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Essays 1651 - 1680

The State and Virtue According to Alexis de Tocqueville and Aristotle

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...

Poverty and Education Relationship

human needs. If they do not know where their next meal is coming from, or where they will sleep that night, they are not likely to...

'The Appeal' by David Walker

faced by the black people. It was practically unheard of for a slave to buy his or her freedom in the United States, it was even ...

Incidence, Response, and Prevention of Work Related Violence

to occupational injury and death". In addition, "homicide has become the second leading cause of occupational injury death" (NIOSH...

French Guiana and France Trade Relationship

the culture (CIA, 2003). There have also been numerous disputes over boarders with Brazil to the south and east and Suriname to t...

Future Defined by the Progressive Policies of U.S. Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson

transplanted immigrants as culturally or racially inferior merely because they were not of American heritage (Berkin PG). O...

Americas and the Influence of Latin Culture

Practitioners of Santeria do pray to Catholic saints, but they also venerate animistic gods and goddesses which stem from the Afri...

US Legal System and the Changes Brought About by the Scottsboro Boys Trials

boys with a fair trial by an impartial jury which eventually led to the end of jury restriction based on race throughout the count...

Homosexuality and Latin American Gender Roles

of their culture to be replaced by Catholicism. In short order the indigenous population was dominated and overcome by the Europea...

Global Position of America During the Last Century

would shape our interactions with others. In the earliest times of our history our independent spirit was deeply ingraine...

Comparison of Pearl Harbor and September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks

the victim in both instances, we realize the actual consequences of our unprepared state. We were sitting ducks in both instances...

Beyond the Industrial Revolution in Urban Design

to make cities healthier, greener, and generally more pleasant. Great Britain, however, would obviously feel this need considerab...

Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine Writing About America

There is no question that through Jeffersons influence, the United States of America was built on a foundation of democracy and li...

Response Paper th Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia

romance ideas, and the subtle but pervasive message that they are second to males in this society. Many girls fit this example as ...

Poverty in Central America

begun in 1850 that affected El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama well into the twentieth century" (Habegger, Pearlman, 200...

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...

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...

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...

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 &...

Originalism and Non-Originalism

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

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...

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...

Filipino American Life

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

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...

Differing View of Democracy

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

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...