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Saburo Lenaga's "The Pacific War", 2005.
The paper reviews Saburo Lenaga's novel "The Pacific War, 1931-1945".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper explains that Saburo Lenaga's novel "The Pacific War, 1931-1945" provides a highly informative commentary regarding the role of China and Japan in a war. The author points out that Lenaga recreate the turmoil and confusion that plagued China and Asia during this particularly difficult period in history. The paper suggests that the war might have been prevented if circumstances were different.
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"A novel by Saburo Lenaga entitled "The Pacific War: 1931-1945" provides a highly informative commentary regarding the role of China and Japan in a war that propelled these nations into a tailspin of confusion and regret. The invasion of China by Japan served as the beginning force in a war that was largely undertaken due to misunderstandings and confusion at all sides of the fence, and the continuous conflicts between China and Japan with regards to policy were truly obvious in the war effort. In many ways, it is evident that these misunderstandings created many of the problems leading up to the invasion of China, and therefore, the conflict might have been prevented if each side had taken the time that was necessary to consider their roles."
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"The Pacific War", 2002.
Analyzes this book by Saburo Lenaga.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper presents several of the key arguments made in Saburo Lenaga's book "The Pacific War" and comments upon these arguments.
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The Pacific Rim, 2002.
A study of why the Pacific Rim (Asia Pacific) has become an important region.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper describes the Pacific Rim as an important region in the world and its development through crises.
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Georgia-Pacific, 2005.
This paper compares two companies in the paper industry, Georgia-Pacific and International Paper, from the standpoint of investors.
4,030 words (approx. 16.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 109.95
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This paper explains that International Paper, considering industry-wide overcapacity, would not necessarily lead to improved profitability, and the risks of owning Georgia-Pacific stock include the company's severe exposure to asbestos liabilities and environmental lawsuits and the high leverage on the balance sheet. The author points out that the stock market "bulls" state that IP occupies the industry's number one spot in coated and uncoated paper, bleached board and land ownership; the number two spot in softwood lumber production and the number three spot in container-board, which translates into scale advantages. The paper relates that the "bulls" state that the sale of Georgia-Pacific's low-margin construction-products distribution business will free up more than $1 billion to put toward debt reduction. Many tables and charts.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Strategy
Management
Financial Health
Growth
Valuation
Risk
Conclusions regarding International Paper
Bulls' Opinion
Bears' Opinion
Conclusions regarding Georgia-Pacific
Bulls' Opinion
Bears' Opinion
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"Over the past three years, International Paper has consolidated its position in the industry. Its strategy was to use acquisitions in order to build momentum and sell any assets that cannot be used in one of the company's three core categories. International Paper bought Champion International for $9.5 billion in 2000 and subsequently sold non-essential assets which were in total value of $3 billion. When it comes to strategy, Georgia-Pacific's intention is to distance itself from commodity wood and paper products, and move into high-value-added businesses, that also present the advantage to be close to the consumer. In 2001, the company spun off its timber operations and sold a portion of its pulp and paper assets. In 2002, the company sold its paper distribution business. Finally, in 2004, GP sold its construction-product distribution business and two pulp mills."
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Conditions of Economic Growth and the Asia-Pacific Region, 2002.
A study of the preconditions and policies required for economic growth and why some Asia-Pacific countries have failed to achieve sustainable long-term growth.
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 28 sources, APA, $ 36.95
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A study into why certain Asia-Pacific countries such as Cambodia fail to reach long-term economic growth and an explanation of the conditions and policies needed in an economic climate to achieve this growth.
The paper covers the following topics:
Preconditions for faster economic growth
Policies for faster economic growth
Asia Pacific LDCs (Least Developed Countries) & Cambodia
The paper is filled with examples and recent statistics of countries including USA, Australia, Taiwan, Europe, Japan, Cambodia, and Asia-Pacific LDCs in general.
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"According to McTaggart et al, there are several pre-conditions for economic growth. One of which is the existence of an institutional framework that is crucial to the creation of incentives. This institutional framework included markets (supply and demand), property rights, facilities for monetary exchange, as well as simple and transparent regulatory systems (1999: 32.7). Market prices send signals to buys and sellers that create incentives to increase or decrease the quantities demanded and supplied. Markets also enable people to specialise and trade and to save and invest. Property rights are the social arrangements that govern the ownership, use and disposal of factors of production and goods and services (McTaggart et al, 1999:32.17). They include the rights to physical property, to financial property and to intellectual property. The existence of property rights and their enforcement by the law provide people with certainty in their business dealings and hence they help provide macroeconomic stability and a pre-condition for growth."
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The Pacific Opera Company, 2005.
A study of the Pacific Opera Company in Sydney, Australia, including current audience demographics and current company operations.
