After retirement‚ many elderly people reflect on their lives‚ they consider their social status‚ job‚ income and current health. Most would say they had a good life‚ but none of them would ever question whether or not they deserved the life they had. The reason is that Americans have a meritocratic society in place that reward for effort and ability. In other words‚ a person will get what they deserve as long as they work hard for it. According to Narmit Arora “we are the authors of our own destiny
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Arnold Trujillo November 1st 2013 Dr. I. Bunting Political Science 10 Intervention of the United states of the Americas As stated under the Monroe Doctrin‚ The United States has claimed the western hemisphere to be free of European Imperialism and influence without consent of any countries on the western hemisphere. Another document implemented under Theodore Roosevelt’s term the Roosevelt corollary‚ which was an extension of the Monroe Doctrine: stated the United States had the right to
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Today’s news reports suggest that Americans are at an all time low in income‚ poverty‚ and job opportunities. The American culture is close to rock bottom. There are many reasons that factor into why the country is in the position they are. Many United States citizens are worried about the security of the future. Are jobs in danger? Does the country have the right people in charge? Is the posterity going to be put in the position to succeed? Now it is time to look into what could make the United
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I am writing to you today‚ asking if you would join me in trying to reduce pollution in the United States of America in 2017. Pollution is incredibly harmful to the environment‚ world‚ climate‚ and even space. Pollution damages our atmosphere which then creates acid rain and toxins in the air. The 2015 "State of the Air" report finds 52 percent of Americans live in counties with unhealthy levels of air pollution. Pollution starts with littering which can harm many things depending on where litter
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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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Student Borrowing in America: Metrics‚ Demographics‚ Default Aversion Strategies By Frank Kesterman Frank Kesterman is a consultant in the Washington DC area. He formerly served for the Department of Education in the office of Federal Student Aid. The use of Cohort Default Rate (CDR) as the primary measure of student loan defaults among undergraduates was investigated. The study used data extracted from the National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)‚ quantitative analysis of Likert-scale
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Thorner School sixth-grader Stephen Bush‚ Reagan School fifth-grader Paityn Boyt and Discovery Elementary fourth-grader Jessica Stump emerged as winners at the annual Bank of America Essay and Speech Contest held (tonight) May 5 at University Square in Bakersfield. The three were the best at their grade levels from a finals field featuring 31 of the area’s top essayist-speakers. Each had three-to-five minutes to deliver their speech from an essay they had previously written on "Traditional Libraries:
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engineering marvels. He built a turntable for 75 to 100 ton locomotives literally on the side of a steep mountain. This was so locomotives with snow plows could be in front of the train while negotiating switch backs. But this man was not alone it seemed America was full of such men in the late 18th and 19th century. As we cover hot metal history we find even more outstanding men like Otto Mears but in the iron and steel business. Another thing was nobody on the planet could dish out cooperate skullduggery
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writers also had become very popular‚ such as Margaret Fuller or Catharine Sedgwick‚ who wrote serials for magazines and newspapers or some women had written best-selling novels. Edgar Allan Poe may have been the most whimsical author in the 1800’s in America. His poetry and short stories reflected deeply troubled lives‚ containing abused drugs and worrying constantly about money. The Americans still seemed to enjoy his work. As far as scientific advances go‚ people had taught themselves astronomy‚ developed
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Living in America‚ I came to understand the difficulties of practicing Islam in urban life. There is not enough time to pray five times a day because most of the time I spend is in school. For example‚ waking up at 7 a.m. to get ready and go to school until 3 pm. Also‚ there are no facilities in high school where you can pray during lunch time or breaks to pray unlike in rural areas of Bangladesh. There are other challenges such as types of food that are served in the school cafeteria. I remember
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