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  • Education and the American Dream

    Education and the American Dream

    The "American dream" was a term coined by James Truslow Adams in his book, "The Epics of America." It has become a familiar slogan, but each individual's perception of this abstract phrase varies and can have multiple meanings. Although, each interpretation commonly states the American dream is the hope of an ideal life of happiness and success for all who may aspire. When I think of the American dream, I think of a "rag to

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    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Jack
  • American Education

    American Education

    Position Paper I agree with the slide on the state of American Education. Children and young adults do not learn moral character standards, nor respect for themselves or anyone else. To see the level of anarchy that walks through the halls of Americas’ schools is appalling. I recently left a public school job and know first hand how delinquent the behavior of children and young adults has become. Fortunately, I was a Bus Mechanic and

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    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Aftircan American Progress in Wwii

    Aftircan American Progress in Wwii

    World War II, global military conflict that, in terms of lives lost and material destruction, was the most devastating war in human history. It began in 1939 as a European conflict between Germany and an Anglo-French coalition but eventually widened to include most of the nations of the world. It ended in 1945, leaving a new world order dominated by the United States and the USSR. More than any previous war, World War II involved

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    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Artur
  • American Vs. Foreign Employees

    American Vs. Foreign Employees

    Presidential responsibility requires much focus on both the United States’ economy and the labor force. In order to establish a thriving nation of successful commerce and secure employment opportunities for all Americans, it is important to create policies to ensure that these goals are achieved. Therefore, an essential platform in my presidential race would be the guarantee that although businesses have the right to manufacture their products overseas, a law should limit the ratio between

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    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Mike
  • Slavery Dbq American Pagent 13th Adition

    Slavery Dbq American Pagent 13th Adition

    Before Civil War began, even as the country was being set up with the Articles of Confederation, slavery was an issue that had to be dealt with. When the final vote for the ratification of the Constitution some states would not sign on it if slavery were made illegal. They decided to deal with it in twenty years. After the compromise of 1820 they limited slavery to the south, which would split the country into

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    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Stenly
  • History of the American Legion

    History of the American Legion

    History of the American Legion The American Legion is an organization of veterans of the United States armed forces who served in war. The Organization was founded in 1919 by veterans who were returning from Europe after World War I. Today, the group as over 3 million members. The American Legion started when Officer Teddy Roosevelt proposed an organization of veterans. In 1919, this group formed a temporary committee and selected several hundred officers who

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    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Monika
  • Social Inequality in Elderly Americans

    Social Inequality in Elderly Americans

    Social Inequality in Elderly Americans Elderly people (women and men age sixty-five or older) (Macionis, 2005), Have many obstacles to face as they grow older, many of these obstacles involve social inequality. Not only do the elderly have to learn to deal with many forms of Ageism (the stereotyping and prejudice against individuals or groups because of their age), some also have to deal with the fact that they do not have enough savings or

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    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Yan
  • Hispanic Diversity in the United States

    Hispanic Diversity in the United States

    Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and Dominican immigrants, along with their American born descendants, occupy a unique place in the story of U.S. immigration. They are known by different names, come from widely divergent origins, and took many different paths in their journey to assimilation into the United States. This paper will examine the different linguistic, political, social, economic, religious, and familial conventions and statuses of the four Hispanic groups. The author’s goal is to identify

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Andrew
  • American Anexation of the Philipinnes

    American Anexation of the Philipinnes

    William Jennings Bryan William Jennings Bryan believed that the US should not annex the Spanish colonies and become an imperial power; his belief for the annexation of the Spanish colonies was against the beliefs of William McKinley and for good reason. In the case of the Philippines, as Jennings Bryan says “…the Philippines are too far away and their people too different from our…” If annexed, the Philippines would not benefit the interests of the

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Mike
  • Americans Love Capital Punishment

    Americans Love Capital Punishment

    Americans Love Capital Punishment There is one question that has always brought about controversy. Should capital punishment be used as a way of disciplining criminals? Over the past twenty years, there has been an enormous increase in violent crimes. It seems logical that a person is less likely to commit a given act if by doing so he will suffer swift and certain punishment of a horrible kind. As most Americans agree, death is the

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    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Max
  • The War on Terror: The Americans War or a Real International Crisis

    The War on Terror: The Americans War or a Real International Crisis

    The aim of my essay is to argue whether or not America started the idea of the war on terror for its own selfish needs, which is widely believed to be oil, or whether it is a crisis that could have been avoided. I want to show that the Americans have used excessive force in dealing with the people believed to be responsible and who are mainly from Middle Eastern countries. The Americans have forcefully

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    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Bred
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution

    To an extent, it is accurate to call the American Revolution a civil war. The definition of a civil war is a war between to opposing groups of citizens belonging to the same country. The American Revolution war split the colonies up between the patriots and loyalists. Both the colonists and British soldiers were all English and therefore became the opposing groups of citizens. In this case, the colonists were fighting their own countrymen in

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    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: Artur
  • Analyze the Ways in Which Techonology, Government Policy, and Economic Conditions Changed American Agriculture in the Period 1865-1900

    Analyze the Ways in Which Techonology, Government Policy, and Economic Conditions Changed American Agriculture in the Period 1865-1900

    In the period 1865-1900, technology, government policy, and economic conditions all changed American agriculture a great deal. New farming machinery had a large role in the late 19th century, giving farmers the opportunity to produce many more crops than they had ever been able to previously. The railroads had an enormous influence on agriculture. They were able to charge the farmers large fees, expenses that farmers barely had enough to cover, in order to transport

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    Submitted: May 1, 2010 By: Jessica
  • American Civil Rights Movement - Selma March

