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Puritanism in America

to reform the church in England; the story of the Puritans efforts and their emigration to North America is well known. This paper...

The Uninsured in America: A Crisis in the Making

it affect a massive percentage of the American population and is, quite literally, often a matter of life and death. The latest st...

DRUG TRADE IN LATIN AMERICA: TRANSNATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIES

reduction tools and, to an extent, education on the evils of drug use (Seelke et al 2010). The results have been mixed to not-so-g...

Mormonism in America

religions in the world. This paper looks briefly at its establishment in the American West. Discussion The putative founder of Mo...

Working with troubled youth in South America

improving social welfare, social workers can work in a variety of different arenas and industries. For instance, some go into coun...

Litigation in America and France

p. 651). The main idea is that the "sharp clash of proofs" presented by the two sides, with the lawyers for each party representin...

Should America Adopt a Universal Healthcare System?

with only 13% of white non Hispanic citizens being uninsured compared with 17% of Asians/Pacific Islanders, 22% of blacks and 36%...

Obesity in America and Around the World

arguably around the world. 2. Approximately 22 million children worldwide who are under the age of five are thought to be obese...

The Revolutions in Spanish America and Their Effect on Spain

early 19th centuries, Spain was perhaps the most powerful nation on earth. It has established colonies in the New World, and treas...

Latin America and Its Persistent Poverty Problem

well as countries of outstanding beauty where tourists come in great numbers. Given all this, it should be a wealthy region, but i...

OBESITY IN AMERICA: PROBLEMS AND POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

to hypertension. The problem is that most people havent been motivated to lose weight under the old regime, which has focused on l...

The Story of Arabs in America

World Trade Center, damage the Pentagon, bring down three planes and kill thousands of people; they also confused Americans as to ...

How the Industrial Revolution Benefited America

facets of American society would change considerably. New modes of transportation and the new areas to explore combined with a be...

The Justice Systems the United States of America and Iran

has eighteen agencies is supplemented by the notion that it may actually have more than eighteen ("Prosecutor says Iran has 18 la...

Paving America: the Interstate Highway Act of 1956

California to Arizona for example).7 Before the interstate highway system was built, the cities were strong and vibrant; most of ...

Minorities in America

into the countrys population. There is a discrepancy in earnings between the more than two dozen nationalities that are incorpor...

Latin America and Gay Marriage

wedding is what this event implies about secularization, as a deep fear of the Catholic Church has been that secular attitudes wil...

Barbara Ehrenreich on the Working Poor and Not Getting By in America

could earn $7/hour, she could perhaps afford something that cost $500/month, or $600 with "severe economies," but anything else wa...

The Evolution of the Americas

has been noted, the question of precisely when Native Americans arrived in the Americas is surrounded more by speculation than it ...

The Material Culture of Slaves in Early America

white slave owners, the material culture that the slaves remembered in Africa, and the material culture of the Native American peo...

Evaluation of Sheila McClain’s Essay, “Fitness Culture: A Growing Trend in America”

collective desire for wellness. She also mentions that economic assistance from employers and health insurance providers in the s...

Urban Informal Economy of Latin America and Ideology

In ten pages this paper examines the urban informal economic structures of Latin American countries and the influence of ideology ...

Predictions: 2050 America

continue to grow? What will things be like in 2050? It seems that the population will increase significantly. Kent and Haub projec...

Government Dependency: The Most Important Issues Facing America Today

this challenge relates to the phenomenal changes health care has undergone over the last couple of generations. The evolution of ...

Critique of Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

text is a virtual diary of her experiences and observations. The text is effective in that the author is never condescending to t...

African Americans in Early America

(Laughter Genealogy, 2008). Another region, Pennsylvania, saw an African American history that was essentially one of slav...

Alternative Energy Sources: What is Best for America?

the Earths magma will represent an important alternate energy source in the future (Alternative Energy Sources 196). Presently, s...

Latin America Transformed/Gwynne & Kay, Eds.

Modernity," contains 6 chapters, which are characterized by the editors preferred political economy approach. Part 2, "Political T...

Torture in Bush’s America

describes a situation in which the police in London know there is a bomb set to go off; they know it will kill thousands; they hav...

America and IKEA

only would flat packages be easier for customers to handle, but they could get more items on a truck if they were flat (Moon, 2004...