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America's Clash with the Rest of the World

For much of our history the US has regarded itself as being exceptional to one extent or another...

Prescription Drugs and Our Over Medicated Society

orchestrated our growing dependence on prescription drugs. Big Pharma now represents a practically inescapable component ...

The Future of American Healthcare

In this seven-page paper, the problems with the American healthcare system are portrayed. The essay also outlines President Obama'...

Diabetes and the Importance of Local Education Programs

associated with certain environmental factors and many times these factors can be changed to reduce our propensity for developing ...

Black American Women and Interlocking Oppression

words, when it comes to oppression, people are not necessarily held back due only to their gender, or their color, but a combinati...

An Ungrateful Nation - Blacks after the Second World War

"The French had a certain kind of openness and warmth that they exhibited towards minorities that was just unexplainable. You woul...

Laboring for the Workers

increasingly difficult task. Tony Mazzocchi has been fighting that battle for years. Mazzocchi served in three different campaign...

Improving America's Democratic Government

in society and in the courts. The failure to do so has allowed injustices and inequities that have persisted since the founding t...

Sherman Alexie’s Integration

of the idea of adopting a Native baby than is her husband, who "grimaces briefly then smiles" (Alexie). The question arises, why w...

Blacks and Their History as Guided by Reconstruction

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

Thematic Comparison of Gilgamesh with Current Events

of evil. Bush pursued his quest for immortality by invading the Middle East, first in Iraq in March of 2003, and then established...

Review of Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava

a memory. He cook to remember" (Abu-Jaber 190). Food is also a means of conveying love-"To my mind, this is the best way to show...

Shortcomings and Suggestions for Improvement in the ANA Code of Ethics

those that do not receive another. Nurses, however, (and rightfully so) are expected to perform their duties irrespective of such...

Wag the Dog: The Barry Levinson Film From a Cultural Perspective

an eerily accurate cultural commentary on gender, class, and race in the United States. In the film, all of the major power broke...

Islam in America's Workplace

(Lampman, 2001). Fourth is the Ramadan month-long period of fasting, which recreates the first communications between God and Muh...

How Did You Get to be Mexican?

students and he is sometimes amazed by the amounts of money they spend on things; hes equally amazed at high tight-fisted wealthy ...

Nineteenth Century New France

an invasion. This was not an unclaimed and unused continent. Indeed, indigenous peoples not only lived here but rightfully claim...

Key Events in Colonial and Native Interactions

as being better than Native Americans in some way. The English and the American colonist neither understood Native culture nor did...

Hemmingway, Farewell to Arms, and the Lost Generation

from the Lost Generation. Consider, for example, Ernest Hemmingways "A Farewell to Arms". "A Farewell to Arms" is a story of the...

Popular Transitions in American Culture

as a society allowing these changes to occur. In this day of liberalism, this day of where every problem is believed to be best a...

U.S. Imperialism During the 19th Century

always rationalized based on diplomatic or human rights objectives. For example, when American politicians wanted trade access th...

The End of Apartheid and American Influence

stocks of the companies doing business in the nation (Gethhard, 2010). In other words, stopping investment in the nation that is i...

The 1980s and a New Era of Conservatism

as the party of minorities and liberals and the Republicans as the predominantly white Christian Right. At the same time campaign...

An American Shame - The Ku Klux Klan

a reputation for brilliant cavalry tactics, was elected the leader of all the Klan organizations, with the title of Grand Wizard (...

Alternative Education and Preventing High School Dropouts

greater dropout likelihood, including poor attendance, substandard academic performance, and lack of credits earned to graduate (A...

The American Revolution is Still Underway!

after the Revolution, of course, the focus became the design and implementation of a new form of government1. The fledgling state...

Allegory and Symbolism in the American Gothic Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner and "Ligeia" and "The Oval Portrait" by Edgar Allan Poe

wife Virginias slow death, the narrator focuses on every detail of his wife Ligeia as she lies dying: "The pale fingers became of ...

Kansas and Slavery

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

How Cultures Play A Role Where Emotions Are Concerned

only one child per family --otherwise leaving the parents to face fines, taxes and the absence of governmental support -- has been...

Litigation in America and France

p. 651). The main idea is that the "sharp clash of proofs" presented by the two sides, with the lawyers for each party representin...