... wrote in Chinese, and the Chinese system of ideographic characters was adopted as the written form of the Vietnamese language. At the same time, much of the poetry, architecture and painting retained themes distinctive to Southeast Asia. 3. To the Chinese, the absorption of the Red River Delta represented the expansion of a superior civilization over people of a primitive culture, a concept of "manifest destiny- not unlike the westward expansion ... as in much of the rest of the world, but through a series of civil service examinations that tested the candidate's knowledge of Confucian p...

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... million in 2000. UAL's net loss for 2001 was $2.1 billion, which translates to approximately $39.90 per share. Immediately following September 11th, United was hemorrhaging approximately $20 million per day, as the months drifted on the Company slowed the loss to approximately $11 million and as of December 2002 the daily loss is equivalent to $7 million. The Company has approximately $1 billion in cash ... 4th, 2002 United will eliminate 8 executive positions and furlough 352 pilots along with 2700 flight attendants and several thousand airport workers creating a savings of approximate...

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... argued over patient-rights for two decades, the situation hasn't changed materially, as evidenced by a Journal of the American Medical Association report in November 1995. The article recounted the four-year effort "to improve end-of-life decision making and reduce the frequency of a mechanically supported, painful, and prolonged process of dying."(16) Over and over again, in almost ten thousand cases, patients ... the natural environment. Originally no such guidelines were necessary, for two basic reasons. First, among pre-modern peoples respect for nature was a given. The very goal of ...

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... % Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 15.48% from other races, and 5.63% from two or more races. 39.76% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 230,546 households out of which 29.60% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.80% are married couples living together, 16.60% have a woman whose husband does not live with her ... ,424. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.4 km (1.3 mi). 3.2 km (1.2 mi) of it is land and 0.2 km (0.1 mi) of it is water. The total area is 6.82% water. Demographics As of the census o...

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... section, there are numerous hostile references to her mother, and "Hairwashing" proves more successful in its representation and reasoning for such emotion. "I was growing up / even as she scrubbed for dirt, / horns, anything that looked like sin." During Alvarez's very personal attempt to blossom, her mother was busy behind her with mop and broom ... It is the separation from her native country, the Dominican Republic, which serves as a backdrop for the holistically autobiographical novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. In a review, Jason Zappe explains the unusual structure of...

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... the LMRA explicitly states that supervisors are excluded from any type of bargaining agreement, there is indisputable evidence that the position of manager has become more multifaceted than ever before. The LMRA defines "supervisor" as "any individual having authority, in the interest of the employer, to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline ... other employees, or responsibly to direct them, or to adjust their grievances, or effectively to recommend such action, if in connection with the foregoing the exercise of such authority is n...

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... fled into the surrounding countryside. "The badly injured lay unattended in the charred rubble that once had been offices, houses, and streets" (Killingray 11). All means of communication were ruined. Eighty percent of the firefighting personnel could not respond to alarms and most of the firefighters were killed or severely wounded. Seventy percent of the firefighting equipment was destroyed. Water mains had ... the blast, Hiroshima had forty-five hospitals. . . after the explosion, three were standing. About six square kilometers of the commercial and residential areas of the city had ...

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... and investigative and aircraft resources to participating States to eradicate domestically cultivated marijuana. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), of the estimated 1,538,813 State and local arrests for drug abuse violations in 2002, about 5.4% were for marijuana sale/manufacturing and 39.9% were for possession. There were more than 700,000 marijuana arrests in the United States in 1997. ... This was the largest number in U.S. history. Of these arrests, 87% were for possession rather than sale or manufacture. The percentage of possession arrests has been at least 80%...

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... . In March 1998 two children, 11 and 13 years of age gunned down a total of 13 people in a school in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Of the 13, nine survived and five people, classmates and teacher, died as a result of the shooting (Liesen, Owens). One of the boys had taken two rifles from his grandfather. They ... "safety, responsibility and freedom" doesn't make sense. In a survey conducted by John Hopkins Center for Gun and Policy Research and the University of Chicago revealed that most American citizens would like to see guns more strictly regulated. That means that not only do other internati...

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... folk-pastimes were very simple in their organisational and administrative structure. As Malcolmson (1973) points out, often games began spontaneously with the venue being the environment the individuals were in, such as the streets of a town. Thus during these times bureaucratic structures did not exist. Organisation of activities lay in the hands of the participants and to a degree this was reflected in a ... more ludic sport form. In contemporary times a definite bureaucratisation of sport has occurred with networks of governing and overseeing organisations operating in every competiti...

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... the Senate was delayed until January 1861, after the 1860 elections when Southern senators began to leave. The fourth theory was advocated by Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, one of state sovereignty, also known as the "Calhoun doctrine," named after the South Carolinian political theorist and statesman John C. Calhoun. Rejecting the arguments for federal authority or self-government, state sovereignty would ... employed in Georgia. Meanwhile, Sherman maneuvered from Chattanooga to Atlanta, defeating Confederate Generals Joseph E. Johnston and John Bell Hood along the way. The fall o...

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... 20 people outside a Tucson grocery store (killing six) including a federal judge (John Roll) and critically wounding an Arizonian representative (Gabrielle Giffords) many Democrats in Congress began discussing the possibility of additional gun legislation. However, on 16 January, Representative Mary Bono Mack did give an interview to the Desert Sun in Washington and stated America doesn't need "knee-jerk" ... The very city these politicians live in Washington D.C., did have a ban on handguns for over 33 years and during that period the city was known as the nation's murder capital. Ma...

