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- 231: A Study Of The Market Reforms In Post-Communist Eastern Europe With A Specific Case Study of Poland
- ... behind), and "software" became essential to the growth of industry (the "hardware" focus of the East could not absorb this new approach. As well, the changes are being attempted in a deep period of economic crisis that make an already difficult process even more difficult. Changing the Economy Systematic transformation requires institutional innovations, the internal liberalization of the economy, the external liberalization and the adjustment of the real economy as well ... Western export markets (i.e a lack of foreign investment), a bias towards products in weak demand but costly to produce (in terms of energy input and raw resources). These three factors produced an economic crisis that resulted in negative growth rates in 1979,80,81 and 82. It also produced the Solidarity movement in 1980 and the implementation of martial law the following year. During the 1980's, Poland managed ... Western economic concentration on itself and thus world aid has been reduced. Conclusion Poland has been the unlucky recipient of economic and political freedom in terms of timing. The Western world is in a debt crisis and can no longer help as much as they once would. As well, the end of the Cold War has meant that Poland is no longer as important as it might have been as ...
- 232: Britain In Africa
- The British had three major areas of interest in Africa that led to theircolonization of it ; strategic ports and routes to their Asian colonies, trade interests, and political objectives such as beating the French in the Scramble , and Christianizing the natives . The British had already made significant imperial actions in Africa by 1870, including capturing the Cape of ... that the canal they had built was now property of the British. This is the beginning of France and Britain's dual control of Egypt. The British gained complete control in Egypt following the Egyptian Crisis in 1882. Arabi and the Egyptian Nationalists deposed the Khedive and then proceeded to attempted to remove Britain and France from Egypt. The British were furious not only because of the revolt, but because the ...
- 233: Landfills
- ... York metro area, paved roads in and out of city parks, and development of Jones Beach, now the most polluted, dirty, overcrowded piece of shoreline in the Northeast. In Stewart Udall's book The Quiet Crisis, the former Secretary of the Interior lavishes praise on Moses. The JFK cabinet member calls Jones Beach "an imaginative solution ... (the) supreme answer to the ever-present problems of overcrowding" [Udall 163-4]. JFK's ... this foreboding passage: "Each generation must deal anew with the raiders, with the scramble to use public resources for private profit, and with the tendency to prefer short-run profits to long-run necessities. The crisis may be quiet, but it is urgent" [Udall xii]. Oddly, the subject of landfills is never broached in Udall's book; in 1963, the issue was, in fact, a non-issue. A modern state-of ... 1989. Miller, G. Tyler, Jr. Living in the Environment. Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 1994. Rathje, William and Cullen Murphy. Rubbish!. New York: Harper, 1992. Turk, Jonathan. Environmental Science. New York: Holt, 1984. Udall, Stewart. The Quiet Crisis. New York: Holt, 1963.
- 234: Child Abuse
- ... the services is a "Family support Service." It will provide immediate assistance to parents in time of stress; the program should be available on a 24-hour basis and should have a telephone hot line, crisis caretaker, crisis counseling, and crisis baby-sitters. This program will help parents facing immediate problems, and could receive immediate support. Although this service may not to helpful to some parents, it will be helpful to others. Other services parents ...
- 235: Electronic Commerce
- ... in much less time than it takes to just drive to the mall. Another reason for the boom in online commerce is the fact that the price of computers has been driven down by the Asian economy crisis. Families who could not afford a computer in the past now can. This holiday season the local Best Buy had a computer system advertised for $499.98, which included a monitor and a printer. This ...
- 236: The Tragic Challenger Explosion
- ... his achievement. After the tragedy, his mother remembered that "Ellison always had it in his mind to become an astronaut, but was too embarrassed to tell anyone. When he was growing up, there were no Asian astronauts, no black astronauts, just white ones (Gray 35)." Ellison will be forever remembered as being the first Japanese American in space. Finally, the last member of the seven person crew, Gregory Jarvis, born in ... Television definitely had a tremendous impact on reporting this story. ABC Anchorman Peter Jennings said, "We all shared in this experience in an instantaneous way because of television. I can't recall any time or crisis in history when television has had such an impact. (Zoglin 42)" The disaster even affected President Reagan's State of the Union address. When asked about the State of the Union speech, Reagan replied, "There ...
