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    In her book, Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border, Rachel St. John provides a dynamic argument that focuses not just on the physical border itself or merely how border policy came to be, but looks at the borderlands as an entire region and how Mexico too played a part in creating both the border and border enforcement. St. John describes in her various chapters the development of border towns and how both the U.S. and Mexico created not just a physical barrier, but also a

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    improved with regards to protecting the boarder line. Most of these convicts travel in groups of thirty and make their moves during the nighttime. In addition, to evade national border controls, visa requirements and migration regulation, the convicts gradually provided more smuggling assistance to irregular migrants (Border Wars Season 5 Epsiode 10 Cash and Corruption. 2014). Now and days it is hard for law enforcements to classify a victim or suspect within trafficking, that’s why there are so many

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    Ethical issues for advertising tobacco products across borders. A case for Social Contract Theory Question 1: How can SCT and ISCT address the controversial nature of advertising and promoting cigarettes across international borders? Base on the case study, The Social Contract Theory (SCT) generates a workable framework for solving ethical issues: * Sets main principles relevant to the organization in question * Recommends different principles for different communities * Determines

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    understanding of what a border is one must come to the other form of the border, the imaginary and unseen border. This abstract border separates people from one another without any real embodiment of the border itself. This particular border does not necessarily have concrete matter, which separates people like fences, gates, towers, and walls. Moreover, it does not have to be policed. Ergo, such border exists without any limitation of space and time. This abstract border does create the same effect

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    human behavior and moral. Kant was one of them, but he distinguished himself from others with his beyond time view of the nationalism. He argued that all humans living in the world formed a multi-cultural and cross border patriotism and he refused defining nationalities by national border. In this essay, I will try to explain the ideas of Kant’s cosmopolitanism against the nationalism. Even though cosmopolitanism is an old idea from Ancient Greek times, the idea did not appear again in the philosophical

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    The reshaping of countries in the latter half of the twentieth century due to nationalist endeavours has resulted in a commonality across a wider spectrum. The wider spectrum is a globalised community that is able to interact and therefore increase the ‘market’ (if you like) of foreign fighters. Urri defines globalisation as the ‘increased density of international and global interactions, compared with such interactions at the local or national level’. The CIAs forecast in 2000 predicted some of

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    Currently, on the New York Times’ Bestsellers list as well as the Publisher’s Weekly list, there are no Mexican American or Latinx writers represented. This simple fact amplifies the sour relationship between Latinx authors and the mainstream media. When we take a closer look at this unhealthy relationship, we find that the root of the problem can be found within the mainstream American publishing industry which often divides literature into genres of “ethnic” literature. This label leads other individuals

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    struggle to understand if she is the same person as before. The short story “Borders” by Thomas King is about a Mother with her son trying to get across the border to meet her daughter who left the reserve to live in Salt Lake City. In “Mirror Image” and “Borders,” explores the distant parent-child relationship and results in the characters experiencing an unclear identity. This can be seen through actions and dialogue. In Borders, the Mother and Laetitia share a distant relationship, resulting in Laetitia’s

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    Cross border merger and acquisition become a fundamental characteristic of the global business landscape. With the increasing significance of globalization in business sector, it is one of the quickest ways to achieve the objective. This phenomenon is not only noticeable in the developed country like American, Europe and Japan but also in the developing market like India. Since, 1991 the period of liberalization has influenced functioning of Indian corporate enterprise. This growing trend towards

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    You’ve gone most of your life without any large borders separating you from your peers and your friends, and then suddenly one morning you wake up and everything has become different. Your teachers, your friends, and your classmates have all heard the news, and your borderless life is instantly go ne. Now whispers form in your presence, strangers approaching you to talk to you, and looks of sadness hitting you when you’re passed in the hallways. Because now, you’re solely recognized as the girl

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