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Overview of the U.S. Presidency

the nation was in crisis--he came through. His famous words which were something to the effect that the people who knocked down th...

U.S. Wars and Artillery Uses

materiel that were used during each war. The first war to be fought by Americans, and on American soil was the American...

Native Americans and Africans Compared

members of particular racial and ethnic groups which are often compared in relation to the majority or dominant group within the p...

1930s' Views on US Society and Women

proof! Look at the inroads that are being made in regard to the problem of racism! Look at the growing realization that beauty i...

American Express Case Study

company would earn 33 cents for each day earlier they could get the car in the customers hands. The third one, responding more q...

Rehabilitation Setting and Collaborative Nursing

others, often in an intellectual focus. Cultural collaboration raises the value of this effort to that of individuals of one cult...

America's Changing Business Ethics

these contributions finds one incorporating the interests of ethics and morality within the corporate structure, essential concept...

Effecting Societal ChangeTwo Approaches to Societal Change: Elshtain's “Democracy on Trial” and West's “Race Matters”

address the problems of individualism in our contemporary society. While Wests "Race Matters" makes a frontal attack on these pro...

Abraham Lincoln and His Civil War Involvement

would secede from the Union and thus would indicate they did not care about his demands or his desires (Abraham Lincoln and the Ci...

NATO

Soviets are no longer perceived as a threat. Neither is Germany. And of course, the cold war is over. This provides a curious chal...

Slang Used by Women

perhaps almost by everyone. There is slang for almost any "subculture" and a subculture can be as simple as a family or workplace,...

Policy and Racial Profiling

in a myriad of ways, and while there are laws against the practice, it goes on anyway. In the past, leaders wanted President Cli...

The Post Civil War South

citizenship rights to former slaves" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 438). African Americans "used their new political power to press fo...

NAFTA and Its Economic Impacts

misleading promises sold to an unsuspecting Congress by a cynical band of White House operatives and mendacious business lobbyists...

Sixties and Eighties Are Decades Apart

1960s had their beginnings in the 1950s; the Civil Rights struggle, for instance, goes back to the early 1950s and such events as ...

"Colored People": The History of the Term

create a category encompassing all non-Whites" (Cr?mieux). The term "colored" in America referred to blacks, Native Americans, Mex...

Natural Environment Preservation and Perception

controlling is for one purpose, the convenience or even the profit of mankind. It is this "received" concept of wilderness which ...

Nazim Hikmet/Human Landscapes from My Country

portrait of Turkish society at that time. Drawing on Hikmets ability as a screenwriter, as well as a poet, his free verse form e...

North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)

are required under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act and the Pollution Prevention Act to report annually to E...

Engines and the Development of a Superpower

The new mode of transportation and the new roads it needed meant that people no longer had to live close to work, and suburbs deve...

The Christian Ideal of Love in "Dead Man Walking"

down, and shot them in the head. I look down at the name in horror. Do I really want to know such a man?" (Prejean, 1994). That i...

American Steel by Richard Preston

In five pages this report discusses Preston's Nucor Steel profile in American Steel and considers and the changes it represented. ...

The History of African Americans

trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...

A Study of U.S. Immigration Law and Policies

This 15 page paper discusses U.S. immigration policies and laws in history and as they are today. The writer argues that American ...

Contract of a General Contractor Terminated

In seven pages this paper considers how to terminate the contract of a general contractor in an examination of changes made to mod...

Customs and Habits that Form the American Character

he saw. After the poverty, political and religious strife and injustice he had seen in Europe, he saw the American as "the new man...

NAFTA's Political Conditions

industry wide. Under NAFTA, North American resources, such as land, labor, capital and technology, would be utilized more effecti...

US Banking Industry and Technology

view of the financial services sector has been related to changes in the economy since the end of World War II. But in recent yea...

American Literature Trends

Nathaniel Hawthornes writing focused on a narrow range of psychological themes that reflected that heritage - "the consequences of...

South Changes After the Second World War

David Goldfield's Promised Land The South Since 1945 is used in an examination of the changes that have occurred in the American ...