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Nineteenth Century American Racism and Alexis de Tocqueville

new "homes," black slaves suffered. Plantation overseers thought nothing about whipping slaves to make them work faster (they wer...

U.S. Culture and Societal Impacts of the Cold War

II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...

A US Prison Reform History

"prisons" from where people never emerged; the most famous being the Bastille of Paris, France, scene of the French Revolution. Th...

Imperial Power of America

the battleship U.S.S. Maine on February 15, 1898 in Havana harbor (The Spanish/American War). But tensions were high betwee...

Possibility of Universal Health Care in the US

"no taxation." Joe Blankeneau reports "the United States is the only modern, industrialized country without some form of un...

Securities Purchasing and the Federal Reserve System

such a move would not be the best idea. For one thing, the Treasury market is large, flexible and liquid (Wheelock, 2002)....

Ending Iraq Occupation

years ago in the jungles of Southeast Asia. It is not just that American troops die everyday in a foreign and a hostile land or th...

Balance of Payments and Impact of Exchange Rates

represent only one segment of international financial markets. "Global financial markets are recent phenomena that embrace global...

Illegal Immigration and Economic Issues

John OSullivan writes that part of the problem lies in economic theory itself. He writes that for many years, economists have reli...

United States, Crime, and Drugs

a large proportion of its budgetary resources enforcing drug laws. Drug-related arrests have gone up 50 percent over the last ten ...

U.S. and Religion

the world. Moore shows that quite the opposite is true. The message sent by this author seems to have merit. Children grow up in ...

Latin America and the Impact of the 911 Terrorist Attacks

Latin America is THE place for small arms trafficking, and the United States has been one of the chief instigators as far as crack...

America and Changes Brought About by FDR's New Deal

place to sleep and food to eat. While the stereotypical liberal democrat may appear to be kinder, the Republican side defends its ...

Duluth Lynching of 1920

Jackson and McGhie were not performers in the circus, however. They were cooks and simple laborers Clayton, Jackson and McGhie. ...

U.S. Immigration Policy Bias?

and their culture. Others arrived also; the Dutch, the French, the Germans, the Scotch-Irish; and from each we took part of their...

American Success of Armenians

half the worlds Armenian population resides in the United States, and through their hard work and diligence, they have found succe...

Iraq Invasion by the United States

one of the major players in the debate over whether the U.S.s actions are imperialistic in nature. Interestingly, Mallaby is a na...

Post Second World War Cold War Rivalry Between the Soviet Union and the United States

the outcome of the conference. At the Teheran Conference Stalin was indifferent to the division of Germany into separate sections...

Incentives and Stock Options in France and the U.S.

a company - the harder they work, the higher a stock is likely to rise, thus making options that much more valuable....

Just War Against Terror by Jean Bethke Elshtain

no political science degree is required to understand the theory and ideology behind the assertions of this author. There is a we...

History of WMDs in Iraq

2002). The threat of nuclear capabilities was so great that the president and other analysts believed the threat to be significan...

U.S. Economy and the Family

It is a system that insists that those with money drive the economy in one direction or another. This is not to say that those wit...

IAS 39 Problems

2004). IAS 39 is an international Accounting standard which is set to become compulsory for EU listed companies in 2005 (Deloitt...

Militarism Policy of the United States

no one would call it aggressive. While many suggest that nations need a strong defense, like the U.S. and Israel, one could ask ju...

U.S. Schools and Segregation

be found in the suburbs as well (The Economist, 2003). Schools that were once mostly white are not mostly Latino or Black (The Eco...

Mountain Settings and Education

human life after the dark green of the forest cover begins to blaze yellow, red and orange in the fall, however, for a thin column...

Defending Nuclear Power Facilities

back up scientists claims has provided fuel for those in denial, but the denial faction stands on the cusp of being faced with int...

Foreign Policy Impact of Cuba's Geography

it has had to deal with embargoes and many people trying to escape. The escapes are due to the islands close proximity to Florida....

Health Care Systems, Population Subgroups, and Teen Pregnancy

in the United States alone, "the annual cost of teen pregnancies from lost tax revenues, public assistance, child health care, fos...

The Battle of Antiem

of self-preservation that had, up until that time, marked the soldiers of this war (McPherson 540). In short, though the Confedera...