The Military has always been a dream of mine that I have been longing to fulfill ever since joining JROTC at my old high school. There are numerous reasons on why I want to be part of the most dominant force the world has ever seen, the United States armed forces with a special emphasis […]
How would you feel if you picked up the phone to hear your mom saying through tears “the doctor said I need a heart.” More than 114,000 men, women, and children are on the national transplant waiting list as of August 2017 (organdonor.org). Ninety-five percent of adults in the United States support organ donation yet […]
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Get startedIn 1968 the Civil Rights Act passed abolishing legal forms of racism but it didn’t end racism in the United States. Structural racism blocks access to economic, political, and/or social opportunities for people of color due to a class system where European Americans are placed on top while people of color are placed at the […]
The 2nd Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution is commonly known to ordinary civilians, “the Right to Bear Arms.” However, the United States Supreme Court has officially interpreted that the Second Amendment gives an individual the right to possess a weapon unrelated to military service for traditionally lawful purposes such […]
The 1950s and 1960s was a time of many great changes. Many social and economic reforms were passed, including women’s rights reforms and educational reforms. However, the most important reforms passed during this time period was due to the Civil Rights movement. The Civil Rights movement gave African Americans more equal rights, such as equal […]
During these flourishing times in the 90’s, American companies heavily invest in steel and oil. These companies started to merge. Steel and oil mergers like those, around the late 90’s, created the great oil and steel corporations we have today. By 1997, a record number of mergers involving American companies took place as larger companies […]
The United States An acrimonious battle between two competing ideologies remains at the crux of US abortion politics. Those who support abortion view it as a right required for social equality for all women; those who oppose it see it as a threat to motherhood, morality, and social cohesion. (Beckman, 2017.) Although the controversy still […]
Introduction This specific case – argued in November 12, 2013 and decided in March 4, 2014 in the United States Supreme Court – involved a privately-held subcontractor of a public company and their former employees. The question arose whether the subcontractor’s employees should have proper legal safeguard of the whistleblower’s protection provision of the Sarbanes- […]
The United States of America will have finally accepted the Dream Act that will be used to empower the illegal immigrants that can now acquire permanent citizenship in various States. However, the Act may lead to some threats both the economy and the welfare of the country. This section provides an overview of the strength […]
The victory of World War II made more and more Americans feel more confident. As the world’s most powerful country, the United States has an obligation to maintain world peace. Rebuild the world’s economy, and provide moral leadership so that it can be achieved worldwide Universal values of the United States. The actions of successive […]
A comparative report on the debate of guns in the United States. Specific Purpose is to look at both sides of gun control and gun rights. The right to keep and bear arms in the United States is a protection afforded to the citizens by the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution. Researching this […]
The economics behind raising the minimum wage in the United States are largely misunderstood. Increases in minimum wage prove to increase unemployment among unskilled workers, leading to a survival-of-the-fittest labor market, where only the most skilled and desirable workers retain their jobs. Those justifying raising the minimum wage need to realize there are innumerable people […]
Guns in America have been a great part to their culture and history thanks to the second amendment which enables the right to use and keep arms. There’s has been an almost non-ending debate on gun control whether if there should be more bans, laws and regulations or not. The common malpractice of guns resulting […]
Westward expansion of the United States from the years 1860-1890 was due to many factors from the 19th century. Major cities were built, along with railroad networks, improved agricultural land, and newly defined states and territories. Other factors to consider during this time were native tribes of the west, geologic features, and precipitation. (PBS learning […]
Introduction The environmental issue can be defined as the problems associated with the system of the planet as a result of human activities or involvement of mistreatment of the planet. In this essay I will be discussing the environmental issue that impacts the western United States, where I will be concerned with mining as an […]
America has always been a land of immigrants, a land in which individuals migrate to in an effort to achieve a better life or the quintessential “American Dream”. With Native Americans comprising only about 2% of the United States population as of 2014, the majority of American citizens are not native to the land in […]
Immigration is typically defined as the global movement of individuals into a destination nation of which they are not inhabitants or where they do not own nationality or residency so as to live or settle there, mostly as permanent inhabitants or enfranchised residents, or to take up job as a migrant employee or provisionally as […]
Health insurance was developed to provide guaranteed coverage for sickness, injury and preventable health measures. Currently, the United States is facing a major challenge in controlling the cost of health care and providing coverage for everyone. This is why it is so important for the government to develop a new health care insurance plan. The […]
The term ‘network neutrality’ (NN) was first coined by law professor and journalist Tim Wu in 2002. In using this word, Professor Wu chose to explain the very fact that no authority could decide what information was or was not available online in accordance with him. The idea of network neutrality has grown since 2002 […]
The average American family has changed throughout the ages. From one generation to the next the number of children, roles of family members, and overall lifestyle have undergone various modifications and adaptations. One specific part of the American family that has emerged as a prominent aspect of society is the topic of adoption in the […]
The United States laws have had unanticipated changes regarding immigration flows since the 1700s. Everything started in a small island located in the New York Harbor, just off the New Jersey Coast. The now famous Ellis Island, formerly called the oyster Island was habituated only by Native Americans until the beginning of migration. According to […]
In this article, the authors focus on the socioeconomic impacts of either approval or denial of abortion services. The authors concede that there are apparent socioeconomic implications in either case of approval or denial of abortion services. Financial hardships, precisely the cost of raising children makes the primary motive behind the termination of pregnancy […]
Early in the 19th century, America was experiencing a rapid economic growth as a result, the white settlers faced hindrance in their expansion to the south because the area was occupied by Indians. The Americans and the settlers viewed these Indians as a hindrance towards economic progress as a result, the federal government was pressurized to […]
The Boston Massacre is one of the topics addressed in the collection of documents Reading the American Past volume 1 To: 1877 chapter four. The Boston Massacre is an event that took place in 1768 in America. It’s an incident that involved the British soldiers and American colonies who had started a rebellion against the […]
The story by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This community shows through Jonas’ eyes, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, […]
Harriet Tubman was a nurse and a civil rights activist. Born in 1820 in Dorchester Country, Maryland, she was best known as a leader in the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman was born a slave on a plantation in Maryland. Many historians believe she was born in 1820 or 1821, but birth records were kept by […]
Harriet Tubman was one of the greatest known African Americans. She was a slave that escaped slavery in 1849. Soon after she escaped she joined the underground railroad and helped many slaves escape slavery also. Background Harriet Tubman was born around 1820 on a slavery plantation in Dorchester County, Maryland. Tubman had between eight and […]
Araminta Ross, formerly known as Harriet Tubman was a significant African American woman. She freed slaves, worked as a nurse during the civil war, and was a spy. She was born into slavery in 1820, and later then escaped to Pennsylvania. Harriet Tubman was mostly known as an activist in history, who freed slaves and […]
Harriet Tubman is an immensely interesting and brave person. No one knows exactly knows when she was born, but they think she was born in about 1820. She was born in Dorchester County in Maryland. She was born into slavery with her 8 brothers and sister. Although her family was separated and they were all […]
Andrew Jackson had first earned his fame from the war of 1812 as a general with his great leadership and known has a military hero. After the war this is when he became a very known political figure ,which used new techniques than others and he that was our seventh president on 1829. This is […]
