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    Obesity in America

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    refrigerator that holds a slice of cake or a tub of ice-cream and your hand reaches out to get it even as your mind is screaming‚ "Don’t do this"! Although millions of Americans are overweight‚ eating a healthy diet will eliminate the obesity problem in America. Eating poorly or well can make a big difference on both the physical and mental aspects of your body. All in all‚ understanding what causes food cravings and learning to control them‚ as well as learning how to lose weight by means of a healthy diet

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    fashionable and they always care about their hairstyles just like girls‚ and desire to be skinny. The reason why they look so feminine is not just because they want to become a Kabuki Onnagata actors. There is a controversial reason. Since the women are getting a bigger part in the society‚ Japanese gender roles have drastically changed. Previously in Japan‚ women used to be expected to follow men and learn house works to get married with men who are introduced by parents or marriage meeting. However‚ as

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    Social Class in America

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    SOCIAL CLASS IN AMERICA TEACHER ’S GUIDE by PEOPLE LIKE US: Lora Myers Contributing Editors: Julie Hey Alicia Ellis & Amy Foerster Susan Kempler Eva Abbamonte Table of Contents I. INTRODUCTION TO PEOPLE LIKE US: SOCIAL CLASS IN AMERICA ..................... 3 II. PROGRAM OUTLINE .................................................................................. 4 III. PRE-VIEWING ACTIVITIES ........................................................................ 6 IV. POST-VIEWING DISCUSSION

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    Supremacism In America

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    in not just freedom and happiness for themselves‚ but in that for other people as well. Governor Terry McAuliffe states‚"They [white supremacists] get out of bed every day to hate people and divide our country… Let’s be honest‚ they need to leave America‚ because they are not Americans.” As Americans‚ we are to work together as one towards a common goal of liberty; not to kill or harm those that you believe are not deserving. To further prove his point of striving to bring people together as Americans

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    messages or ideas others could not share such as the poem‚ A Dream Deferred. Hughes poem Let America Be America Again was written in 1935 during a time of poverty and racism. He used the poem to tell a story of the less advantaged part of the people. Langston Hughes hopeful yet devastating poem‚ Let America Be America Again‚ uses imagery‚ repetition‚ and flashbacks to compare present day America to past America while also describing the American dream and the struggles to reach it. He also describes

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    Mobility In America

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    In this engaging and complex book‚ Robert Putnam discusses why upward mobility in the United States of America has progressively gotten worse though the recent decades. Putnam describes many diverse variables throughout this book that has led to this steady decline and has put them into four main categories: Families‚ parenting‚ schooling‚ and community. To make it easier to summarize and process‚ this paper will be split into these four parts. After the summary of Putnam’s substantial thesis‚ this

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    America and Homicide

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    America and Homicide The United States has been a world leader in homicide for centuries. Indeed‚ “since the early 19th century ...[America has been] the most homicidal country in the Western world” and holds that title today (Kelley‚ 2009). In a 2007-2008 list of 31 nations‚ only two nations‚ Mexico and Chile‚ had higher homicide rates (Comparison‚ 2010). Nations with higher populations‚ such as India and China have fewer homicides (Comparison‚ 2010). Further‚ a nation such as Japan‚ which has

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    Murder In America

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    Murder in America Shamika Woumnm COMM/215 March 9‚ 2015 Amanda McClure Police Brutality and Murder in America Most commonly people have a bitter hatred for the police. This is because beside the news tending to hype things up‚ they continue to make the young African American youth the Michael Brown’s and Shawn Bell’s in their communities. With that kind of corruption‚ the officers that continue to commit these haneous crimes and get away with them make all police officers look bad. When in fact

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    Conservatism In America

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    In this paper I will discuss three topics in light of two philosophies which are liberalism and conservatism in contemporary America. First of all I will do some research about the word philosophy and then I will further study about the meaning of political philosophy and then compile my knowledge about the two philosophies. This will be followed by a detailed discussion on the three topics given to be discussed in this paper in light of Conservatism and Liberalism. A philosophy is a complicated

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    It is a well-known fact in today’s world that a large percentage of students in college are failing their classes due to the fact that many of them are not worried about making good grades. In Amy Widner’s essay “The Pursuit of Just Getting by‚” she shared her opinion about students that think it is cool to not try. “We are not fooling anybody but ourselves.” –Amy Widner. She addresses this issue as well as the ramifications for “practicing” bad habits in college. She goes on explaining the importance

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