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  • Understanding the Cuban American Culture

    Understanding the Cuban American Culture

    Miami Florida has the biggest Latin population than any other city in the United States. The majority of Latin’s being of Cuban descent. Since the Cuban revolution there have been constant waves of immigrating Cubans to Miami. The result has been a Cuban American society that has created culture diversity within. In order to understand the Cuban American culture you must understand its ethnic origin, politics, and the varying times of immigration. CUBAS ETHNIC ROOTS

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Anna
  • Growing Concern of Aid in the African American Community

    Growing Concern of Aid in the African American Community

    The Growing Epidemic of AIDS/HIV In the African-American Community By Idris Abdul Zahir In the early 1980’s Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer usually associated with elderly men of Mediterranean ethnicity. Eventually the men wasted away and died. As the realization that gay men were dying of an otherwise rare cancer began to spread throughout the homosexual and later the medical communities. The syndrome began to be called by the colloquialism "Gay Cancer". As medical scientists

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    Essay Length: 546 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Top
  • Rise of Anti-Americanism

    Rise of Anti-Americanism

    Scott Van-Newhouse GVPP Book Review: Andrew Kohut America Against The World Rise of Anti-Americanism There are many conversations and explanations on why America has encountered an anti-American backlash in recent years. In reading Andrew Kohut’s America Against The World, I found it particularly useful to debunk the misconceptions that current foreign policy makers and news personnel both –explain as the reason why America is being viewed in such a negative light. Kohut’s book is a

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    Essay Length: 2,354 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Yan
  • The American Family

    The American Family

    The American Family The essay “The American Family”, written by Stephanie Coontz, takes a historical perspective to examine the contrast between common beliefs about the past and the reality of that time. Furthermore, Coontz analyzes and challenges the conventional view that families today face worse problems than in the past. According to Coontz, families today face a multitude of problems, arising out of fears about inattentive parenting, teen violence, child abuse, conflicted marriages, and antisocial

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Victor
  • The American Family

    The American Family

    Just picture the typical American family going on a short trip to grandma’s house. Do you see dad in the driver’s seat, mom on the passenger’s side, and the kids in the back? What about an old red station wagon? One might picture a father who is a little too nerdy for his own good; a mother who is calm, cool, and collected and maybe just a little too pretty for the dad. If the

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Andrew
  • African American Recidivism Rates

    African American Recidivism Rates

    A Research Proposal Of African American Recidivism Rates By: Ricardo Santacruz ABSTRACT As a result of tough on crime policies and the subsequent war on drugs, the number of individuals involved with criminal justice system continues to rise at alarming rates. Since 1980, the incarceration rate has tripled. 1 in 20 Americans will spend time in prison during their lifespan. The numbers speak for themselves. Currently there are an estimated 2 million people in U.S.

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • The American Civil War

    The American Civil War

    The American Civil War was from 1861 to 1865 it was a civil war between the United States of America and the Southern slave states of the newly-formed Confederate States of America under Jefferson Davis. The Union included all of the free states and the five slaveholding border states and was led by Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party. Republicans opposed the expansion of slavery into territories owned by the United States, and their victory

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Wing Pattern Evolution and the Origins of Mimicry of North American Admirals

    Wing Pattern Evolution and the Origins of Mimicry of North American Admirals

    Admiral butterflies (genus Limenitis) are a particularly appealing system to address questions regarding wing pattern evolution and speciation. This genus is unusual among other butterflies in that mimicry has evolved multiple times and hybridization is frequent between wing pattern forms. An interesting fact of wing pattern evolution within this genus is the apparent differences between the largely stereotypic Paleartic fauna and the highly variable Nearctic forms of butterflies. Palearctic and Nearctic forms regard to different

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Maxfli Approach - the British American Tobacco

    The Maxfli Approach - the British American Tobacco

    The British American Tobacco (BAT) company is a large global Fortune 500 company with operations in more than 120 countries. The MaxFli sales force automation system is BAT’s new global direct distribution system developed to take advantage of BAT’s economies of scale, as well as, offer end-market design allowing for local customization and implementation. However after MaxFli’s implementation over three countries, mixed results were obtained, and implementation over three countries revealed strengths and weaknesses inherent

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: David
  • Automobiles in American Society

    Automobiles in American Society

    American Culture and Automobiles Americans have been crazy about cars since they were invented in 1890. When introduced during the early 1900s, automobiles served as a more powerful and modern mode of transportation and little else. Now in present time the automobile plays a far greater role in American culture. Its popularity is due to its ability to accommodate our desire for individualism, freedom and power. The automobile embodies deep-seated cultural and emotional values that

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Jon
  • Willy Loman : The Tragedy of The American Dream

    Willy Loman : The Tragedy of The American Dream

    Willy Loman : The Tragedy of the American Dream Prosperity, job security, hard work and family union are some of the concepts that involve the American Dream, generally speaking. Some people think this dream is something automatically granted; or in contrast, as in the story “Death of a Salesman” written by Arthur Miller, as something that has to be achieved in order to be successful in life. The play takes issues with those in America

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Permanent Impact of the Counter-Culture on Today's American Society

    Permanent Impact of the Counter-Culture on Today's American Society

    “What is not illusionary is the reality of a new culture of opposition. It grows out of the disintegration of the old forms, vinyl and aerosol institutions that carry all the inane and destructive values of privatism; competition, commercialism, profitability and elitism…It’s not a “youth thing” by now but a generational event; chronological age is the only current phase”. The previous quote was written by Andrew Kopkind in Rolling Stone on the Woodstock festival

