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The “Washington Consensus” and Latin America

that interdependence has been substantial. Foreign debt has been its primary manifestation but there have been problems relating ...

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...

Latin America Transformed/Gwynne & Kay, Eds.

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

Therapeutic treatment Of Illegal Mexicans Coming To America

of open heart/open door mentality, the melting pot has created wealth and stability for immigrants who would have otherwise strugg...

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 ...

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...

Social Security in America

if the economy does slow down, Social Security will be able to pay full benefits to recipients until 2037 (Hill). "After 2037, Soc...

Popular Culture of 1950s America

not something that sprung up in the 1990s or 1980s. Yes, it is a 1950s phenomenon ("Film History of the 1950s"). McDonalds was fra...

Middle Eastern Immigration in America

During the earlier waves of immigration the Muslims would move to rural areas in addition to urban areas (Smith, 2008). There was ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail,’ Contemporary America, and US Foreign Policy

the only plausible alternative. While King was presenting the justification of nonviolent direct action in 1963 Birmingham, his m...

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...

The Hmong in America: Disease and Health Care

2005). It plunged her into a persistent vegetative state and she had lived life in that state for many years (Underwood, Adler & P...

Spain And America

its landmarks Mt. McKinley and Death Valley - are the highest and lowest points on the continent, respectively (CIA, 2008a). Amer...

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...

Coming to America, A Memoir

way in which people routinely act in public. I am currently employed in the Bronx as a home care provider and I have few friends...

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...

Health Care Needs in Contemporary America

the best in terms of healthcare. There are numerous other echelons of society, however, that receive healthcare in somewhat dimin...

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...

North America: Exploration And Colonization

twenty-six years after Cabots exploration was a small but critically important contribution, in that it is considered "the foundat...

Jacksonian America

many as in 1820" (The presidency of Andrew Jackson, 2007). Jackson swept the election, ushering in what is now called "Jacksonian ...

Frances Fitzgerald's "America Revised: History Schoolbooks In The Twentieth Century"

multiculturalism and reconstruction to cloud the truth and cultivate biased perspectives has caused Americas history textbooks to ...

The Future of Freedom in America

to the basis on which the country is fed monetarily. Yes, it is a rich country and poorer nations might think, it must be nice to ...

Colonial America: New England and the Chesapeake

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

Complexities Of Delivering Health Care In America

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

Europe and America: Political Structure, Government, and the Internet

to say that conservatives generally prefer the status quo, and look at the past with longing, while liberals work for change, beli...

Obesity in America

genetic problem. The first position-that one can eat right and be healthy despite obesity-is a part of a recent fat acceptance mov...

Revolutions: America and France

2007). These events were The three most important events that led up to, and caused it, were "the Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea...

Racism in Contemporary America

investigations that "successfully demonstrate the unfairness that only Affirmative Action can begin to redress" (Bradley 450). Spe...