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Containment in US History

United States, or it was believed to be a threat, and there was a great deal of effort aimed at keeping the United States society ...

Gays in the Military

if the "dont ask, dont tell" policy is maintained. Retired Air Force Gen. Merrill McPeak, for example, actually supported Obama d...

The Evolution of U.S. Domestic and Foreign Policies

however, their rights to the newly settled lands was ephemeral as well. Soon in her history America was looking westward....

Prestowitz's Three Billion Capitalists

the book seems to be that America is losing economically due to some policy decisions it has made in the past. The author claims...

Ronald Reagan, the Most Effective President Since 1950

federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people. All of us... need to be reminded that the federal government...

The Beverage Industry

the industry is that of carbonated drinks, these include brands such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Dr Pepper. With more than 28% of the ...

US Foreign Policy, National Security & Terrorism

as "not free" (Eland 38). It is therefore simplistic to think that terrorist leaders, such as bin Laden, would close up shop due t...

US Foreign Policy, Israel & Cold War Era

of petroleum for the United States and its European allies" and also to "prevent or minimize Soviet involvement in the region" (Ge...

The Impact of the Media on Foreign Policy

policy by its very nature reflects the goals of the media; and specifically of the owners of the stations, newspapers, etc. Its fa...

AMERICAN HISTORY: AN OVERVIEW

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...

Colombia - Foreign Policy

by the 1970s, mostly left-wing groups (International Crisis Group July). By the 1980s, right-wing groups emerged and by then, the ...

US Economy 200 - 2003

there were quarters where there was negative real growth, indicating a recession. In 2002 the growth rate increased to 2.2% and th...

The Macau Economy

is undertaken can be seen as divergent. As already noted the Macau pataca is fixed to the Hong Kong dollar at a value...

Racializing and Gendering Immigration

policies. The acronym "LPC" stands for "likely to become a public charge," and was a term applied exclusively to women who immigr...

The United States Should Stop Admitting Immigrants

increases or decreases as people immigrate. They wanted to study the circumstances under which immigration benefits or harms diffe...

Iran-Contra and the CIA

which it is most closely identified is the Bay of Pigs, which was an unmitigated disaster.3 It may have been this failure that led...

Politics, Economics and International Relations with Regard to China and the U.S.

were a nuisance, or worse, a menace" (Spence, 2005, p. 44). Ones opinion of American actions depends on perspective: the U.S. can ...

Sequoyah and His Invention of Cherokee Syllabary

He even became known by the names George Gist and George Guess and served in the US Army in the Creek War yet he never learned ...

U.S. Foreign Policy, Just War Theory, and the Persian Gulf War

late Sen. J. William Fulbright advocated neither morality nor realism. Instead, he advocated "humanism" as a primary American for...

Economics of the Housing Market

formerly were the "hottest" markets in the country, buyers and potential buyers finally have come to the point of realizing that t...

International Politics Questions

and Iraq, and that on the first day in office he would instruct military commanders to this effect. Obama stated that the war in I...

US Foreign Policy: Clausewitz to Corbett

not loses. 2) What are the differences in how Mahan and Corbett viewed...

Increased Accountability in Education

Charter. The stated purpose was to provide parents with more information about the performance of their local schools. As with any...

Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson's Domestic Policies

first State of the Union, Kennedy remarked: "We take office in the wake of seven months of recession, three and one-half years of ...

Immigration Policy and Global Trade

opportunities it was expected to offer in numerous industry sectors. Those that were to take advantage of such fortuity included ...

Politics of Western Europe

core, nationalism rips people apart from one another. This is clearly evident by observing activities that have transpired in var...

Banking Policy Adjustment

the fact that Enron and Arthur Andersen were able to slide by all the SEC regulations, even as that agency was revamping its repor...

Policy and Tobacco Utilization

will be conducted in three countries. In August, 1997, a state judge released decades of concealed tobacco-industry documents tha...

Immigrants and America's Borders

and cons must be heavily weighed before any legislation is passed. The arguments against opening borders to immigrants have been ...

Making Policy and Lance Leloup and Steven Shull's The President and Congress

These factors apply to both the President and Congress and are influential in the decisions they reach. Later examples will highl...