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Hispanic Cultural Diffusion

dominant theme in the culture and in America today. In fact, government agencies publish bilingual literature and it is hard to pi...

Two Views of Immigration

to the suburbs but are leaving the area, even the state (Booth). This is causing what he sees as "the emergence of separate Americ...

Wal Mart Case Study on Corporate America and Gender

workers. For example, the bags Kathie Gifford would oversee that would claim international notoriety due to the sweat shops utiliz...

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville and Objects

a true democracy, de Tocqueville noted, quantity or reproductions of objects are necessary to satisfy equal need. In his consider...

Attitudes About Ageism

with people looking upon the elderly as slow, incapable, broken down and virtually worthless individuals. The notion of ageism is...

Slavery in Colonial America and Racism

Europeans were conquerors. They wanted land and they needed slaves to build the country economically. It is also interesting to no...

Promoting Democracy Through Imperialist Power?

to the extent that, for instance, the dominant party can dictate the terms of trade to its advantage; more broadly, cultural persp...

US Debate Concerning Immigration

conglomeration of "ideological white supremacists, armed border vigilantes, nativist think tanks, political action committees, and...

The Dominican Republic and Asian Status

be wise and benevolent at times, but at other times it became clear that he was "a tyrant bent upon retaining the Dominican Republ...

Public Education and the Impact of School Vouchers

beneficial members of a civilized society. While this notion is easy enough to understand, reaching that objective through such p...

Understanding the Cultural Aspect of the Obesity Epidemic Among Children in America

food, something that is very important and relevant in the United States. This author notes, "Technological change (e.g. industria...

US 'McDonaldization' According to George Rizer

world" (Parks, 2002, p. 33). The four principles listed above have enabled McDonalds to offer "an efficient manner for satisfying ...

Deeper Market Oriented Economic Reforms and Influential Factors

In the example from Peru it is easy to conclude that a crisis situation is a necessity to encourage the high risk type of reform t...

U.S. Cities Growth

moved to the cities (War and prosperity, p. 231). "By 1950, 64 percent of the countrys total population lived in urban areas..." (...

American Society and Racism

in his introduction, "One of the paradoxes of a culture of fear is that serious problems remain widely ignored even though they gi...

Langston Hughes: “I, Too, Sing America”

the more tolerant cities of the north, where there was both work and opportunity (Rowen and Brunner). Nearly three-quarters of a m...

The Trial of Tom Robinson: America in the 1930s

in Scottsboro, Alabama (Champion). In these proceedings, nine black men were accused of raping two white women; both groups had be...

Sexism in America Today

those of men. Moreover, the gender pay gap widens as educational attainment increases: women earn 81% of mens wages at compulsory ...

Divorce, Pro and Con

commentators have pointed out that research studies indicate that after a generation or so of experimentation with "all manner of...

Infectious Disease Return in Zaire, Rwanda, India, and the United States

agreement set ambitious goals for the eradication of disease, predicting that even the poorest nations would undergo a health tran...

Conscious Choice of Language

as an official language, or the use of "literacy laws" to determine rights, are"thinly-veiled measures to disenfranchise anyone no...

U.S. and Chinese Immigration Patterns

In 12 pages this paper discusses Chinese immigration patterns in America as described in Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship Immigrant...

US Slavery History

time. Because of the need for manual laborers, the slave trade flourished in the south at that time. It was certainly not due to...

Is Relieving Suffering with Prozac a Good Thing?

is the case as far as prescription sales go, then what we might want to examine is what is the reason for such "chemical enchantme...

Society and the Influence of Gangsters

In six pages America during the 1920s and 1930s is examined in terms of the social perceptions of real life and fictional gangster...

Overview of The Autobiography of Malcolm X As Told to Alex Haley

questing spirit presented throughout the book no matter what the name of the persona. The young life of Malcolm Little is a tragi...

A Review of The Many-Headed Hydra Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic

This 5 page essay reviewing the book by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker. This paper accentuates the thirst for economic profit...

Art and the Legacy of the Puritans

In five pages this essay analyzes the Puritan's artistic legacy in America as considered by art critic Robert Hughes. There are n...

Making America by Carol Berkin

The writer analyzes Carol Berkin's book Making America: Changes at the Turn of the Century, and relates such events, eras and peop...

Evolution of Black Music Hybrids

combine that indifference, with separatism or racism, no wonder the African American share of performances or broadcasts is consid...