Essays on Mother Country

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Introduction The Boston Tea Party was an important episode in the history of America which gave way to the American War of Independence. This war was fought to highlight the oppressive measures by Britain, or the mother country as it was known. The Boston Tea Party is the reaction to the attitude of Britain towards its American colonies. According to TH Breen, ordinary people in predominantly rural communities were the highlight of the ensuing American Revolution (Carp, 421). This essay begins with the non-importation agreement in Boston. This is followed by the lapse of the ...

The CHET:

CHET Narrative: For the better part of the eighteenth century, the North America continent was subject to the whims of European empires that sought to establish control in the region. However, the Seven Years’ War of between 1754 and 1763 changed the situation by eradicating not only the Spanish but also the French forces from the region. In other words, the English Monarch secured its rights over the Thirteen American Colonies over which Britain presided. Now, the problem with the removal of France and Spain as a threat to the colonists quickly emerged as sentiments of independence resounded among ...

Central to American independence was the Revolutionary War of between 1775 and 1783, which saw the English Empire relinquish her control of the Thirteen Colonies in North America. Freedom came with the eradication of all monarchical rules and the formation of the United States of America under a Constitution to protect democracy. In that sense, Britain lost her territories because of the conflicts that emerged between the Empire and the colonists. Evidently, from the fact that the mother country sought to exert direct control over the colonies from its distant location to the notions of liberty that permeated the ...

Introduction

Foremost, in the years leading to the American Revolutionary War, patriotic societies in the thirteen colonies no longer relied on the Mother Country; in fact, they sought self-governance because the period allowed the same. After the Seven Years’ War and the signing of the Treaty of Paris, the English Monarch emerged victoriously and removed the threats posed by the Spanish and French forces. Hence, “ambitious colonial leaders were no longer threatened” and could claim more control (Zinn, 2005, p.59). At the same time, the “colonists contributed soldiers and economic resources” to aid in the war effort and as a ...

The Tea Act Of 1773

Slide 2 The Seven Year’s War of between 1754 and 1763 and the signing of the Treaty of Paris to end the skirmishes formed the foundations on which tensions emerged between the Thirteen Colonies and the mother country (Zinn, 2005, p.59). Two factors facilitated the emergence of independence sentiments in the colonies as the colonies no longer needed the protection of the powerful Britons: The war brought perceptions of equality between the colonists and the English populace residing in the mother country (Foner, 2011, p.189). Britain was at a disadvantage as it remained with an “enormous debt and ...

Introduction

Offshoring is a common trend to a majority of international companies that have their root of operation outside the U.S market. Apple Inc. is one such company that has been caught up in a flurry of controversy regarding its stake in remitting taxes to the U.S government. Besides, the offshore account maintained by Apple Company has led to serious criticisms and flurry of accusations. This essay focuses on the main reason why companies like Apple would wish to maintain offshore operations rather than refocus their operations in its domestic country.

Reasons for Offshoring

The main motto that is behind Apple’s decision ...

The process through which the English settlers became Americans was twofold: they claimed North America as their home and cut ties with the mother country. First, the Red Indian tribes that existed throughout the lands claimed North America as their home, albeit in separate units. For that reason, confrontations that closely resembled a tug of war ensued because two distinct groups were vying for the same resources. Now, the assimilation of one faction by the other was impossible as their traditions differed greatly. Hence, it is no wonder that David Edmunds’ Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership revolves ...

The process through which the English settlers became Americans was twofold: they claimed North America as their home and cut ties with the mother country. First, the Red Indian tribes that existed throughout the lands claimed North America as their home, albeit in separate units. For that reason, confrontations that closely resembled a tug of war ensued because two distinct groups were vying for the same resources. Now, the assimilation of one faction by the other was impossible as their traditions differed greatly. Hence, it is no wonder that David Edmunds’ Tecumseh and the Quest for Indian Leadership revolves ...

An exploration of the interests that the English had when settling the North America Continent reveals that the establishment and development of Virginia and Massachusetts in 1607 and 1620 respectively stemmed from different causes. The Virginia Company of London and the Massachusetts Bay Company granted passages for English immigrants while hoping that each group would establish a settlement that would benefit the Monarch in one way or another. As one would expect with the acquisition of territories outside the mother country, the new areas held potential for the people of Britain from the personal to national levels. In other ...

Implementing a Global Business Strategy

Implementing a Global Business Strategy

Introduction

The advancing technology and explosive innovations have made the business environment to be very competitive, and only those firms that will formulate competitive strategies will remain relevant in the market. The concept of the global strategy involves a company setting up long-term goals necessary to successfully expand its market and other operations in other countries. This is usually occasioned by a gap in the international market (Siegel, 2007). Continued changes and advancement in technology is, however, the key contributor to businesses going global. Before it implements its global business strategy, a business needs to ...

