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  • The North American Free Trade Agreement

    The North American Free Trade Agreement

    It is stated in the preamble of The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that "The Government of Canada, the Government of the United Mexican States and the Government of the United States of America resolved to ENHANCE the competitiveness of their firms in global markets, FOSTER creativity and innovation, and promote trade in goods and services that are the subject of intellectual property rights, CREATE new employment opportunities and improve working conditions and living

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Quiet American

    The Quiet American

    Graham Green’s novel, The Quiet American takes place in Vietnam as the French Colonization of the country is coming closer to an end. It is a time where the American’s are beginning to arrive in Vietnam with hope of ending the colonization while attempting to “protect” the south from communism and the ever-dreaded “Domino Theory”. Within this one novel, Graham Greene has different stories and can capture diverse readers. One story tells a love story

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    Submitted: February 13, 2010 By: regina
  • Globalization, American Wages, and Inequality

    Globalization, American Wages, and Inequality

    A strange argument has begun making the rounds in the globalization debate, one that asserts there is a puzzle in American politics: economics teaches that globalization leads to national gains, yet popular opinion is am bivalent at best about it. This puzzle even comes with a plausible-sounding explanation: globalization’s benefits are huge but diffuse (consisting of lower prices for imported goods), while its costs are small but concentrated (workers displaced by imports); hence, the gains

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Monika
  • American Literature

    American Literature

    Literature has been a huge part of American Culture dating back to the beginning of the United States. Over the years, literature has emerged and each movement has different qualities that make them different from each other and set them apart from each other. Each and every movement of American Literature has its own qualities and pieces that stick out from the crowd. From the New England Renaissance to the Contemporary Movement, American Literature has

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • Will American Education Crash?

    Will American Education Crash?

    Will American Education Crash? Like the stock market, American education has its ups and downs. Unfortunately, today American education is coming closer and closer to crashing. If the stock market crashes people lose millions of dollars. If American education crashes the country will lose millions of intelligent young minds. Just as if a stock holder was to make poor choices, people everywhere today are making bad choices with how students across America are being taught.

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Monika
  • Comparison of Treatments of Native Americans in the East and West

    Comparison of Treatments of Native Americans in the East and West

    East of the Mississippi Early European colonists that came to North America found a sparsely inhabited coastline which gave them opportunities to settle and succeed where others had previously failed. Since many of the pilgrims were in search of religious freedom they saw a land their god had prepared for them by wiping out the natives through pestilence and disease. The fact is that the plague of disease that wiped out more than 90% of

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Wendy
  • African American Advancement in Wwii

    African American Advancement in Wwii

    African Americans in WWII Considering that African Americans were under the constant pressure of racism and to prove public opinion wrong, they did an impressive job in their participation in the war. Although they had to fight to be included in the first place, the recognition they gained would set a precedent for other African Americans and change many of the misconceptions about them. By volunteering to help in the war, they showed their loyalty

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Fulfilling Your Dreams: The Magic of Starting

    Fulfilling Your Dreams: The Magic of Starting

    Fulfilling your dreams will remain a mirage if you simply sit down and dream on. You may have a dream of attaining financial freedom to go after your dreams, instead of doing what you have to do, to get bills paid and put food on the table. You think about it, dream about it, analyze it, attend seminars on it, read books on it, and work out a plan to achieve it and all the

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Mexican Americans

    Mexican Americans

    Mexicans immigrated to the United States back in the 1800’s (Stanford, 2006). During 1848 the United States took over a part of Mexico which is now the Southwest (Stanford, 2006). Mexicans living in these areas were Mexican citizens before the acquisition. The United States even went into agreements with Mexico to have Mexicans work in the United States. Mexicans were treated with cruelty, while working the agriculture fields for years. The United States made several

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    Submitted: February 15, 2010 By: Anna
  • African-American Influence on American Literature

    African-American Influence on American Literature

    African-American Influence on American literature African American literature can be summarized as the writings of authors from African descent. In the United States, African descendents have had very different experiences from each others depending on where they lived. In the southern states of the United States, Blacks have been really oppressed until the Civil War, with the big part being illiterate well into the end of 1800. In the northern states ,Blacks had a considerable

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Steve
  • The American Apocalypse

    The American Apocalypse

    In spite of its critically cherished commitment to post-modern ambiguity, Tony Kushner’s Angels in America unapologetically weaves a through-line of stark apocalyptic imagery into its eighties Reaganite tapestry of failed ideological narratives and corrupt American realpolitik. There are cainite markings, divine plagues, holes in the ozone-layer, a demonic Roy Cohn; lest we forget the descending angel and naught-prophetic Prior, for whom the impending Armageddon is strictly personal. The forbearer of all this doom and gloom

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Yan
  • Genesis of Contemporary Russian-American

    Genesis of Contemporary Russian-American

    Genesis of Contemporary Russian-American Anton Gurov En 102-6: Wasilko May 12, 2004 Final Paper In the 1990s the United States of America was marked with an incredible surge of immigration from the territories of former Soviet Union. “Liberated” йmigrйs decided to take a chance, leaving everything they had behind in pursuit of a better life. They brought with them education, numerous skills and talents. Their difficulties, however, including a foreign language, their age and

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Victor
  • American Religious Movements

