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American History and Railroad Construction

end-of-the-track towns called hell-on-wheels" (The Iron Road). Explosions and avalanches were commonplace for the Chinese crews, ...

Native Americans and Africans Compared

members of particular racial and ethnic groups which are often compared in relation to the majority or dominant group within the p...

Cancer and Homes with Unacceptable Radon Gas Levels

types of rock may have higher concentrations of uranium and may produce higher levels of radon, elevated radon levels can also be ...

United States, Latino Immigration, and Poverty

according to Nieman Reports researcher Joe Rodriguez (1999, p. 45). Basically, the welfare laws allow states to choose between con...

Black Studies and America's Cultural Assumptions

home, psychologically, is that all things French are worthy of being known, while anything that is the color black is associated w...

21st Century and Henry David Thoreau

States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...

4th Quarter 2002 U.S. Economy Performance

at the overall figures, this rally in the second quarter meant that the economy was still seen to grow in the year, showing an inc...

'Dumping' and Exports of German Steel

2002, the US Commerce Department ruled that structural steel beams imported from seven foreign markets, including Germany, were du...

Injury and Safety Impacts of Bicycle Helmet Laws

enter emergency departments as a result of bicycle accidents (Business Wire, 1997). Over sixty percent of those individuals who d...

Gravitational Center of Globalization and Has It Shifted Away from American and Toward East Asia and Europe?

and political consequences as the U.S. and foreign economies slow" (p. PG). The very essence of globalization is that of ch...

The United States of the 1920s

nothing makes quite as much of a statement as does a bathing suit, a garment made for the purpose of swimming but something that w...

Applebaum and Batt's The New American Workplace, Transforming Work Systems in the United States

that the American workplace, and indeed the world workplace in general, has undergone tremendous changes in just a relative short ...

Douglas Porpora's How Holocausts Happen, The United States in Central America

there to the Jewish Holocaust of World War II is an overt distortion of the facts and circumstances. Even given his misguid...

Should the U.S. Officially Speak English?

there have been a number of attempts to pass a Constitutional amendment making English the official language of the United States....

EXPAT, ROBERT LORD AND RIORDAN MANUFACTURING

inconvenience of the overseas assignment on the other side of the ledger" (Phillips and Fox, 2003; 469). Its not easy being an exp...

EXTREMISM IN THE UNITED STATES

and swearing that theyll never take part in anything against it (Oath Keepers) to the Hutaree militia, which is dedicated to spark...

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 ...

Countering the National Family Ideal

the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border. (Gerken, 2008). Part of President Bushs concern, he said, was reuniting immigrants w...

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...

Iranian Law and Criminal Justice

place in about the third century; it lasts until the 20th. Iran went through a number of revolutions in the 20th century, includi...

Revolutionary Thought and the Early Development of the US

The climate and geography of the region that would ultimately become the U.S. allowed the colonist to quickly develop an independe...

DEATH PENALTY: ARGUMENT AGAINST

Presents arguments against the death penalty in the United States. There are 10 sources listed in the bibliography of this 7-page ...

American and Japanese Women at Work

is nearly impossible to have a career and a family in Japan (Fackler). It is called the glass ceiling in America and the concrete...

Reform Concerning Immigration

of the coin, however, many believe that immigration should be strictly regulated and immigrants should have to meet certain criter...

1990-2005 Immigration to the United States

more legal immigrants than all other nations in the world combined."6 Because of this dramatic increase in immigrant population, ...

Comparing Perspectives Presented in the Printed Media

equivalent factors, such as the costs. The presentation on the Business Week web page is equally bland, the advertising that takes...

Diversity of Cultures

these are perhaps the three most predominant and noticeable perspectives that exist in the United States concerning cultural diver...

The American Working Class and the Constitution

would change with the defeat of the imminent defeat of the South in the Civil War. On January 31, 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment ...

The Articles of Confederation and the Constitution - Different Approaches to Government

have now (Faragher et al 176). Delegates were elected annually by means devised by each state, and could only serve three years ou...

Buddhism

Buddhism is one of the most widely spread religions in the world. It is perhaps unlike many other religions for it teaches a way o...