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- 111: A Nation of Immigrants: An Overview of the Economic and Political Conditions
- ... Europe and Asia. The Puerto Rican people started arriving in the 1940's and continue to arrive into the 1990's. These people accessed labor jobs in farms and jobs in blue-collar occupations. Recent Asian and Caribbean groups started arriving in the 1960's to the 1990's, mostly as political refuges, and also for political reasons. Commercial capitalism and the slave society were the effect of the East Coast ... States as a result of the victory over Mexico in the Mexican-American war. After the civil war the Industrial capitalistic economy bloomed, large enterprises began to take over the major economy. As industrialism grew Asian workers were recruited for labor from China and Japan. The United States victory in The Spanish-American war had granted the United States annexation Puerto Rico, the Philippines, and Cuba. Many people from these countries ... while most of the subordinates lived in the inner city. This separated the two groups and brought them further apart from each other. Until the 1960's discriminatory quotas against Asians had limited the number Asian immigrants. When the quotas were lifted the United States received many new Asian immigrants from China, Korea, the Philippines, and Vietnam. These Asians generally migrated to the United States in hope for better opportunities. ...
- 112: The Impact Of Life Crises On T
- Stress and everyday annoyances are not crises. Situations that interfere with normal activity, inspire feelings of panic or defeat, and bring about deep emotional reactions are crises. A crisis is a turning point or a crucial time that will make a difference for better or worse. The Chinese word for crisis is made up of two characters one means despair and the other means opportunity. When a person experiences crisis, there will either be a negative outcome or a positive one. The direction of the outcome depends on a number of factors such as physical and emotional health of the individual, support from others, ...
- 113: The NAFTA Scam
- ... are in: NAFTA is a disaster for workers in the United States, Mexico and Canada. The U.S. and Canada have lost thousands of jobs because of NAFTA. Mexico is trapped in a severe economic crisis in which workers bear the largest burden as their working conditions worsen. The U.S.- Mexico border was a health and environmental disaster when the NAFTA agreement was signed in 1994. Today, the border area ... net, they want to reduce social welfare benefits by forcing Canadian workers to lower their expectations. NAFTA's Impact on Mexican workers After NAFTA went into effect, Mexico fell into serious social, political and economic crisis. The Mexican peso lost 50% of its value; the government was nearly bankrupt. An armed uprising in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas highlighted the country's economic, geographic and racial divisions. Political assassinations and allegations of corruption continue to undermine faith in the political system at the highest levels of government. Defenders of NAFTA claim that the economic crisis in Mexico was not caused by NAFTA, but rather by Mexico's currency crisis. But, to ensure NAFTA's passage, the U.S. government supported a corrupt and financially incompetent political regime in Mexico. ...
- 114: International Relations Of Asia
- ... one actor in the system, or one player in the Strategic Quadrangle, to see the preoccupation with strategic geometry. As Mandlebaum states: "For no country more than the Soviet Union did the underlying structure of Asian international politics revolve about a complex interconnected set of triangular relationships. The most obvious and famous of the triangles linked the Soviet Union, China and the United States, but the Soviet-US- Japan triangle was ... overshadowed by the crucial Sino-Soviet-US triangle. Indeed the others owed much of their dynamic to the course of events in this main triangle." Through the 1960s, there were 4 main triangles in the Asian political arena: Soviet Union-China- North Vietnam, Soviet Union-Japan-US, Sino-Soviet-Indian- and Soviet Union- China-North Korea. In the 1970s, however this changed not only because more triangles were added, but because ... triangle. Relationships among the three countries scarcely changed, apart from fluctuations in US-Soviet and US-Japanese relations from time to time. Its immobility may have been the single most stabilizing element in post war Asian politics." The Soviet- Japanese-American triangle drove Soviet policy towards Japan, since the Soviets viewed Japan as a creature of American engagement in Asia. A whole series of strategic triangles were borne out of ...
