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Political Cultures in Canada and the United States, 2005.
A comparison of the political cultures in Canada and the United States.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, $ 62.95
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This essay compares and contrasts the political cultures of the Canada and the United States, arguing that despite debates over the apparent differences in the political cultures of the two countries, the underlying corporate domination of political relations in both societies suggests that apart from superficial political differences the political cultures of Canada and the United States are likely to increasingly converge in the near future.
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"A Comparison and Contrast of the Political Cultures in Canada and the United States Introduction Canada and the United States are two liberal democracies that, although they share a common continent and have had extremely close social, political, economic and cultural relationships for generations, possess radically distinct political cultures."
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United States Cultural Domination, 2002.
A study of how the United States dominates the global market in mass culture.
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper examines the globalization of culture and how the American popular culture shapes it. It investigates how economic dominance, communications technologies, social and political events influence global mass media. The paper also describes the role of the English language in creating a single world culture.
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"When we look at the dominant form of culture that characterizes our society today, it is often referred to as ?globalization?. But to many, this idea of a unified world is characterized by the concept of ?Americanization?. To a large extent, the shared culture around the world is becoming more and more influenced by American culture. There are many reasons for this, but primarily these are the result of the economic dominance of that nation, the development of global systems of communication, and the spread of English as the new international language. The following paper will address all of these issues in order to fully understand the reasons why the United States has a stranglehold on the global market in mass culture."
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United States Hegemony, 2005.
This paper discusses the basis of power belonging to the United States and explains the United States hegemony within the global system.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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In this paper, America holds hegemony through military, economic, cultural, and political positions. The threat to American power seems low due to the massive military aggression that America has taken against the Middle East in recent times. The writer discusses that the overwhelming sense of military might, along with political and economic justification on the part of the U.S. appears to be the ongoing trend on the international scene. The writer notes that this power lessens the strength of the E.U., Russia, and China as America culturally dominates the world through the power that it wields.
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"This study seeks to understand the basis of power that has become United States hegemony within the global system. The basis of economic, military, political and cultural power is accessed to comprehend U.S. domination within an international scope. In defining these pillars of strength, one can realize that the United States is not likely to face any serious challenges to its hegemony in the coming decade. The United States military presence is a major cornerstone of hegemony that is now being imposed throughout the world."
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The Relationship between the United States and Japan, 2006.
A brief history of economic and political relations between Japan in the United States since the end of WWII.
2,789 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 83.95
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This paper begins by examining the broad issue of trade that affects the United States and Japan today. The paper then takes a look at the cultural and historical factors that have led to Japanese dominance in business. Finally, the paper considers how the Japanese gains in automobile market share have affected the United States and the world economy, as well as the problems and the opportunities facing business in an international setting given these circumstances.
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"The United States and Japan have an interesting relationship. It was not so long ago that Japan was the sworn enemy of the United States, intent on the downfall of the United States. It was Japan that destroyed Pearl Harbor, dragging the United States into World War II. The fighting in Europe was intense, but fighting in the Pacific was more arduous, filled with more danger, against an enemy whose cruelty seemed to know no bounds. Stories of the war that fill high school history textbooks include the Japanese basically going on suicide, or Kamikaze missions to destroy U.S. naval power. The books tell a story of soldiers who buried POW's in the sand up to their necks, propped the POW's mouths open with sticks, and allowed local ants and other insects to feed on the soft tissue of the POW's mouths and throats. In response to this threat, the United States dropped nuclear weapons on two of Japan's cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was after the Japanese surrender that the relationship between the two countries became really interesting."
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Brazil and the United States, 2007.
This paper examines the United States' and Brazil's conflicting ideas regarding free trade.
1,562 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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The paper explains that the international policies of these two nations are sometimes at cross-purposes. The paper describes how national governments walk a fine line between cooperation and provocation, as they seek to fulfill these different policy goals. The paper explores Brazilian-American foreign relations that have been dominated by arguments over the effectiveness of a free trade regime. The paper points out that free trade has largely been pushed by the United States; they see the elimination of trade barriers and the opening up of markets as essential to the perpetuation of economic growth. Brazil, however, has made significant attempts to prevent further American economic encroachment that has not offered any real benefits to the Brazilian people.
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"NAFTA, and other less comprehensive American free trade policies of the past, have done precious little to help ordinary citizens in the nations involved. As a result of this agreement, the wages of Mexican workers have not risen, and jobs have bled at an alarming rate across America's southern border. American corporations have often profited immensely, but the enrichment of a handful of already wealthy Americans was certainly not the goal developing nations had in mind when they began to talk free trade. Though Brazil's economy has expanded considerably in past decades, and standards of living have risen proportionately - measured by the United Nations Human Development Index, Brazil actually surpassed Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey in 1998."