- 237: On Apartheid
- Topic Apartheid Thesis Statement Outline Apartheid I. South Africa II. Seperateness A. Black B. White C. Colored (Mixed Race) D. Asian III. Segregation A. Housing B. Education C. Employment D. Public Accomodations E. Transportation Notecards 1 "Apartheid, pronounced ah PAHRT hayt or pronounced ah PAHRT hyt, was, from 1948 until 1991, the South African government's ... Afrikaans, one of South Africa's official languages. Built on earlier South African laws and customs, apartheid classified every South African by race as either (1) black, (2) white, (3) Colored (mixed race), or (4) Asian. Apartheid required segregation in housing, education, employment, public accommodations, and transportation. It segregated not only almost all whites from nonwhites but also major nonwhite groups from each other. It also limited the rights of nonwhites ... race liberation, including the African National Congress. [See Facts On File print edition 1960, pp. 109F3, 103D3] May 31, 1961 South Africa becomes a republic. The decision to break from the Commonwealth is prompted by Asian and African Commonwealth member sates' denunciation of South Africa's apartheid policies, which it refuses to alter. [See Facts On File print edition 1961, p. 97A1] Nov. 12, 1963 U.N. General Assembly President ...
- 238: Kosovo 3
- ... llega a los Estados Unidos. Antes y durante el transcurso de los ataques aéreos, cientos de miles de kosovares abandonaron sus hogares; unos forzados por tropas serbias, y otros por temor. El resultado fue una crisis masiva de refugiados que afectó principalmente a los países vecinos, Albania y Macedonia. Sin embargo, la misma se vio mitigada cuando varios países occidentales ofrecieron refugio a unos 860.000 albaneses, que habían dejado Kosovo ... equitativo dentro de la Federación Yugoslava § Partición § Independencia Status Quo El Status Quo es claramente inestable y no puede perdurar en el corto plazo. Dada la ausencia de adelantos reales hacia un acuerdo para la crisis de Kosovo, es muy importante apoyar a los líderes de la provincia que están a favor de una resistencia pacífica más activa, o de lo contrario, la violencia contra las fuerzas de seguridad serbias aumentará ... para ayudar al proceso de democratización en Serbia, fortaleciendo a la sociedad civil y mejorando la situación social y económica de Kosovo. Aunque la democratización y el fortalecimiento de la sociedad civil no resuelven la crisis en Kosovo directamente, constituyen una base indispensable para cualquier tipo de solución. El apoyo internacional – tanto financiero como político – debería otorgarse a los medios independientes, al sector de las ONG´s, a los proyectos ...
- 239: Affirmative Action
- ... delight, hoping to hear from the marketing firm again. Unfortunately, he never hears from them again. The main reason why he was not chosen, was because of the color of his skin. Since he is Asian, they could not hire him, because 50% of their employees are Asian. Under the affirmative action, they must employ someone who is underrepresented. This type of situation happens often. It is not the qualifications, but the color of the skin that employers look for today. Affirmative action ... our standards. Instead, all students should raise their own standards in order to improve our society. For example, the University of California in Berkeley has a diverse student body with a majority of Asians. An Asian student coming out of high school with a 4.0 GPA, and a list of extra curricular activities would not be accepted simply because of his ethnicity. Instead the school would rather accept a ...
- 240: Tripmaster Monkey
- Tripmaster Monkey Wittman uses theatre throughout the book Tripmaster Monkey to get back to his cultural roots and Asian culture. He is trying to find himself through theatre and to open up a new avenue for his people. There are numerous examples of this throughout the book as he is writing his play and ... Kingston to foreshadow with irony Wittman s later relationship with Ta_a. Their relationship illustrates his insecurities about not being American enough unless he is dating a white woman insecurity exacerbated by Nanci, his ideal Asian woman, who rejects him. Wittman a fifth generation native Californian, is concerned to the point of paranoia about the lack of a vibrant Chinese culture tradition to represent Chinese Americans within the context of greater ... for-all; people have to imagine, practice, and re-create it (306). This is how Wittman used theater. To bring together his community and to help them get pasted what he thought of as the Asian stereotype.
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