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The effects of the free trade regime on the United States

By the term "free trade" economists refer to an idealized market model, where countries trade their goods or services without being limited and inhibited by tariffs and taxes imposed by governments and non-tariff barriers (Wikipedia, 2007).

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Norway's reluctance to join the European Union

When Norway gained its independent from Sweden in 1905, (the country having been ceded to Sweden by Denmark in 1814) creating its own monarchy and political governing body, the mood of the Norwegian people was really one of isolationism (Burch, 2005, 2).

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Racial conflict and multiculturalism in 1990s America

Racism and the Rise of Multiculturalism: Progress or Pitfall? The one absolute certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, or preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities. We have but one flag.

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Contrasting European views of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya

John Lonsdale writes in the Journal of African History that while the legacy of the Mau Mau has lived in British memory "...as a symbol of African savagery," modern Kenyans are divided over whether the Mau Mau represented a "militant nationalism" against England, or just a kind of "tribalist…

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Financial aid and funding options for international students at U.S. universities

The objective of this work is to research the financial aid and funding similarities and differences for international students at private vs. public colleges and universities in the United States.

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Senselessness and victimization in Kafka's The Trial

Trial by Franz Kafka is a typically existential work. Although abandoned before completion, the work nevertheless succeeds in depicting its themes of senselessness, hopelessness and the victimization that results in these feelings. The main character of the story, Joseph K.

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New historicism and cultural materialism in Renaissance drama

In recent years, two related and overlapping schools of literary theory have emerged that have offered competing responses to the relationship between Renaissance drama and the political power of Tudor and Stuart Britain (Mcguire 443).

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Patronage and self-presentation in Renaissance English literature

Whenever modern observers review literary works from the past, there is a real danger that contemporary values and perspectives will preclude any meaningful interpretation.

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Video gaming history from Halcyon to the 1990s

The objective of this work is to research the history, advances, concerns and future of video gaming and to cite at least 10 scholarly sources in the research.

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Women's ordination as rabbis in Judaism and historical separation

The ordination of women as rabbis in Judaism engenders as much discussion as the ordination of women as priests in the Catholic Church and some opposition, usually based on history as much as on biblical prescription.

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