International Marxist Tendency

Between 1781 to 1789, the Articles of Confederation provided the United States with the basis of government. Unfortunately, the government put forth by the Articles of Confederation failed to be an effective one due to the limits of power it imposed on Congress. Congress was denied several vital duties including being able to tax the states directly, enforce treaties and regulate trade. The powers denied to Congress made it too weak, and as a result an ineffective government. Under the…

In Chapter 6 of our textbook, we learned about the following: state power, the types of state violence, exogenous violence such as genocide, torture, international conflict, terrorism, and lastly endogenous violence such as state executions anti-communist attacks, domestic spying, etc. I found these topics extremely interesting, as well as, believe that they are particularly controversial topics for discussion. A few things that really stood out for me in this chapter were the topics of…

Exploration of Topic. The topic of the research is based around the concept of cultural adjustment process, how international students cope with it and integrates into the American society. The importance of this topic is very well understood in USA. Students from all over the world come to USA to get higher education and all of them go through this process of cultural adjustment in many different ways. This makes cultural adjustment a very significant subject of studies here. Hence,…

Globalisation is the "integration of the political, economic and cultural activities of geographically and/or nationally separated people" (US Department of Defence, 1999, p1) which results in the widespread economic interdependence of nations across continents through the exchange of: capital and goods; information and ideas; people and environmental substances. This massively increased scale of trade and cultural interchange has been aided by a variety of processes: Improvements in…

a non-profit international disability and development organization that strives to aid people who have an impediment or disability. They treat disabilities and empower individuals to become active member in society. Light of the World specializes in inclusive education, eye health, prevention of blindness, and community based rehabilitation; through these four concentrations, they aspire to change the world. They are currently engaged with multiple local, national, and international…

Groups such as the European union (EU) and to a lesser extend those such as the African Union, Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Caribbean Community are all organizations that exist as either a supranationalist or quasi supranationalist organization. Each of these organizations experiences both positive benefits to the agreements between their nations and selective pressures against them. While there may be unforeseen benefits to the creation of one world wide supranationalist super…

Humans have always owned a sense of survival in doing their best of what they can do to live, thrive, and survive such as the survival of the fittest however, we as humans feel the need to help those in need to help everyone for the better good of all. A way that we as humans fulfill the desire to help and better enable the prosperity of others is to donate foreign aid to other countries this has been done for a long, long time in which a group of people as in a country will donate money or…

Silver and the Global Economy During the 16th to 18th centuries silver was of vast importance to trading networks all around the world. From 1500 to 1750 Spanish America and Tokugawa Japan dominated the world production in silver. Silver was so influential that the Ming government in China required all taxes to be paid in silver. Silver had many economic and social effects because it expanded trading connections with Asia, caused inflation, and the forced labor class had a hard life in its…

spoke with international students, the more I noticed familiar refrains that both educated me and reminded me about my own U.S. and academic culture” (Nathan 67). An anthropologist, Rebekah Nathan went undercover – she goes back to school as a freshman at her own university to see the campus through student eyes. This decision was made as she wanted to analyze and examine the campus life fairly instead of having the often professor-student research studies. By interviewing international…

rise of social status. Women were seen to make major contributions to the war by virtually running the country behind the front lines. Some women were even in charge of creating propaganda for the war, though many served their countries in the International Red Aid. They set up soup kitchens and refugee camps in republican areas. Though they had many contributions to that war the women in Spain were overlooked and underappreciated for what they had done to keep Spain…