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National Defense, Peacekeeping, and the Military of the United States

an important historical role in protecting U.S. interest both at home and abroad and will inevitably do so in our future as well....

1995's United States v. Lopez Case

and is one that should be evaluated in todays frightening climate of violence. The Supreme Court case United States v. Lop...

Customs and Habits that Form the American Character

he saw. After the poverty, political and religious strife and injustice he had seen in Europe, he saw the American as "the new man...

Striking and Teachers

scene or people could die. Similarly, hospitals need staff and emergency personnel. One can see why striking in such occupations a...

Terrorist Attack on the United States and Its Effects

during the third week of September; that was just barely two weeks after the attack. It was the highest jump in unemployment claim...

America Combating Terrorism

the impacts of terrorism have affected the U.S. both directly and indirectly outside of those boundaries. Never-the-less, the U.S...

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...

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...

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 ...

Social Expectations Significance and Criminal Activity

handled around the world. A comparison between countries who boast of a low crime rate is particularly instructive. Japan is one...

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...

American Foreign Policy and the 'War on Drugs'

obstacles. Americans have grown accustomed to the status quo" (Nadelmann, 1993, p. 41). The situation is quite different across ...

The Two-Party System in the United States

of the national government which are the executive, the legislative and the judicial branches. The constitution gives broad power...

Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew's Blind Man's Bluff The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

had faded. Everyone was frightened when approached" (Weinberg 11). The result of their labors, the years of painstaking resear...

U.S. and Japan HRM

SANNO Institute of Management in Tokyo, 2000). There are two issues that are most often discussed whenever human resources in Jap...

Privatization of the BBC and Telecommunications' Deregulation by the United States

the BBCs income comes from the license fee -- a flat tax charged to every home that has a television set (Anonymous, 1995). Non-p...

Thailand and Global Marketing

This may mean that different types of product...

The Insignia of the United States Air Force

The Chevron was adopted, though it was not a new idea. The chevron (which looks like a squat diamond standing on its end), used to...

Cuban Americans and Their Positive Contributions

Mexican-Americans; in Miami, mainly Cuban-Americans; in New York, mainly Puerto-Ricans, whose commonwealth has a unique status in ...

Expansionism of the U.S., Italy, and Germany During the 19th Century

there was considerable fractionation between the people. The young United States also faced the problem of enlarging her territor...

1989's Spanish American War

noted how relations between U.S. and Spain had seriously deteriorated, and that with increasing unrest of the Spanish-Cuban War no...

Africanisms and Spirituality

revivalism in the postmodern context. The religious institution has long been the focal point of community affairs in places wher...

History of Racism in the United States

including women, but while things would eventually be repaired to the point of some closure on the subject-intermarriage, black ca...

Federalist Papers and U.S. Legal System Evolution

student will want to begin with New Nationalism from the Roosevelt Administration, progressively moving forward to contemporary co...

Peacekeeping Operations of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

collective defense against one perceived threat. R?hle said that the architecture should be looked at "as a series of key politica...