- 115: The United States and National Security, and Dominant Party in Balance of Power
- ... was chosen as usual on behalf of the Kennedy administration to spell out the problems the new flexible response policy would solve: It should be noted that we have generally been at a disadvantage in crisis, since the Communists command a more flexible set of tools for imposing strain on the free world than we normally command. We are often caught in circumstances where our only available riposte is so disproportionate ... of Jupiter misses in Turkey became a public issue in 1962 when Khrushchev made their withdrawal a condition for removing Soviet IRBMs from Cuba. Although somewhat over-dramatized in most historical accounts, the Cuban Missile Crisis proves the award relation between nuclear security and political reality. But whatever the frustrations of dealing with Cuba after the missile crisis, the administration regarded the handling of that affair as a textbook demonstration of "the flexible response" in action, and therefore a model to be followed elsewhere. A draft of National Security Action Memorandum of ...
- 116: Adrenal Glands
- ... periods may become irregular or stop. Because the symptoms progress slowly, they are usually ignored until a stressful event like an illness or an accident causes them to become worse. This is called an addisonian crisis, or acute adrenal insufficiency. In most patients, symptoms are severe enough to seek medical treatment before a crisis occurs. However, in about 25 percent of patients, symptoms first appear during an addisonian crisis. Symptoms of an addisonian crisis include sudden penetrating pain in the lower back, abdomen (or legs), severe vomiting and diarrhoea, followed by dehydration. Low blood pressure and loss of consciousness left untreated, an addisonian ...
- 117: To Be Or Not
- ... it, while some, in quiet anticipation, try not to think about it. Others ignore it all, or they inveigh against the bad people. Whichever case is true, its still worth examining the value of crisis. The great thing about crises is that they confront us with hard facts. The cutting edge of a crisis usually concerns one basic issue and it also brings up many other interrelated issues, rushing much wider and deeper questions. People and environments do often get hurt in crises. Crises usually bring up many uncomfortable questions which we have avoided facing. A persons marital, career or health crisis often brings up much larger doubt about the purpose and course of their life. It becomes a gift in disguise, an opportunity for change. Crises accumulate when we ignore obvious signs, facts and clues ...
- 118: Berlin Events
- Cuban Missile Crisis The Cuban Missile Crisis was a major confrontation between the United States and Russia over Soviet-supplied missile installations in Cuba. The background to the crisis was Russia s military strength in Europe. At any time Russia would be able to take over Europe through the use of a surprise attack. The US, however, made an attack of this kind ...
- 119: Future Psychology
- ... it, while some, in quiet anticipation, try not to think about it. Others ignore it all, or they inveigh against the bad people. Whichever case is true, it s still worth examining the value of crisis. The great thing about crises is that they confront us with hard facts. The cutting edge of a crisis usually concerns one basic issue and it also brings up many other interrelated issues, rushing much wider and deeper questions. People and environments do often get hurt in crises. Crises usually bring up many uncomfortable questions which we have avoided facing. A person s marital, career or health crisis often brings up much larger doubt about the purpose and course of their life. It becomes a gift in disguise, an opportunity for change. Crises accumulate when we ignore obvious signs, facts and clues ...
- 120: Pathology Arises Out Fo The Ex
- ... a solitary world. The existential notion of pathology will be contrasted with that of the positivist approach. During the Second World War existentialism found it s zenith of popularity, a time when Europe was in crisis, faced with mass death and destruction. Existentialism provides a moving account of the agony of being thrown into the world, perhaps appealing the times of intense confusion, despair and rootlesssness caused by the War and ... manifest as an unexplainable dread and arise only in moments when normal insecurities disappear. Yalom (1989) describes it as that which whirrs continuously just beneath the membrane of life , coming to light perhaps through personal crisis, a work of art, or a sermon. May & Yalom (1984) define this anxiety as pertaining to the threat to one s very existence or to values that are identified with existence. Thus there is no ... and confront the anxiety that comes with such freedom. May (1969) addresses the issue of will , arguing against Freudian notions of determinism, as the point where one acts on one s freedom. He highlights the crisis of will in the modern Western world. May (1969) presents a vignette, of a catatonic episode in a patient who had experienced a crisis of will and values , whereby he had become so acutely ...
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