North American Essays (Examples)

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Canadian Reciprocity Treaty Of 1854

Pages: 10 (2920 words) Sources: 8 Document Type:Essay Document #:12980829

… United States and what was then known as the Province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario) and other smaller provinces of the then British north America. The treaty was a forerunner of the Canada-United States trade agreement of 1989. It was primarily intended to facilitate free trade in … a very popular idea, especially in export-oriented Canada West (Ontario) and in New Brunswick and other Maritime colonies. The Maritime colonies and the american fishermen fishing off the coast of Canada are the two parties that particularly felt that there was a need for a treaty (Gerriets … a treaty being drafted and approved by the then United States Secretary of State, Mr. William Marcy, and the then Governor-General of British north America, Lord Elgin, in June 1854. Upon the signing of the treaty and its approval by the legislatures of the parties to the … ten years. After the ten……

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Ankli, R. E. (1971). The reciprocity treaty of 1854. The Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d\\\\\\\\\\\\'Economique, 4(1), 1-20.

Gerriets, M., & Gwyn, J. (1996). Tariffs, trade, and reciprocity: Nova Scotia, 1830-1866. Acadiensis, 25(2), 62-81.

Haynes, F. E. (1892). The Reciprocity treaty with Canada of 1854 (Vol. 7, No. 6). Baltimore, Md.: American Economic Association.

Hinton, M. (2013). Canadian economic growth and the reciprocity treaty of 1854. Working Papers 13038, Economic History Society.

Masters, D. C. (1963). The reciprocity treaty of 1854: its history, its relation to British colonial and foreign policy, and to the development of Canadian fiscal autonomy (Vol. 9). McGill-Queen\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Press-MQUP.

Officer, L. H., & Smith, L. B. (1968). The Canadian-American reciprocity treaty of 1855 to 1866. Journal of Economic History, 598-623.

Porritt, E. (1908). Sixty Years of Protection in Canada, 1846-1907: Where Industry Leans on the Politician. London: Macmillan.

Saunders, S. A. (1934). The Maritime Provinces and the Reciprocity Treaty. The Dalhousie Review.

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Best Buy Purchasing And Supply Management

Pages: 10 (2932 words) Sources: 4 Document Type:Term Paper Document #:84472318

… Buy Co., Inc. (hereinafter alternatively “the company” or “Best Buy”) is a leading retailer in electronics and other consumer products that competes throughout north America and Mexico today. As of early 2019, Best Buy operated nearly 1,200 large format as well as 51 small-format retail stores (Company … Buy competes as a retailer of technology products and services as well as offering a wide array of other consumer products throughout its north America and Mexican markets in two main business segments: (1) domestic and (2) international (Company profile, 2019). Besides these retail outlets, Best Buy … (2009) emphasizes that:
Today, with annual revenue exceeding $25 billion and more than 780 stores in the U.S. and Canada, Best Buy is north America's number one retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software and appliances. It was named Forbes's 2004 Company of the Year and … billion in energy costs by……

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Chan, R. (2011, June 29). Best Buy. Marketing, 20.

Corporate responsibility and sustainability. (2019). Best Buy Co., Inc. Retrieved from  https://corporate.bestbuy.com/sustainability/ .

Best Buy supply chain. (2019). Best Buy Co., Inc. Retrieved from https://www.bestbuy. com/site/help-topics/ca-transparency-act/pcmcat263000050003.c?id=pcmcat 263000050003.

Company profile. (2019). Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved from  https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/  BBY/profile?p=BBY.

Mitchell, S. (2009, September-October). The big box swindle: The true cost of the mega-retailers. Multinational Monitor, 27(5), 34-39.

Ong, T. (2018, May 1). Best Buy is closing all 250 of its mobile stores in the U.S. The Verge. Retrieved from  https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/1/17066232/best-buy-close-all-mobile-stores-may-us .

Thomas, L. (2019, August 28). Best Buy revs up supply chain ahead of the holiday season. CNBC. Retrieved from  https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/28/best-buy-revs-up-supply-chain-ahead-of-the-holiday-season.html .

Wack, K. (2017, June 29). Credit card issuers face peril from rise in store closures: American Banker, 182(124), 37-39.

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Global Transformations And The Human Condition Global Lives Of Things

Pages: 7 (2248 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:97236568

… production of this commodity largely takes place in the Global South whereas the consumption of the commodity largely takes place in the Global north. Statistics indicate that about 70 percent of the demand levels for coffee emanate from high-income nations. These nations have a tendency of being … about 70 percent of the demand levels for coffee emanate from high-income nations. These nations have a tendency of being situated in the north hemisphere whereas the nations producing coffee have a tendency to be situated in the southern hemisphere and are usually categorized as low to … within the European region consumed the greatest value of imported coffee with almost 59 percent of the global total. They were followed by north american nations with 22.6 percent and third, Asia with 13.6 percent of the global total imports (Workman, 2019). The United States tops the countries … lives of the things……

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Bhupathiraju, S. N., Pan, A., Manson, J. E., Willett, W. C., van Dam, R. M., & Hu, F. B. (2014). Changes in coffee intake and subsequent risk of type 2 diabetes: three large cohorts of US men and women. Diabetologia, 57(7), 1346-1354.

