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            The thesis of Jack Weatherford’s “Cocaine and the Economic Deterioration of Bolivia”, is that cocaine, particularly the results of its demand and production costs, has contributed to the economic, moral, and cultural decline of Bolivia. Additionally, the cocaine trade has increased the number of health concerns for Bolivians. This decline is rampant and pervasive…

In much of the state in the late 19th century. societal tensenesss were defined in footings of rich versus hapless. native-born versus immigrant. and worker versus capitalist. In the provinces of the former Confederacy. despite all the calls for a New South in the old ages after Reconstruction. tensenesss continued to focus on upon the…

It was the opinion of Lord Acton, a great English historian, that the discovery of the New World was the greatest landmark in the transition from the Middle Ages to modern times. Certainly the movement of western Europeans beyond the narrow limits of their homelands out to both the East and the West, a movement…

The early 1900’s and the era of the Great Depression were times of great changes and hardships. There were wars, the relocation of many people just to find work, and huge gaps and problems between social groups such as African Americans and Caucasians and the poor and rich. In John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and…

Robert E. Howard had a powerful interest in the desperadoes of his native southwest. “I could fill a thick volume of such disconnected bits and still not exhaust my chaotic store,” he wrote to H.P. Lovecraft in June 1931. I’ve found that passion expressed again and again in his letters, and used them for material…