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An Examination of the Articles of Confederation

with Great Britain. English merchants were giving liberal credit to their old customers in the US, encouraging the former colonies...

U.S. Economy and the Impact of Oil Price Increases

between the exporting and importing of goods can create instability (Cooper and Madigan, 2004). Skyrocketing oil prices causes a ...

US Water Pollution

factors may complicate how successful efforts are at true pollution control. Nonpoint sources are much more difficult to monitor a...

Superpower Status of China

the low-end retailers like Wal-Mart are able to supply inexpensive goods, low income Americans will remain satisfied and uncritica...

Taiwan and the US/Comparing Domestic Violence

domestic violence, offering comparison to the legal standard on this issue in the US. In 1993, a horrific incident, the stabbing ...

Possible Solutions for Overcrowded Prisons

Problem Exists In 2007, a survey showed that there were roughly 1,775 jails in U.S. towns with less than 100 beds, and this is do...

The Unjust American Healthcare System: The Problem and Proposed Solution

percent of its gross domestic produce on healthcare, which is the highest per person ratio in the world (Malhotra, 2009, p. 224). ...

Overcrowding in Florida Prisons

properly! In 1968, the Nixon administration declared a "war" on illicit drug use and by 1972, the prison populations experienced...

Solving America's Prison Problems

deterrent because the electronic monitoring devices place the criminals at crime scenes that practically guarantee a conviction (Y...

Negative Aspects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

not been given any authority greater than that which resides in with the Security and Exchanges Commission (SEC), which can cause ...

Setting up a Vietnamese Restaurant - A Research Proposal

the first three years (Parsa et al, 2005). This indicates that opening a restaurant and running it may be a risky business and th...

U.S. Steel Industry and Legacy Costs

represent approximately $12 billion in legacy costs, which include health-care payments, pensions, insurance and other benefits (M...

The Relationship Between Minority Immigrants and Poverty.

released a report entitled "Urban Poverty in Canada: A Statistical Profile". While this report covered a great many demographics r...

U.S. Citizenship Rights and Homelessness

that often blames the homeless persons as the reason they have landed in this situation -- can, for the most part, be blamed upon ...

America and Obesity

2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new ch...

The Overworked American The Unexpected Decline in Leisure by Juliet Schor

able to analyze Schors findings through a careful definition of the problem, understanding the extent of it, considering how it ca...

South Korea Exporting of American Equipment

to ten percent each year in the 1990s (Industry Canada, Trade, nd). This type of dramatic growth in this industry stabilized in th...

Deforestation and Water Pollution in Brazil and the Colombian Amazon

failure and "three strikes laws" that jail users are drawing substantial criticism. It seems that the best strategy might be local...

Europe and America: Political Structure, Government, and the Internet

to say that conservatives generally prefer the status quo, and look at the past with longing, while liberals work for change, beli...

How Will the Supreme Court Rule on the Allen Snyder Case?

race, Snyder refers to Batson v. Kentucky, a case in 1986 that would not allow the practice of eliminating jurors due to race ("Co...

Inadequacies in U.S. Antiterrorism Provisions Prior to 9-11

report illuminates the fact that our government is geared to addressing the threat of one large enemy (such as that that existed d...

Terrorist Capabilities, Intelligence Gathering and Preventative Measures

cautious. While a seemingly easy and insignificant step towards stopping terrorism, it is not unimportant. In fact, it appears tha...

Obesity/Hispanic Women in Tillman County, OK

$1,109,950 in additional medical costs for the county (OSDoH, 2007). Additionally the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDoH)...

Book 2 of Social Transformation of American Medicine by Paul Starr

the American population was not native born American; in the minds of United States citizens, the foreign-born populace -- mostly ...

21st Century and the U.S. Social Security System

Silent Generation born 1925 and 1942 would save money in reaction to their parents poverty and they reaped the rewards of Social ...

Issues, Problems, and Solutions Regarding Nursing Shortages

is not being replaced by individuals wishing to go into nursing or the health care environment. This has been shown by a slow decr...

Andrew Weil and Ralph Snyderman on U.S. Health Care System Restructuring

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

The Plight of Abandoned Children in the US and the World

juvenile charges, it can be argued that this particular field holds a great deal more ethical conscience than any other. Often vu...

ARTICLE REVIEW: MINORITY THREAT AND POLICE BRUTALITY

the Department of Justices Police Brutality Study 1985-1990; Uniform Crime Reports during the same period and the 1990 U.S. Census...

Academic Libraries and Barriers to International Students

Americans may not recognize it themselves, but American English is a complex language with complex sentence structures (Brown, 200...