    American Civil Rights Movement - Selma March

    Selma The marches from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery were marches that manifested the political and emotional peak of the American Civil Rights Movement. The issue was right to vote as African Americans were hungry for a voice in their destiny. Blacks in most areas of the deep South were not registered to vote. Even though the United States Constitution gave them the right to vote, threats and violence kept most from registering. After countless years

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    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Artur
  • Elements of American Romanticism

    Elements of American Romanticism

    Elements of American Romanticism Henry David Thoreau pens his book Walden during a revolutionary period of time known as American Romanticism. The literary movement of American Romanticism began roughly between the years of 1830 and 1860. It is believed to be a chapter of time in which those who had been dissatisfied by the Age of Reason were revolting through works of literature. All elements of Romanticism are in sharp, abrupt contrast to those types

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    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Janna
  • American Civil War

    American Civil War

    civil war on sdfshjAlthough the American Civil War mainly occurred because of slavery, the fact is that slavery had a lot to do with economic and social issues. By the year of 1860, the North and the South was developed into extremely different sections. There was opposing social, economic, and political points of view, starting back into colonial periods, and it slowly drove the two regions farther in separate directions. The two sections tried to

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    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Native American Cultural Assessment: The Cherokee

    Native American Cultural Assessment: The Cherokee

    The word Cherokee comes from a Creek word "Chelokee" meaning "people of a different speech." In their own language the Cherokee called themselves the Aniyunwiya or "principal people" or the Keetoowah, "people of Kituhwa." The Cherokee are perhaps one of the most interesting of Native American Groups. Their life and culture are closely intertwined with early American settlers and the history of our own nation’s struggle for freedom. In the interest of promoting tolerance and

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    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Top
  • The Legalization of Marijuana Would Benefit the American Economy and Its Medical Field

    The Legalization of Marijuana Would Benefit the American Economy and Its Medical Field

    asssssssssssssssssssssaa The legalization of marijuana would benefit the American economy and its medical field. There is no question that the U.S. spends enormous amounts of money every year on propagandizing against marijuana and marijuana law reform, funding anti-marijuana science, interdicting marijuana, eradicating domestically grown marijuana and industrial hemp, law enforcement, and prosecuting and incarcerating marijuana smokers. In fact it "costs U.S. taxpayers in excess of $12 billion annually." (NORML). Of that $12 billion, $1.2 billion

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    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Mexican-American Women

    Mexican-American Women

    Mexican-American Women Liberal democrat Gloria Molina, daughter of an immigrant Mexican farm worker of California, became the first Hispanic representative to be state assembly, first Hispanic representative to be state assembly, first Hispanic member of the Los Angeles city council, and first Hispanic candidate since 18. In addition, she was the first woman ever to win seat on the powerful five-member Loa Angeles county board of supervisors. From that position, Molina keeps pressing for improved

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    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Stenly
  • What If I Were African American

    What If I Were African American

    WHAT IF I WERE AFRICAN AMERICAN I thought that it might be best if I went with African American. My Life as it is white male is some what good but has its disadvantages too. But I think my life would be basically the same, although I would have continued to play football all through school and well it is easier to get grants, loans, and scholarships if you are a minority. Another reason I

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    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: regina
  • American and Russian Conflict

    American and Russian Conflict

    The central moral problem of government has always been to strike a just and effective balance between freedom and authority. When freedom degenerates into anarchy, the human personality becomes subject to arbitrary, brutal, and capricious forces -- witness aberrations of terrorism in even the most humane societies. (Bauman, 1982)Yet when the demand for order overrides all other considerations, man becomes a means and not an end, a tool of impersonal machinery. Human rights are the

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    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Individuality and Interdependence: A Comparison of the North American and Japanese Educational Systems

    Individuality and Interdependence: A Comparison of the North American and Japanese Educational Systems

    Individuality and Interdependence: a Comparison of the North American and Japanese Educational Systems The comparison between Japanese and North American educational systems is often used. The Japanese system, along with other Asian cultures, places importance on the group and the interdependence of its members (Cole & Cole, 2001, p. 541). The North American model, in contrast, focuses on the ideals of individuality and independence (Cole & Cole, 2001, p.541). This contrast is due to

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    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Barbie: The American Girl Goes Global

    Barbie: The American Girl Goes Global

    Barbie: The American Girl Goes Global 1. Describe Mattel's global marketing strategy for Barbie and assess its success. Mattel pushed Barbie in to Global market by adapting fashion and culture trends to it product. Difficulties for Mattel to enter global market are culture, barriers and competitors. Mattel faced problem in the Middle East about religious and social grounds. Parents and religious leaders think Barbie is odd with their culture value and Arab girl's reality is

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    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: gao
  • American Big Business - a Case Study

    American Big Business - a Case Study

    Singer Corporation, now known as Bicoastal Corporation, is the company that brought the world the sewing machine. There are Singer Sewing machines in almost every country in the world and Singer instructions in more than 50 languages. Mahatma Gandhi learned to sew on a Singer and called it “one of the few useful things ever invented.” I will attempt to explain how Singer came to be one of America’s big businesses. Isaac Merritt Singer was

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    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: Steve
  • American Economy After September 11th

    American Economy After September 11th

    American Economy after September 11th "Every president is dealt a hand of cards," said John Shoven, a Stanford University economist and senior fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution. "Bush inherited a pretty tough hand." When President Bush took the office in the year 2000, things were moving smoothly on the surface. Undercover there was havoc. Tragedy of September 11th shook the world but it shook the US most. Technically speaking, one would say ofcourse it

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    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Artur

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