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    parks‚ bikes and tennis‚ spectator sports‚ baseball‚ and so much more. Industrialization and Urbanization lead to difficulties for everyone especially those in the working class. Industrialization lead to huge disparity of wealth and class in the United States and Urbanization lead to massive problems that were almost and still somewhat are too difficult to solve. The Industrialization era included many revolutionary inventions. Some examples are Christopher Sholes invented the typewriter in 1867 and

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    Throughout history many governments have had a strong hold on the economy and their practices. Slavery was a very inhuman practice that greatly affected the US. Back during The New Nation Era‚ not even the government could resist against the practice of slavery. The institution of slavery was stronger than the US government. The institution became so bound to the government that their had to be underlying roots to how slavery started‚ due to how strong this bond was‚ and what it took to destroy it

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    and Discrimination The Chinese immigrated to the United States in during the 1800s; Official records show that before 1857‚ 46 Chinese immigrants were in the United States. Over the next 30 years more that 200‚000 Chinese had immigrated to the United States. This immigration wave was largely because of the push of the awful conditions in China and the pull of the discovery of gold‚ and‚ job opportunities in the west (Immigration and the United States‚ Schafer‚ 2006). During the 1860s railroad work

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    New Era of Transportation Today In the United States‚ a new era of “taxi” like transportation is rapidly approaching. With the help of smart phones‚ mobile apps have created a new way of getting around. The new trend of transportation goes under the pseudo name of “ride sharing”‚ the question is‚ will the yellow cab cease to exist? In Malcolm Gladwell’s book the The Tipping point he discusses trends similar to that of “ride-sharing” and how they became to be popular. Companies such as Lyft‚ Sidecar

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    The economic inequality that exists in the United States is a big problem even though many Americans might not think of it as much. Economic inequality has been identified because of the large gap between the rich and the poor people in the United States. It can also be seen in the large gap of the wages of the workers all over the country. According to studies‚ the country has recently reached its highest rate of economic inequality in the year 2014 compared to the previous years data

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    the United States made several changes to policies concerning visitors into the United States. More attention is required at the borders‚ airports‚ mail system‚ and intranet to protect citizens of the United States against terrorism. In this paper‚ we will discuss a proposal to make the criminal justice agencies in the United States better prepared for terrorist attacks. Border Patrol is part of the criminal justice agency and responsible for protecting the borders of the United States against

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    According to data from the 2010 Census‚ there were nine million individuals in the United States that identified themselves a multiracial (Jones & Bulluck 2012). This was an increase of 2.2 million from the 200 Census. The increase in the number of self-reported multiracial individuals in the U.S. was due partly to the fact that the Census for the first time in 2000 gave the option to choose more than one box when indicating racial identity and in part to the US society’s increased tolerance

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    history‚ geographic features have had an impact on historical and cultural growth of civilizations‚ empires‚ and regions of the world. This statement is proven with many civilizations‚ including the Greeks‚ Phoenicians and Assyrians‚ which were all very prosperous and successful. Many of the accomplishments of the empires above had a lot to do with their location and surroundings of their region. Due to the mountains in Greece‚ a unified empire could not be formed‚ therefore many city-states or polis’

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    Crime in the United States is a fascinating phenomenon. It has changed throughout time and history. It evolved and progressed. There are visible waves in crime rates in the American history; this is often caused by changes in the economy‚ political situation as well as unemployment rate. Crime rates can also depend on the demographics of the area being studied. These are the several variables which can alter the outcome of crime rate measurement. The crime statistics in the United States‚ as well as

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    Expansion essay Intro America expands westward as that of there own destiny. America fights and fights for land. Many die but independence is served cold to the Mexicans and British. The Indian Rmoval act opens new territory to the west. This is my expansion Essay on way back when‚ when America expanded West! II. A. Causes of western expansion/ Manifest destiny 1. Economic/trade 2. Avalible land/farming 3. New opportunities/ “gold rush” 4. Western trade/ Roads/ Transportation

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