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            The United States of America has an extensive and colorful history as a nation.  Consequently, Americans as a people also have a long and rich history to speak of.  The American community consists of many different groups of people, people who have contributed to the unfinished story that defined and continues to define the…

On the 14 and 15 August 1969 British Troops were deployed to Northern Ireland to the cities of Derry and Belfast. They were sent in to try and stop the ongoing crisis between the Protestants and Catholics which had resulted in riots. This increase in violence just caused a lot more mistrust between the two…

Executive Summary Argentina had one of the most fast growing economies at the end of the century, but the huge amount of foreign debt interest payments and other factors made the government pegged the peso to US dollar in 1991 and limit the growth of money supply. That helped to decrease the inflation and increase…

Despite the various versions, all legends about Sampolac Lake in San Pablo revolve around a common idea: the lake is named after a massive tamarind tree called sampolac. Long ago, a rich couple owned a bountiful orchard filled with delicious tamarind trees. One beautiful day, a fairy disguised as an old and weak woman came…

BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS Tata was born in Paris, France, the second child of Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (Parsi) and his French wife, Suzanne “Sooni” Briere. J. R. D. was an interesting product of two continents. He was educated in France, Japan and England before being drafted into the French army and assigned to a regiment…

“Race is defined as one group of the populations constituting humanity.” (Coon 62)  Since the 1970’s, the conclusion has been stated that race is a social, cultural and political concept based largely on superficial appearances. The notion of race’ is so emotionally charged that objective discussion of its significance in relation to social problems is…

In 1986, Tony Wang was Vice President of the Southeast Asia division of KFC. He had an opportunity of bringing the world’s largest chicken restaurant company into the world’s largest populated country. Wang was an experienced entrepreneur and had been working for KFC for seven years. No other fast food companies were currently operating in…

How would you compare the life of the poor Egyptian boy in ‘The Conjurer Made off with the Dish’ with that of a poor boy living in a metropolitan city like Karachi? “The day was passing and soon mysterious darkness would descend”. This is how Naguib Mahfouz’s story ends. A short story filled with a…

The United States wanted to prevent hostility, so they tried to get the Indians to agree to living on reservations instead of on their homelands. For the rest of the following century they struggled to force the Indians to accept it, they failed to do so in the end and were forced to more desperate…

Nobody knew anything about Macario’s early life; but everybody knew that he was a robber, the chief of a gang which used to haunt the country about the shores of Laguna De Bay and rob merchants coming from Manila. It was in the days when no railroad line existed in the Philippines, when all trips…