I. Introduction When the famous French statesman, Alexis de Tocqueville travelled to the United States during the 19th century, he noted the role of religion in being the foremost of the political institutions of the country. In his book entitled Democracy in America, he remarked how religion was highly respected and used to promote freedom in the United States. He had hoped that the French leaders can learn from the example set by America, and took it upon himself to write about his observations during his stay in America. Tocqueville’s motivation in coming to the United States was ...

There are different reasons that a government has when it decides to send some students abroad for further studies. Most governments always have the aim of improving the quality of education that its students receive and in most cases its most exceptional students who portray exceptional abilities in studies are sent abroad to receive the said education. The destinations where the students receive the education are directly dependent on the progress the destination country has made both educationally as well as economically. However, there are a few disadvantages that are experienced in internationalization of education. There are countries where the educational ...

Wilding is a term coined by Charles Derber in his book “The Wilding of America: How Greed and Violence are Eroding Our Nation's Character”. In the book, Derber tackles the concept of the American dream and how individualism is glorified at the expense of the common good. Success as depicted in the American dream is tantamount to the amassing of material wealth gained by doing everything within one’s power to achieve it regardless of harm caused to others. Derber regarded this phenomenon as wilding and defined it as a degenerate of individualism which encompasses a variety of antisocial behavior (Derber 11). ...

Developing a successful compensation program for the employees is one of the primary tools that multinational companies use to retain their employees as well as achieve the organization’s strategic goals through improving the employees’ work productivity. However, designing a benefits and compensation program for the expatriates is a challenging process especially due to the differences in legal and social status of the host country and the organization’s mother country. In the case of India for instance, the benefits and compensation plan for both the local employees and the expatriates is regulated by several federal and state laws. In addition, factor ...

Thomas Paine, a political activist, theorist, and a philosopher in his pamphlet "common sense" inspired people to protest and fight for independence from the Great Britain. Common sense explained why they needed independence and the advantages independence would bring to the people of America. It also presented them with an argument for freedom just in the right time when independence was a vital issue. It communicated in a manner that ordinary people understood, shunning philosophical references used by other writers, and referring to the Bible to speak to the people. Thus, it was seen as the most incendiary and most accepted booklet of ...

It is a testament to the power of propaganda that the events of March 5, 1770 were widely accepted as a massacre which remained the very symbol of British tyranny for 200 years. The skillful manipulation of facts is a hallmark of propaganda, and the men who exploited the circumstances surrounding the killing of five Americans created an atrocity that has resonated throughout American history down to the present day. As the hotbed of revolutionary fervor in the colonies, Boston was perhaps the only place where such propaganda could have taken hold; the only city from which it could have spread so ...

Globalization

Over the years, neoliberalism has come to rival liberalism as a political ideology. This is in tandem with the suggestion that liberalism, as a political ideology, has gone through change to reemerge as a neoliberalism. To this end, there exists a suggestion as to the existence of a common experience for both concepts. A general definition of neoliberalism states that neoliberalism is a political ideology inclined towards favorable constitutional changes in bid at achieving democracy and freedom . On the other hand, the definition of neoliberalism is encapsulates it as a “a modified form of traditional liberalism.” Liberalism took root as a political slogan in Spain and Sweden and ...

Every historical event has its reasons, prerequisites, characteristics of development and further consequences. Particular feature of historical events is that their meaning changes with each epoch’s interpretation of it. There were events which contemporary scholars called insignificant and even harmful for the development of their society. On the other hand, representatives of the next generations would consider those events essential for the development of modern social order which is more advanced and democratic than the former one. In other words, history is an interpretative science and it gains new half-color each time scholar from a new epoch looks into ...

Every historical event has its reasons, prerequisites, characteristics of development and further consequences. Particular feature of historical events is that their meaning changes with each epoch’s interpretation of it. There were events who contemporary scholars called insignificant and even harmful for the development of their society. On the other hand, representatives of the next generations would consider those events essential for the development of modern social order which is more advanced and democratic than the former one. In other words, history is an interpretative science and it gains new half-color each time scholar from a new epoch looks into ...

Japanese people lived in Canada since 1877 when the first Japanese arrived in Canada. They were liked by the Canadians compared to Chinese immigrants. However, as strings of time passed, more and more Japanese people arrived in Canada. Arriving in Canada was not a problem compared to how they changed the Canadian society at the time. Japanese immigrants were willing to work for long hours for relatively low wages. This made the Canadians to complain about unfair competition and racism towards the Japanese immigrants was magnified. As much as Canadians discriminated against the Japanese, there were no legal restrictions towards ...