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Mexican Revolution and the Impact of Intervention by the United States

the Mexican Revolution The Mexican Revolution was a time of tremendous social upheaval. During this decade-long turmoil roughly ...

Gold, Dollars, and Power by Francis J. Gavin

by the US, Great Britain and their wartime allies in the summer of 1944 at a conference held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. High...

American Society and Economic Inequality

workers (Marx, p. 38). We are already seeing signs of this, as the wealthy continue to consolidate their power and money while de...

Comparative Analysis of Music in the Czech Republic and the US

in the new land, combining instruments and styles for a new sort of folk music. In relationship to the most classical type of mu...

Homeland Security and a Secure America

In fact, there have been a rash of school shootings over the years. Schools realize that even when precautions are taken, it is di...

Dictatorship Can Happen in the U.S.

it already has. From the prisoner of war camps set up during the Revolutionary War, to those used in the Civil War, to the shamef...

Immigrants from Ecuador in the United States

the helm in the "New World". Each component group of the immigrant wave was subjected to the same pressure to become...

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...

U.S. and Buddhism Today

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

British and U.S. Welfare Systems

Establishing policy is a process both lengthy and involved, more often than not fraught with painful compromise. From the very fi...

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. 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Political Document Relevance of the Constitution of the United States

and internal issues of social unrest and social justice. The U.S. Constitution is a document that does not deal with the limitati...

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...

U.S. Zoning Regulations and Land Use Planning Differences

degree of legally permissible land-use restriction is defined by the Constitution, which protects landowners from restrictions whi...

Reasons Behind Atomic Bombing of Japan by the United States

lost on the world, and is one of the reasons why the attacks remain controversial to this day. This paper explores the reasons gi...

Relevancy of the History of Civil Rights

"Big Boy Leaves Home." In this narrative, a white woman stumbles upon two black men who have gone skinny-dipping on a hot summer d...

Philadelphia Needs a Helping Hand from Uncle Sam

ever before. This is particularly true for the people of Philadelphia. For instance, the cost of living here is approximately 27...

The Significance of the Space Race

important part of scientific and political history and has a great deal of significance. Yet, in delving into the history of space...

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...

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...

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...