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Book Report on William Manchester’s The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 (Vol. 1)

with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...

Critique of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

text is a virtual diary of her experiences and observations. The text is effective in that the author is never condescending to t...

A Critical Look at Obama's Education Plan

project has not received enough funding (Abramson, 2008). This is the typical criticism waged in respect to the program. The syste...

The Plight of the Homeless

found at the same time. A study from Canada finds that prolonged homelessness, along with a lack of state support, can lead to cri...

Government Dependency: The Most Important Issues Facing America Today

this challenge relates to the phenomenal changes health care has undergone over the last couple of generations. The evolution of ...

Bank of America and Citigroup Financial Questions

accounts for 2007 (which are the latest available). When looking at the Bank of America the trading assets are worth $162,0643, t...

Latin America Transformed/Gwynne & Kay, Eds.

Modernity," contains 6 chapters, which are characterized by the editors preferred political economy approach. Part 2, "Political T...

Therapeutic treatment Of Illegal Mexicans Coming To America

of open heart/open door mentality, the melting pot has created wealth and stability for immigrants who would have otherwise strugg...

Torture in Bush’s America

describes a situation in which the police in London know there is a bomb set to go off; they know it will kill thousands; they hav...

Effects of Illegal Immigration on the United States

air ports of entry 24 hours a day, seven days a week (Border Security, 2008). These agents have produced impressive results with ...

Originalism and Non-Originalism

be" this "promotes serious public debate about government and its limitations" (Theories of Constitutional Interpretation, 2008). ...

Wales as the Model for British Colonialism in Ireland and America

of Wales is inextricably linked to the history of the Welsh language and many events were tied to the language; for example, in 14...

Road Construction Environmental Impact

This could have an adverse health impact on citizens who already have respiratory problems and could cause new problems in all peo...

Book Report on Jeffrey Toobin’s The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

in which the Supreme Court justices typically align themselves - usually in either liberal or conservative extremes, which Antonin...

CAFTA: PRO AND CON ARGUMENTS

with this agreement, it wont have that much of an impact; rather, other sectors, such as agriculture, construction equipment and o...

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...

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...

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...

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 Material Culture of Slaves in Early America

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

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...

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...

Health Care Needs in Contemporary America

the best in terms of healthcare. There are numerous other echelons of society, however, that receive healthcare in somewhat dimin...

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 &...

Barbara Ehrenreich on the Working Poor and Not Getting By in America

could earn $7/hour, she could perhaps afford something that cost $500/month, or $600 with "severe economies," but anything else wa...

The Evolution of the Americas

has been noted, the question of precisely when Native Americans arrived in the Americas is surrounded more by speculation than it ...

Organized Crime in America

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