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United States Army Special Operations, 2006.
This paper discusses the history of the special operations unit of the United States Army.
1,110 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 38.95
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This paper explains that the operational elements of the Army Special Forces can be traced to the units of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, OSS, which infiltrated metropolitan France during World War II. The author points out that the Army's Special Forces, referred to as the legendary Green Berets, consist of a unique, unconventional combat arms organization, which are considered the most versatile special operations soldiers in the world. The paper relates that, today, special forces units, referred to as the "Quiet Professionals", are deployed throughout the world where they display their dominance through their unconventional warfare expertise and provide humanitarian assistance and training to indigenous forces.
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"After World War II, Colonel Aaron Bank, Colonel Wendell Fertig and LTC Russell Volckmann took their OSS experience and formulated the principles of "unconventional warfare" that became the foundation of the Special Forces. According to the Army's official Lineage and Honors, the Special Forces Groups are linked to the regiments of the First Special Service Force, that elite group of Canadian-American forces who fought in North Africa, Italy, and Southern France. The SF sprung from the Special Operations Division of the Psychological Warfare Center that was established at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in May 1952, now known as the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School."
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Trade Patterns: Japan and United States, 2004.
An examination of foreign trade between Japan and the U.S. and what it entails.
1,164 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 40.95
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This paper introduces and discusses the topic of trade between the United States and Japan. Specifically, it discusses the export and import of goods, exports and imports of services, tourism, and investments. Japan and the United States are two of the premier forces in trade around the world, and both countries depend heavily on each other in a variety of trade areas from electronics to tourism and banking. The paper examines how, together, they form a formidable bond of trade that dominates the world market and economy.
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"Financial services are also a burgeoning part of the Japanese economy. Japan boasts some of the world's largest banks, and they fund a variety of projects and services around the globe. They are also branching out into other areas, such as investment in film and television (i.e. Sony Pictures in the U.S.), and in outsourcing, especially in the financial and information technology service sectors."
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United States Public Diplomacy, 2005.
A review of the public diplomacy program led by the U.S. state department and it's lack of success.
3,600 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 11 sources, $ 142.95
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This paper reviews the role of the U.S. state department in deploying the public diplomacy program nationally and world wide. According to this paper, the most prevalent opinion that seems to be held worldwide is that the United States is a domineering global superpower fueled by greed and bent on conquest.
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"What is Public Diplomacy? Public diplomacy is the method by which the United States government seeks to create an image in the eyes of the citizens of other countries. According to the U.S. Department of State, Dictionary of International Relations Terms, "public diplomacy refers to government-sponsored programs intended to inform or influence public opinion in other countries; its chief instruments are publications, motion pictures, cultural exchanges, radio, and television" (cited in United States Information Agency Alumni Association [USIAAA] 2002, par. 8). This term was first used in 1965, when the Edward R. Murrow Center for Public Diplomacy was established at Tufts University (USIAAA 2002, par. 11). The USIAAA states that some sources equate public diplomacy with propaganda. Although both forms of communication are intended to persuade people, propaganda generally has a negative connotation of "disinformation" (2002, par. 12)."
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Cultural Dominance and Its Effects, 2006.
The paper describes the effects of cultural dominance on society through American literature, mainly Toni Morrison's novels.
2,009 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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The paper explores how a dominant culture can create a devastating effect on the less dominant groups of a society in a variety of ways namely; isolation, usurpation of power and economic deprivation. The article cites American literature to qualify the view points stated.
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Power
Economic Deprivation
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"When a dominant culture exerts cultural influence so strong that it eliminates cultural influences of any segment of society, the result is isolation of the subdominant culture. This isolation is both physical and psychological.
Toni Morrison describes such a dynamic in eloquent simplicity in her book The Bluest Eye. The book opens with words familiar from early reading primers in which a white family is so strongly presented as the norm, the black children in the story are surrounded by stereotypes with no one that is remotely similar to them or to their families. The author emphasizes the constant bombardment of these "foreign" cultural influences by repeating the passage while gradually running all the sentences and, finally, even the words together to represent the effect of a virtual backdrop from which they feel completely detached."
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Cultural Units in Cross-Cultural Research, 2000.
The following paper is a review of De Munch and Korotayev's "Cultural Units in Cross-Cultural Research."
720 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 0 sources, $ 25.95
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The writer of this paper critically analyzes the ways in which De Munch and Korotayev start out by explaining that it is difficult to research across cultures because of "cross-cultural pollenization" that is, one culture tends to absorb some traits of the other. They point out that without adequate controls, the research can give both false confirmations of the hypothesis as well as false negatives. This paper is a negative critique of Cultural Units in Cross-Cultural Research.
