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Peacekeeping Operations of the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

collective defense against one perceived threat. R?hle said that the architecture should be looked at "as a series of key politica...

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...

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. Immigration Policies and University Students

law S. 1216, the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992....The new law will permit the Chinese nationals who were beneficiaries of...

Major Post 1945 Conflicts and the Involvement of 'Superpower' United States

Superpower nations have a number of different types of pressure which they can bring to bear on countries in conflict; apart from ...

Social Expectations Significance and Criminal Activity

handled around the world. A comparison between countries who boast of a low crime rate is particularly instructive. Japan is one...

Steel and Automotive Industries of the United States and Their Impact Upon America's Trade Deficit

plants in other countries Levin, 2000). The U.S. automotive deficit with Japan, for example, represents about 60 percent of the en...

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...

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...

Nineteenth Century American Racism and Alexis de Tocqueville

new "homes," black slaves suffered. Plantation overseers thought nothing about whipping slaves to make them work faster (they wer...

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...

American Citizenship Policy and the Effects of Mexican Immigration

the U.S. and Mexico is a long one, and it is a history which reflects the changing attitudes of Americans. While at first we anxi...

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...

United States and the Implications of Mad Cow Disease

epidemic in January 1993 (Center for Disease Control, 1996). By 1996 the outbreak had slowed to only an approximate three hundred...

Unconventional Weapons Sought by North Korea

out that she is a sovereign country with the right to arm herself as she sees fit. Others, however, perceive this direction as a ...

Post Second World War Relations Between the United States and Thailand

already effected a rapid conversion of the absolute government into the democratic government they desired. They had done so both...

Reasons the U.S. Should Use Capital Punishment

History "Nearly four centuries have passed since the first documented execution on American soil took place in 1608 (Schneider &...

American Political Changes

no better illustrated than through a discussion of the particulars of our democracy itself, the particulars of who is allowed the ...

Second World War Photography Propaganda

the propaganda proliferated relied on fear and questionable facts in order to gain the sympathies of the people. In retrospect, th...

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 ...