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    18 May 2013 Education in the United States This great country on the federal‚ state‚ and local level needs to invest more money in educating its citizens. In the past the United States boasted a higher percentage of technically trained‚ well educated‚ top of their field professionals to fulfill the needs of not only this great country‚ but those of the rest of the world too. However those days seem to be over. Today most highly

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    genders and within this time the gender identities have increased infinitely‚ Facebook.com has offered up 50 different gender identities including male‚ female‚ genderfluid‚ bigender‚ agender‚and many others (NY Times). Transgendered individuals include many different gender subsets including some of the aforementioned examples like genderfluid‚

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    Unemployment in United States Unemployment has been a problem throughout the United States since the beginning of 2009. In the most obvious sense‚ unemployment means “being without a job.” The term unemployment is one description of the economic condition of a society at any given time. Low unemployment means the majority of the labor force is involved in‚ or looking for steady work. On the other hand‚ high unemployment is an indication of an economy in recession or even worse. This implies that

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    International and Domestic Marketing Comparison Paper: India and the United States Introduction Nations‚ like the people who inhabit them‚ are all different. Some‚ like the United States‚ are at the forefront of technology and development. Others exist as third world nations‚ where even the most basic necessities are hard to come by. And then there are those which are in the middle‚ such as India. In the past 20 years‚ India has grown in the eyes of the global community from a rural‚ developing

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    Government Statistics When people are unemployed‚ the entire country is affected. The more individuals who are out of work‚ the less money that is spent on material items‚ such as houses‚ cars‚ as well as other high ticket merchandise‚ which can lead to more people losing their jobs since the economy becomes volatile. This is where the government steps in to collect data regarding the unemployment in our country. (United States Department of Labor‚ Bureau of Labor Statistics‚ How the Government

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    I find it funny that a country with the highest incarceration rate per capita than any country in the world has the audacity to call itself “the land of the free”. The United States has become a prison state‚ if not a police state. But what is the cause of these outrageous incarceration numbers? Three words: war on drugs. The U.S. has 751 people in prison for every 100‚000 of the population. Russia is the only country that comes close with 627 per every 100‚000 people. 3.1 percent of the adult

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    The United States of America. Adams was not successful in his endeavors. Congress has opposed having an official language since John Adams first approached them. At least once a year since 1981‚ Congress has rejected a bill making English the country’s official language. Even though congress has rejected a bill at least once a year requesting English as the official language‚ currently the United States of America is not among the countries with an official language. However‚ several states have

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    U. In the early 1800s‚ Spain’s colonies in America were much richer and bigger in territory than the U.S. By the mid-1800s‚ most of Spain’s colonies broke into much smaller separate countries and lost power‚ while the U.S. gained power and territory (Harvest Empire‚ Chapter 2‚ page 27). According to Gonzalez‚ some often describe the American model‚ in contrast to the ill-suited Spanish model‚ as one that was fundamentally suited for power and expansion. However‚ as Gonzalez argues in the chapter

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    Volleyball In 1895‚ William G. Morgan developed the game “Mintonette”‚ otherwise known as volleyball. He originally created this game for businessmen because of its lack of physical contact. Morgan adopted many aspects from several other sports such as the net from tennis. He also borrowed skills from basketball‚ baseball‚ and handball. One day while demonstrating the game‚ a comment was made that the game was more about volleying‚ resulting in the more modern name‚ volleyball. After the first

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    from one country to another without residence or permission to be in that country‚ the immigrants as they are called in the United States cross to the U.S to have a better economic status and a better state of life is to sustain their self or to support their families in their home countries because in their countries there is no work and the economic level is not as high than the United States. Immigration is a result of a number of factors‚ including economic and/or political reasons‚ family reunification

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