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... peace movements was the affect they had on the war itself. The motivation for the soldiers to fight for peace in Vietnam quickly weakened as a result of the movements disrupting peace on the home front.13 Why would the soldiers want to fight for peace in another nation when it was ... or what they were fighting for. Hunt wrote that, "The news from Vietnam, often conveyed in the voices and images of the troops, was not encouraging, and as opponents of war grew louder, soldiers found it easier to question their mission or feel betrayed."14 The American troops felt that they ... ,000 casual...

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... Introduction Marketing has always been recognized as an economic activity involving the exchange of goods and services. Only in recent years, however, have social cultural influences been identified as determinants of marketing behavior, revealing marketing as a cultural as well as economic phenomenon. Because our understanding of marketing is culture bound we must acquire knowledge of diverse cultural environments in order to ... as well. A review of consumer durables ownership in EU countries with similar income levels shows the importance of non-income factors in determining consumpt...

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... and in the United States. All across the world sizeable elements were seriously considering the virtues of communism, for few wanted a return to the failed capitalism of the pre-war era." (Isaacs & Downing, Transworld Publishers, 1998. Pg. 39) As the great depression was classed as a cause of World War II and as the depression was caused by capitalism, people thought capitalism may be a cause ... of a possible next World War. As Stalin said and believed, "The development of world capitalism proceeds not in the path of smooth and even progress ... but through the crises and the catastrop...

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... who looked different from themselves and also to distinguish between slaves and free men. From 1492 until 1684, race was mainly thought of as an order of royalty or simply as a structure of society, rather than focusing on physiognomy. One of the earliest examples of race placing no emphasis on physical appearance came from John Foxe. In Acts and Monuments (1570), Foxe began to weave together ... Linnaeus. Blumenbach basically constructed his theory of race as an extension of the five race system that Linnaeus introduced, but instead of classifying people based on genus, species, and cla...

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... trillion? Is China rightfully just in claiming territory with the ten-dotted line? Is there any lasting benefit to having these islands? Is this just a show of force or planned takeover? Eric Wertheim, an article writer for the magazine Proceedings, explains China's growing interest in the Pacific: The organization [China's marine-surveillance ... is there to worry about? The reason for what some may consider displaced hate and mistrust may stem from the fact that people are leery of China's rise as a nation. Be it from the fact that China is still considered a Communist country or tha...

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... for advancement (Hakim, 2001). A major factor for deterring employees who seek representation, as explained above, is employer resistance and the use of threats and intimidation. These acts are illegal, but employers continue to threaten to shut down the plant or lay off employees if a union is introduced. A survey was conducted by the AFL-CIO-sponsored Wilson Institute to evaluate nonunion employees" attitudes on ... joining a union either before or during an organizing drive. The results insinuated that the resistance from employers on employees to join unions was on the rise. As a re...

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... and contracting quietly removed non-minority-owned businesses from being in contention for receiving a government contract. As a result, a lawsuit was filed against the state of California alleging that this form of public contracting violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and should be seen as reverse discrimination against non-minorities (Ayres). The man who filed the lawsuit won, and the policies ... of California. This type of behavior is what can be classified as reverse discrimination, or discrimination primarily directed at Anglo and Asian American that is generally the result of a...

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... viewable and focuses primarily on the interests of the people, reform from the bottom, and the development of social, political, and economic diversification, and to move beyond the export based dependence and lay the foundation for competition in the world market. The Global Economy and Neo-Liberalism: As we reach the end of this century we can look back on ... labor markets, structural adjustment, etc. Workers, even affluent middle class ones, now find themselves searching for job security in the unstable workplace. Job security is becoming a thing of the past as investment flows towa...

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... vote while on their way to citizenship. With the new voters introduced into the population there needed to be a catchy way for candidates running for presidency to take advantage of receiving as many votes as they could, this is where the political parties came in, where earlier in the previous era there was no static political group. Political parties are groups that seek ... to changes in the nomination process that gave more local control to the average voter by having national nominating conventions, and replacing the caucus system of the previous era. Interest groups began forming ...

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... reliant on American ideals, idols and idiosyncrasies. The definition of Americanization is clear: the perpetuation of a single American model onto the world. Canada and America are like conjoined twins at birth - they cannot be separated without one of them dying, and they cannot be apart no matter how hard ... they try. "Our [Canadian] cassus belli, or overall feelings for Americans, are only negative because we're jealous of our reliance on them. We feel they stole hockey ... they are often the most wasteful country, usually just scraping in front of Mexico, or another third world coun...

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... . Yet again others claim that there were other more serious causes that lay below the surface. Like politics, economics, sectionalism, and the constitution, and that slavery was just the match that set the Civil War off. "Approximately 620,000 soldiers died during the Civil War. Almost as many as the combined dead of all other wars from the Revolutionary War through the Vietnam War ... that the constitution it was forbidding the government to take action against slavery where it already was (Harrison 3), "[ ] and throughout his Presidency he was regarded by the majority of the northern p...

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... began to burn a new "war" between the winners for supremacy in the world, which was not limited to a particular region, and is a global confrontation between the two superpowers. Nuclear Weapons as an Argument in the Cold War For the world politics has always been a typical situation where the state sought relying on force to spread its influence in the outside world ... and destruction. It was so mired in exorbitant fight the Soviet Union. On what could he expect to win, giving the opposing side of the resources as well as the effectiveness of their use in a few times? Obviously, this ...

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... "failed ". The final part is a conclusion of the themes discussed throughout this essay. II. How a Failed State Should be Defined History of failed states Despite the debates that have been raised about the concept of "failed states " over the last decade, this term has lasted together with the existence of the international state system, as a part of the political reality (Fraenkel 2004). Nguyen (2005 ... ) also states that the idea of failed ... state formation is completely improper (Di John 2010). III. Different Explanations Accounting for a Failed State Three approaches: There have b...

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