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Fact or Fiction with Regard to Racial Profiling

a disproportionate percentage of the crimes. While it might be easy to point to racial profiling as the reason for the...

Primary Crime Data Sources: Compare/Contrast

rural, urban, gender, culture and age (Bureau of Justice, 2001). NCVS modified its methodology in the late 1980s to improve upon ...

Overview of the Chicano Band Los Lobos

began celebrating their cultures and communities in song with the Chicano variations of Woodstock festivals being staged throughou...

THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES

doctors and hospitals who have no problems charging a patient three dollars for an aspirin tablet. Its also easy to point the fing...

Critique on the Variations of the Rapunzel Folk/Fairy Tale

Maiden in the Tower, more commonly known to contemporary readers as Rapunzel, is indicative of this traditional fairytale structur...

A Re-evaluation of the John Adams Presidency

The laws were not popular and while they had been reversed by Congress for the most part, or were simply not renewed, Adams was co...

Obesity

Human Services: National Institutes of Health, 2008). Actually measuring a persons body fat is not a simple procedure such as step...

United Group Limited, Woodside Petroleum Limited and Babcock & Brown Limited

to United Group Ltd. As part of the growth there has been a strategy of acquisition, companies acquired which have added r...

Discrimination Against Homosexuality And Women In The United States

a national telephone survey of 1,283 heterosexual, English-speaking adults to establish their beliefs and prejudices about how AID...

Causes and Effects of the Mexican-American War

north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they...

Obesity in the United Arab Emirates

the UAE (Join the movement to tackle obesity, 2004). The UAE is the fifth most obese nation in the world, following the "United St...

Josiah Bartlett: Founding Father

as is the case with many other unsung people from history. One must see, and understand, exactly how Josiah was important, despite...

US Economic Recovery

the US jobless claims rate dropped to 364,000, the lowest level in nearly two years (BBC, 2002). At the same time, personal spend...

Comparative Analysis of US Congress and British Parliament

during the early history of the country. Since early man started banding together with others of his kind, one major concern, oth...

An Outline of Religion in the 2000 and 2004 Elections

Votes by religion: Bush: 56% Protestant, 62% white Protestant, 68% Evangelical, 53% mainline, 47% Catholic, 52% white non-Hispanic...

ECONOMIC UPDATE

mortgage companies to undergo marketing losses, and causing companies to go out of business (White, 2007). Countrywide was no diff...

Christian View on Immigration

increase in immigration of roughly 120 million from 1990 (Martin and Widgren 3). The vast majority of the worlds 6.1 billion peopl...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

The Media and Body Image

that most people look nothing like the people on television. One need only look at statistics concerning obesity in the nation and...

The American Presidency

1789-1797, sought reelection only once and a two-term limit became traditional and was the national standard for 150 years (OConno...

The Takeover Panel

exactly where they stand with clarity (The Takeover Panel, 2008) 1.1 History and Background of the Takeover Panel The Takeover Pa...

Education and Single Parent Families

parenting and education is heated. There are those who make a case for the desire to build the nuclear family model. Paton & Kirku...

Racism in the United States

using it to divide and to confuse the people about the reasons for the economic and social crisis of the system. Because the syste...

Case Analysis-A Girl with Alopecia

depressed mood and at least two of the following symptoms: "poor appetite or overeating, insomnia or hypersomnia, low energy or fa...

The Sub Prime Lending Crisis; Why It Has Happened and the Impact on Banks

an important purpose allowing many borrowers access to funds to help them make purchases which would otherwise be impossible for t...

NEO-NAZISM IN THE UNITED STATES: AN OVERVIEW

(Phillips, 2007, 70). In this paper, well trace the origins of Neo-Nazism in the U.S., point out its views, and give an...

REALISM, LIBERALISM AND THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR CONFLICT

of realism, the state is the unitary actor, the number-one gun, the only one that matters3. Autocratic models, and dictatorships t...

Elder Abuse in the United States

sometimes illusive. Generally, the characterization of elder abuse is that it does occur in the United States and while hard to de...

Burt’s Bees; Marketing Case Study

integrated marketing communication, a simpler definition may be found in Kotler (2003), where it is stated that integrated marketi...

Slavery and American Independence

there for the use of the whites. The Revolution, however, would impact much more than just white Englishmen. The road to t...