Here is good news for you: according to the New York Times‚ the unemployment rate in America dropped to 7.7% which is the lowest rate in four years. But is this rate low enough? The answer is no. The labor market is far from recovery. There are around 11 million people who still need jobs. Throughout American history of unemployment‚ The United States has experienced 11 recessions since the end of the postwar period in 1948. The U.S. unemployment rate rose steadily from 5% in January 2008 to a
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America is essentially the laziest country in the world. This elucidates why there’re so many lazy people in it‚ like myself. However‚ being lazy does not necessarily mean America is a bad country; laziness makes America the unique and beautiful country we know and love. Being lazy can be awful or great‚ but when I describe how excited I am to go on vacation‚ it’s a huge deal. I’m never more anxious than the morning I wake up to go on vacation once a year. Consequently‚ I am usually at my worst when
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has been a battle; black versus white. My eyes have always seen equality in every person and I have never questioned it. Americans have such contrasting and sometimes drastic views on race that‚ since early childhood‚ we are aware of the existence of racism. I remember my one and only boyfriend in kindergarten‚ when I went to a public school. He was a black boy named Stanley. That being true‚ I assume that I had an innocent view of all people as the same. This was probably true for most children of
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Obesity in America ABS200: Introduction to Applied Behavioral Sciences (COB1310B) April 8‚ 2013 Obesity in America Controversy over obesity increases as rapidly as the increase of the number of obese in America. At the rate of obesity health related issues surging through the country also comes along with the price to handle the growing cases. The debate of whether obesity is a disease or not is a major debate that effects not only the obese but those individuals in proximity. My question
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Latin America: The Creation of New People Latin America: The Creation of New People Bradford Burns‚ the author of Latin America: An Interpretive History has put a lot of thought in my mind‚ of who and what where the first people of Latin America. Because of them‚ many of us are here today. But who are they? The new world‚ which came to be known as Latin America; numerous types of people migrated to this part of the world. A group of people known as the indigenous migrated from Asia and
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Poverty Poverty has been on the rise in America‚ mainly because of the recession and now it is reaching new heights. Even though the government is trying to make more beneficial tax cuts‚ and find other various solutions‚ poverty levels continue to rise drastically. But to first find the solution ourselves we must first know what causes poverty and what it is. A simple definition of it is‚ poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or finances. Absolute poverty
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Race in America At the turn of the last century‚ WEB Dubois wrote‚ “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line‚ --the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa‚ in America and the islands of the sea. Every study has come to the same conclusion that biologically‚ there are no ’races’‚ yet the social construction of race as a category is alive and well today. The classification system‚ which radicalized different groups - typifying
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American Lit and Comp A 7 June 2013 On the emigration to America‚ A literary analysis. The poem On the emigration to america‚ written by Philip Freneau in the late 1700’s was a literary piece that described America through the eyes of a puritan emigrant. It puts a lovely flourish on one of its main themes; the untouched world‚ filled with unknown riches and bountiful land as compared against the pomp and circumstance of the british-european east. It is a great example of many of the stylistic
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a group‚ they strive to save not only the animals that receive inhumane treatment‚ but also the world from toxic pollution and global warming. According to a “Vegetarianism in America” study conducted by Vegetarian Times‚ there is approximately 7.3 million people who follow a vegetarian lifestyle (“Vegetarianism in America”).
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The Bridge of the Americas The Bridge of the Americas (Spanish: Puente de las Américas; originally known as the Thatcher Ferry Bridge) is a road bridge in Panama‚ which spans the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal. Completed in 1962‚ at a cost of US$20 million‚ it was the only non-swinging bridge (there are two other bridges‚ one at the Miraflores locks and one at the Gatun locks) connecting the north and south American land masses until the opening of the Centennial Bridge in 2004. The bridge
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