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The Uninsured in America: A Crisis in the Making

it affect a massive percentage of the American population and is, quite literally, often a matter of life and death. The latest st...

American Obesity An Explanation

define obesity is based on an individuals height verses their weight. The calculation of Body Mass Index (BMI), for example, is s...

Prescription Drugs and Our Over Medicated Society

orchestrated our growing dependence on prescription drugs. Big Pharma now represents a practically inescapable component ...

19th Century American History

slavery, a trend which leads towards the development of Sectionalism in the Southern states. 1830s: Southern states begin to seek ...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Economic Interdependence in American History

The Revolutionary War itself, in fact, came with significant expense. The fledgling nation was immediately saddled with tremendou...

African Americans: History, Culture, Families, Beliefs and Religion

African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...

HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CAR

the 1960s, the "Big Three" had most of the automobile market share. Other factors helped the automobile. One of these was ...

Threats to American Health/Chronic Disease v. Contagion

people, also indicating that this flu pandemic killed between 40 to 50 million people worldwide (Zimmer and Burke (2009). Feldman ...

American History

for an individual to have done something of importance in their life. It is not always important that they be recognized. It see...

Corn Woman and Brave Wolf

kept her alive and ultimately took her home to her family who then took it upon themselves to address the violence that Brave Wolf...

Answers to 5 Student Question on the French Revolution

It is important to remember that the American and French Revolutions occurred within a relatively short period of time. As the Uni...

American History

and helped many people make sense of what was going on, with a more clear understanding of the direction that should be taken. And...

American History

Britain and Britain had no right to anything that was produced or created in the new nation. The student could also look at Thomas...

George Washington: Heroic, Flawed, and Human

Fasts text of the same name). They each offer depictions of George Washington as perceived by authors, screenwriters, and filmmak...

Increased Taxes and the Affordable Care Act

This paper questions the economics of ObamaCare. Americans are benefiting but others are paying dearly for those benefits. There...

The Largest Retail Store and OB

Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world. It is criticized in the United States for low wages, lack of health and welfare ben...

Economic Frustration and Frustration-Agression Theory

As this suggests, the experience of being an American immigrant often includes "traumatic confrontation" with authority figures (P...

Mass Democracy and Andrew Jackson

with Jackson, and this led to what became known as the "corrupt bargain" of 1824. Clay drummed up support in the House for Adams, ...

Brief History of American Civil Rights

Institute (LII) of Cornell University Law School points out, a civil right is a privilege that is enforceable and which, if interf...

African American History as Reflected Through Art

This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...

Two Periods in American History

importance of political structures that could inherently support a self-governed people and this included efforts to reject the pr...

Grocery Store Trip

according to the cut, which is associated with how tender the steak is and its amount of fat. One of the least expensive meats, fo...

Basketball History

This research paper presents a short history of basketball that describes how the sport began and then traces the high spots in it...

The ADA, Two Supreme Court Cases

This research paper pertains to 2 Supreme Court cases involved the provisions of the the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of ...

Essays on American History

In a paper of four pages, the author reflects on some questions about slavery and the American Civil War. The author looks at the ...

Film Festivals and their History

This research paper pertains to the history and development of film festivals and focuses on the specific histories of the festiva...

Enlivening American History

This paper reviews the book A Young People's History of the United States. Written by Howard Zinn, this book provides an interest...

Civil War in Sierra Leone

had been in power for 10 months and reinstated President Kabbah ("Background Notes"). On July 7, 1999, President Kabbah and RUF ...

Medieval Manuscripts

wooden frames and written on with a stylus, as used in Roman antiquity, were used in the middle ages by students, accountants and ...