2,850 words (approx. 11.4 pages), 30 sources, MLA, $ 84.95
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Pacific Opera is a training opera company. It provides opera singers, mostly who are graduates of music degrees, the opportunity to improve their skills in order to reach professional standard. The aim of this paper is to create a profile of Pacific Opera's existing audience for the purpose of establishing audience satisfaction with Pacific Opera as a company. It also investigates current literature along with quantitative and qualitative data. The findings are presented and recommendations are made for future studies.
Outline
Introduction
Literature Review
Methodology
Body of Research
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"This research report was completed as part of the subject requirements Research into structure of small training opera companies found that most of these were attached to a flagship opera company. (www.knoxvilleopera.com, www.sfopera.com, www.glimmerglass.org, www.dc-opera.org) These small companies would offer intensive workshop and performance opportunities for graduate or post graduate opera singers looking to improve their skills prior to becoming professional. (www.knoxvilleopera.com, www.sfopera.com, www.glimmerglass.org, www.dc-opera.org)
Funding for these companies appears to come directly from their linked flagship company as well as directly from patrons. (www.sfopera.com, www.glimmerglass.org) Two of the investigated companies did receive sponsorship in the form of in kind donations such as Italian dictionaries for the singers. (www.dc-opera.org) None stated that they receive government funding. "
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The Pacific Rim, 2002.
An overview of the culture, economy, geography, demographics, and military factors of the Pacific Rim.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 9 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper is an examination of the elements that combine to define the nations of the Pacific Rim. It examines culture, economy, geography, demographics, and military factors among all of the Pacific Rim nations. It concludes that the term "Pacific Rim" is a cultural, geographic, demographic, and economic descriptor of a region with those commonalities.
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Calpine vs. Pacific Gas & Electric, 2006.
A review and comparison of the Calpine independent power company and Pacific Gas and Electric.
2,185 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 68.95
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This paper discusses the Calpine Company, an independent power producer that was established in 2002, comparing it to the Pacific Gas and Electric company. The paper reviews these two companies from an organizational business perspective.
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Calpine
Pacific Gas and Electric
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"In order to develop its business and manage the risk, the company has extended its activities, providing also commodity investment optimization, gas aggregation and arbitrage, logistics and settlement, risk management and energy management consulting. This creases the basis for more profit but also increases the costs related to the staff know how, to provide the appropriate infrastructure and all the cost incurred to the development of new projects (marketing plans, management administration, new logistics, etc). This may be a partially explanation of the overall increase in revenues of 4% (9.2 billion dollars) for the fiscal year 2005. To sustain that fragile figure of the revenue for the year 2005, it can be added that the energy market is a stable and a constant one, with a little increase of the market share during the time (the rate of the consumption is almost constant and it is not very easy to be influenced). "
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Asian-Pacific Security, 2006.
An analysis of the role of the United States in the security of the Asia-Pacific region.
2,567 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 34 sources, APA, $ 77.95
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This paper looks at how the U.S. plays an important role in maintaining peace and stability in the Asian-Pacific region and has successfully intervened in a number of potentially volatile security situations. It examines a number of alternative security arrangements and their viability as a regional order is explored. The first alternative arrangement is the rise of a regional hegemon to replace the U.S; the second alternative is a multi polar balance of power; and the third alternative is a mature security community. It concludes that each of the three alternatives has shortcomings, and do not compare favorably to the current regional order. Finally, the paper considers the likelihood of the U.S. leaving Asia-Pacific security to the Asians, and what impact current U.S. policies have on that prospect.
Outline:
Introduction
Meaning of the Term
What Role Does the U.S. Play?
Alternative Security Orders
Will the U.S. Leave Security to the Asians?
Conclusion
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"The U.S. has been at the apex of a unilateral international system since the end of the Cold War, and has the ability to project power across the globe. The disparity in power between the U.S. and other regional actors is enormous, especially in power projection capability, defence technologies and intelligence gathering capability. Although U.S. dominance includes economic, technological and cultural power, these serve an important function of reinforcing military power, with the U.S. able to increase military spending whilst spending a smaller percentage of its GDP. At the end of the Cold War the U.S. pursued a hegemonic strategy and entrenched its role as the guarantor of regional security. Its approach to regional security is a 'hub and spoke' arrangement and includes important bilateral security ties with Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and countries in South-East Asia. "
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Child Welfare among the Pacific Northwest Indians, 2008.
A discussion of how understanding the child-rearing practices of the Pacific Northwest Indians and Alaskan Native Indians is important in providing the best welfare service to their children.
1,590 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 52.95
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This paper discusses cultural competence within the context of the Pacific Northwest Indians and the Alaskan Native American. The paper describes family and community approaches to child welfare practice and also looks at social and (to a lesser extent) racial constructs in these societies. Finally, the paper at various times touches upon the lessons that a careful study of Pacific Northwest culture can offer to a child welfare agent eager to do the right thing.
