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Essays 1891 - 1920

U.S. Labor Unions

The movement opened doors for women and African Americans that had up until then been shut tight. In short, the Knights of Labor ...

Issues Pertaining to Racial Profiling

example, a highway patrol officer may not be on the lookout for a red Jaguar sedan but the simple fact that a young man of apparen...

U.S. Immigration Policies and University Students

law S. 1216, the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992....The new law will permit the Chinese nationals who were beneficiaries of...

Major Post 1945 Conflicts and the Involvement of 'Superpower' United States

Superpower nations have a number of different types of pressure which they can bring to bear on countries in conflict; apart from ...

Steel and Automotive Industries of the United States and Their Impact Upon America's Trade Deficit

plants in other countries Levin, 2000). The U.S. automotive deficit with Japan, for example, represents about 60 percent of the en...

The Cold War Superiority of the United States

as it was during what was deemed the cold war. II. The Cold War The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by...

A US Prison Reform History

"prisons" from where people never emerged; the most famous being the Bastille of Paris, France, scene of the French Revolution. Th...

Imperial Power of America

the battleship U.S.S. Maine on February 15, 1898 in Havana harbor (The Spanish/American War). But tensions were high betwee...

Immigration of Hispanics into the United States

government. Political dissent and conflict were thereafter more or less continuous in Alta California except for a temporary resp...

Nineteenth Century American Racism and Alexis de Tocqueville

new "homes," black slaves suffered. Plantation overseers thought nothing about whipping slaves to make them work faster (they wer...

The Violation of 4th Amendment Rights

Charlotte, North Carolina, Police Department, on duty at the time. He was watching the store, and seeing Graham enter and then le...

Film Gung Ho

relied formerly on oil, for instance, Japan was able to diversify during the oil crises of the 1970s into the manufacture of elect...

The Life and Achievements of Andrew Jackson

Roughshod President). Growing up as he did in the backwoods country, Jacksons education was sketchy at best (Andrew Jackson). Ho...

United States, Harry S. Truman, and the Korean War

and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, and everyone went home (The Korean War: Setting the Stage and Brief Overview, 2002). Roosevelts b...

Trademarks, Licensing, and International Law

nine states with very different laws relating to trademarks, as well as an agreement between the Benelux countries, where each has...

Language Barriers to Students from Indonesia, Japan, China, Croatia and Turkey Entering the United States

is the mental lexicon, which is the mental representation of the forms as well as the meanings of the words and the morphemes in a...

Relations Between the Soviet Union and the United States and the Truman Doctrine

nations of World War II as destinations for possible conquest. In response, that leader, Josef Stalin, grew to hate and mistrust t...

Successful Women's Soccer in the US

world" (Anonymous #3, 2002), there came to be a grand shake up when a number of top nations withdrew from the 1928 Olympics. This...

United States During the 1860s

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

United States, Japan, and Flexibility of Labor

can make the new technological developments as well as embrace them. The reason for this success has been the adoption of ...

U.S. Multicultural Education

Americas schools is more prevalent in some states and in some regions of those states. This has to do with the fact that immigrati...

Mueller's Spaghetti® Marketing

the brands it has sold off to others. It was not another food company that bought the Muellers brand, however, but New York Unive...

The 2002 Economic Report of the President of the United States and GDP

descriptors of a nations economic health. It serves as barometer that clearly indicates the productivity and health of an economy...

Women and the Effects of Male Bias

the Type-Writer Girl" (Keep, 1997, p. 401). Interestingly enough, Kipling further questioned one of these "girls," only to learn t...

Impact of the Dred Scott Decision of 1857

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

Sexuality Regulation

an impossibility given the specifics of the various rights that are identified. Sexuality is, after all, a culturally variable ph...

A Health Care Fraud Opinion

not just the physician but also the office assistant. The lesson that this case provides is that agreements regarding fraudulent ...

Gold, Dollars, and Power by Francis J. Gavin

by the US, Great Britain and their wartime allies in the summer of 1944 at a conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. High...

American Society and Economic Inequality

workers (Marx, p. 38). We are already seeing signs of this, as the wealthy continue to consolidate their power and money while de...

Environmental Problems in the United States and Possible Solutions

the lakes is predicted to fall by as much as eight feet due to the increased temperature, "with serious implications for ecosystem...