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US Empire Crisis and the American Involvement in Vietnam

in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...

U.S. West Coast and the Decline of the Sea Otter Population

to continue at this rate (Englander PG). The otters depend upon the ocean as a means by which to sustain life, with shellfish one...

Go West on the Transcontinental Railroad

voyages or three-month-long overland treks, both equally dangerous, as well as prohibitively expensive for most people. When the ...

Social Expectations Significance and Criminal Activity

handled around the world. A comparison between countries who boast of a low crime rate is particularly instructive. Japan is one...

Film Gung Ho

relied formerly on oil, for instance, Japan was able to diversify during the oil crises of the 1970s into the manufacture of elect...

The Life and Achievements of Andrew Jackson

Roughshod President). Growing up as he did in the backwoods country, Jacksons education was sketchy at best (Andrew Jackson). Ho...

Nineteenth Century American Racism and Alexis de Tocqueville

new "homes," black slaves suffered. Plantation overseers thought nothing about whipping slaves to make them work faster (they wer...

U.S. Labor Unions

The movement opened doors for women and African Americans that had up until then been shut tight. In short, the Knights of Labor ...

Issues Pertaining to Racial Profiling

example, a highway patrol officer may not be on the lookout for a red Jaguar sedan but the simple fact that a young man of apparen...

Teachers and How to Meet Their Financial Needs

be getting more financial help. Because economic situations for schools and teachers seem to be getting worse the people have a te...

U.S. Foreign Policies of Josef Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev

Stalins totalitarian rule and approach resolution to political struggles without the need for war. This stance did not hold for l...

U.S., Mexico, and Maquiladora Systems

by a group called, Arthur D. Little Foundation in Ciudad Juarez(Mexico, 2002). The original study was to see how the continuing un...

American Slavery

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

American Citizenship Policy and the Effects of Mexican Immigration

the U.S. and Mexico is a long one, and it is a history which reflects the changing attitudes of Americans. While at first we anxi...

Native Americans and Africans Compared

members of particular racial and ethnic groups which are often compared in relation to the majority or dominant group within the p...

Black Studies and America's Cultural Assumptions

home, psychologically, is that all things French are worthy of being known, while anything that is the color black is associated w...

Gravitational Center of Globalization and Has It Shifted Away from American and Toward East Asia and Europe?

and political consequences as the U.S. and foreign economies slow" (p. PG). The very essence of globalization is that of ch...

21st Century and Henry David Thoreau

States and among philosophers in general. While this background was largely unnecessary from the perspective of many of the retre...

4th Quarter 2002 U.S. Economy Performance

at the overall figures, this rally in the second quarter meant that the economy was still seen to grow in the year, showing an inc...

'Dumping' and Exports of German Steel

2002, the US Commerce Department ruled that structural steel beams imported from seven foreign markets, including Germany, were du...

Injury and Safety Impacts of Bicycle Helmet Laws

enter emergency departments as a result of bicycle accidents (Business Wire, 1997). Over sixty percent of those individuals who d...

Controversy Over the League of Nations

in retrospect, it is not certain whether or not the best move was made. The United States of Americas rejection of the League of ...

Unconventional Weapons Sought by North Korea

out that she is a sovereign country with the right to arm herself as she sees fit. Others, however, perceive this direction as a ...

Great Britain, Pearl Harbor, and Prior Knowledge of the Japanese Attack

States government, in order that we would have to respond. "Roosevelt had repeatedly and publicly stated that America wo...

US Involvement in the Iraq War

is, the United States (and the United Nations), has given Iraq years to comply with regulations which quite clearly they have no i...

Is It Possible for Biculturalism and Patriotism to Coexist in America?

as well. In todays world, the issue of bi-culturalism and patriotism is an important one - one precipitated by the unrest ...

A Case Study of a Special Needs School Component

given attention to this discrepancy noting that the amount and type of homework assigned to special needs students differs from th...

Young Girl's Cross Cultural Observations of Ritual and Religion

varied types of ritual which characterize her new home and the interrelationships between the various members of her new family. ...

American History and Railroad Construction

end-of-the-track towns called hell-on-wheels" (The Iron Road). Explosions and avalanches were commonplace for the Chinese crews, ...

Discussion of Corporate Culture

Schein (1985 cited in Smith, 1998) provides a threefold classification of culture which includes the elements of assumptions, valu...