Coming to America Imagine this‚ living in a very small town; with only one store where you can make and receive phone calls‚ there are no public phones‚ no residential phone lines‚ no electricity and no running water. The roads are not paved until you get to the main road where people travel the most. The next town is about thirty minutes away‚ and there is only one bus that comes to this small town once a week‚ so people can go shopping and do other things. In this small town there are hardly any
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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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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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signed had a vision for a new country; a place that would be ruled by democracy and somewhere that people would be able to express themselves freely. At 14‚ I can hardly match the experience and knowledge they had‚ but I can still have a vision for America. I want people to be themselves and not worry about potential hate crimes for their identity. I want my sons and daughters to grow up knowing they can do whatever they set their mind to. I want every American to be able to walk into a room and feel
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Deconstructing America Patrick J. Buchanan is a conservative‚ political voice in the United States today. The article Deconstructing America is from his 2007 book‚ Day of Reckoning: How Hubris‚ Ideology‚ and Greed Are Tearing America Apart. I chose this article because it is one of the ones my group looked closely at in class‚ and I feel like I understand it more than other articles we read after talking it out with them. "The United States‚ the greatest republic since Rome
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“Made in America” The trend towards outsourcing overseas and the slowly decreasing of American manufacturing has made it very difficult to find American-made goods‚ but not impossible. There are a few small businesses that are still dedicated to manufacturing goods in the United States‚ but in today’s society‚ they are hard to come by. Buying goods manufacturing in the USA is something that us consumers‚ business owners and even the government can do to support these businesses that manufacture
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No Equality in America In “ The Growing Gulf Between Rich and the Rest of the Us” Holly Sklar claims the American is not real because America has more poverty than other developed countries and less chance for the poor to become rich. There is no American Dream anymore because most of the money to rich people . The rich people are richest than all the country together. The Middle Class fights to stay in the middle class because it is really difficult to stay in this place.
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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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It’s clear that Norma Jean has changed in ways that make it very difficult for her to stay with Leroy. If you were a marriage counselor‚ and Norma Jean and Leroy came to you for help‚ what would you suggest to them? Would you suggest they stay together? Do you think this relationship should be saved? Write your journal entry referencing the story. Be sure to write a minimum of 400 words. If I were Norma Jean and Leroy’s marriage counselor I would probably suggest for them to spend some time apart
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United States of America has been rising at dramatic levels over the past two decades‚ to the point where it has been labeled as an epidemic by public health officials. The problem seems to be accelerating with each passing year and decade‚ and it is building enough momentum to be a true public health catastrophe. According to the Get America Fit Foundation (GAFF)‚ the problem is truly an epidemic on a massive scale when you consider there are 58 million overweight people in America. Even more alarming
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