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President Polk and the Mexican/American War

U.S. settled the Oregon boundary dispute, annexed Texas and "gained about 1.2 million square miles of land, over one-third of its ...

Florida in the Civil War

"twelve infantry regiments, two cavalry regiments, a handful of artillery batteries, and a variety of smaller organizations" (Cole...

Communication and U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Mexico

in Colombia, or the uncertainty of an eventual post-Castro Cuba?" . Mexico, of...

Mergers, Acquisitions and Strategic Alliances

this, the companies need to consider the potential benefits and the way they may be realised along with the potential disadvantage...

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...

US Economic Life/Billionaires & Poverty

fact that the minimum wage has been frozen at $5.15 an hour since 1997 (AFL-CIO). The following examination of the extremely wealt...

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...

How To Improve U.S. Poverty Level In 2008

There have been various modifications and accommodations for students with special learning needs. Included in these are special ...

The "Blade Runner" Replicants as the Avant Garde of the Future

runner can be seen in this light as a sort of idealized human: strong, capable, and tireless. But its hard to see them as avant ga...

Immigration In The US Colonial Era

French Huguenots, African slaves, Spaniards, Italians and Portuguese.v South Carolina, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Virginia and M...

Passenger and Cargo Flights; Which are the Safest?

up. In 2005 the aviation industry passenger and cargo was worth US $98.1 billion, of this 83.9% was the passenger industry and th...

US Economy 200 - 2003

there were quarters where there was negative real growth, indicating a recession. In 2002 the growth rate increased to 2.2% and th...

World War II Battle of Iwo Jima

the war was going to end anytime soon (Brown 112). If captured the U.S. could move its supplies to the combat front by way of Iwo...

Is There Evidence of Inequality In The US Criminal Justice System?

poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...

Complexities Of Delivering Health Care In America

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

Impact of the Great War on Western Literature

would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...

Protection from Socialized Medicine

of a minimum wage. As will be discussed below, the same principles apply to health care, not because there is any market-level co...

1917 through 1965: How the U.S. Aligned Itself With a Policy of Containment

important here. The policy of containment was very visible during the 1940s. It prompted at that time the idea to create military ...

The Major Problems of the U.S. Health Care System

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

The Major Problems Facing the U.S. Health Care System

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

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...

Why the U.S. Invasion of Iraq is Wrong

a service member in the fighting (Rangel). Otherwise, the Iraq War, and the on-going mess in Afghanistan, have remained unreal to ...

Ferrill v Parker Group

Ferrill only the compensatory damages of $500 (Findlaw, 2007). This is considered just? The woman was hired on a temporary basis t...

Establishing Strategy for the 10th Mountain Division

matched with personnel with increasing technical abilities. Logistics. Moving personnel and materiel from one place to ano...

Current Perspectives/Math and Science Education

NAS emphasizes developing outstanding science and math teachers in grades K-12 (Gordon, 2007). Research has also been instigated...

Michael Parenti's Views on the U.S. Government

down the road to create a society that embraces both people of color, and women. Although many contend that the Framers were inter...

Global Terrorism

in the late 1990s, little was actually done to stop them. 9/11 Changed Our Goals and Strategy US goals just after 9/11 were to d...

Global Terrorism

to stifle dissent. When citizens can no longer speak freely for fear of being called traitors or harassed or arrested, then the co...

Macro Economic Influences on New Car Sales 2002 - 2006

disposable income that is available, lessening the spending power. For businesses there is a duel effect, they may find that they ...

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...