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"About the Coeur d'Alene tribe somewhat less is known but it is known that kinship was bilaterally based and that the same terms were used to address a cousin from the mother's side of the family as from the father's side of the family (Frey, n.d.). Whether or not this sort of practice is still in place is hard to determine (the evidence is scant) but, to the extent that any members of the Coeur d'Alene still cling to the "old ways", it is advisable that child welfare representatives respect the fact that Coeur d'Alene families are extended and close-knit and that a child's well-being is everyone's concern."
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Asian Pacific Technology, 2008.
This paper explores the technological and economic development in the Asian Pacific.
1,930 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 61.95
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The paper discusses the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation agreement, a grounds for cultivating the increasing interdependency of diplomatic nations. The paper looks at its importance as an economic force and its drive for standardization with regard to technological capabilities, production aptitudes and market compatibilities. The paper explores how the world community can move the Asian Pacific toward a future where its economic development may be optimized by a general improvement of political, social and economic conditions within its member nations.
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"In 1989, acknowledging the changing tide of the world economy, the various countries which make up what is today characterized as the Pacific Rim, or Asia-Pacific, gathered at a summit in Canberra, Australia to discuss the implications of a joint regional agreement designed to reduce trade barriers amongst the countries aligned toward shared goals on the borders of the Pacific Ocean. This would include many of the countries of Southeast Asia, Asia, the Australasia region and North America. These nations, of a wide range of differing cultural, political and economic dispositions, would establish through the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation agreement, a grounds for cultivating the increasing interdependency of diplomatic nations."
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Technological and Economic Development in Asia Pacific, 2008.
An examination of ways in which Asian Pacific region can move toward a future of greater economic development.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses the development of the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) as an agreement that would alter global politics and economics. The paper discusses the technological developments that we are seeing in Asia and throughout the world and their impact. It suggests how to move the Asian Pacific region toward a future where its economic development may be optimized by a general improvement of political, social and economic conditions within its member nations.
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"Even as western counterparts enjoy a body of working technology professionals which has helped such nations as the U.S. and Britain to retain a dominance in the trade of IT developments, new achievements in computing technology and developments in the context of recreational and industrial electronics, the competitive advantages of pricing and of newly liberalizing economic operation incentives have made the developing and previously impoverished nations of the Pacific Rim increasingly influential on the stage of economic globalization. Asia-Pacific leaders "set the goals of reaching free trade and investment by 2010 for developed economies, and 2020 for developing economies." (Fleischer, 1) It remains the hope of the organization that free trade and shared technological development will work hand-in-hand to produce an economically flourishing Pacific Rim in a new age of information and globalization."
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The Pacific Northwest During and After the Great Depression, 2005.
A look at the population and political changes that took place in the Pacific Northwest from the Great Depression to the Cold War.
1,344 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the topic of the history of the Pacific Northwest. Specifically, it discusses how the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War impacted regional demographics in the Pacific Northwest.
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"Before the Great Depression in 1929, the Pacific Northwest had been growing significantly. By 1920, the area had grown by 254 percent from 1900 (Schwantes 365). However, the Great Depression put a stop to the growth and migration. By the time the Great Depression hit, the area was economically sound, but still rural in much of its' character. The Great Depression had a deep effect on the economy of the region, because so much of the area relied on agriculture, timber, and mining for their livelihood, and these industries suffered as the nation suffered. Historian Schwantes writes, "The Pacific Northwest as a whole experienced mortgage foreclosures, delinquent taxes, and sharply rising unemployment. A sense of desperation led to protests and in some cases to direct action and other forms of self-help by angry farmers and industrial workers" (Schwantes 382). To make matters worse, arrivals from the Midwest Dust Bowl arrived in the area looking for work, but there was none. They simply added to the problem of unemployment and public assistance that was facing the entire area."
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Western Pacific Rim, 2002.
A look at the economic strength of the Western Pacific Rim countries.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper analyzes the Western Pacific Rim. Comprising developed and developing nations like Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, the Western Pacific Rim is a significant area in terms of its powerful growing economy, and its rich, evolving geology. Situated at volcanic and tectonic zones, its countries are either developed or developing depending upon their history and extent of utilization of resources.
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Union Pacific Corporation, 2006.
A strategic analysis of the Union Pacific Corporation.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 2 sources, $ 106.95
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This paper reviews the Union Pacific Corporation (UPC), one of the largest rail transportation companies in the world and the leading rail transportation enterprise in the United States. Its primary industry is the rail freight industry, and as such it is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska where it manages its overall operations which include over 48,000 employees. This paper reports that UP's operations span both the railroad and trucking industry by virtue of its trucking operations that work in tandem with its rail operations through inter-modal transportation strategies. It further discusses how UP maintains and operates over 33,000 miles of rail which connect the Pacific, Gulf and Eastern ports ("Union") and maintains active partnerships with other rail carriers to move a substantial amount of cargo between the US coasts and across both the Canadian and Mexican borders.
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