FreshTressa
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I have to write closed book essays to answer all of these questions for my final tomorrow. My head hurts!
1) Are Hispanics rejecting the powerful forces of American cultural assimilation which swallowed up the successive waves of European immigrants who preceded them? Examine this question in reference to Huntington article and the debates surrounding this question.
2) What policy measures should be implemented regarding legal and illegal immigration? Defend your argument by considering alternative positions and be sure to draw on course material.
3) Thomas Friedman's Manifesto for a Fast Word urged the United States to embrace its role as enforcer of the capitalist global order: the hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. The hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valleys technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. Do you agree with Friedman that the global economy is predicated on U.S. military power? If so, what are the implications of a decline in U.S. power?
4) What can be done internally in the United States to strengthen the stability of the global economy? What are the economic/political and societal issues that need to be faced by the United States to enhance the standard of living for ourselves and the coming generations?
5) What criteria are necessary for economic development to be sustained? Identify and explain the difficulties of operationalizing these criteria.
6) Assess the Easterly critique and subsequent response by Sachs with regards to the probability of ending poverty.
7) Do the Danish cartoons address fault lines in changing European societies that need to be discussed more openly in the context of individual rights, or alternatively, must the issue and furious reaction be understood in the context of Islamophobia, the perceived oppr
1) Are Hispanics rejecting the powerful forces of American cultural assimilation which swallowed up the successive waves of European immigrants who preceded them? Examine this question in reference to Huntington article and the debates surrounding this question.
2) What policy measures should be implemented regarding legal and illegal immigration? Defend your argument by considering alternative positions and be sure to draw on course material.
3) Thomas Friedman's Manifesto for a Fast Word urged the United States to embrace its role as enforcer of the capitalist global order: the hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. The hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valleys technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. Do you agree with Friedman that the global economy is predicated on U.S. military power? If so, what are the implications of a decline in U.S. power?
4) What can be done internally in the United States to strengthen the stability of the global economy? What are the economic/political and societal issues that need to be faced by the United States to enhance the standard of living for ourselves and the coming generations?
5) What criteria are necessary for economic development to be sustained? Identify and explain the difficulties of operationalizing these criteria.
6) Assess the Easterly critique and subsequent response by Sachs with regards to the probability of ending poverty.
7) Do the Danish cartoons address fault lines in changing European societies that need to be discussed more openly in the context of individual rights, or alternatively, must the issue and furious reaction be understood in the context of Islamophobia, the perceived oppr
