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Have you ever wondered who Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P (The Big Bopper) were and what there life was like before there death? Buddy Holly, born in Lubbock, Texas, and just 22 when he died, he began singing country music with high school friends before switching to rock and roll. He then was opening (performing) for various performers, including Elvis Presley. By the mid-1950s, Holly and his band had a regular radio show and toured internationally, playing hits like “Peggy Sue,” “Oh,…

demoralised them from taking global steps (Macpherson & Holt, 2007). These days international expansion reaps more benefit for companies compared to earlier days. Eastern European and Asian countries are newly emerging markets for such businesses as the market development is in its infancy stage in these countries. These new markets involve risks and demands thorough planning before venturing. Compared to saturated Western markets, these emerging markets promise better opportunities and huge…

Natural Resources Defense Council are quick to chide other countries that heavily practice logging and export timber to other countries, yet the U.S. is the world’s largest importer of wood products! The U.S. is caught in an ethical crosshairs; while we may have reduced our logging rate and the associated ecological damage, we are still “exporting pollution” (Adams) to the countries we import from, some of which are vulnerable developing countries. In this case it is arguable that the population…

3.3% in 2015 (“International Migrants by Country of Destination, 1960-2015”). Nearly two thirds of them emigrated to Europe and Asia in 2015, while only about 22 percent went to North America. However, the country with the largest number of migrants is the United States, with 47 million in 2015, with Germany and Russia a distant second and third at about 12 million each (“International Migration…

of a developing country takes a hit, that hit trickles down onto the salaries of its citizens. If these said hits happen often enough and with enough force, the citizens of that country are at an immense financial risk due. This wild fluctuation of the citizens’ incomes affects what food they buy, what necessities they can afford, and whether or not they are able to support themselves and their families. Tisdell goes on to say that, the instability of many of the developing countries’ work…

very difficult, if not impossible, to generate social movements of poor people or poor nations to advocate on national or global levels for action to redress poverty and inequality. Why is this? Are the advocacy efforts emanating from the rich countries nevertheless worthwhile? Can or should they help foster poor people’s movements from afar? The subject matter “Global poverty” is an important issue that is addressed nationally and internationally by various stakeholders as the actors of the…

problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship” (Carnegie). This problem hurts the whole world, but it tends to be more severe in third world countries. Income inequality…

In the 1930s, the earliest form of country music, hillbilly records, sprang from the Appalachian region of the United States. The hillbilly musicians were isolated from the mainstream music that was becoming popular in the United States, so they developed a sound that differed greatly. Themes of their music were inspired by folk, gospel, and family. Banjo, acoustic guitar, and fiddles appeared…

Cheerleaders like Johan Norberg and Thomas Friedman argue that globalization is inevitable and mainly positive, whereas other critics seem to have slightly different views. As YaleGlobal Online describes globalization is “propelled by the desire to improve one’s life and helped along by technology… this increasing integration of the world has enriched life but also created new problems.” As one can see, globalization is highly contested, but there are undeniable good results and bad results,…

America including Mexico and Canada. Moreover, many Americans liked the idea of this annexation and they deeply believed that Americans should invade and occupy as many territories as possible. This idea and ideological belief of occupying others countries territories brought a conflict between nations (Great Britain and Mexico) were involved in the conflict.…