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U.S. in the Terrorism Age

nations whose autocratic ways are threatened by such a possibility. Having started out as diplomatic in nature, the terrorists ha...

Distinctions That Shaped the U.S. Culture from Old Europe

This "novel way of life" according to Pringle (1998), "then diffused across the Old World" (p. 1446). However, these societies Ne...

Global Social Mores Decaying

point accusing fingers at countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, and Rwanda where horrors like female genital mutilation and wa...

Westphalian Sovereignty by David Held

to do as they like without any interference from other nations. And it is precisely this thinking, Held argues, that has to stop b...

U.S. Muslim Families

precedent in relation to establishing official recognition of Islamic religious holidays in American schools. Two major Islamic h...

Practical Application of Game Theory

a matrix, the game looks like this: I keep quiet I snitch You keep quiet We both serve 1 year I go free, you get 5 years You...

U.S. Hispanic Groups

of the Roman Catholic Church" though there are a growing number of non-Catholics in the population (Mexican American, 2006). The ...

Education and the Constitution

involves school and the condition of religion in schools. In recent times there has been a great deal of controversy over the simp...

Children, Guantanamo Bay and the Violation of Human Rights

As seems to be the case with most, if not all, of the other prisoners in Gautanamo Bay the children have not...

Could Fascism Occur in the United States?

In both cases, these philosophies emerged as a means of escaping the "perceived spiritual and material crisis" that existed in bot...

Global Competition and Targeted Industrial Development by the U.S.

fraction of what has long been the norm may be given more credence if it were not for the fact that industry targeting requires a ...

Youth Influence on American Society

war. At the end of the war, the social problems which had been suppressed during that time, became a part of the new focus of the...

Perspectives on Capital Punishment in America

generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...

U.S. Trade Deficit Discussed

accumulation of this type of wealth guaranteed that a country could wage war if it was necessary. As would be expected, this co...

Pros and Cons of Mandatory Community Service

Mandatory civil service can result in many positives. One can demonstrate this fact with an examination of many cultures. One of...

US Economy Prior to the Great Depression

The world had survived the First World War, and women had entered the workforce in large numbers for the first time. They reveled ...

Gathering Evidence, Ethics, and US Supreme Court Guidelines

common citizen. Homes warned of certain demise if this was not the case and observed the value of our government as a teacher, a ...

America's Power Preeminence

this governments interactions with both the people of this and other countries and with the governments of other countries. This ...

The Unsteady March The Rise And Decline Of Racial Equality In America by Philip Klinkner and Roger Smith

forth was at least twice that of their white counterparts, inasmuch as they knew the expectations placed upon them would be scruti...

Saudi Arabia and the Effects of U.S. Education

degrees in the US (Tracy). Prior to 2001, as many as 15,000 Saudi student studied in the US every year (Tracy). It is difficult,...

Connection Between Global Terrorism and the Foreign Policy of the United States

large supported Arabs, it has not done so in every case. The question as to whether or not the dismissal of Arab interests in fa...

U.S. and Buddhism Today

today, scholars see three types of Buddhism: "immigrant Buddhism," "import Buddhism" and "export Buddhism" (Buddhism in the United...

Early America and Opportunity

middle-class incomes once the frugality and struggles of their youth were over" (108). In essence, once the wilderness struggles w...

Exporting Vegetables to Thailand

48 143 143 283 97.47 Total Fresh Fruit and Vegetables 9,251 8,887 7,769 9,226 8,851 7,797 9,160 Processed Fruit and Vegetables 15...

Economic Bubbles

that flows. The crashes can result in large levels of wealth being destroyed and the potential for the crash to cause a depression...

Racism Within American Culture

to secure benefits for themselves "at the expense of African slaves and their American-born descendants" (Clark, 2003). Whites hav...

Macroeconomic Analysis and Forecast for the US 2006 - 2007

1. Introduction The US economy and its management have been controversial for some time. The budget and trade deficit and weak d...

China and India as Economic Threats

the competition in many respects. For example, its GDP supersedes that of India by quite a bit (Karmali, 2006). Also, Shuja (2002)...

The Appeal Industry

This 10 page paper examines the influences on the apparel industry in the United States. The paper starts by looking at the genera...

The Canadian Prime Minister and the U.S. President: Who is More Powerful?

House of Commons, which is elected, and the Senate, which is appointed (Anderson, 2003). As in the United States, it is expected t...