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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 ...

Organized Crime in America

of organized crime is contained within legitimate businesses including small-scale trucking, automobile sales, and bakeries, and l...

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...

Slavery in Africa and Europe

then there was the arrival and influence of the Islamic people who further made an impact on slavery. This is also important to un...

Rereading America: Education

are quite different, and sadly so. He puts it right out there: Americas schools are as segregated now as they were in the 1950s, o...

Toyota Supply Chain Management

is why Toyota adopted just-in-time (JIT) supply chain management many, many years ago. JIT is about having the right raw materials...

The Boston Tea Party

legislative body; an executive branch; and a judicial branch of government. Britain came to that change later than did the US, ho...

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...

An 18th Century American

a great deal of fur trading to be had, although both French and English were involved in fur trading and dealings with the Natives...

Differing View of Democracy

that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...

Problem of Obesity

Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is one of the main ways that the problem of obesity is tracked in the US (Hensrud and Klein, 20...

Race and Ethnicity

right direction, but change is slow and the collective influence of thousands of years does not disappear easily. One theory tha...

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...

A Critical Look at Obama's Education Plan

project has not received enough funding (Abramson, 2008). This is the typical criticism waged in respect to the program. The syste...

The Plight of the Homeless

found at the same time. A study from Canada finds that prolonged homelessness, along with a lack of state support, can lead to cri...

Divorce, Pro and Con

commentators have pointed out that research studies indicate that after a generation or so of experimentation with "all manner of...

Racism in Contemporary America

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

Spain And America

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

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...

America (1600-1774): The Land of Opportunity?

hopes and expectations which constantly supported and carried them through all the hardships with patience and resignation. Let us...

Diversity Audit; The Bank of America

orientation differences. This leaves diversity management for those who disabilities as a potential area for improvement, but the ...

African Americans in Early America

(Laughter Genealogy, 2008). Another region, Pennsylvania, saw an African American history that was essentially one of slav...

AutoZone, Inc.

to its commercial markets. It offers a "commercial sales program that provides commercial credit, and delivery of parts and other...

The European Perception of and Impact to Native Americans

the Native Americans had with the lands in which they made their homes. Their lifeways, indeed even their spirituality, had evolv...

Book Report on William Manchester’s The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 (Vol. 1)

with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...

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...

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...

Jews of Eastern Europe and American Blacks in the 1930s

non-Jewish citizens who might have protested at their treatment (Sowards). The last step of course was their mass murder (Sowards)...