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Should Washington D.C. Become a State?

feel that they have enough representation as they live in districts with specific representatives who are numerous and carry elect...

Enlightenment Arguments for and against Separation of Church and State

to petition the government for a redress of grievances" ("First Amendment")). The idea of the separation of church and state was i...

Multicultural Education In The United States

of the exact research topic at the beginning, an idea that will become clearer as the researcher explores the literature. The wo...

State and National Abortion Policies

"undue burden" on the woman who desires an abortion (CNN, 2000). The state of Nebraska was attempting to outlaw partial birth abor...

US Welfare State, its Origins and Complexities

convinced that "the need for immediate relief outweighed the need for long-range social insurance programs" (Kingson and Berkowitz...

Welfare and Planning States of Development

In four pages East Asia's developmental states are examined in terms of its distinction from the West's welfare model and the impa...

Sociological Comparative Analysis of Ethiopia and the United States

food, and visual arts, while non-material culture is the unseen - language, music, and literature. In America, buildings are tall...

Supreme Court of Montana - State v. Kuntz

Sheriffs deputies arrived at the scene, Becker was dead, having sustained a single stab wound to the chest (State v. Kuntz, 2000)....

Persistent Vegetative State Patients and Ethical Decision Making

the balloon, and certain gestures, were definite responses to the environment and evidence of consciousness, but the doctors disag...

Spike Lee’s ‘New York State of Mind’

lens but by the filmmakers imagination and based upon the unique New York experiences contained within a particular neighborhood e...

Hispanic Cultures in the United States

different and tied to their country of origin. II. Mexican Americans Mexican Americans, as well as Puerto Rican and Cuban Amer...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

Discrimination against Latinos in the United States

are "least respected, offered worst services and lack affordable housing" (Racial discrimination and Hispanics in the United State...

Nursing Shortage In The United States: Causes, Effects And Solutions

Budget cutbacks, burnout and lack of student enrollment have precluded sufficient staffing in many critical areas of healthcare. ...

THE UNITED STATES AND OBESITY

The chart below from the Obesity Society shows the percentage of the U.S. population that is obese. Colorado had the least percent...

Domestic Violence and Tribal Protection of Indigenous Women in the United States

past that contact to present day. By other definitions sovereignty was something that had been delegated in some way by the Unite...

Building A Border Wall Between Mexico And The United States

the influx of immigrants: if the economy was stable and healthy, the aliens swarmed to acquire a piece of the money pie. When tim...

Greeks and Washingtonians and the State Capitol

capital of the column has a "swelling, cushion-like echinus, and a block-shaped slab for an abacus" (Witcombe). The architrave (th...

The Confederacy and the United States - Self-Definition

by the Founders, who felt that a strong central authority was possibly the only way to cut down on factionalism, which they felt w...

Security and Maritime Transportation on the West Coast of the United States

aftermath of 911, the federal government ordered the immediate implementation of maritime security measures in an effort to protec...

Why RU-486 should be Banned in the United States

there are those who might decide on RU486 for other reasons. Abortion is legal in the United States and some women may not be able...

Lincoln's Secretary of State, William Seward

power inadvisable (Taylor, 1991, p. x). Lincoln, just prior to this inauguration, remarked to a European diplomat that he did not...

Anti-Drug Legislation On A Federal And State Level

property and possessions if found to be associated with such criminal activity as drug smuggling and racketeering. The Act states...

U.S. Church and State Relationship

2006). The statement is attributed to the father of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson, who feared that if such a ...

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...

HEALTH CARE DELIVERY - UNITED STATES AND CANADA

of the Canadian system, of course, is the fact that everyone is insured, no matter what the pre-condition, age, and so on. But the...

RE-ADOPTING THE GOLD STANDARD: CANADA AND UNITED STATES

means less likelihood of inflation, as the government can only print as much money as the country has in gold (Amadeo). In additio...

Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and What They Mean to the United States and the World

of the Vietnam War and Malcolm spent considerable time in Africa during the last years of his life to observe the economic hardshi...

The State As An Independent Actor

over the past two centuries as far as the competition between community interest and the states objectives. For the sake of the m...

The United States at the Time of the First World War

al, 2000, p. 648). It appears that Wilson saw American industry as a way to spread democracy; he told a group of salesmen that the...