Cadden, I. S. H., Partovi, N., & Yoshida, E. M. (2007). Possible beneficial effects of coffee on liver disease and function. Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics, 26(1), 1-8.

D’Costa, K. (2011). The Culture of Coffee Drinkers. Scientific American.

Einstein, E. (2019). The Health Benefits of Coffee: How does drinking coffee help your body and your brain? Scientific American.

Lucas, M., Mirzaei, F., Pan, A., Okereke, O. I., Willett, W. C., O’Reilly, É. J., ... & Ascherio, A. (2011). Coffee, caffeine, and risk of depression among women. Archives of internal medicine, 171(17), 1571-1578.

Ponte, S. (2002). The latte revolution? Regulation, markets and consumption in the global coffee chain. World development, 30(7), 1099-1122.

Rudeen, K. (2018). The History of Coffee and its Concurrent Marketing Strategies. Scholars Archive.

Samoggia, A., & Riedel, B. (2019). Consumers’ Perceptions of Coffee Health Benefits and Motives for Coffee Consumption and Purchasing. Nutrients, 11(3), 653.

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Using Social Media For Meal Prepping Business

Pages: 6 (1667 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:16808206

… practices. The volunteer delivery service will require that the business is able to gain suitable traction with people who want to help feed american children in a way that does not require them to have to work in a soup kitchen or homeless shelter, which can be ……

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Lunt, T., & Nicotra, E. (2018). Event Sponsorship and Fundraising: An Advanced Guide. Kogan Page Publishers.

Malhotra, C. K., & Malhotra, A. (2016). How CEOs can leverage twitter. MIT Sloan Management Review, 57(2), 73.

Stever, G. S., & Lawson, K. (2013). Twitter as a way for celebrities to communicate with fans: Implications for the study of parasocial interaction. North American journal of psychology, 15(2).

Yauney, R. H. (2018). Leadership Development: A Study of Elon Musk. Marriott Student Review, 2(2), 4.

Zhou, S., & Kuo, C. (2018). How Social Media are Changing Nonprofit Advocacy: Evidence from the Crowdfunding Platform in Taiwan. The China Nonprofit Review, 10(2), 349-370.

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Measuring Academic Success Among Psychology Students Reflection

Pages: 6 (1835 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Essay Document #:94221872

...North american Reflection on Peer Mentoring
Introduction
Stoloff, Good, Smith and Brewster (2015) determined measures of success in a number of ways: 1) whether students attended graduate school within 5 years of graduating, 2) the departmental score on the Major Field Test for Psychology (MFT), and 3) completion of the program by students. Other factors had been tested before, including student-teacher interaction, and used as measures of success. The study by Stoloff et al. (2015) aimed to build on prior works and to show what the relation between student success and test scores, graduate school attendance, and program completion was overall. This paper will provide a summary of the article by Stoloff et al. (2015), discuss the characteristics of psychology programs that lead to success, identify other ways that success can be measured; address ways in which successful peer mentoring programs could bridge the gap, or actively support, department efforts to address……

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Ashbaugh, K., Koegel, R. L., & Koegel, L. K. (2017). Increasing social integration for college students with autism spectrum disorder. Behavioral development bulletin, 22(1), 183.

Hughes, A., & Fahy, B. (2009). Implementing an Undergraduate Psychology Mentoring Program. North American Journal of Psychology, 11(3).

Page, D., & Hanna, D. (2008). Peer mentoring: The students' perspective. Psychology Learning & Teaching, 7(2), 34-37.

Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants part 1. On the horizon, 9(5), 1-6.

Stoloff, M. L., Good, M. R., Smith, K. L., & Brewster, J. (2015). Characteristics of programs that maximize psychology major success. Teaching of Psychology, 42(2), 99-108.

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Indian Removal Act 1830

Pages: 13 (4034 words) Sources: 13 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:92871385


The Indian Removal Act signed by Andrew Jackson in 1830 was meant to establish peace in the nation and to give the Native american their own territory where they could practice their own activities, traditions and culture without interference from the american government. However, the Act resulted in the forced migration of thousands of Native american from their traditional homelands to a region of the U.S. that did not suit their lifestyle or their culture. Many suffered and died … the Southern states to Oregon. Though Jackson may have had good intentions at the time, the removal can now be viewed as an american tragedy that might have been prevented. In fact, it was just one example of an exercise in human rights abuses in a long … it was just one example of an exercise in human rights abuses in a long history of human rights abuses committed……

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Primary Sources

Crockett, Davy, “On the removal of the Cherokees, 1834,” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-now/spotlight-primary-source/davy-crockett-removal-cherokees-1834

“The Magnetic Telegraph.” Ladies’ Repository 10(1850): 61-62. O’Sullivan, John. “Annexation.” United States Magazine and Democratic Review, vol.17, no. 1 (July-August 1845): 5-10.