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"The first group might look culturally diverse at first: 4 Spanish; 4 Iraqi; 1 Russian; 1 Estonian; 1 Javanese; 1 Ganda; one Greek; one Maronite-Lebanese. However, this group had significant cultural similarities, which the authors of course knew because they contrived the group. Some of the clerics were Catholic and therefore celibate. Others were Moslem and allowed more than one wife. It is hard to imagine how this example sheds any light on either cross-cultural studies or statistical and research methods."
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Pluralist vs. Assimilationist Cultural Policy in the United States, 2002.
This paper is about a pluralist cultural policy's positive impact on democratic values.
1,630 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 6 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper looks at the popular and enduring adage declaring that America is ?a melting pot? of cultures and at the idea that this country seems to believe that all of its ethnically, linguistically, and culturally diverse inhabitants have, throwing away all of their particularities, melted into just one cultural identity. It looks at the history of different immigrants to the United States, and examines their integration, or non-integration into society.
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"Like national minorities (Native Americans), African Americans (not modern African immigrants to the U.S.) have been incorporated involuntarily into American society due to the fact that they are the descendants of those who entered the slave trade after either being captured from West African regions or sold into captivity by African kingdoms-in short, they did not emigrate out of free will from their birthplaces as did members of ethnic groups. However, they are somewhat like ethnic groups in the sense that they do originate from foreign lands and are not indigenous to U.S. territory as are national minorities."
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Cultural Pluralism in the United States, 2007.
This paper discusses the need for cultural awareness in today's multi-ethnic society.
2,804 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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The paper relates that America is the largest multi-ethnic country today. The paper discusses how minor civilizations are sometimes considered as inferior or underdeveloped and asserts that this perspective is not justified. The paper maintains that liberation movements as well as the emphasis on multicultural education are essential for the sense of identity that each individual has in our diverse world. The paper contends that the differences between each ethnic group should be researched and understood so as to ensure communication among people and the preservation of the democratic state.
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"America is today the largest multiethnic country, with an impressive number of immigrants from all parts of the world and from all races. The cultural diversity in the United States is apparent in most of the aspects of daily life in the cities, from the culturally specific restaurants and clubs, to the televisions, churches and mosques. The American continent has always been a territory with a very high immigration rate, and at present the affluence of foreigners has increased even more. The immigration has contributed greatly to the cultural diversity of the land. In these conditions, the need for a positive dialogue between the different ethnicities settled in the United States is imperative."
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Race, Culture, and Politics in the United States, 2004.
An examination of the issue of cultural diversity in the United States.
1,337 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper examines how, in the United States, there is currently a paradigm of tolerance as never before and how the many different cultures that make up the United States have never been more deeply studied in order to understand them. It looks at how colonization has been finished, how the American dream has been fulfilled, and how all that remains is attempting to understand the casualties that occurred as a result of the rush towards this dream fulfillment.
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African-Americans in the United States
Asian-Americans
Native Americans
Conclusion
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"The key difference between Asian- and African-Americans, in terms of their arrival in the United States, is the fact that the Asians immigrated willingly in search of the American Dream, while Africans were imported against their will as slaves. The Asians, mainly composed of Chinese, were initially welcomed. However, as soon as the economy in terms of the California gold rush became an issue, discrimination once again favored the Caucasian over all others. During the late 1800?s this then resulted in the Asian exclusion from citizenship."
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Chicano-Mexican Cultures in the United States, 2004.
This paper discusses the history of conflict and assimilation of the Chicano-Mexican cultures into the contemporary American society.
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that the term "Mexican-American" is used for the original inhabitants of the U.S.-acquired northern territories of Mexico; whereas, "Chicano", historically a derogatory term, is used for Mexicans who immigrated in the U.S. during the period of the 1930s and 1940s. The author points out that, historically, during the early period of conflict, while the ?Mexican Americans? had already been assimilated into American society, establishing their social and economic status in the society, Chicanos were mainly ?outcasts? in this country. The paper concludes that, today, the Chicano-Mexican society is, and will be, a balance between the traditional and modern cultures, creating a hybrid form of culture and society that is distinctly characteristic of their Mexican and American heritage.
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"As the Mexican society is gradually assimilated into the contemporary American society, its future can be traced or patterned right after the history of African Americans in the US. The emergence of the Mexican American and Chicano movements fighting for equality and recognition of their rights in the American society is reminiscent of the civil rights movement of the African Americans during the 1960s (in fact, Mexicans are also included in this protest movement, along with black Americans). In essence, Mexican society and culture of the present and for the future is described as ?people between cultures,? where ?? ?culture in the borderlands?? ?human cultures?? (metropolitan typifications) are neither necessarily coherent nor always homogeneous.""
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