navy, air force and space power are still considered unsurpassed. While the military expenditure by US associates is eliminated, the United States has the military expenditure to the tune of about twice as much on defense as the rest of the world altogether. The American troops have been deployed in 75 nations; each organ of the armed services has its own air force, and in the coming year we are capable of becoming aware whether the US can pull off what it has been preparing to do since the end of the cold war: struggle for two regional wars at the same moment. During the post 9/11 period most of the Americans are quite anxious to spend more on military activity than the next 15 nations collectively. They have enough faith in the pledge of our leaders that we are secured only when we could overcome our enemies and eliminate them adequately. Moreover, the American technology is quite alluring. It is prominent by every measure: military economic, technological, diplomatic, and cultural even linguistic with numerous countries trying to fend off the unalterable transition of Internet fueled MTV English."
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Post-Cold War Economic Integration, 2001.
Examining the challenges facing post Cold-War economic integration.
2,469 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 11 sources, $ 75.95
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This essay identifies and explores some of the major challenges to European economic integration in the post-cold war era. It also traces the development of the European Union from the years following World War Two to the groundbreaking Maastricht Treaty.
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"At the close of the Second World War, Heads of State from around the globe came together with the goal of ensuring that the devastation seen in that violent conflict would never again be repeated. One of their primary goals was to reinforce the European economy so that the continent could rise from the ashes of their broken cities and achieve the eminent philosopher Immanuel Kant?s dream of perpetual peace. The U.S. Secretary of State, George C. Marshall, devised a plan that would give Europe the aid it so desperately needed but only if the individual countries pulled together and launched a joint effort to revitalize their continent. This measure would ensure the impecunious economic conditions that indirectly brought Hitler, Mussolini and Franco into power would be avoided. As the years progressed and the wounds of war slowly healed, Western European economies began to integrate their coal and steel markets."
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The Success Of Post-War Japan, 2002.
Explores the reasons for the economic success of post-war Japan.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 80.95
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The foundation to the economic recovery has been the very high levels of economic development that Japan has achieved. In the Japanese occupational system, lifetime employment did offer incentive to work hard. This is a very important fact to keep in mind in order to determine the secrets of the success of post-war Japan.
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The Post-War Budget for Iraq, 2004.
A look at the budget proposed by the Bush administration for post-war Iraq.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 47.95
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This paper studies the post-war (2003) budget for Iraq. The paper discusses the origins of the policy, the political climate, the state of the economy, and popular public opinion at the time that enabled the policy to be introduced and enacted. The paper also explains how this policy influenced the budget and if the influences are positive or negative.
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African-Americans in Post-War America, 2006.
A look at the injustice and degradation suffered by African-Americans in post-war America, through the eyes of famous African-American authors such as James Baldwin and W.E.B. Du Bois.
1,345 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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This paper examines the writings of famous African-American authors such as James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, and discusses their experiences and understanding of what it meant to be a Black-American in post-war America. The paper focuses primarily on the work of James Baldwin and his description of the destruction of his race and the injustice and the force to which African-Americans were subjected.
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"Baldwin's experience was that of a black man trying to find meaning and success and identity in apartheid America. Being black--or Negro, in the vernacular of the time--was a crucial fact of life. Baldwin observes the creation and the effects of "the projects," slums, and ghettoes on both the city-dwellers who live there and those who create them in the first place. James Baldwin's "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem" is about one of these 'projects' that has captivated the blacks within the lanes of Harlem. Baldwin desperately and passionately hated the streets of Harlem not for what they were but rather, what they stood for. According to Baldwin the neighborhoods were distinctive in place and culture. They differed from America in all terms and manners. The law, schools, professional associations, and judicial institutions in these neighborhoods, were 'protected by law enforcement not of this territory. Baldwin's "occupation thesis," of course, challenges the American Dream and suggests an endemic basis for social unrest. But, the implication to be developed here is for how we understand law. Jurisprudence rather than policy, ethics, or political theory, is the issue and the challenge is just as compelling."
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Labor in Post-War Canada, 2002.
An overview of labor force trends in post-war Canada.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper is written about labor force trends during the post-war times in Canada. In other words, within the capitalistic set-up, large-scale production of goods and services is the order of the day, which in turn necessitates the need for a large pool of labor, as well as a large consumer segment to absorb these products.
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The Influence of Protestantism in Post World War I Germany, 2001.
An in-depth look at the Protestant influence in post World War I Germany, and its involvement in the demise of the Wiemar Republic and the resulting rise to power of Adolph Hitler.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 67.95
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In this paper the author examines the role of Protestantism, in particular the Lutherans, in post WWI Germany and how they helped lead to the downfall of the Wiemar Republic and the raise of Hitler?s Germany. The author pays particular attention to the groundwork laid by Martin Luther, the influence of the theological leaders of the 1920?s, the role of other major Protestant religions of Germany, and the factors affecting the Protestant German citizens of the time.
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?The groundwork for the Protestant role in these historical events began with the writings of Martin Luther. German Protestants of the 1920?s, even those who were not Lutheran, felt a special bond with him. This tendency was reinforced by theological beliefs of the average Lutheran of the day and the feeling that German people had an especially strong bond with their homeland, a bond stronger than many other people of the world.?
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