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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...

International Women's Movements and Issues of Globalization

issues is a situation which traces its roots far back into history. The indigenous women of Latin America have been suppressed by...

Successful Women's Soccer in the US

world" (Anonymous #3, 2002), there came to be a grand shake up when a number of top nations withdrew from the 1928 Olympics. This...

The Dangers Of Smoking

to break. To bring the point home, half a million people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with ...

Pay Equity

"oppressive child labor" was defined. Under this act those who are not paid the required level can reclaim the lost wages as wel...

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...

Outsourcing by American Firms; A Literature Review on the Political and Economic Issues

may be realise (Xia and Gilbert, 2007). Porter divided this into five separate sections; inbound logistics, operations, outbound...

Paving America: the Interstate Highway Act of 1956

California to Arizona for example).7 Before the interstate highway system was built, the cities were strong and vibrant; most of ...

Post 911 and U.S. Islamic Communities

States. Abdulwahab Alkebsi, executive director of the Islamic Institute in Washington stated after the attacks that "this is the b...

Forests, Forest Growth, and the Effects of Deer

forests. Study after study, as well as anecdote after anecdote, are pointing to the idea that as deer population increases, potent...

Poverty? ?A Universal Problem? ?

overcrowded population and improper living conditions are of particular concern. So too are high death rates. Poverty in develo...

American Trucking Industry and the Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement

cost thousands of US jobs. None of those unions has been as successful as the Teamsters, however (No truck with free trade; NAFTA...

The Influence of Alexander Hamilton on U.S. Economics

of the country - in handling issues of economic and global nature (Alexander Hamilton, 2002). Hamilton was an "economic wizard" w...

Women and the Effects of Male Bias

the Type-Writer Girl" (Keep, 1997, p. 401). Interestingly enough, Kipling further questioned one of these "girls," only to learn t...

Impact of the Dred Scott Decision of 1857

contention was that the black slave lived in a state of oblivion to his position of being owned as property and was almost complet...

West Indian and Italian Immigration to the U.S.

cities could eventually be found in New York, Chicago, Boston and other metropolitan areas (Hutchmacher, 1967). It was these Littl...

Trade Structures and Economic Markets in Cuba and the U.S.

represents over 6 million people. The GDP (gross domestic product) of Caricom is approximately $28.6 million and the Dominican Rep...

American Imperialism and Vietnam

same. Because of this, the American people found it easy t believe that the South Vietnamese were, "or soon would be," just like ...

Policies of President Jimmy Carter and the Relations Between the United States and the Soviet Union

he wanted the American people to believe how the United States Government "can be both competent and more humane" (Carter, 1979, p...

1845 to 1865 History of U.S. Railroads

state. While Stevens failed to raise enough money to build his proposed railroad, he still desired to apply steam locomotion to ra...

Philippines and Strategic US Policy

(Organization of Economic and Cooperative Development) as a mature economy. It does provide electronics assembly and manufacture,...

China Politics and Business Climate

finally being admitted to the organization), the country has begun several reforms, including relaxation of its stance against for...

Bill Moyers' Speech and Sociocultural Dynamics and the 'Working Poor'

synonymous with a systems approach, in that both terms refer to "nested" systems, in which subsystems specifically refer to relat...

UN Appointment of John R. Bolton and its Impact

Bolton supporters Margaret Thatcher, former British Prime Minister, and Jeane Kirkpatrick, who served for five years as U.S. Ambas...

U.S. and Liberalism's Emergence

In twelve pages this report discusses how liberalism emerged in the United States with a consideration of cultural and social dime...

Shoplifting and Its Effects

loses $23.21. In other words, stores recover very little of the value of the stolen merchandise. Still, the statistics improve in ...

Cuban Missle Crisis and Canada

Issues Surrounding NORAD The U.S. and Canada had entered...

Arguing for U.S. Black Reparations

reparations for these wrongs contends, in fact, that almost all of the historical problems that have been faced by blacks can be t...

IAS 39 Problems

2004). IAS 39 is an international Accounting standard which is set to become compulsory for EU listed companies in 2005 (Deloitt...

Health Care Systems, Population Subgroups, and Teen Pregnancy

in the United States alone, "the annual cost of teen pregnancies from lost tax revenues, public assistance, child health care, fos...