Every year America tosses about 40% of its’ food on an annual basis, costing us approximately 165 billion dollars each year. To put this into perspective, a round trip to the moon costs 750 million dollars. With the amount of food that we waste in the US every year, we could take that trip 220 times. The Antilla Mumbai, being named as one of the most expensive homes in the world, costs about one billion dollars to own. With the […]
America would not be a renowned, diverse country without the differences in ideals betwixt its people. It is that very trait that would cause disagreements and questions of the need for slavery in the United States. Slavery provided the colonies with the economy it needed to become self-sufficient enough to gain its independence and disembark from England. One of the major reasons as to why slavery was beneficial to colonialism is that it provided ‘free” manual labor. Although, overtime the […]
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Get help with your assignmentThe issue of identity is one of many sensitive topics in regards to the American society. The struggle of an unfamiliar background as well as wanting to ‘fit in” can be a problem that many people face. American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang is a graphic novel that revolves around three different stories which are eventually linked together by three different characters: The Monkey King, Jin Wang, and Danny. The Monkey King is a legendary monkey who rules over […]
I believe there are many causes for poverty in the United States today. The first cause being unwed parents bearing children. Children born into a family with parents that aren’t married have been found to be seven times more likely to live in poverty, than children born into a family with married parents. It can be difficult to support and take care of all the needs of a child on one paycheck, which can cause a downward spiral into poverty. […]
When it comes to poverty there are a lot of problems that many people have to face. Such as many people being out of a job, people not able to afford the things they desire, or able to provide for themselves. For our country to be one of the most powerful and wealthiest we shouldn’t have a lot of homeless people around the city, communities and the environment just in general. Especially where I live at now in the downtown […]
Throughout the development of North America’s settling colonies, including the Chesapeake, New England, and Middle Colonies, there came plenty of agreements and conflicts that came with it. They all sought freedom, better lives, and, for some, riches, but little did they know their people would walk into the line of life and death. Of course, settling in North America meant running into other inhabitants, American Indians, and each colony’s relationships with them start off on a good foot but, with […]
Hunger and malnutrition is a serious matter in america and also in a various amount of other countries. The majority of people facing this problem are usually considered the “minority group” (mainly african american and hispanic), that have to deal with poverty within their “Ghetto” community. Being raised in a community of poverty can cause an effect on many children’s lives because of the poor foods they consume; which can create a large amount of disadvantages, because they lack of […]
During Reconstruction, there was a significant increase of African Americans holding positions very close to white people. They had the right to vote, they held public office, and they sought legislative changes. Jim Crow Laws were a collection of state and local rules that legalized racial segregation, just after all of the progress that was made for African Americans and their rights. Some states that acted like this even went as far as to limit the voting power for blacks. […]
March For Our Lives was founded in a living room and by teenagers coping with the trauma of a mass shooting. They created a movement to literally fight for young people’s lives by bringing them together and preaching the importance of voting. After dealing with tragedy, most people take their grief and deal with it privately. Opponents of the movement say the teenagers behind it politicized their situation and are the pawns of leftists and democrats, however, what people like […]
My name is Mrs. Katherine Hernandez and I am currently serving in the United States Navy. I am very concerned with our approach, as a country, to the war on gangs in the United States, and Central America. Although I know our President is looking for ways to eliminate this problem by mass deportations, I highly believe that it will increase our problems. My reason being is that we are not eliminating the problem, just handing it off to another […]
They were times of discovery. The new caravels looked like the safest ships you could think of. Together with the newly invented compass and the sextant, they urged sailors to venture into the seas. On the other hand, in 1453, the Turks entered Constantinople (and since then they called it Istanbul), closing the Mediterranean for trade with the Indies. This event represented a blow to the European kingdoms, as it meant the consolidation of a powerful empire that controlled part […]
Visibility and Viability: A Journey of being Black in America What it means to be Black in America is contingent on both race and class; Race has been the primary factor used to shape the identity of African Americans within society and is equally responsible for their lack thereof. Despite progression Blacks are still subjected to socially constructed biases and racialized discourse; both equally responsible for the Black culture that is characterized by suppression, oppression, segregation, and exploitation. In the […]
This paper will examine four main things Benjamin Franklin did to contribute in making America what it is today. First it will explain the treaties he signed to help give America their independence. Secondly it will explain how he ended slavery. Thirdly it will explain how he discovered electricity. Lastly how his printing business affected America. In 1754, at a gathering of frontier agents in Albany, New York, Franklin proposed an arrangement for joining the settlements under a national congress. […]
Two Ways to Belong in America by Bharati Mukherjee is a narrative of two sisters who are from Calcutta, India in which one sister (Bharati) endures her status of being an American citizen and the other (Mira) faces the hardships of being an immigrant American. In Mother Tongue by Amy Tan who is a second-generation immigrant from China, Tan talks about the variety of Englishes that she was raised upon and draws a connection between langauage and cultures. In both […]
At a time in history when there was tension rising between the United States and Japan because Japan’s military forces had invaded countries aggressively for their resources and told them to stop. It was December 7, 1941 and Japan decided to bomb Pearl Harbor, and defeat the US Pacific Fleet to obtain power and gain resources. This tragedy slightly weakened our military forces, killed a lot of innocent people, and left the U.S. in shock. This triumph event is significant […]
