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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...

The Use of Leading Indicators to Project Demand in the Housing Market

in 2008 of 1.2%, the recovery is expected to continue into 2009 when the GDP is expected to grow by 1.7% (Office of Economic Analy...

Democracy in the United States

Is it possible to have a true democracy in these conditions? The outlook is not promising. In a speech at the University of Calif...

HOFSTEDE'S CULTURAL DIMENSIONS: U.S., VIETNAM AND CHINA

Some years later, Hofstede added a fifth dimension, that of Long-Term Orientation. LTO determines the degree to which a society em...

Spain And America

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

Homeland Security: Adequate Facility Security?

within the United States, reduce Americas vulnerability to terrorism and minimize the damage and recover from any terrorist attack...

Should the US Adopt a Universal Healthcare System?

potential for a greater degree of efficiency. The question is whether not there should be a universal healthcare system adopted in...

WHY THE UNITED STATES SHOULD CONTROL HUMAN CLONING

Before determining why the U.S. would be a good keeper of cloning, it might be a good idea to describe, what exactly, cloning is. ...

ISSUES IN TRADE, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND PRODUCT ROLLOUT

is because the U.S. is becoming a service-oriented economy -- while the country is certainly a net importer of goods, its exportin...

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...

Affirmative Action Programs

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

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...

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...

THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES

doctors and hospitals who have no problems charging a patient three dollars for an aspirin tablet. Its also easy to point the fing...

Critique on the Variations of the Rapunzel Folk/Fairy Tale

Maiden in the Tower, more commonly known to contemporary readers as Rapunzel, is indicative of this traditional fairytale structur...

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...

The American Presidency

1789-1797, sought reelection only once and a two-term limit became traditional and was the national standard for 150 years (OConno...

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...

US Constitution’s Influence on the American Criminal Justice System

In the case of Baze v. Reese, Kentucky inmates who have been sentenced to death are claming that the states three-drug cocktail pr...

The Media and Body Image

that most people look nothing like the people on television. One need only look at statistics concerning obesity in the nation and...

Mexico and Industry

suggests that the growth in factories and industry is not really proving positive for the society in Mexico. It is also per...

Argument: A President's Gender Should Not Matter

majority of Americans - over 90% in some polls - say that the time has come to elect a woman President. Surprisingly, the traditio...

Unemployment in the US

projections that indicate further rises in the future. However, it may also be argued that nationally it is not really an issue as...

Compare and Contrast: The US and Great Britain

Britons quarrel about racism, the national health scheme, and Northern Ireland, among other matters (Roskin, 2000). Because this p...

Pay Equity

"oppressive child labor" was defined. Under this act those who are not paid the required level can reclaim the lost wages as wel...

An Outline of Religion in the 2000 and 2004 Elections

Votes by religion: Bush: 56% Protestant, 62% white Protestant, 68% Evangelical, 53% mainline, 47% Catholic, 52% white non-Hispanic...