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Cookson and Persell on America's Elite Education System

category. Those who do are often very bright or talented and are able to achieve at least marginal affluence through getting an ed...

'Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror' by Richard A. Clarke

of the Bush inner circle was as unaware of the existence of Osama bin Ladens al Qaeda as Americans were prior to 9/11, remarking, ...

Reasons Behind Colonial America's Decision to Revolt Against England

Interestingly, however, although we looked to our mother country for that support, little was forthcoming. The early years of the...

John F. Kennedy and a New Generation by David Burner

In five pages this book discusses Burner's 1988 text on JFK and the ways in which America's consciousness both social and politica...

US Children and Obesity

need to be more in tune to their childrens activities and their food choices. Obesity observes no geographic or socioeconom...

U.S. Open Borders and Immigration Policy

5,000 people a year, but it resulted in an influx of immigrants. According to Don Barnett, the annual average for refugee immigrat...

TV's Role in School Violence

Bandura points out that the emotions an individual experiences over a particular tasks can be predictors of their ability to accom...

Social Welfare, Capitalism, and Social Darwinism

and order and to a very limited degree, certain property rights (Boland, 1995). While there are a number of definitions and persp...

Multiculturalism and the Curriculum

demands that change should take place in order for all students, regardless of ethnic or racial background, to feel that they are ...

U.S. Intervention in Central America

over the world-Iraq is merely the latest in a long list of interventionist adventures-but hes one of the most articulate. Chomsky ...

Monetary Policies and the US Federal Reserve System's Role

these goals and to perform its duties, the Federal Reserve Bank has a number of specific strategies it uses, such as discount rate...

Black Intellectuals by Banks

on the wisdom from medicine men from their native lands to the intellectuals who existed within slave territory. Of course, one po...

Declaration of Independence Authors and Slaveholding

the text of the U.S. Constitution (DSouza, 1995). Perhaps the founding fathers did not regard African Americans as men or slaves....

U.S. and Terrorism Causes

the aftermath of the actual attacks. The men, women, and children on the planes who had to die with such knowing horror of their ...

Bill of Rights and its Necessity

not specify what government could not do (A Brief History of The Bill of Rights, 2003). Also, another interesting fact was that t...

US Students, Schools, and Social Problems

social problems, Henderson reported that "a growing number of children are exposed to stressful family situations" including famil...

Virtuous Republic Ideal

In six pages this paper examines America's historic concepts of democracy and the importance placed upon the virtuous republic con...

African American Slave Resistance

In four pages this research paper discusses African American resistance to slavery during America's antebellum period. One source...

Month of January 1945

have we seen openly honest pictures of Americans killing men in such a manner as we did during the times surrounding WWII. It was,...

The McKinney Act and its Effect on the Homeless

by the county. One of the unintended and undesirable occurrences associated with the administration of this countys homeless prog...

American Feminist Margaret Fuller

In five pages this paper examines how Margaret Fuller led the way for America's cultural renaissance in a consideration of the act...

1917 Isolationism Stance Change by US President Woodrow Wilson

In three pages this paper examines how Wilson altered America's isolationist position to become involved in the First World War in...

Florida's Prevailing Cultures

In six pages this paper examines America's dominant culture in a consideration of Florida's prevailing local culture with norms an...

Sociological Views on School Violence

In thre pages this paper examines statistics regarding violence in US schools in this sociological consideration that discusses th...

Explaining the Sagging Jeans of Generation X

In seven pages white America's sagging jeans' trend is chronicled from inside prisons to external society in both the suburbs and ...

Spanish Theologian and Historian Bartolome de las Casas

In a paper consisting of 6 pages de las Casas' involvement in the Americas' Spanish colonization is examined along with his crusad...

Deborah Tannen, "Fighting for Our Lives"

necessary and desirable. In making this point, Tannen refers to her experience with the media in regards to her previous books as ...

America’s Founding Fathers, the First Amendment of the Constitution, and the ‘Separation of Church and State’

increasingly marginalized from public and private spheres. Once upon a time, prayer was permitted in public schools, and no one t...

Women as Battlers of Change Since the U.S. Civil War

love that was considered scandalous at the time.1 Woodhull boldly declared in a lecture she delivered in 1871, "I have an inalien...

Banking In China

banks, i.e., those owned by the country (Wright, 2008). And, the private banking industry is growing fast in China, according to C...