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Crime in America

nearly 13.2 million offenses, a decline of 2 percent from the 1996 level and 7 percent from the 1993 figures" (FBI National Press ...

The Political Functions of Mass Media in America

our place in that world. In many ways it could be said that we are being lulled into a sense of complacency by the glowing light ...

Colonization and its Impact on the Caribbean and Latin America

Spanish would greatly control most of Latin America along with the Portuguese. Huge tracts of land were granted to the wealthy in ...

The Employment Situations in California and in America as a Whole

with links to Silicon Valley, but the "ripple effect" carried over into the myriad support businesses that depended on the revenue...

America in the Gilded Age by Cashman Reviewed

Cashman (1994) describes the unfolding of the industrial landscape in the years following the end of the Civil War. There were se...

America Three Decades from Now

it would be: an educated guess. Economic trends have an unfortunate history of never continuing long enough to base a true predic...

'Over There, World War II,' and 'I Sing, Too, America' by Langston Hughes

at Columbia University in 1920, but left after one year to travel. He drifted for several years, finding employment as a merchant ...

Why America Should Go to War with Iraq

happened, Saddam had never been properly dealt with during the Gulf War that occurred more than a decade ago. Since that time, the...

America and Obesity

2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new ch...

21st Century America and African American Social Mobility

or success is associated with fame and fortune, or achievement in terms of the arts or sciences. Some individuals have not earned ...

Assessment of the Concerned Women for America Website

does accurately describe the organizations mission. When one hears the name, and also has the information that the women are ass...

America and Slow Economic Recovery Causes

and companies now face another challenge: "Having spent the better part of two years burning off excess inventories, the industry ...

Sam Walton Made in America, My Story Reviewed

annual sales of over $44 billion coming from the sales to over 40 million shoppers in over 1,750 stores (Economist, 1992). Before ...

Latin America and Colonial Rule Resistance by Indigenous Peoples

the Natives of the new land were essentially at their disposal. The colonized what was then considered the most desirable lands, ...

Slavery in America

Although Reconstruction began during the war, the time period traditionally associated with it is 1862-1877. The political, socia...

Warfare of Early America and Technology

suited to fast action and hand-to-hand combat. The jineta saddle has short stirrups that cause the rider to bend his knees, allow...

'On Being Brought from Africa to America' by Phyllis Wheatley

arguing that Wheatley was not intelligent, for she was. We are merely arguing that her ignorance of the true realities of slavery ...

Social Life and Intellect in Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

and find neither peril nor advantage in the free interchange of their thoughts. If they meet by accident, they neither seek nor av...

1868 to 1938 Civil Rights in America

the bonds of slavery but it did nothing toward meeting their basic needs. The former slaves had no money and no where to live (Mc...

Transcendentalism in 19th Century America

Transcendentalism was a means by which individuals could concentrate on the divinity of man and of nature. The movement was not o...

America and Changing Freedom

these new people to found a land where they would have such freedoms from Europe. However, at the same time, "The problem with thi...

Early Urban America and the Impact of Railroads

The absolute neglect with which this matter was handled is most unpleasant and an excellent example of the animosity and resentmen...

Weight Loss Plans in America

diet in exchange for one full of simple sugars, worthless carbohydrates and empty calories. When protein is allowed into the diet...

Raising Children in America Today

200,000 violent acts on television alone" (Chatfield, 2002; p. 735). The study indicated that "Between the ages of two and 18, an ...

Why Was America Targeted on 9-11-01?

Gaza; --the US has been openly hostile toward the very concept of Islamic government replacing secular ones. --the US is perceive...

Hating Allen Ginsberg's Poem 'America'

yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...

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...

America and Attitudes About the Middle East

that Afghanistan and Pakistan are also middle eastern ("Middle East," 1993). What this means is that, from a religious, political ...

Marketing and IKEA North America L.L.C.

Evergreen State Society, 1998). The former is a much broader term that covers the entire marketing environment (The Evergreen Stat...

Life in America and the Works of William Carlos Williams and Carl Sandburg

Chicago are? Who knows?" Yet, there are evocative images that conjure images of the people that live there -- workers with big sho...