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The idea of persistent poverty is a pervasive one, and its context in the plantation economy is important to understand if these aspects are to be applied to one’s own concept of the economy. In George Beckford’s 1972 book Persistent Poverty: Underdevelopment in Plantation Economies of the Third World, he presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the plantation states in the West Indies, while expanding the scope of these appraisals to other third world countries.

Beckford’s basic argument is that “the net development impact [of the plantation system] was large enough to bring about a transformation from a condition ...

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The book Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals written by Heidi Grant Halvorson creates the step by step instructions of how to reach the aims. The work is not the container of simple clichés and well-known instructions, but a specific set of advices of how to reach personal goals. The entire work is following a logical structure of indentifying the goals, preparing to achieve them through the evaluation and investigation, and accrual attainment of the goals. According to the author, it is essential to distinguish between true goals and those imposed by the environment, as the ...

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Change in the climate is happening rapidly as well as severely. As a result, there is the destruction of the world. The effects of change in the climate are more shocking since disasters caused by this change grows continuously at a higher frequency and intensity. There is much impact on the earth’s surface, thus threatening nature as well as the human system with a severe damage that cannot be reversed. For instance, as the increase in global warming persists, the result will be the rise in depletion of the natural resources, polar ice caps melting, the rise of ...

Ecological Imperialism in New England

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In 1492, Christopher Columbus landed in “the New World” and marked the beginnings of its extensive colonization. When European settlers arrived in the Americas, they brought with them their cultural values and began to adapt American land to their needs. Those days started ecological imperialism; “wilderness” of the Indian nature was disturbed. European settlers intervened the setting and brought significant changes in flora and fauna as well as the habitual way of living of Native Americans. This paper reveals the long-term consequences of English ecological imperialism in New England and ecological changes brought by European settlers. The main ...

The Practice of Management is a classic book on management, written by Peter Drucker in 1954. The book which offers the fundamentals of modern management practices received wide readership since its initial publication and is still widely sought until today. Drucker combined works of experience as a management consultant for small and large business in developing the key principles in his book. The author’s critical skills and remarkable ability to write is apparent in this literature, despite being written over 60 years ago, it remains to appeal to business people, educators and students who are interested to gain ...

“Burmese Days” is a powerful and thought-provoking novel written by George Orwell that presents a grim portrait of imperialism and the British Empire. In the book, Orwell neither romanticizes Burma and its people nor idealizes the imperialists. Instead, he depicts bitterness, meanness, corruption, and wickedness. Using his own experience, the author skillfully depicts the cruel circumstances and tragic outcomes in a colonial society that is based on domination and fear and is in the service of the imperialists. The protagonist of the novel, John Flory, vividly demonstrates the dark side of the ruling class, and that the imperialists did ...

Part 4 and Part 5 Final Paper

Actual changes that are eminent in the expounded Chapter three of ‘A History of Usury and Debts’ entails an in-depth insight of the connection between war, capitalism, Protestants as well as their significance in the development of banking and debts around the world, an ordeal which reflects the current status of financial markets. The author well explains Protestants' connection to usury and debt, and how the selection from the Roman Catholic influenced other themes in the chapter, such as war and capitalism (Geisst 107).
Actual changes include the way the three themes related in the previous part is construed ...

In the contemporary times, the spread of the Asian flu, the Aids virus and the SARS epidemic have been instrumental in disease outbreaks and pandemics into mainstream consciousness. The pandemics of the modern day may seem unique, but they all have a connotation in history.
A staggering twenty-five million people lost their lives to the flu as it spread all over the world. The outbreak began in August of 1918, and it was finally contained in March 1919. To the American nation, over a half-million people lost their lives to the terrible flu. In the contemporary America, the pandemic ...

Initiating and agreeing on a strategic planning process

For strategic management to be effective, the key decision makers have to be involved. It would be company to involve people from three organizational levels. This is the top management, middle management and the technical department of the frontline staff. The top management is involved in communications within the organization and outsiders. They are also quick to perceive where there are mismatches between the organization and the environment. They are able to see the threats and opportunities in the external environment. More importantly they control the resources of the company and planning with them makes things easier (Bryson, 2004).

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