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US Empire Crisis and the American Involvement in Vietnam

in combat with the North Vietnamese. What was not immediately apparent to President Johnson, however, was the fact that the North...

U.S. West Coast and the Decline of the Sea Otter Population

to continue at this rate (Englander PG). The otters depend upon the ocean as a means by which to sustain life, with shellfish one...

US and a History of the Women's Suffrage Movement

movements, such as slavery and temperance3. Following the Civil War, womens rights leaders hoped to receive universal suffrage, an...

Educational Expenses Deductibility and the Impact of the U.S. Supreme Court

deduction. Although homeschoolers deem the situation unfair as many families give up a second income for the ability to start the ...

U.S. Multicultural Education

Americas schools is more prevalent in some states and in some regions of those states. This has to do with the fact that immigrati...

US Desegregation Laws and Educational Practices

doors. Now, many decades later, a more insidious form of this type of harassment is before the legislature. Many predominantly...

U.S., Elitism, and Pluralism

box (Stevenson, 2002). The ballot box, however, does not hold accountable the many other elite groups, like business and media lea...

U.S. and EU Marijuana Law

a "gateway" drug that inevitably leads to narcotics use, either cocaine or heroin. The fact is that marijuana is not physically ad...

Virtual Private Network Between the U.S. and Malaysia and Security Concerns

to consider the complications that might be involved in establishing a virtual private network between Washington and Kuala Lumpur...

September 11, 2001 and Speculation on Prior Knowledge by the U.S.

only were imaginable, they also were foreshadowed" (Ahmed). Then- Secretary of State Colin Powell stated after the fact that ther...

Article Review on Canada's Resistance to US Drug Sales Pressure

article provides a polite, superficial look at the problem. 4. This is a financial issue. IV. Conclusion This article should...

'Progressive' US President Teddy Roosevelt

ideals were perhaps grand and a bit idealistic as seen in the following: "Government should promote and, if possible, provide grea...

Discussion of the U.S. Civil War Reconstruction and Recommendations

this paper, well examine Reconstruction from a "hindsight" view, then attempt to come up with some different recommendations for t...

The Influence of Tobacco Money in U.S. Politics

gave more than $32.6 million in PAC and soft money contributions to politicians of both parties (Tobacco Interests, 2002). The rea...

Europe's Toys 'R Us Performance

R Us was in full force, its labor practices were questioned once European stores opened. In 1996, trade unions in the region had r...

U.S. Culture and Societal Impacts of the Cold War

II. RELIVING THE PAST TO UNDERSTAND THE FUTURE It has been argued that the end of the Cold War has made "obsolete...

A US Prison Reform History

"prisons" from where people never emerged; the most famous being the Bastille of Paris, France, scene of the French Revolution. Th...

U.S. Labor Unions

The movement opened doors for women and African Americans that had up until then been shut tight. In short, the Knights of Labor ...

1979 Hostage Crisis at the US Embassy in Iran

as American stood by and helplessly followed the plight of the 66 men and women who were trapped in the embassy, and as more and m...

U.S. Civil War Reconstruction and Freedmen

noble the goals of the Freedmens Bureau, however, the war-ravaged South was not in any shape to support its efforts. The e...

US Impact of the World Trade Organization

of these agreements can help lower trade barriers so that its not as expensive to either import or export goods into different cou...

Homosexuality Issue in the U.S. Presidential Debates of 2004

knew what the definition of a couple was....

Social Change and the U.S. Supreme Court

specific aspect from being overlooked. However, all the people do not adopt this perspective, inasmuch as Ginsburg has a certain ...

U.S. Incidences of Teen Pregnancies

be done in this area. Table 1 illustrates the distribution of teen pregnancies by ethnic group. Table 1. Teen Pregnancies by Eth...

Relations Between the US and Russia and the Influence of Mikhail Gorbachev

Gorbachev and Reagan developed a personal relationship based upon mutual admiration, and the humanization of the two men would mak...

U.S. and HIV and AIDS Demographics

Asian/Pacific Islanders and Whites, in contrast, comprised only 4.8 percent and 7.9 percent of 2001 AIDS cases (Kaplan, Tomaszewsk...

U.S. Hazardous Waste Facilities and Historical, Archaeological, and Cultural Information

problem stems from the fact that polluted water flows directly into the Apalachicola Bay from other sources, rendering the bay def...

The U.S. Presidency and the Influence of Big Money

ambition. They made it through excellent schools and law school to boot. It seems that this power couple--a president and a senato...

US Labor Unions in the Future

more male members than female (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2004). * Of Whites, Asians, Hispanics, Latinos and Blacks, Blacks are m...

U.S. and UK on Lifting the Corporate Veil

is where there has to prevent fraud or where there is a parent company that controls and dominates their subsidiary company. It wa...