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Income Inequality and the American Dream: A Loss of Opportunities

This 3 page paper provides an overview of Howard Brick's critique of the American Dream and its inaccessibility in the 21st centur...

The Civil War and Contributions of African American Soldiers

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at black soldiers in the Civil War. The experiences of inequality endured by such soldi...

The Digital Divide - 6 Blogs

information and communication tools, such as the Internet, and those who cannot" that was given by The Digital Network; which is a...

Africa and the Practices of Dowry and Bridewealth

in that it effectively gives the bride her share of the familys fortune. Traditional Uses Hanson (2002) explains that dowry...

Institutionalised Social Inequality

This 4 page paper looks at the shift to institutionalised social inequality in prehistory and the way this occurred along with the...

Edmund S. Morgan/American Slavery, American Freedom

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

Gender Wage Inequality

(Marx & Engels, 1998, p.59). Their words ring true especially today. Unlike earlier in the century both men and women usually have...

The Politics of Globalization

Monetary Fund have exacerbated inequality in developed and developing countries. The IMF oversees the international monetar...

The Economics of the Airline Industry

will be a disproportional increase in demand, increasing the overall revenues. In the last few decades there has been an increas...

Resolving the Problem of Income Inequality

a corporate entity as it is known, but companies like Ben & Jerrys have made a decision to place limits on how much money one empl...

Inequities in School Funding

income calculations along with property values in formulating school finance values, and a number of states are "moving in the dir...

Problems of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

lack of education that leads to poverty. Also, there are few work opportunities for women (Kang, 2005). As a result of being invo...

Inequality and Social Class

their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." -- The Declarati...

Feminism and Gender Issues During 1950's & 60's

a group of radical New York women who aggressively sought change (Mainardi, 1969). Others chose to work patiently behind the scen...

Political Writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau

In eight pages this paper examines the political writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau in a consideration of On the Social Contract, T...

Social Inequalities and Ethnic Differences in the United Kingdom

In five pages this paper examines racism in the UK in a consideration of why there are inequalities and how they have historically...

American Dream of Home Purchase

In five pages the American housing market is examined in terms of supply and demand, social effects, and narrowing the class based...

Inequality Theories of Harry Kitano, Class, and Race

In five pages this report examines class and race stratifications as depicted in Harry Kitano's inequality theories. There are no...

Solving the Problems of Poverty in Brazil

The writer considers ways in which the economic inequality in Brazil may be addressed. The writer argues that applying economic th...

Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy

In five pages this research paper examines Bellamy's view of a 2000 utopia as a reaction to the nineteenth century industrialism t...

United Kingdom's Power and Wealth Distribution

In seven pages the inequities of wealth and power distribution in the postwar United Kingdom are examined and the impact of such i...

Enlightened Age Elements of Progress, Nature, and Reason

and comparison of the volumes of literature that were produced during this era. Three of the great philosophers of this era, Thom...

Education, Testing, Racial and Cultural Bias

In seven pages this paper offers support for the assertions made by Claude S. Fischer in his text Inequality by Design Cracking t...

NAFTA's Economic Effects on Mexico

In seven pages this paper discusses how NAFTA has influenced Mexico's economic positioning in an examination of benefit inequality...

Education Inequalities

to give you a computer. If you learn on these typewriters, you will find it easier to move on to a computer, if you ever have one"...

General Will Concept of Jean Jacques Rousseau

single one, all the articles on which this will is explicit become so many fundamental laws obligating all members of the State wi...

French Politics Parite Movement

changed to reflect equality between men and women - but in comparison to countries such as women it is evident that French women a...

Nigeria, Korea, and Inequality

While the abandoning of children is rather drastic, certainly unheard of in the United States culture where money can always be fo...

US and Ongoing Equality Struggle

In five pages this paper examines the continuing struggle of America to achieve equality through diversity when unfortunately more...

Employment Inequality

In five pages this paper considers inequality in the workplace from the theoretical perspectives of Robin Leinder as featured in F...