African Americans as a culture are under constant attack socially, intellectually and racially and in today’s world this is supported primarily by how the mainstream media portrays present day rap/hip-hop, by giving it a bad name whilst telling john public that a certain stereotype is okay. By doing this the media has become complicit in the castration and twisting of the voices of black America and this only aide’s commercialism and tricks the younger generation into seeing consumerism as an […]
America has a long and complicated history that is made of a mix of many people from many cultures. Although the Jewish people came a little later than original settlers and in a much smaller amount, they still made a significant impact in how America evolved as a nation. Judaism and the people who followed it helped to shape the government, education, and culture that we now experience in modern day America. Through their own triumphs and struggles they set […]
The United States, hereafter “U.S.”, is political system inspired partly by British or United Kingdom hereafter “UK”, but differs in several ways. The most significant way the British differs is that it has a democratic government which includes a prime minister and monarch. On the other hand, the U.S. has a federal constitutional republic with three branches of government that balance powers between each other: the judiciary, the legislative, and the executive branches. Although these two governments have very different […]
For the past decades, politicians have been pushing for stricter gun laws and gun-free zones. Tragedies like the Parkland High School, Last Vegas and the Columbine shootings have been used to debate gun laws and raise concerns about what are we doing as a country to protect the people and their futures. Countless times you here politicians say “we’ve seen an increase in homicides”, thinking guns will solve the problem. They have also argued that guns kill more people in […]
Postwar America during the 1950’s and 1960’s consisted of many social movements that helped find resolutions to all the occurring problems in society. During this time period, it consisted of the affluent society. The affluent society was the aftermath of the war and started urbanization in cities. The 1960’s specifically consisted of many social movements that contributed to changing ways of society dealing with gender, race, freedom of speech, and environmental issues. In the affluent society, people were complacent with […]
The place we are in today is because of our history and past events, even one change in history’s course could have the biggest effect. Many things led up to slavery in the United States but what Africans were never taken to the US in the first place? America today would be much different from we know it, the transformation would have started back before the 1700s. If slavery had never happened and African people had never come to the […]
Illegal immigration from Mexico into the United States has long been a problem that local, State and Federal governments have had to handle. In the United States, there were 12 million Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. in 2016. “Approximately 45% of them were living in the country illegally.” (4) However, since 2007, the number of illegal Mexican immigrants living in the U.S. has declined by more than one million. The Secure Fence Act of 2006, signed by President George […]
The debate over gun control in the United States has reached new heights in the past several years. The recent shooting in Santa Fe, Texas and in our local communities have brought it to national attention. This heated debate appears to be split evenly for and against firearm restrictions, with both sides arguing strongly for their case. The U.S. has minimal gun control measures, even though many other countries have more stringent regulations and, as a result, have much lower […]
In a great country like the United States of America, we have many individual rights. One of those rights is the second amendment, which states that “The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”. This amendment means a lot to me and how we should be able to keep all of our guns without the government having to do anything about it, but there are times where we should have some laws about our […]
In Maya Angelou, “On the Pulse of Morning,” 1993, the author uses alliteration, imagery, personification, and metaphor to show the optimistic future of America, while also exposing glimpses of its hateful past. Maya Angelou was a poet and activist and exhibited the most important pieces of her political action within this work. She composed and recited her work for the 1993 Clinton inauguration, a marked day in history, due to its election of a liberal democrat as opposed to a […]
Throughout the chapter, The Empire and the People, Zinn writes about how America wanted to force foreign trade because it would relieve the problem of underconsumption at home and it would prevent a financial crisis in America. The American capitalists thought creating foreign trade would decrease the protests and would bring the American people and government together, but in result it caused more issues than they started with. Although many argue the America became an imperialist country over time, Zinn […]
The two sources that I will be analyzing is “From Civil War to ‘Civil Society’: Has the End of the Cold War Brought Peace to Central America” and “Latin America and the End of the Cold War” The source that will be evaluated first will be Jenny Pearce’s journal, “From Civil War to ‘Civil Society’: Has the End of the Cold War Brought Peace to Central America?”, which was written in 1998. Jenny Pearce has been an Honorary Visiting Professor […]
To the dismay of many people, human trafficking is a huge problem in America. Most people would like you to believe that things like that don’t happen here, that is something that happens in other countries, poorer countries, not the U.S. of A. It has become such an epidemic here, that it can no longer be ignored. Though it is currently difficult to know the exact number of people that are victim to human trafficking due to it being a […]
John F. Kennedy is the thirty-fifth president and was also an active advocate of civil rights in America. As one of the presidents in the U.S. history have been assassinated, John F. Kennedy is well known for many events such as Cuban Missile Crisis, the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, the Alliance for Progress and his own assassination. After President Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963, Dallas people have faced troubles while traveling around the country for many years. Sometimes, because of […]
Briefly define the Gilded Age, as well as the growth of industrialization and the prevailing attitude toward employee-employer relations during that era. Then, explore the problems caused by industrialization and discuss how workers responded to those challenges. The Gilded Age filled with advancements and growth but also full of hardship. Industrialization led to new innovations and change on how society was going. Wealthy held almost all power. Employers ruled over their employees, and often controlled the employee way of their […]
