The focus of Devi's form of literature brings to attention the complexities within the borders of a nation and lives of the subaltern. ... The tribal people that Mahasweta Devi wrote about in her protest fiction literature are victims of many centuries worth of oppression within a nation. ... This economic globalization spread its influence throughout developing countries throughout Latin America, Africa and Asia. ...

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This understanding of globalisation fits into the set of literature referred to as the ' first wave' and is associated with US truimphalists and business schools theorists. ... According to this view, it makes little sense for America to produce textiles at home when they can be produced at a lower cost in Honduras or China (which unlike Honduras is a major source of American textile imports). Importing textile would benefit America as well as China. ... Last year the Bush administration announced it would give American farmers an extra $175 billion during the next decades. The yearl...

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This is a story of the Great Possibility, what America COULD be, and what it has lost by not working past its prejudices and fears. ... Because of the subordinate status Mexican American students received an inferior quality of education and subtractive curriculum . As a result even today there is a pattern disproportionate academic performance among Mexican American. ... Central to this discussion was the political involvement of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) in protesting school segregation. ... Without placing blame or guilt; Takaki discusses, the Mexican American ...

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The process of economic development has been usually seen as a transformation from the rural agricultural sector to the urban manufacturing sector in developing countries. This process in the dual sectors is driven by labor transfers (migration) and capital accumulation. W. Arthur Lewis in his work on 'Economic development with unlimited supplies of labor' (1954) analyzed the labor market dualism and the structural difference between the subsistence sector and capitalistic sector in developing economies. The two sectors in the Lewis model are referred to as the subsistence and capit...

• Word Count: 4558
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate