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The Attractiveness Of Biomass Fuels For The United States

petroleum diesel by virtue of its use in compression-ignition engines; as such, it presents no damaging effects when mixed as a tw...

United States Economy 2000 - 2003

dollars) Real GDP per Capita (2000 dollars) 2000 $9817.0 $9817.0 $34788 $34788 2001 $10128.0 $9890.7 $35524 $34692 2002 $10469.6 $...

Push 1 For English - The Automated Telephone Response

a representative, push [another number that is not always 0]" What happens when you get to a real live person? You have to tell th...

The Dangers Of Smoking

to break. To bring the point home, half a million people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with ...

The Health Care Continuum

Virtually everyone had access to health care in some form, either with the assistance of health insurance or through public health...

Global Poverty Reduction

International releases an annual Corruption Perception Index, which does not seek to measure actual levels of corruption present i...

The Rise of Private Military Firms

affairs, are aware of the limitations of the military. They realize that some of the work is farmed out. In any event, the private...

Is America or Mexico a Better Example of a “Melting Pot”?

arrived there; there are hundreds of sources describing these groups. The study of American history is fascinating, since it revea...

Affirmative Action Programs

reason for the continuance of such programs. The issue is also significant again because of the diversity of the population today...

Questions and Answers on Spain’s Language, Religion, and Politics

also exerted a profound influence upon paste and present Spanish culture. Author Peter Pierson (1999) noted in his text The Histo...

Spain And America

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

Philadelphia Needs a Helping Hand from Uncle Sam

ever before. This is particularly true for the people of Philadelphia. For instance, the cost of living here is approximately 27...

The Significance of the Space Race

important part of scientific and political history and has a great deal of significance. Yet, in delving into the history of space...

Country Comparison: Spain And The United States

spoken in the United States. At a size approximately double that of the state of Oregon, Spains population currently stands as ju...

Legal Issues in Commercial Use of Outer Space

The industry is not limited only to the owners of satellite hardware. There are four sectors of the industry that generally are r...

Youth Violence In The United States

in a society where proper parenting has become a thing of the past. Detachment of this extent can reach epic proportions when men...

The United States, Security and International Relations

oversee security includes the National Command Authorities (NCA), comprising most of the civilian agencies; and the military estab...

CYBERTERRORISM AND THREATS TO AMERICAN BUSINESSES

danger. Earlier this year, a piece of computer code known as "Poison Ivy" was hidden in an e-mail message sent to...

Adam Smith's Ideas and the 2008 Economic Bailout

financial wheeling and dealing (Friedman, 2008). Friedman has a point. Philosophically, money is not real. It is just a concept. T...

Frida Kahlo Self Portrait

and dark in nature. This is further emphasized by the fact that Mexicos roots are very natural and organic, whereas the United Sta...

Overview of the Chicano Band Los Lobos

began celebrating their cultures and communities in song with the Chicano variations of Woodstock festivals being staged throughou...

Financial Reporting Practices in the United States of America

Compliance is tedious, but it seems to be necessary in a world that is subject to accounting mishaps and corporate fiascos. This i...

A Re-evaluation of the John Adams Presidency

The laws were not popular and while they had been reversed by Congress for the most part, or were simply not renewed, Adams was co...

Obesity

Human Services: National Institutes of Health, 2008). Actually measuring a persons body fat is not a simple procedure such as step...

Primary Crime Data Sources: Compare/Contrast

rural, urban, gender, culture and age (Bureau of Justice, 2001). NCVS modified its methodology in the late 1980s to improve upon ...

Discrimination Against Homosexuality And Women In The United States

a national telephone survey of 1,283 heterosexual, English-speaking adults to establish their beliefs and prejudices about how AID...

Causes and Effects of the Mexican-American War

north (Lee, 2008). Many Americans agreed and moved to what was then the "Mexican province of Texas" (Lee, 2008). Furthermore, they...

Handicapped Law Outside the United States

day-to-day activities" (DDA, 1995). This seems to fall into line with what most people understand as a reasonable definition of a ...

Josiah Bartlett: Founding Father

as is the case with many other unsung people from history. One must see, and understand, exactly how Josiah was important, despite...

The United States and the Discipline of International Relations (Article Review)

detrimental. The claim is reasonable if true. That is, if it is the case that the U.S. academic classroom does not contain a diver...