The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was an agreement signed between Canada, United States and Mexico in 1992 and took effect in 1994. The trade agreement’s main goal was to build the largest free trade region across the globe. Thanks to NAFTA, Canada and United States currently exchange nearly $1.5 billion in goods and ...
Hu Jintao became president of the People’s Republic of China in 2003 and has changed many aspects of China’s foreign policy. While his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, had what could be described as a U.S.-centric foreign policy, Hu has expanded the scope of the country’s foreign policy to include more diverse alliances with countries such as ...
The ideology of Pierre Bourdieu can be summarized into three factors: habitus, field and capital. Among these, capital is said to be the primary factor. It is capital that dictates one’s participation in a field, depending on the form and amount of capital one has. However, the manner in which one makes use of his/her ...
Pros of the Legalization of Marijuana -Marijuana has many health benefits for people with diseases like cancer, AIDS, and glaucoma. It can help lessen the pain for people with the diseases and for people undergoing chemotherapy. This has led to a strong movement for the legalization of marijuana strictly for medicinal purposes. -Crime rates will ...
In 2012, 33 senate races will be contested. Some look like landslides, some look closer. Among the tightest is the Senate race in Montana, which pits Democrat Jon Tester against a Republican, presumably Denny Rehberg. Montana’s politics In elections for President, Montana has tended Republican. McCain won the state in 2008, beating Obama 49-47; in ...
Fred Thompson hasn’t won anything yet except possibly the attention of a lot of political nay sayers. Still in the last month his entry into the political campaign for the Republican Party’s nomination for the presidency in 2008 , Fred Thompson has dispatched those peddling conventional wisdom and positioned himself smack in the middle of ...
In Plato’s Republic, virtues like moderation and courage are key. They are examined through the construction of the ideal city-state to explain how the soul of a human should be composed. Courage is important in order to uphold what one believes and to fight for ideas that are just. It is also necessary to control ...
In 1941, way long ago, a President of The United States of America laid out four basic freedoms every human being must have in order to feel and be whole. He prefaced his list of freedoms with the following words; “In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a ...
The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which the Anti-Federalists required in order for the states not in favor of the Constitution to ratify the document. All of these amendments are important, as they insure that we have rights, and those rights are clearly spelled out. The sixth amendment establishes ...
If you are looking for a Third Party Candidate with a policy on abortion, you will not have much of a choice. There are four Third Party Candidates who have their position on abortion on their web sites. All of them advocate the Federal Government not being involved in any abortion issue, with thought ranging ...
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