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Problem of Obesity

Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is one of the main ways that the problem of obesity is tracked in the US (Hensrud and Klein, 20...

Race and Ethnicity

right direction, but change is slow and the collective influence of thousands of years does not disappear easily. One theory tha...

Organized Crime in America

of organized crime is contained within legitimate businesses including small-scale trucking, automobile sales, and bakeries, and l...

Differing View of Democracy

that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...

Same-Sex Behavior And Attitudes In Ancient Greece And Rome: Providing Help Dealing With Gays In The Military In Modern America

by public desire. In consequence, new (homosexual) variants of existing myths, and in some cases new (homosexual) myths, were gen...

Performance of the Bank of America

decrease from 28.4% in 2007 down to 5.51% in 2008. However, it does appear that the bank is returning to a more profitable positi...

The Relevance of Whitney's Cotton Gin

made life easier. Prior to the invention, one person might spend an entire day picking the seeds out of a pound of cotton (Yanak &...

Rayovac Corporation - The Rechargeable Battery Opportunity

also carried risks. Opportunities for Rayovac There was a broad and growing need and demand for batteries throughout Canada...

The Impact of Fidel Castro on the Politics of Latin America

inevitable that the Cuban revolution should become a communist one" ("Heroic Myth and Prosaic Failure"). The Mexican Revolution th...

The 1960s: My Lai, Lt. Calley, Draft Resistance and Change

supposed to simply believe the reasons given for our involvement in Vietnam and put their support behind the war. This type of thi...

2 films: America and The Patriot

as other authors, date this film as 1924, not 1929, which is why this date is used. Griffith envisioned his film as an epic, but t...

George Washington: Heroic, Flawed, and Human

Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...

Nace: “Gangs of America”

many instances of corporations actually writing legislation favorable to them, though its rarely blatant. Rather, they "remind" th...

Gangs of America

The book goes into other companies through history such as the railroad and U.S. Steel. It is a work that examines how the corpora...

Filipino American Life

California (05B). The majority are foreign born (05B). Unlike the Irish, Italian and Jewish immigrants for example, where current ...

America the Land of Opportunity?

for those individuals who had not immigrated or migrated here. For the Native Americans it was their land, their home, and it may ...

The International Monetary Unrest in the Late 20th Century

This 8 page paper discusses the reasons for the financial turmoil of the late 20th century. The writer argues that the unrest star...

Las Vegas' Asian Community and Types of Spousal Abuse

In thirty pages this paper discusses physical, sexual, and verbal spousal abuse in America and then considers its impact upon Las ...

Native Americans in Spain as Beings or an Obstacle?

In a paper that consists of five pages the ways the Spanish perceived Native Americans in Latin America and the Caribbean are exam...

Erotic Journeys and the film Maid in America

portrayed in the film live in a climate of risk with "no health insurance, no drivers license, no pension and no recourse" to just...

American Corporations: Rising Concerns Over Ethics

occurs, the domino effect that follows can be completely ruinous to those who are within the path of consequences, otherwise known...

History of Weaponry in the United States

an increasingly common part of the archaeological record after 1600" (Of Stone and Stories: Pueblitos of Dinetah, 2009). They were...

Virgin America Airlines

airline is not getting off the ground so to speak on its own. In fact, there have been allegations that the airline simply is not ...

Daily Life during the Seven Years War in North America

going in different directions. I suspect we brought much of the prejudice with us from England. But there is no denying that the "...

U.S. and How to Address the Public Health Crisis of Obesity

body mass index that is greater than the 95th percentile for age and gender, they are classified as obese (Dietz & Hunter, 2009). ...

Illiteracy in America

out before they learn to read and write are girls" (1). Finally, discrimination regarding race also enters the picture. The effec...

U.S. Church and State Relationship

2006). The statement is attributed to the father of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson, who feared that if such a ...

Walmart Good or Bad?

better than a sweatshop with no benefits, low pay and conditions that lead to depression? It appears that there may be some truth ...

The Expansion of Tesco into the United States

they have adopted a more modest approach with the use of small neighbourhood stores called Fresh &Easy, focusing on California, th...

The Edge of Disaster

in the effort to make the nation more secure is the private sector, but it has not done so (2007). Instead, the government has tak...