    American Religious Movements

    American Religious Movements: Fundamentalism and Its’ Influence on Evangelicalism American fundamentalism and American evangelicalism seem to go hand in hand. Evangelicalism and fundamentalism both stress life based on the bible, repentance, and a personal relationship with God. No one would deny the massive influence that fundamentalism had on evangelicalism or the similarities between the two. Although some historians would suggest that evangelicalism was experiential and sectarian while fundamentalism was conservative and anti-modernist, it is clear

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Yan
  • African American Soldiersin the Civil War

    African American Soldiersin the Civil War

    In the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and part of the Nineteenth Century the White people of North America used the Black people of Africa as slaves to benefit their interests. White people created a climate of superiority of their race over the Black African race that in some places, still lingers on today. The American Civil War however, was a key turning point for the Black African race. Through their actions and the political actions of President

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Bred
  • American History X

    American History X

    This movie begs to the viewer to think about the views of black and white. With the issues raised in this movie, one must write it down to get the full effect of all that is going on in this movie. One of the ideas in this movie is to show that a person, who can see both sides of an issue, can make better decisions based on that knowledge. That is the key to

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Victor
  • American Parenting (and the Beng Too!)

    American Parenting (and the Beng Too!)

    American Parenting (And The Beng Too!) Euro-Americans can be some crazy people. Let’s just put that out there in the first sentence shall we? No sense beating around the bush I always say. So, what are we (or they, I’d rather not be included sometimes) thinking when it comes to parenting? And how can we compare this to Beng society, which is written about in The Afterlife is Where We Come From by Alma Gottlieb?

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: regina
  • Compare and Contrast the Movies Requiem for a Dream and Malena

    Compare and Contrast the Movies Requiem for a Dream and Malena

    Paper #2: Film Review Although both Malena and Requiem for a Dream were released in the year 2000, they are very different films. There are multiple reasons why either film would be chosen over the other including storyline, affect on the viewer, actors/actresses, and the taste the viewer has with certain movies. Another aspect of the decision is the amount of themes a movie has and their importance. The more themes a movie forms the

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    Submitted: February 16, 2010 By: Jon
  • Obesity: An American Epidemic

    Obesity: An American Epidemic

    Obesity: An American Epidemic "Hello, Sir Welcome to Wendy's what can I get for you today? Yes I would like a Triple Cheese Burger with large fries and a large Dr. Pepper, Oh yeah and could I have that Biggie Sized." This is something that is heard all over the United States, everybody wants to have the biggest thing they can get. From our cars to our houses Americans want the biggest there is. Yup

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    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: regina
  • Industrial, French, and American Revolutions: Common Social Revolutions?

    Industrial, French, and American Revolutions: Common Social Revolutions?

    Throughout history there have been many important revolutions that have help to shape society as it is today. There are different causes, from political to religious, economic to social. Any revolution affects those in society, and creates changes for the people in the society. There are three important revolutions that took place in the late 18th century that changed the world for the better. The French Revolution, the American Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution all

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    Submitted: February 17, 2010 By: Yan
  • Response to American History

    Response to American History

    Response to “American History” The story “American History” by Judith Ortiz-Cofer is one that many people can relate to. It is not merely a Latina girl’s experiences with prejudice and growing up in New Jersey. The story rings true for many. In “American History,” Elena is a ninth grader at a large public school in Paterson, New Jersey. On this day, a cold gray November day, President Kennedy has been shot. The reader can see

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Wendy
  • American History

    American History

    The Act requires the CEO/CFO to certify They have reviewed the annual and quarterly reports Based on the officer's knowledge, the report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary in order to make the statements not misleading Based on their knowledge the fairness of the financial statements and the financial information included in the quarterly reports, fairly represent the financial conditions and the results

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War

    The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War

    The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War H.W. Brands' book was a pretty solid read. It provided a different outlook on the Cold War, as it sought to show that it was not merely an American victory over "communism" and the Russians. There was far more to the Cold War than most Americans would care to admit, but Brands puts it out there for the reader to take in. Brands' purpose for writing

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • Great American Poets

    Great American Poets

    Carter Revard and Joy Harjo are both well known Native American poets. They grew up fighting against racial discrimination, poverty, and all the common struggles that come along with life. Joy Harjo story is viewed as one that often involves some aspect of fear or negativity. Carter Revard’s story is depicted as often marked with troubles, but it also has a positive outcome or a sense of hope. Joy Harjo writes more metaphorically, while Revard

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    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • America's African American Billionaire Robert Johnson

    America's African American Billionaire Robert Johnson

    America's African American Billionaire Robert Johnson Beunkia Bowens History of Black Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Dr. Juliet E. K. Walker December 1, 2005 Bowens 2 Introduction Robert Johnson was the first black American to achieve billionaire status after selling Black Entertainment Television to Viacom. The purpose of this paper is to look at Robert Johnson as the Black entrepreneur. Johnson is as an example of a new Black entrepreneur: he achieved his wealth primary through

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • The American Encounter with Buddhism

    The American Encounter with Buddhism

    Before reading “The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent” by Thomas A. Tweed I had no experience with Buddhism except for what I have seen in the movies and in the media. Seeing Buddhism through these different sources, it does not portray an accurate illustration of what the religion is truly regarding. Having little to no knowledge about the background of the religion makes reading this book both

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    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Mikki

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