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Poverty in the United States as a Social Problem: Causes, Theories, and Proposed Remedies

percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley (2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty li...

Gang Violence Surrounding Norfolk State University

their adolescent years as recidivist delinquents (Scott, 1995). Additionally, a full ninety percent of recidivist adolescent deli...

SCHOOL CHOICE AND WASHINGTON STATE

McCleary v State of Washington, which was filed in early 2007, is that the funding means that not all schools are getting what the...

Threats to the United States

14 points to consider in shaping any strategy. The conclusions they drew were that America "will become increasingly vulnerable to...

Cigarette Smoking Should be Banned in the United States

even in parks or other outdoor areas. Above all, the FDA outlaws any dangerous medication that finds itself on the market and also...

Society's Changing State

When speaking of society, many questions loom large. For example, what holds society together and causes it to function as a body ...

Relations Between the Soviet Union and the United States and the Truman Doctrine

nations of World War II as destinations for possible conquest. In response, that leader, Josef Stalin, grew to hate and mistrust t...

State of the Discount Retail Industry

advantage, though smaller discounters such as Dollar General have benefitted too. Though Kmart recently filed for bankruptc...

'Nation' and State of Germany

For example, German nationalism represents the desire for a change in political and administrative structure. It has followed a d...

The 2002 Economic Report of the President of the United States and GDP

descriptors of a nations economic health. It serves as barometer that clearly indicates the productivity and health of an economy...

United States, Harry S. Truman, and the Korean War

and Soviet Premier Josef Stalin, and everyone went home (The Korean War: Setting the Stage and Brief Overview, 2002). Roosevelts b...

Public Schools in the State of Virginia

schools from grades K-12 was about 1.1 million during the school year 1998-1999, with these students attending 1,815 elementary, j...

United States During the 1860s

also making it unique in history. Although names such as "War Between the States" and "War of Rebellion" are more accurate (Civil ...

United States, Japan, and Flexibility of Labor

can make the new technological developments as well as embrace them. The reason for this success has been the adoption of ...

Power of Nation States Eroded by Multinational Corporations

to say that while multinational corporations competed "in a world of national states" in the 20th century but in the 21st century,...

State According to Georg Hegel and Karl Marx

one true center of anything. Too many individuals, too much individualism created far too many "centers" for Marxs theories to ad...

Energy Crisis of the State of California

that SDG&E wound up contracting with a power plant at rates that were much higher than those of other energy distributors in Calif...

Code of Ethics and Accounting Standards of the State of Texas

are still held responsible for conduct as set out by the Government Accounting Standards Board. It is in the best interes...

Major Post 1945 Conflicts and the Involvement of 'Superpower' United States

Superpower nations have a number of different types of pressure which they can bring to bear on countries in conflict; apart from ...

The Architecture of the Arkansas State Capitol Building in Little Rock

down to the first floor. The solid brass chandelier reaches twelve feet across as it hangs amidst the marbleized interior from wa...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

1990-2005 Immigration to the United States

more legal immigrants than all other nations in the world combined."6 Because of this dramatic increase in immigrant population, ...

The Justice Systems the United States of America and Iran

has eighteen agencies is supplemented by the notion that it may actually have more than eighteen ("Prosecutor says Iran has 18 la...

Consideration of the Brazil for Investment by a Biomedical Technology Firm from the United States

These types of development are reflected in the healthcare that is demanded and expected (Bilton et al, 2006). In terms of the so...

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 ...

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...