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U.S. and Buddhism Today

today, scholars see three types of Buddhism: "immigrant Buddhism," "import Buddhism" and "export Buddhism" (Buddhism in the United...

A Career In Marketing

Competition levels are very high, and with many new graduates and the need to cut costs many firms have reduced on their graduate ...

Overcrowding in Prisons

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

Ideologies

perspective the author illustrates, through economic endeavors, how the republicans have long been a party whose ideologies are no...

The Cakewalk Dance

including at least some of the traditional African dance movements in their mocking. In fact, Ellison said that the slaves were "b...

United States Economy 2000 - 2003

dollars) Real GDP per Capita (2000 dollars) 2000 $9817.0 $9817.0 $34788 $34788 2001 $10128.0 $9890.7 $35524 $34692 2002 $10469.6 $...

Push 1 For English - The Automated Telephone Response

a representative, push [another number that is not always 0]" What happens when you get to a real live person? You have to tell th...

The Health Care Continuum

Virtually everyone had access to health care in some form, either with the assistance of health insurance or through public health...

Global Poverty Reduction

International releases an annual Corruption Perception Index, which does not seek to measure actual levels of corruption present i...

The Rise of Private Military Firms

affairs, are aware of the limitations of the military. They realize that some of the work is farmed out. In any event, the private...

Compare and Contrast: The US and Great Britain

Britons quarrel about racism, the national health scheme, and Northern Ireland, among other matters (Roskin, 2000). Because this p...

Argument: A President's Gender Should Not Matter

majority of Americans - over 90% in some polls - say that the time has come to elect a woman President. Surprisingly, the traditio...

Unemployment in the US

projections that indicate further rises in the future. However, it may also be argued that nationally it is not really an issue as...

The Dangers Of Smoking

to break. To bring the point home, half a million people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with ...

Pay Equity

"oppressive child labor" was defined. Under this act those who are not paid the required level can reclaim the lost wages as wel...

The Louisiana Purchase

of Spain "signed a decree transferring the territory to France and the Spanish agent in New Orleans, acting on orders from the Spa...

Government Structures: United States and Israel

and balances so that the power of the government would not grow too strong (Federal Government, 2007). In essence, each branch wor...

The Abolition Movement

also mean they would have to pay higher taxes, but they were willing to do so (Ratification debate on the U.S. Constitution). The ...

United States and War with Spain

to grant Cuba religious and civil rights, without removing Cuba from Spains control (Volume I of The Great Republic by the Master ...

Bipolar Disorder

the brain has long been thought to be the cause, but researchers at Washington University have discovered possible structural abno...

Sweat Shops in Indonesia

is because the alterative to child labor is worse than allowing its existence. Despite drawbacks of sweatshops, and the problems w...

Vietnam, America’s Lost War

United States had not invested the situation in Vietnam with rivalry with Communist powers, the tragedy might have been avoided. B...

Three Ways in Which the U.S. Constitution Has Influenced the American Criminal Justice System

terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

Making Laws

should actually be handled (Johnson, 2003). After the subcommittee has sent the bill back with full recommendations to the full c...

The First Amendment

Klan can exist in the same nation and put out their own particular beliefs. People can agree or not agree with the government and ...

Morphine (An Overview)

or pill form to relive pain after surgery" (Kuhn, Swartzwelder and Wilson 178). It is also used sometimes in other instances to co...

The Life and Times of Saddam Hussein

of his own country. Although one could arguably say that in his own mind, he was doing the right thing, there is much evidence t...

Gordon S. Wood/The American Revolution

policies enraged the colonist who saw them as encroachment on their traditionally established liberties. What the British saw as t...

PowerPoint Slides; The History of Marijuana

This 3 page paper is a 6 slide presentation on the history of marijuana, how it has and is used and its status in the law on the U...

Pluralism vs. Elitism in the United States

these meetings dispersed throughout the area so that both rural and urban citizens could engage in political discussions that woul...