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Schools Not Color Blind Yet

In spite of all attempts to remove race as a determining factor in American schools, it continues to be a problem. This paper argu...

1914 to 1975 American Foreign Policy

In five page the post First and Second World War foreign policy of the United States is examined in a discussion of such topics as...

Urbanization in the 20th Century

This 6 page paper examines the theory put forth by the Chicago School sociologists that all urban areas assimilated their immigran...

Ralph Emerson on Transcendentalism in 'The Divinity School Address' and 'The American Scholar'

In ten pages this essay considers how Emerson represents transcendentalist principles in a comparison and contrast of his two spee...

Oakes's Becoming Good American Schools

tradition, particularly the tension between the very powerful concept of and drive for individualism and the ideals of civic virtu...

U.S. Middle Schools and Deficiencies in Mathematics

implement middle school principles. The predominant theory for the last fifty years or so has been that the middle school is the b...

School Mascots Debate

has been a debate that has raged for about 30 years (Price 66). The issue is generally over whether names like Braves, Redskins, ...

U.S. Intervention in Central America

over the world-Iraq is merely the latest in a long list of interventionist adventures-but hes one of the most articulate. Chomsky ...

Improving Public Speaking Skills among African American Students within a High School Institution

National Alliance of Black School Educators wrote in the 1984 text Saving the African American Child, "Low income, poor nutrition,...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

The American System of Government

of the amount of power the states would hold. Today, many are used to hearing about the Constitutional rights of others. This eme...

The American Health Care System: A Disgrace

they should have "choices that are diverse and responsive to individual needs"; and they should exercise personal responsibility i...

Sentencing and the American Criminal Justice System

toward determinate sentencing models that go along with a tough on crime stance. Of course, juvenile justice has to some extent b...

Three Ways in Which the U.S. Constitution Has Influenced the American Criminal Justice System

terrorist acts? The practice of electronic surveillance was certainly nothing new. Two months prior to the attacks on the World ...

American Urban Politics and the Federalist System

as partnerships related to: "fundamental human dignity; issues that do not recognize borders; and issues where major financial res...

Applebaum and Batt's The New American Workplace, Transforming Work Systems in the United States

that the American workplace, and indeed the world workplace in general, has undergone tremendous changes in just a relative short ...

A New Type of American Voting System

election officials; the fact that every election year millions of American citizens are effectively disqualified from the voting b...

African Americans and the U.S. System of Criminal Justice

the largest percentage of ethnicity in the prison population were whites. Then, there was a huge jump in the numbers with an incre...

The U.S. Penal System and African American Males

(Cummin, 2002). When a black person was accused of a capital offense, then they were tried in the courts, but there was no jury a...

Causes Of The American Banking System Collapse

ones home. The reality is that not every individual earns enough to buy a home. Just as the root causes of the Crash of 1929 and...

American Criminal Justice System: Three Important Issues

that are sent to them by the courts" (Jerin, 2004). What serves as a viable alternative, however, is highly suspect to being infl...

The Importance of Voting in the American System

collective goals". Obviously, it is wise to guard against special interest groups who pursue their own wants and desires at the e...

African-American Juveniles and the Criminal Justice System

although blacks make up only 12% of Sacramentos drug users, "52% of those arrested in Sacramento are African-American" (Schiraldi,...

Organizational Information Systems

Originally seeking to be a virtual company carrying no inventory of its own (Gruppo, 2000), Amazon abandoned that plan shortly aft...

Problems and Solutions for the Troubled American Prison System

Rehabilitation is only one reason for punishment. Other reasons go to retribution, deterrence and social control. Prisons do provi...

The Unjust American Healthcare System: The Problem and Proposed Solution

percent of its gross domestic produce on healthcare, which is the highest per person ratio in the world (Malhotra, 2009, p. 224). ...

American Social Systems in Economic Crisis

retirement for older Americans, perhaps the most overlooked factor in the devastation caused by the economic crisis. Older America...

An Examination of American Management Systems

This paper considers the company and its consulting project problems especially as they pertain to European contracts. There are ...

Chinese and American Social Systems

the others. In one illustration of the differences, and slight similarities, between China and the United States we examine t...

Revolving Door Effect of the American Penal System and Recidivism

In fourteen pages this paper discuses the problems of recidivism in the U.S. system of correction with various models for sentenci...