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Divorce Rate

a substantial number of divorces that would not have occurred otherwise" (Why Divorce Rates Increased, 2008). This is something th...

Cuban Americans and Their Positive Contributions

Mexican-Americans; in Miami, mainly Cuban-Americans; in New York, mainly Puerto-Ricans, whose commonwealth has a unique status in ...

Expansionism of the U.S., Italy, and Germany During the 19th Century

there was considerable fractionation between the people. The young United States also faced the problem of enlarging her territor...

Contemporary Bushmen

Bushmen. Deeming them "untamable" and a threat to livestock, settlers treated the Bushmen as vermin, killing them in great numbers...

1914 Commissioning of The Bryce Report

In five pages this paper argues that the Bryce Report about German troop mistreatment after the invasion of Belgium was little mor...

U.S. Policing, Racial Prejudice and 'the War on Drugs'

the economic and political struggles of inner-city existence in the United States. "Racial discrimination exists in the criminal ...

Holocaust and the Response of the United States

American public went on with their lives unaffected. It is interesting to note that Novick attributes more of the Jewish awarenes...

Excess Achievement in the Entertainment Industry

The Movies It was in the 1920s that Hollywoods film industry was born. These were the days of...

System of National Health Care and the U.S.

51% ("Health Insurance," 1997, p.PG) of the 31 million Americans who have no insurance, maintaining that they do not carry it simp...

Should the U.S. Sell Jets to China

Peoples Liberation Army is looking at the aircraft with both awe and disdain. The jet he describes is Chinese owned and registered...

U.S. Abortion Policy Decisions

1997). In the case of an unborn fetus this consideration becomes exceedingly complex. The right of a woman to control her own bo...

US Loss in Vietnam

Vietnam War stands out in US history as one of Americas greatest traumas. For the American people, it was a bewildering affair fro...

Family, Marriage, and Kinship

men began to want a great many children, as this was considered the best and easiest way to immortality. Ancestral mothers had bee...

Advertising and Senior Citizen Treatment by Popular Culture

"Demographers predict that the numbers of elderly people will double in the next 30 years" (pp. 3). As the population of America ...

Terrorist Motives of Osama bin Laden

him in founding his new country, he would dedicate it to the Wahabi faith (Masoud, 1998). Saudi kings since that time have treade...

The History of the Alien Tort Statute

This was especially important at that time because the United States was very weak in its military sector, and would be unable to ...

America Combating Terrorism

the impacts of terrorism have affected the U.S. both directly and indirectly outside of those boundaries. Never-the-less, the U.S...

How to Achieve Peaceful Existence

peaceful place. This is perhaps the essential argument of all the others being mentioned as well. Martin Luther King Jr., when oth...

Economic Effects of War

the war is likely to change the economy. To judge what this change may be we can look to how other wars have affected the United S...

Great Britain and France Politics

In six pages this paper compares the past and present political systems of France and Great Britain. Four sources are cited in th...

Engelhardt's The End of Victory Culture

other words, conflict has several specific social and cultural functions, especially in terms of the way that a nation defines its...

Issues of Stereotypes and Prejudice

of a belief concerning that type of individual, something discussed often in Jones book "Social Psychology of Prejudice." A black ...

South Africa, the United States, and Civil Rights

In 1954, for example, the landmark Supreme Court case of Brown v Topeka asserted that the separate but equal concept...

American Foreign Policy and the 'War on Drugs'

obstacles. Americans have grown accustomed to the status quo" (Nadelmann, 1993, p. 41). The situation is quite different across ...

1989's Spanish American War

noted how relations between U.S. and Spain had seriously deteriorated, and that with increasing unrest of the Spanish-Cuban War no...

Philippines and Human Rights

is more important than individual rights" (Bruun 78). As a result, human rights violations occurred, but citizens often turned a ...

Africanisms and Spirituality

revivalism in the postmodern context. The religious institution has long been the focal point of community affairs in places wher...

Federalist Papers and U.S. Legal System Evolution

student will want to begin with New Nationalism from the Roosevelt Administration, progressively moving forward to contemporary co...

Native Americans and Their Socioeconomic and Political Roles

that "all these houses have very large and very good rooms and also very pleasant gardens of various sorts of flowers both on the ...

Privatization of the BBC and Telecommunications' Deregulation by the United States

the BBCs income comes from the license fee -- a flat tax charged to every home that has a television set (Anonymous, 1995). Non-p...