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Is Wal-Mart Bad For America

employees, salaries and benefits, the kinds of subsidies the company receives, and the pressure they put on suppliers. These are t...

Racial Issues

(Measuring racial discrimination, 2004). Native Americans "are incarcerated in federal prisons at higher rates than any other mino...

Resolving the Problem of Income Inequality

a corporate entity as it is known, but companies like Ben & Jerrys have made a decision to place limits on how much money one empl...

Wier/Tehano

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

The Lives of Men and Women in America

course, on the home front, many women complain that men simply do not do chores or take care of the children. Often, it is the cas...

Divorce in America

hold families together as some claim. Some experts believe that Protestant sects do little to hold families together, unlike Catho...

Internship/Boys & Girls Clubs

build their self-esteem and in motivating positive behavior. The student researching this topic will note that this writer/tutor...

Quadagno: "One Nation, Uninsured"

believed were Communist inspired (Quadagno, 2005). The Communists established the Comintern, an organization dedicated to worldwid...

Low-Income Parents & Reading at Home

literacy, it is axiomatic that these adults need to possess reading skills themselves. Consequently, education levels obtained by ...

Massage Therapy

in many things, "but assuredly in rubbing.. for rubbing can bind a joint that is too loose, and loosen a joint that is too rigid" ...

The Garment Industry: The Plight of Asian and Latin Workers

and Torres 146). How much money do they earn? The typical Mexican female who works in the apparel industry will early approximatel...

Summary and Review of Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed

for contemporary social issues has been reflected in her thirteen books. In 2001, her text Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By ...

Twentieth Century Immigration in America

Spanish-language rhetoric on the radio and in the cafes" (29). In addition to conveying the flavor of Latin-American life, Tobar ...

North American English Colonial Societies

became so dependent on the Indians that they took to raiding them; the Algonquin chief, Powhatan, decided to starve them out, and ...

Article Analysis: Diversity

a "nigger drink" (How corporate America came to recognize diversity, one Pepsi at a time, 2007). One thing the article mentions ...

De Tocqueville: "Democracy in America"

customs, and morals which was necessary to render such a revolution beneficial" (de Tocqueville, Introduction). The result of this...

Triangle: The Fire that Changed America by David Von Drehle

thesis is how this fire changed something in America. The author begins by illustrating many people and movements involving...

Settlement in Colonial America

any colony: its supposed to become self-sufficient and send profits back to the mother country. In Jamestown, the English "were un...

Settlements in North America: Spain, France, England and Holland

Spain in the mid-1500s, privately owned French ships - pirates in the eyes of the Spanish - attacked Spanish ships and ports in th...

Romanian Family History

and Carol I (1839-1914) was installed as its first monarch" (Wertsman). It is a very old country with a rich and varied history. ...

Questions on "The rich, the poor and the growing gap between them"

increasingly fails to be able to maintain the benefits it has brought to the bottom and middle tiers of workers. Questions ...

America And Russia: Tensions And Impact Upon Global Community

Russia possessed considerable political strength, there has remained an unsettled climate between the two nations ever since. As ...

Women's Baseball Leagues in Historical Context

Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 for example (Roberts, 2005). The womens movement had begun and baseball was an...

Youth Gangs in American Society

areas. As this summation suggests, in this introductory chapter, the authors show that this topic represents a much more complex ...

The War In Iraq: Our Troops Should Not Leave Too Quickly

- are the nations that have single-handedly caused Americas ideals to be brought into question. Moving forward into the twe...

Britain and America Up to the Revolution

a position of great economic need. They had borrowed a great deal from bankers, British as well as Dutch, in order to pay for the ...

Globalization : Outsourcing And Jobs

in a foreign country. The term outsource or outsourcing has become a synonym for offshore or offshoring. When jobs are sent to cou...

The Exploitation of the People of Central America

for exports would number 420,000 (Monge Alfaro 1980 as cited in ("Colonization and environment," 2008). Bananas was not the only...

How Self-Interest Has Ruined America

market because they lack the resources to develop it? Or those who cannot compete because the barriers to entry are too high for t...

Hegel And Tocqueville

the Roman Empire. As such, it was a political power. Hegel seems to be suggesting that God can be Spirit only if the Triune God i...