Abstract The United States is the richest nation‚ yet millions of Americans live below the poverty line and millions more struggle every month. The children in society today living in poverty is increasing daily. The majority of these children are from single-parent homes where sometimes parents are not working or have become disabled and therefore cannot work. Children who are raised in foster care and leave as adults do not have strong relationship ties most of the time and are at an increased
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Social inequality in any society is a multi-faceted and complex issue. This is especially true in the United States‚ which possesses a large and diverse population. Some aspects of the social inequality we experience can fall under the umbrella of "survival of the fittest". For instance‚ competition over the best jobs‚ which in turn lead to more money and enhanced social status would appear to be a clear case of "survival of the fittest". But under closer examination‚ the playing field for this competition
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How Obama Does That Thing He Does Jack Shafer 1. Who do you believe was the author’s intended audience? Shafer is writing to the American voters‚ and non-voters. He is writing to explain Obama’s excellent speech skills. 2. What was the author’s intended purpose in writing the piece? He is explaining the methods‚ tactics and brilliance to Obama’s speech‚ composure and leadership skills. 3. What point does the author make in the text? Despite Obama’s race‚ he is able to confront
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The First Bank of the United States The Bank of the United States was designed to make money and build an economy. It was designed by men like Alexander Hamilton and Robert Morris‚ but did not benefit the common citizen as much as wealthy investors. Why did a fledgling government need to borrow millions from overseas in order to invest in a “national” bank‚ to turn around and then borrow the same money back and pay interest on it? The banking system developed by Alexander Hamilton and Robert
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Labor Unions in the United States Organized labor affects the lives of many citizens everyday‚ often in a roundabout way. Labor Unions affect many different people from blue-collar workers to white-collar workers‚ stay-at-home moms‚ students‚ and retirees. Fewer; however realize the legal role Labor Unions have played and continue to play in the financial system‚ political affairs‚ and society in general. In today’s society‚ more of our skilled hourly and unskilled workers belong to some sort of
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Cultural diversity is seen everyday in our society in the United States. As defined‚ the existence of a variety of cultural or ethnic groups within a society. When it comes to public speaking and cultural diversity‚ you make think how these two connect. They actually go hand in hand in becoming a well rounded public speaker. In our world today‚ there are over six thousand languages that are spoken in our world. To narrow it down‚ in the United States today there are over three hundred languages spoken
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10:00a.m I arrived at Mrs. Elizabeth Laroda’s house to interview her for my Psychology 105 class project. I have known Mrs. Laroda for six years and we meet when I was working as a medical office assistant at her gynaecologist office. I decided to ask Mrs. Laroda to be my interviewee for this project because she is fifty-eight years old and the assignment required me to interview a person between the ages of fifty to sixty five. Prior to asking her‚ I had asked several persons but they declined because
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Summary of Source: This article focuses on the United States foreign policy before 9/11. The article begins by going all the way back to when George Washington was president‚ and explains how he and other presidents dealt with the terrorists in their day. Then‚ the article talks about how the United States has had wavering methods on how to fight terrorism. The policies changed depending on the president. There is the ideology that if the United States is directly attacked‚ then they have the right
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several years‚ people in the United States have argued and have been concerned that their personal privacy has been tampered with‚ and they feel like they’re being spied on. On the other hand‚ the United States has battled with many attacks like terrorism and cyberattacks. The government is trying their best to find any possible way to prevent this from happening. One of the ideas is to take away most of the people’s privacy away‚ so that the government can look into your file to see if you’re a threat
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committed by those who are ‘racist’. The Cambridge dictionary describes racism as “the belief that people’s qualities are influenced by their race and that the members of other races are not as good as the members of your own‚ or the resulting unfair treatment of members of other races” (par 1). Taking this definition into consideration‚ it is quite evident that prejudice and a sense of superiority are the basis on which the idea of racism is built. Racism leads to segregation‚ which means that where there
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