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Illiteracy in America

out before they learn to read and write are girls" (1). Finally, discrimination regarding race also enters the picture. The effec...

U.S. Church and State Relationship

2006). The statement is attributed to the father of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson, who feared that if such a ...

U.S. and How to Address the Public Health Crisis of Obesity

body mass index that is greater than the 95th percentile for age and gender, they are classified as obese (Dietz & Hunter, 2009). ...

Iraq, North Korea, and American Ill Will

the United States (Culture of North Korea, 2010). The capital of Pyongyang, which had been severely bombed by the United States d...

Differences Between Leadership and Management

he said that management is about "coping with complexity [while] leadership is about coping with change" (Bencivenga, 2002). Tea...

European Rule in the Western Hemisphere

New World empire. Even so, until the colonial reforms of 1764 by the Bourbon dynasty in Spain, the military garrisons were small a...

Homeopathy and Latin American Folk Healers

the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. In many countries where modern medicine is trying to gain a foothold...

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Money's Influence

her husbands death, Mama assumed her role as head of the family, dedicated to her fervent dream that one day, she will own a nice ...

Evaluation of Gerontology

be expected to become even more top-heavy in the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the econo...

Variations in U.S. State Taxes

consideration for those deciding to spend their latter years in warmer climates. People flock to Florida in droves, but is it re...

U.S. Immigration of Jamaicans

attribute to a good education. The youngsters of a first-generation family often bear the incredible burden of making something o...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History of American Public Education

to assure prosperity was to have an informed society (Tyack, 1967). Mann was expressing his dismay at the treatment of children wh...

Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century America Expansion and Migration

The best intentions often brought about an entirely different outcome; while explorers made sure to draw up at least an idea of wh...

2 films: America and The Patriot

as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...

The 1960s: My Lai, Lt. Calley, Draft Resistance and Change

supposed to simply believe the reasons given for our involvement in Vietnam and put their support behind the war. This type of thi...

Nace: “Gangs of America”

many instances of corporations actually writing legislation favorable to them, though its rarely blatant. Rather, they "remind" th...

George Washington: Heroic, Flawed, and Human

Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...

The International Monetary Unrest in the Late 20th Century

This 8 page paper discusses the reasons for the financial turmoil of the late 20th century. The writer argues that the unrest star...

America the Land of Opportunity?

for those individuals who had not immigrated or migrated here. For the Native Americans it was their land, their home, and it may ...

Gangs of America

The book goes into other companies through history such as the railroad and U.S. Steel. It is a work that examines how the corpora...

Filipino American Life

California (05B). The majority are foreign born (05B). Unlike the Irish, Italian and Jewish immigrants for example, where current ...

The Impact of Fidel Castro on the Politics of Latin America

inevitable that the Cuban revolution should become a communist one" ("Heroic Myth and Prosaic Failure"). The Mexican Revolution th...

Organized Crime in America

of organized crime is contained within legitimate businesses including small-scale trucking, automobile sales, and bakeries, and l...

An 18th Century American

a great deal of fur trading to be had, although both French and English were involved in fur trading and dealings with the Natives...

Race and Ethnicity

right direction, but change is slow and the collective influence of thousands of years does not disappear easily. One theory tha...

Performance of the Bank of America

decrease from 28.4% in 2007 down to 5.51% in 2008. However, it does appear that the bank is returning to a more profitable positi...

Rayovac Corporation - The Rechargeable Battery Opportunity

also carried risks. Opportunities for Rayovac There was a broad and growing need and demand for batteries throughout Canada...

The Relevance of Whitney's Cotton Gin

made life easier. Prior to the invention, one person might spend an entire day picking the seeds out of a pound of cotton (Yanak &...

Effects of Illegal Immigration on the United States

air ports of entry 24 hours a day, seven days a week (Border Security, 2008). These agents have produced impressive results with ...

CAFTA: PRO AND CON ARGUMENTS

with this agreement, it wont have that much of an impact; rather, other sectors, such as agriculture, construction equipment and o...