Rodriguez 1 bilal adem eng ll2 Natasha Olivera Exploratory Essay Homelessness in America: Disparity Amid Prosperity Homelessness has been affecting societies despite of economic stability and the overall wealth of the nation. It is seen as a stigma and directly associated with the concept of marginalization. There are the conventional notions of people sleeping in a cardboard box or addicts concealed between the alleyways of streets. Yet the homeless include those who live in their cars‚
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Urbanization of America The urbanization of the cities in America that occurred during the first fifty years after the civil war was a unique situation that had not been seen before in this country. There had been migration that had occurred before‚ but the staggering numbers that migrated to these cities during this time was overwhelming. According to Brinkley “The urban population increased sevenfold during this time period" (Unfinished Nation‚ p.418). The census report
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America‚ the most technologically advanced and affluent of all nations on the earth‚ seems to have an increasingly larger illiteracy rate every year. This has become and continues to be a critical problem throughout our society as we know it. According to the National Adult Literacy survey‚ 42 million adult Americans can’t read; 50 million are limited to a 4th or 5th grade reading level; one in every four teenagers drops out of high school‚ and of the students who graduate‚ one in every four has
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Delprøve 1A) 1. Normally students look forward to go back to school after the summer holidays. There’s missing ing-form in go. It should be going back to school. 2. According to Michelle Obama is education important when you want to plan your own career. Is and education are misplaced and should be swapped. 3. President Obama‚ which wife has now joined his efforts to improve education‚ wants the US to have the highest percentage of college graduates by 2020. Which is referred to an object‚ and therefore
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The Demise of America as a Superpower There is an old Italian saying that states “I came to America because I heard that the streets were paved with gold.” Even though American streets are really not golden‚ this saying is metaphoric to that era where America was a dominating superpower. It was a time in American history when hard work was valued‚ and families had strong virtues. A great amount of time has passed since the industrial age and so‚ America has evolved. This once a God-fearing nation
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South America South America is a continent located in the Western Hemisphere‚ mostly in the Southern Hemisphere‚ with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by
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The Mayan‚ Aztec‚ and Inca civilizations were the largest empires in the lands we now call Latin America. The Mayans‚ the oldest of these three great civilizations‚ built their empire in what is now southern Mexico and Central America. Mayan civilization had collapsed when the Aztecs built huge pyramids to their gods. The Aztecs built well-organized cities and developed a writing system. The Incans created a road system to connect their empire in the Andes Mountains. They also developed an irrigation
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with us from beggars outside the gates of Jerusalem to the mentally ill homeless woman in the park. America is known for our huge difference in culture and class. This is due partly to the dynamics behind the political decisions of this country. The president himself admits that America is more unequal than it’s been since the great depression and many of his own supporters say he has failed. America now has‚ by many standards‚ the lowest social mobility of all of the high-end countries‚ meaning that
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America‚ the United States‚ the freedom land‚ the American dream‚ or was it just a place to live‚ separation of class and money‚ and still people living in poverty. Two poems‚ ‘’I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman and “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes determine whether America was a dream for everyone or not. If the front people try to force this country to be or the truth about how people live determine if it’s a dream or not.
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quite some time now‚ despite our greatest efforts to throw money at it. In 2008‚ the U.S. spent $10‚995 on each elementary and secondary student compared to an average of $8‚169 for member countries of the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). South Korea spent on average $6‚723 per student‚ a noticeable difference of more than $4‚000‚ yet consistently outperformed American students in math‚ science and reading. If we are spending more on education than South Korea‚ why are their
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