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Engelhardt's The End of Victory Culture

other words, conflict has several specific social and cultural functions, especially in terms of the way that a nation defines its...

Issues of Stereotypes and Prejudice

of a belief concerning that type of individual, something discussed often in Jones book "Social Psychology of Prejudice." A black ...

South Africa, the United States, and Civil Rights

In 1954, for example, the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v Topeka asserted that the separate but equal concept...

American Foreign Policy and the 'War on Drugs'

obstacles. Americans have grown accustomed to the status quo" (Nadelmann, 1993, p. 41). The situation is quite different across ...

The Two-Party System in the United States

of the national government which are the executive, the legislative and the judicial branches. The constitution gives broad power...

The Violation of 4th Amendment Rights

Charlotte, North Carolina, Police Department, on duty at the time. He was watching the store, and seeing Graham enter and then le...

Film Gung Ho

relied formerly on oil, for instance, Japan was able to diversify during the oil crises of the 1970s into the manufacture of elect...

U.S. Culture and Societal Impacts of the Cold War

II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...

A US Prison Reform History

"prisons" from where people never emerged; the most famous being the Bastille of Paris, France, scene of the French Revolution. Th...

Imperial Power of America

the battleship U.S.S. Maine on February 15, 1898 in Havana harbor (The Spanish/American War). But tensions were high betwee...

Immigration of Hispanics into the United States

government. Political dissent and conflict were thereafter more or less continuous in Alta California except for a temporary resp...

The Cold War Superiority of the United States

as it was during what was deemed the cold war. II. The Cold War The expression "cold war" was used for the first time by...

The Life and Achievements of Andrew Jackson

Roughshod President). Growing up as he did in the backwoods country, Jacksons education was sketchy at best (Andrew Jackson). Ho...

U.S. Labor Unions

The movement opened doors for women and African Americans that had up until then been shut tight. In short, the Knights of Labor ...

Issues Pertaining to Racial Profiling

example, a highway patrol officer may not be on the lookout for a red Jaguar sedan but the simple fact that a young man of apparen...

Teachers and How to Meet Their Financial Needs

be getting more financial help. Because economic situations for schools and teachers seem to be getting worse the people have a te...

U.S. Foreign Policies of Josef Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev

Stalins totalitarian rule and approach resolution to political struggles without the need for war. This stance did not hold for l...

U.S., Mexico, and Maquiladora Systems

by a group called, Arthur D. Little Foundation in Ciudad Juarez(Mexico, 2002). The original study was to see how the continuing un...

American Slavery

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

Analyzing Michigan's Kalamazoo Asylum for the Insane

were sometimes locked away in unsanitary conditions or exposed to even harsher treatment. This situation was not to improve subst...

US Empire Crisis and the American Involvement in Vietnam

in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...

U.S. West Coast and the Decline of the Sea Otter Population

to continue at this rate (Englander PG). The otters depend upon the ocean as a means by which to sustain life, with shellfish one...

Go West on the Transcontinental Railroad

voyages or three-month-long overland treks, both equally dangerous, as well as prohibitively expensive for most people. When the ...

Post Privatization Economy of the United Kingdom

downward trends in the growth. However, we can also look at factors such as unemployment, standard of living as well as the other ...

Post September 11th Foreign Policy in America

to either acquire or maintain political superiority. After the September 11 attacks upon the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Ame...

International Athletic Shoe Company Establishment

company, one that can provide styles for all feet but highlight womens lines. The base product will be a new running shoe. We wi...

U.S. Multicultural Education

Americas schools is more prevalent in some states and in some regions of those states. This has to do with the fact that immigrati...

United States During the 1860s

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

United States, Japan, and Flexibility of Labor

can make the new technological developments as well as embrace them. The reason for this success has been the adoption of ...

Embargoes and the Relations Between the United States and Haiti

In five pages this paper discusses embargoes and their impact with the emphasis being on the UN and United States sanctions on Hai...