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Behind the Attack on Pearl Harbor

proposes that World War I and World War II were not separate conflicts but one long struggle with a cease-fire in the middle. This...

New Ruling to Allow GPS Surveillance

ruling is applicable to nine Western states, including California (Cohen, 2010). This is because a decision rendered by the U.S. C...

Americans and the Land

John Steinbecks essay Americans and the Land is an essay about how Americans have, since they first arrived in the new land, abuse...

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...

The Unjust American Healthcare System: The Problem and Proposed Solution

percent of its gross domestic produce on healthcare, which is the highest per person ratio in the world (Malhotra, 2009, p. 224). ...

Five Events That Speeded the U.S. on Her Way to Full World Involvement

U.S. interaction in world events has changed radically...

Creating Paranoia Post-September 11, 2001: The U.S.A. Patriot Act

Within 3 pages, the U.S.A. Patriot Act is analyzed for the reassurance it is supposed to provide to the American people and the su...

A Perfect Candidate/Film Review

directed by David Van Taylor and R.J. Cutler) is a documentary that follows the 1994 senate race between incumbent Senator Charles...

Tamarisk the Invader

habitat or region, but moves in and takes over, crowding out indigenous plants and often changing the entire character of the habi...

Isolationism in US History

The Monroe Doctrine is a critical component of American history. Implemented during the administration of President James Monroe,...

Early American Dichotomy and the Conflict Between Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton

1997, p. 35). The conflict between Hamilton and Jefferson is apparent in their diametrically opposed views on popular rule, state...

American Foreign Policy/Cohen and Walt

of marginal communities" have altered, "at least publicly," so that they now focus on "inclusion and legitimization" of those memb...

Addressing the Problems of Illegal Immigration

topic of illegal immigration is highly controversial in todays world. Americans want to place the finger of blame on some specifi...

Elia Kazan and Method Acting

be a disaster. Everybody knows of actors who have made a great living playing themselves-John Wayne comes to mind-but theyre rare....

American Universities - Profit Driven Unfairness

complaints usually tend to arise because of the existence of affirmative action policies that stipulate quotas that universities m...

Comparing DuBois and Baldwin in Early African American Literature

of history. The text is certainly auto-biographical in nature, but it frequently delves into historical and sociological topics su...

Cabanatuan, a Textbook Operation

mission and saved the American prisoners of war (POWs) being held by the Japanese at the Cabanatuan internment camp in the Philipp...

The Stigma Borne by Muslim Women

Muslim women who are living in mainstream US society in many cases struggle with a definite societal stigma....

Restorative Justice and Traditional Cultures

The concept of restorative justice is something that is intriguing people from all...

The Recession: How Government Intervention has Helped

those needs ("Stars of the Recession," 2010). The present situation seems to be begging for American goods. One observation made i...

Overview of a Criminal Justice Study on Marijuana Use

This research paper consists of an analysis of Green, et al's 2010 study, "Does heavy adolescent marijuana use lead to criminal in...

A Multicultural Perspective Infused with Violence

is most interesting about the text, however, is that it presents the reality of multicultural interactions as a given, as a common...

Does Hip Hop Harm Black Americans?

and its signature musical expression, rap music, which evolved from the "African American, Afro-Caribbean and Latino communities o...

Diabetes and African Americans/Epidemiology

interest and relevant population Diabetes mellitus is an umbrella term for a category of chronic metabolic conditions, which are ...

Slavery A Precipitating Factor in the Civil War

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

The American Presidency

of both the despotism that can be imposed by a monarch, as well as the "tyranny of a fixed popular majority" (Foner and Garraty). ...

Japanese Consensus Decision Making

the recommended decision a decision (Ala and Cordeiro, 1999). When the decision has been agreed upon, the final decision is record...

Democracy and The Role of the Citizen

2006). Hudson (2006) acknowledges that he used to support the idea of removing barriers to increase voter turnout, but notes that...

19th Century American History

slavery, a trend which leads towards the development of Sectionalism in the Southern states. 1830s: Southern states begin to seek ...