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Evaluation of Gerontology

be expected to become even more top-heavy in the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the econo...

Social Concerns in Latin American Colonial Times

remained the same as the wealthy white merchants and elite maintained control of the economic monopoly. Neighborhoods were not onl...

Corporate America and Ethics

that these legal requirements have ethical and moral implications. For example, the tobacco industry is being sued not because it ...

'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 ...

Post Fifties' Equality and Women

to bring in sources that address the womens movement (a social phenomenon of the 1970s), as well as other sources that more accur...

American Perspectives on Christmas

when the U.S. hostages were being held in Iran, and that year only the top ornament was lit (American Christmas Traditions, Facts ...

U.S. Civil War and Reasons for the South's Loss

that served as the primary reason that numerous white Americans were able to participate in other interests and occupations withou...

Corporate American and Class Struggle

wealthy people who give no thought to dropping thousands of dollars at a charity dinner or going on vacations month after month. I...

Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer

semblance of order and productivity. He did not resign himself to mingling among his fellow Europeans in this vast new world, ins...

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...

Seventeenth Century Puritan Colonization and Nineteenth Century Reconstruction Explored

sue and be sued, as well as testify in court only in cases involving other black people (Anonymous, 1865). These provisions were ...

Slavery in America

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

European Rule in the Western Hemisphere

New World empire. Even so, until the colonial reforms of 1764 by the Bourbon dynasty in Spain, the military garrisons were small a...

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, ...

U.S. Immigration of Jamaicans

attribute to a good education. The youngsters of a first-generation family often bear the incredible burden of making something o...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century History of American Public Education

to assure prosperity was to have an informed society (Tyack, 1967). Mann was expressing his dismay at the treatment of children wh...

Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century America Expansion and Migration

The best intentions often brought about an entirely different outcome; while explorers made sure to draw up at least an idea of wh...

19th Century America and the Effects of Communism

wealth and property should be distributed equally, or alternatively that the state would hold the property collectively and then w...

The Culture, History and Artistry of Black America

vision, no true identity, and certainly does not connect with his African American culture. His mother, however, changes some o...

Trade Structures and Economic Markets in Cuba and the U.S.

represents over 6 million people. The GDP (gross domestic product) of Caricom is approximately $28.6 million and the Dominican Rep...

Black and Outsider Culture

sexual orientation, and consequently these different facets may take on different degrees of priority at different times in their ...

Lifton and Mitchell's Hiroshima in America

it honorably. This is, as mentioned, a very common perspective from generations of Americans who lived the war. But, there are al...

Recreation and PE Development

cost to health" (Dalleck and Kravitz, 2002, PG). Due to the industrial revolution people were moving from rural areas to more u...

Capitalism in Out of This Furnace A Novel of Immigrant Labor in America by Thomas Bell

enough leftover for a few luxuries. What they received instead could hardly be construed as luxurious, as one steelworker lamente...

Early American History and Free African Americans

my opinion, yet I consider our condition but little better than that....After all, methinks there are no chains so galling as thos...

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 ...

Problems with the U.S. Articles of Confederation

been ineffectual at best, but, afterwards, the actions of Congress were actually hampering the viability of the new republic. One ...

Cablevision and The Cable TV Industry

If we isolate out industry consideration to the cable television companies that we can look this as a mature industry. In 1997 the...

Companies Based in America and Child Abuse

number one, they can, and number two that the children are easier to control that adults. There are no unions, and the children an...

Branch Davidians, FBI, and ATF Standoff

groups have long been at the forefront of controversy with their indignation toward government and strong-arm tactics. These ordi...