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'British Stiff Upper Lip'

Jewish immigrants. People like Bob Hope, who was born in England, have contributed richly to our culture. Charlie Chaplin, also f...

Global Social Mores Decaying

point accusing fingers at countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, and Rwanda where horrors like female genital mutilation and wa...

Racism Within American Culture

to secure benefits for themselves "at the expense of African slaves and their American-born descendants" (Clark, 2003). Whites hav...

Distinctions That Shaped the U.S. Culture from Old Europe

This "novel way of life" according to Pringle (1998), "then diffused across the Old World" (p. 1446). However, these societies Ne...

U.S. and Japan Health Care

(Wise, 2005). One of the major health issues in the U.S. and other Western countries is obesity (Wise, 2005). It is estimated tha...

America's Power Preeminence

this governments interactions with both the people of this and other countries and with the governments of other countries. This ...

The Unsteady March The Rise And Decline Of Racial Equality In America by Philip Klinkner and Roger Smith

forth was at least twice that of their white counterparts, inasmuch as they knew the expectations placed upon them would be scruti...

Saudi Arabia and the Effects of U.S. Education

degrees in the US (Tracy). Prior to 2001, as many as 15,000 Saudi student studied in the US every year (Tracy). It is difficult,...

Relevancy of the History of Civil Rights

"Big Boy Leaves Home." In this narrative, a white woman stumbles upon two black men who have gone skinny-dipping on a hot summer d...

Perspectives on Capital Punishment in America

generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...

U.S. Trade Deficit Discussed

accumulation of this type of wealth guaranteed that a country could wage war if it was necessary. As would be expected, this co...

Global Competition and Targeted Industrial Development by the U.S.

fraction of what has long been the norm may be given more credence if it were not for the fact that industry targeting requires a ...

Pros and Cons of Mandatory Community Service

Mandatory civil service can result in many positives. One can demonstrate this fact with an examination of many cultures. One of...

U.S. and Sociocultural Processes of Latina Women

large numbers, notably in textile mills and garment shops" and no rights regarding the working conditions really solidly existed i...

U.S. Zoning Regulations and Land Use Planning Differences

degree of legally permissible land-use restriction is defined by the Constitution, which protects landowners from restrictions whi...

Youth Influence on American Society

war. At the end of the war, the social problems which had been suppressed during that time, became a part of the new focus of the...

British and U.S. Welfare Systems

Establishing policy is a process both lengthy and involved, more often than not fraught with painful compromise. From the very fi...

U.S. Hispanic Groups

of the Roman Catholic Church" though there are a growing number of non-Catholics in the population (Mexican American, 2006). The ...

Education and the Constitution

involves school and the condition of religion in schools. In recent times there has been a great deal of controversy over the simp...

Children, Guantanamo Bay and the Violation of Human Rights

As seems to be the case with most, if not all, of the other prisoners in Gautanamo Bay the children have not...

Gathering Evidence, Ethics, and US Supreme Court Guidelines

common citizen. Homes warned of certain demise if this was not the case and observed the value of our government as a teacher, a ...

U.S. and Buddhism Today

today, scholars see three types of Buddhism: "immigrant Buddhism," "import Buddhism" and "export Buddhism" (Buddhism in the United...

US Economy Prior to the Great Depression

The world had survived the First World War, and women had entered the workforce in large numbers for the first time. They reveled ...

America and Violent Crime

violence: * More than 80 Americans die every day from gun violence (NEA-HIN, 2002). * American children and youth are 16 times mor...

Debate on Gun Control

of State John R. Bolton, who led the US delegation to the 2001 conference, asserted that, given a choice between following the wil...

American Foreign Policy and International Law

surprising that another round of opposition to US requests has arisen. Some members of the UN Security Council are as politically...

Twentieth Century as 'the American Century'

like anything was possible and the sky was the limit when brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright piloted their homemade plane a short ...

1979 Peace Treaty Between Israel and Egypt and America's Mediator Role

Minister Menachem Begin. With an olive branch extended, the U.S. wasted little time in initiating diplomatic efforts to promote p...

Middle East and US Foreign Policy

objectives, a student writing on this subject will also want to point out that the branch of government responsible for U.S. Inte...

U.S. vs. the Middle East Dictatorship Perceptions

this in mind, then, it is not surprising that there is such turmoil in that region. Interestingly enough, both democracy and dic...