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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...

U.S. Culture and Societal Impacts of the Cold War

II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...

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...

Political Document Relevance of the Constitution of the United States

and internal issues of social unrest and social justice. The U.S. Constitution is a document that does not deal with the limitati...

Youth Influence on American Society

war. At the end of the war, the social problems which had been suppressed during that time, became a part of the new focus of the...

Perspectives on Capital Punishment in America

generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...

U.S. Trade Deficit Discussed

accumulation of this type of wealth guaranteed that a country could wage war if it was necessary. As would be expected, this co...

U.S. Zoning Regulations and Land Use Planning Differences

degree of legally permissible land-use restriction is defined by the Constitution, which protects landowners from restrictions whi...

Reasons Behind Atomic Bombing of Japan by the United States

lost on the world, and is one of the reasons why the attacks remain controversial to this day. This paper explores the reasons gi...

Relevancy of the History of Civil Rights

"Big Boy Leaves Home." In this narrative, a white woman stumbles upon two black men who have gone skinny-dipping on a hot summer d...

Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century Church and State Relationship

that the secular governments. Priests were often criticized as being greedy and extortionate. As a result of this unrest conflict...

Global Competition and Targeted Industrial Development by the U.S.

fraction of what has long been the norm may be given more credence if it were not for the fact that industry targeting requires a ...

Traditional Clothing in the United States and China

generations who have borrowed heavily from Western influence. Jeans, T-shirts and other casual wear are more readily seen in toda...

U.S. Hispanic Groups

of the Roman Catholic Church" though there are a growing number of non-Catholics in the population (Mexican American, 2006). The ...

Education and the Constitution

involves school and the condition of religion in schools. In recent times there has been a great deal of controversy over the simp...

Children, Guantanamo Bay and the Violation of Human Rights

As seems to be the case with most, if not all, of the other prisoners in Gautanamo Bay the children have not...

Could Fascism Occur in the United States?

In both cases, these philosophies emerged as a means of escaping the "perceived spiritual and material crisis" that existed in bot...

Pros and Cons of Mandatory Community Service

Mandatory civil service can result in many positives. One can demonstrate this fact with an examination of many cultures. One of...

U.S. and Sociocultural Processes of Latina Women

large numbers, notably in textile mills and garment shops" and no rights regarding the working conditions really solidly existed i...

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...

Mexican Revolution and the Impact of Intervention by the United States

the Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution was a time of tremendous social upheaval. During this decade-long turmoil roughly ...

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...

Homeland Security and a Secure America

In fact, there have been a rash of school shootings over the years. Schools realize that even when precautions are taken, it is di...

Dictatorship Can Happen in the U.S.

it already has. From the prisoner of war camps set up during the Revolutionary War, to those used in the Civil War, to the shamef...