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Entering American Business in a Foreign Country

    Entering American Business in a Foreign Country

    I. COMPANY BACKGROUND INFORMATION Our company Electrical Repair Incorporated has been operating in the domestic arena for 10 years. Electrical Repair Incorporated is a moving company in the way that our headquarters are in Los Angeles, California however our employees travel to different places domestically repairing power lines, power poles and cables in times of natural disasters. Natural disasters range from storms, hurricanes, typhoons to terrorism attacks. II. INFORMATION ON PRODUCT OR SERVICE Electrical Repair

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • American Holocaust

    American Holocaust

    AMERICAN HOLOCAUST The other side of the story to our great American history is not as pretty as they teach us in grade school. The American Holocaust by David Stannard is a novel full of live excerpts from eyewitnesses to the genocide of the American Indians. He goes as far as to describe what life was most likely like before Europeans came to the Americas and obliterated the “Paradise” so described. Columbus even wrote how

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Tommy
  • American Beauty

    American Beauty

    In life, everyone must make choices. Choices give an individual the freedom to decide upon the path to which they will follow. Since it’s beginnings, the film making industry has focused on showing the direct relationship between the choices that people make and the resulting consequences they must face. In the movie American Beauty, the character of Lester Burnham must make many important choices that could either lead to his ultimate happiness, or draw him

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Anna
  • De Crevecoeur What Is an American?

    De Crevecoeur What Is an American?

    The reoccurring themes of de Crevecoeur �s essay are the work ethic of America’s people, the common good of all it’s people work towards, and the identity the poor gained in this country. De Crevecoeur’s image of the poor is like a phoenix rising from the ashes in the New World. The immigrants were once poor, nameless, and insignificant in Europe, but they are now regarded as “citizens” of America. They now have a way

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Yan
  • Condition of African-Americans in the Late Nineteenth Century

    Condition of African-Americans in the Late Nineteenth Century

    Examine the condition of African-Americans in the late nineteenth century and explain why the Thirteenth Amendment, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Fifteenth Amendment, which were enacted to aid the new freedmen, actually did little. In the late nineteenth century after the civil war the U.S. was over, there were about 4 million people that were once slaves that were now set free. The big question for President Lincoln and the presidents that followed was what

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • American Dream

    American Dream

    THE AMERICAN DREAM So what is this dream all about? One would probably describe it as being rich and famous, some would probably say that it is to have a lot of power; however, our personal definition of an American dream is the ability to have freedom, being able to get the highest level of education, being successful in finding a good job, having a healthy and happy family, and eventually letting that grow

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    Essay Length: 302 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Hispanic American Diversity

    Hispanic American Diversity

    The diversity of Hispanics shares the same language but have many differences. In this research paper the four groups that I will be discussing will include: Mexican Americans, Puerto Rican American, Venezuelan American and finally the Colombian American. The areas that will be discussed will include: linguistic, political, social, economic religion and family conventions and or family status. Puerto Rican Americans When leaving the entrance of any train station in the Brooklyn N. Y, you

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Quaker Women in American Colonies

    Quaker Women in American Colonies

    "Quaker Women in the American Colonies" During the colonial period, women were considered inferior to men and “nothing more than servants for their husbands.” During the eighteenth century, unmarried Quaker women were the first to vote, stand up in court, and evangelize; although Quaker women enjoyed rights that women today take for granted, they were most known for their religious radicalism. According to Rufus Jones, a professor at Harvard, the Quakers “felt, as their own

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Top
  • An American Economy

    An American Economy

    Greg Koniges Laura Gronewold ENEX 101.37 May 12, 2005 An American Economy Globalization is a very pressing issue in the American culture today. Within any economy, globalization will cause many problems while at the same time solving many others. This is true because there are many factors involved with globalization, one of the most important being job outsourcing. While at first glance and from what the media reports, job outsourcing is definitely not healthy for

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Jon
  • American People After World War 2

    American People After World War 2

    The end of World War II brought thousands of young servicemen back to America to pick up their lives and start new families in new homes with new jobs. With an energy never before experienced, American industry expanded to meet peacetime needs. Americans began buying goods not available during the war, which created corporate expansion and jobs. Growth everywhere. The baby boom was underway... Many historians of science argue not only that technology is an

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Role of the American Teen in the 50’s and Now

    Role of the American Teen in the 50’s and Now

    The Role of the Teenager in America Then and Now Teenagers in the 1950's were a lot different from the teenagers today. It was a beginning of a transformation into what they are today. The influence of teenagers on America’s economy has changed greatly, Teenagers have gone from not being able to speak their mind to freely expressing almost anything they feel. It seems large companies are now only focusing on teens, whereas before they

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Wendy
  • American History X

    American History X

    In many ways, the media must be involved in ethnic and racial issues. The media is to provide the public with information useful to them. The media is on the public’s side. Racial stereotyping is a problem that is out in the public. Drugs, teen pregnancy, child abuse and rape are also problems that affect the people of the world everyday. The media has a job to make these issues aware to the people and

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    Essay Length: 436 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Wendy
  • American Culture of Pop Music

    American Culture of Pop Music

    I.Invasion of American Popular Music After World War I, American popular music -- blues, jazz, and Tin Pan Alley songs -- swept Britain, much as British music invaded the United States in the 1960s. American songs such as "Chicago" and "Manhattan" were consistently among the most popular tunes in Britain in the 1920s. As a result of the invasion of American popular music, Britain was influenced by such culture. The Beatles and other British rock

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mikki