Project for the New American Century

In 1803, the US were not a big power. They had just won their independence from Britain in 1783. It was therefore a fragile independence. The expedition was meant to enhance patriotism (→ American explorers also able to do great things like France or Britain) and to insure the defence of the American territory against Canada. Expedition was always connected to the rivalry between America and the boarder states. Relation Lewis and Clark / Indians → to what extent did the Americans lead a more

Portrait of the USA Executive Editor— George Clack Managing Editor— Rosalie Targonski Editor— Dennis Drabelle Designer— Barbara Long Web Art Director— Min-Chih Yao Photo Research— Maggie Johnson Sliker Internet Editor— Suzanne Dawkins Contributing Editors— Maura Christopher, Anne Cusack, Michael Cusack, Fredric A. Emmert, David Goddy, Holly Hughes, Norman Lunger, John Nickerson, Bruce Oatman, Shelley Orenstein, Richard Pawelek, Ira Peck, Jonathan Rose

students on the MA programmes in History, Modern European History, Cultural History, Modern British History, and Victorian Studies; and other programmes by agreement. Credits: 30 Teaching: eleven weekly seminars, Mondays 11-1 in S 2.23. NB: The week beginning 30 October is reading week. I am away from Manchester on Monday 9 October and we shall therefore have to rearrange the class that week or hold a class in reading week instead. Assessment: one 6,000 word essay, on a topic arising out of the course

political risk, and the Great Game in the Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea appeared lately as one of the best investment place for oil. This interior sea is the centre of a big international competition for the development of offshore resources and control of way for new resources. Indeed, this sea has oil resources equal to North Sea resources and gas resources roughly equal to 10% of the global gas resources! Until 1991, USSR and Iran owned the main part of these resources. Since the Soviet Union disappeared

Introduction Since the abolition of slavery in the USA, the American Negro needed changes in his living conditions. With the end of World War 1, and the industrialization in the north, African Americans found it necessary to move north for a better living. They went en mass to big cities and gave rise to a new grand culture. This was “the great migration of African Americans” The great migration expended the Negro’s communities and created a greater market for Negros’ culture, mainly on Art which

A discussion of the portrayal of colonialism in Heart of Darkness and in ‘The White Man’s Burden’. Page Introduction ……………………………………………………………. 2 Heart of Darkness ……………………………………………………… 2 - Background and historical context …………………………….. 2 - Literary devices ………………………………………………... 4 - Representation of colonialism …………………………………. 7 ‘The White Man’s Burden’ ……………………………………………

In "The Green Bubble: Why Environmentalism Keeps Imploding" [the New Republic, May 20], Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, authors of "Break Through: Why We Can't Leave Saving the Planet to Environmentalists," say that a few years ago, being green "moved beyond politics." Gestures -- bringing reusable grocery bags to the store, purchasing a $4 heirloom tomato, inflating tires, weatherizing windows -- "gained fresh urgency" and "were suddenly infused with grand significance." Green consumption

HISTORY (moi) Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in the stores, restaurants, and vending machines of more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke (a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company in the United States since March 27, 1944). The prototype Coca-Cola recipe was formulated at the Eagle Drug and Chemical Company, a drugstore in Columbus, Georgia by John Pemberton, originally as a coca wine called

CONFLICTS: THE CASE OF WEST AFRICAN GAS PIPELINE PROJECT By Mike Karikpo Programme Manager Energy and Climate Change (ERA) Introduction The West African gas pipeline project is a 681 kilometre onshore and offshore gas transportation project which will run from Nigeria to Ghana. The onshore component of the project is about 57-km and would commence from a point at Alagbado “T” in Ogun state where it would be linked to the existing Escravos –Lagos pipeline originating in the creeks of the Niger Delta

| Help build the future of Wikipedia and its sister projects! Read a letter from Jimmy Wales and Michael Snow. | [Hide] [Help us with translations!] | A Modest Proposal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published