Council on Foreign Relations

There are also two- to three-year junior colleges and vocational colleges. Elementary schooling is compulsory, with an enrollment rate of 100 percent. Compulsory middle school education for three additional years was implemented in 2002. * Secondary education According to APEC website, there are two types of high schools in South Korea, general and vocational. Combining the two types of high schools together, the ratio of middle school graduates advancing to high school was 99.7 in…

America is a fairly new country especially in comparison with those of Europe. Because of this fact, there are many accounts from when Europeans first settled on the land and when America truly began to form its culture. Due to this search for identity, the views of Europe, Native Americans, and religion have been expressed in both positive and negative lights. In Benjamin Franklin’s Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America and Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, Franklin’s positive views of…

Italian food is one of the most popular foods globally. The reason behind its worldwide popularity is because it has developed through many centuries through changes in social and political settings (Fortina, 2003 p.398). Origin of Italian dishes date back as the 4th B.C.E with the main origin areas in the ancient Roman Empire, Etruscan and ancient Greek. They were significant changes especially after the agrarian revolution in Europe as new crops were grown such as the potatoes, maize, pepper…

In modern times, social and humans rights have become a priority of focus for many humans comparable to the amount of importance they put on economic and foreign issues. In 1969, this longing for rights for humans transferred to equal rights for homosexuals when a police raid occurred at a gay bar in New York City (Conference). This triggered a riot and provoked a movement that sought to end the discrimination against LGBT’s. LGBT stands for those that are: lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender…

These agencies and their “varying rules and standards led to certain entities not being regulated at all, with others subject to less oversight than their peer financial firms organized under different charters” (Morrison & Foerster, 2010, p. 6). After the financial crisis, analysts pointed to the “many regulatory failures” and gaps in oversight as the reason unethical and illegal practices were overlooked or ignored (Madrick, 2010, para. 3). As a result, the provisions set out by…

newly issued SZLN shares to the holders of PEM shares. However, in addition to the time required gain approval, SZLN was authorized to issue only class A shares, which only mainlanders and selected foreign institutional investors were allowed to…

model can be seen today through the use of faith-based community organizing models being used today through the IAF; founded by Alinsky is still active today with the national headquarters located in Chicago and serving twenty-one states and three foreign countries (Perazzo, 2008). His efforts with the BYOC resulted in the BYOC becoming known as an “orderly revolution” and Alinsky becoming known as a genius (Engel, 2002). His work gained him national recognition as an organizer. (Engel,…

Population Demographics Indonesia is a series of volcanic islands situated between the Indian and Pacific oceans, with a population of 253 million people it is the largest country in Southeast Asia. Their most prominent religion is Islam, with 87% of its population practicing Muslims they are the most populous Muslim-majority country in the world (Dolven). Indonesia has great strength in international trade because the country has access to main sea lines. This accounts for the wide variety…

Olds, who founded Olds Motor Vehicle Company in 1897 (later, as Oldsmobile, to become a part of General Motors). Having left his company years before it was acquired by GM, in 1905 Olds established a new company, REO Motor Car Company, the predecessor to Nucor, in Lansing, Michigan. Though Olds' cars, including the luxurious REO Flying Cloud, were popular, they were not profitable, and the company's more successful truck business (featuring the famous REO Speed Wagon) was still not sufficiently…

Moreover, in early 2006 there were already 350 million mobile phones in use in China and that number was projected to grow by about 57 million annually.21 Before choosing to launch Google.cn, Google was already a player in this Chinese market. Since the site’s inception in 1999, U.S.-based Google.com had been available to Chinese users as it had been to users worldwide. Unlike its major U.S. competitors, though, Google did not rush to set up a China-based version of its search engine, and thus…