Sevier, John. Letter to the Cherokee. DPLA.  https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/cherokee-removal-and-the-trail-of-tears/sources/1500 

Secondary Sources

Brown-Rice, Kathleen. "Examining the Theory of Historical Trauma Among Native Americans." Professional Counselor 3, no. 3 (2013).

Cave, Alfred A. "Abuse of power: Andrew Jackson and the Indian removal act of 1830." The Historian 65, no. 6 (2003): 1330-1353.

Cherokee Preservation Foundation. “About the Eastern Band.” Cherokee Preservation, 2010.  http://cherokeepreservation.org/who-we-are/about-the-ebci/

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Blacks And The Reconstruction

Pages: 3 (982 words) Sources: 8 Document Type:Term Paper Document #:31905866

… black would only come if the federal government passed laws to protect the newly freed former slaves and brought the law of the north into the South. What happened, however, was something else entirely. The spirit of the south continued on: the Ku Klux Klan arose from … Douglass had hoped to see Yankee law prevail. Reconstruction floundered and racism persisted. This paper will show how the goals of Reconstruction regarding African-american were not achieved by 1900 because of a failure of the federal government to oversee effectively the Era of Reconstruction and to eradicate … to call home. Thus, the blacks took flight in what became known as the Great Migration, as whole families of freed blacks flocked north to the cities to find work and shelter. African american found themselves unwanted everywhere they went.
In conclusion, Reconstruction failed to achieve its goals because nothing was done to……

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Works Cited

A&E. “Carpetbaggers and Scalawags.” History, 2018. https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/carpetbaggers-and-scalawags

Douglass, Frederick. “Reconstruction.” The Atlantic, 1866.  https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1866/12/reconstruction/304561/ 

Guelzo, Allen. Reconstruction Didn\\\\'t Fail. It Was Overthrown. Time, 2018.  http://time.com/5256940/reconstruction-failure-excerpt/ 

McBride, Alex. “Plessy v. Ferguson.” Thirteen, 2007.  https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/supremecourt/antebellum/landmark_plessy.html 

Johnson, Andrew. “A Proclamation.” Digital History, 1865.  http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/exhibits/reconstruction/section4/section4_pardon1.html 

Lincoln, Abraham. Second Inaugural Address, 1865. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lincoln2.asp

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US Marshals In Civil Rights Era

Pages: 5 (1551 words) Sources: 2 Document Type:Essay Document #:90084071

The History of US Marshals in Civil Rights Era
The american society was polarized with the African american having a lower edge of protection as opposed to the white majority. The state vowed to protect them against harm but in doing … so, formulated a federal agency to carry it out swiftly. U.S. marshals are held in high regard in society since they serve the american people. During slavery, a federal agency was formed through a Judiciary act in the constitution to help handle fugitives. Policing America was necessary … agency was formed through a Judiciary act in the constitution to help handle fugitives. Policing America was necessary post-segregation era since the African american needed protection against harm, discrimination, and criminalization. The U.S. marshals provided security for them, fulfilling their duty of call to the american people.
The first Congress created the U.S. Marshals under President George Washington. The president……

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Larry K. Gaines, V. E. (2014). Policing in America. New York: Routledge.

Skocpol, T. (1999). Advocates without Members: the recent transformation of American civic life. In T. Skocpol, Civic Engagement in American Democracy (pp. 461-480). Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.

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Brown V Board Of Education And Civil Rights Moment By Michael Klarman

Pages: 6 (1764 words) Sources: 3 Document Type:Essay Document #:64441378

… Board of Education and the Civil Rights Moment is that Brown v. Board of Education was a pivotal and massively important moment in american history—but not for the reasons that are typically given. The common understanding of Brown v. Board of Education is that it ended segregation … needs to be dispelled. He begins by bringing up the dominant theme of the book—racism—which Klarman points out had remained “strong in the north in the years after the Civil War.”[footnoteRef:2] Racism was not just a regional issue; rather, it had been entrenched in american politics throughout the country and to a large degree it was institutionalized. The Jim Crow Era was proof of the institutionalization of racism … segregation,’ than with blacks, ‘who are coerced into it.’”[footnoteRef:3] The decision rendered in the court case was supported by the majority of the american public, polls showed.[footnoteRef:4] The Justices were not going……

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Cripps, Thomas and and David Culbert. “The Negro Soldier (1944): Film Propaganda in Black and White.” American Quarterly Vol. 31, No. 5, Special Issue: Film and American Studies (Winter, 1979), pp. 616-640: The Josh Hopkins University Press.

German, Kathleen M. Promises of Citizenship: Film Recruitment of African Americans in World War 2. University Press of Mississippi, 2017.

Klarman, Michael. Brown v Board of Education and the Civil Rights Moment. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Economics And Religion Of Colonies

Pages: 1 (318 words) Sources: 1 Document Type:Essay Document #:11848135

… In terms of founding the colonies, religion was probably the stronger force. Catholic missionaries from Spain and France had already been in the north and in the South and Southwest. Protestants from England and north Europe made up the middle region. So it was very much a religious issue in terms of which groups would have control of ……

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Fantel, H. (1974). William Penn: Apostle of Dissent. NY: William Morrow & Co.

 

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