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Engelhardt's The End of Victory Culture

other words, conflict has several specific social and cultural functions, especially in terms of the way that a nation defines its...

Issues of Stereotypes and Prejudice

of a belief concerning that type of individual, something discussed often in Jones book "Social Psychology of Prejudice." A black ...

U.S. Immigration Policies and University Students

law S. 1216, the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992....The new law will permit the Chinese nationals who were beneficiaries of...

Social Expectations Significance and Criminal Activity

handled around the world. A comparison between countries who boast of a low crime rate is particularly instructive. Japan is one...

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...

Imperial Power of America

the battleship U.S.S. Maine on February 15, 1898 in Havana harbor (The Spanish/American War). But tensions were high betwee...

Nineteenth Century American Racism and Alexis de Tocqueville

new "homes," black slaves suffered. Plantation overseers thought nothing about whipping slaves to make them work faster (they wer...

The Violation of 4th Amendment Rights

Charlotte, North Carolina, Police Department, on duty at the time. He was watching the store, and seeing Graham enter and then le...

Film Gung Ho

relied formerly on oil, for instance, Japan was able to diversify during the oil crises of the 1970s into the manufacture of elect...

The Life and Achievements of Andrew Jackson

Roughshod President). Growing up as he did in the backwoods country, Jacksons education was sketchy at best (Andrew Jackson). Ho...

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 ...

Issues Pertaining to Racial Profiling

example, a highway patrol officer may not be on the lookout for a red Jaguar sedan but the simple fact that a young man of apparen...

Teachers and How to Meet Their Financial Needs

be getting more financial help. Because economic situations for schools and teachers seem to be getting worse the people have a te...

Analyzing Michigan's Kalamazoo Asylum for the Insane

were sometimes locked away in unsanitary conditions or exposed to even harsher treatment. This situation was not to improve subst...

U.S. Foreign Policies of Josef Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev

Stalins totalitarian rule and approach resolution to political struggles without the need for war. This stance did not hold for l...

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...

Go West on the Transcontinental Railroad

voyages or three-month-long overland treks, both equally dangerous, as well as prohibitively expensive for most people. When the ...

International Athletic Shoe Company Establishment

company, one that can provide styles for all feet but highlight womens lines. The base product will be a new running shoe. We wi...

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...

U.S., Mexico, and Maquiladora Systems

by a group called, Arthur D. Little Foundation in Ciudad Juarez(Mexico, 2002). The original study was to see how the continuing un...

American Slavery

boil over, and no attempts to quell this surging rage would have proven effective at averting what was to inevitably follow. ...

Post Privatization Economy of the United Kingdom

downward trends in the growth. However, we can also look at factors such as unemployment, standard of living as well as the other ...

Post September 11th Foreign Policy in America

to either acquire or maintain political superiority. After the September 11 attacks upon the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Ame...

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...

Mueller's Spaghetti® Marketing

the brands it has sold off to others. It was not another food company that bought the Muellers brand, however, but New York Unive...

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. 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...

American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin

the convention that drew up the Constitution (Wright 18). It was also noted, however, that "Indeed it is said that he would have b...