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Olson 5 Nowadays, nearly every consumer product you buy will say it’s made somewhere other than the United States. From t-shirts to toys, production outside of the United States is generally a fraction of the price even considering transportation. The words “Made in China” are most frequently seen in recent years. However, 20 years ago, the cheapest, most available labor was in Mexico. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) dropped taxes on exports from Mexico to the United States, which…
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Preamble: For decades, they were largely ignored and forgotten, but together they probably comprise the world‟s largest group of vulnerable people. Currently, there are an estimated 30 million of them in at least 50 countries living amidst war and persecution. They have little legal or physical protection and a very uncertain future – outcasts in their own countries. Bureaucratically, they are described as IDPs – or „internally displaced persons.‟ In the real world, they are civilians, mostly women…
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Gendered Based Violence In this paper we will discuss three different types of gender-based violence. We will discuss intimate partner abuse, harassment, and sexual abuse. These types of abuse happen all over the world, every day. These types of abuse are usually gender based and geared toward women. Let us begin with intimate partner abuse. In the U.S. domestic abuse accounts for 11% of all murders and three out of four victims are women. (Sapiro) The rate of intimate…
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Book Review: The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism is a collection of essays, published by Texas A&M University Press, documenting two hundred years of Texans’ fight for a liberal voice in an overtly conservative state. The essays are organized and edited by David Cullen and Kyle Wilkison, history professors at Collin College. The eleven essays pull together fourteen authors to discuss various topics that concern the Texas…
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Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, Good Wives Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England 1650-1750 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983) The novel Good Wives is a study of the many roles women play in Northern New England from 1650-1750. The book is split into three sections; all named after biblical females who portrayed idealized feminine traits within New England society. The first part is named Bathsheba, which shows and explains the responsibilities and possibilities women had…
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as expeditiously as possible. Why study human ecology? As Dr. Vila puts it: “I regard the study of human ecology as much more than an enjoyable intellectual challenge. I’ve spent the majority of my adult life dealing with human aggression and violence: as a young Marine in Viet Nam; as a street cop in Los Angeles; as a police chief in the emerging island nations of Micronesia; and as one of the people responsible for planning for the continuity of our national government in the event of a nuclear…
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1950’s Studio attempts to re-engage audience On the waterfront: Social problems Location shooting Black and white, documentary style Influenced by neo-realism Authenticity History of the New York Waterfront Corruption – endemic Violence Loan-sharking The “shape-up” “Waterfront Priest”, Father John Corridan Hearings televised in 1951 Waterfront Crime Communism established by New York governor in 1952 Neo-Realistic Film Post WW2 Anti – Fascist (against the corrupt…
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compile a report called Crime in the United States. In September 2012, the report contains an overview of the statistics from 2011. The information pertains only to violent crimes normally committed with a weapon. A violent crime, by the FBI (2011) definition “is composed of four offenses: murder or no negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault; offenses which involve force or threat of force.” In 2011, violent crimes on a nationwide scale decreased by an estimated…
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The Politics of Legitimized Suffering People across the globe are navigating stratified and pluralistic healthcare landscapes, shaped by neoliberal policies and unequal access to medical care. In Causalities of Care: Immigration and the Politics of Humanitarianism in France, Miriam Ticktin, examines the regimes of care at the heart of French immigration politics. Ticktin focuses on a series of measures introduced in the Code of Entry and Residence of Foreigners and Right of Asylum (CESEDA) in 1998…
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TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS winter, European courts and diplomats were moving ever closer to war. It would prove larger, more brutal, and costlier than anyone anticipated, and if would have an outcome more decisive than any war in the previous three centuries. Historians usually call it the Seven Years' War. Modern Americans, recalling a few disconnected episodes — Braddock's defeat, the Fort William Henry "massacre," the Battle of Quebec — know it as the French and Indian War. Neither name…
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