UNITED STATES INFLATION RATE The inflation rate in United States was last reported at 1.10 percent in August of 2010. From 1914 until 2010‚ the average inflation rate in United States was 3.38 percent reaching an historical high of 23.70 percent in June of 1920 and a record low of -15.80 percent in June of 1921. Inflation rate refers to a general rise in prices measured against a standard level of purchasing power. The most well known measures of Inflation are the CPI which measures consumer prices
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Historians understand that all history is interpretation‚ and as Professor Weber states‚ “we understand the past only in imperfect ways.” We use facts to create these interpretations and thus see that many truths constitute the past‚ rather than one single truth. In the war between Mexico and the United States‚ Americans have known and cared so little‚ even though this war created their country’s future shape‚ and adversely‚ it diminished the land belonging previously to the Mexican people. This
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Student Name: ___Bob Marley_ Interviewee Name: Clouse Prout How do you know the interviewee? Friend of grandmother Questions: What inspired you to become a U.S. citizen? What steps did you have to take as part of the naturalization process? How would you describe how you felt about the process? How has citizenship changed your life? Notes on Interviewee Response: What inspired me to become a U.S citizen is to receive freedom. Fingerprinted
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Consumerism is eating the Future The world fails to realize that the human race is what will lead the Earth to destruction. The population is only doing what every other creature does to survive; however humans are doing it better. Therefore‚ all the expanding going on is going to eventually lead to an end to the population‚ because there will be no more room so the race will go down in its own waste. The reason for all this consumption is because humans have made consuming a necessity and this
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Korematsu v. United States Japanese Internment‚ Equal Protection (1944) When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7‚ 1941‚ the American military became concerned about the security of the United States‚ particularly along the West Coast. At the time‚ about 112‚000 people of Japanese descent lived on the West Coast; about 70‚000 of these were American citizens. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War or any designated
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DEMAND FOR GASOLINE According to the law of demand‚ when the price of a good and the quantity demanded have an inverse relationship. When the price of a good increases‚ the quantity demanded decreases. There are various factors affecting the demand for gasoline. These include: 1. The availability and prices of substitutes and complements: A good is referred to as a substitute for another good‚ when it can be used as a replacement for the good. When the price of one good goes up‚ the demand for
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61 million‚ that is the number of immigrants currently residing in the United States (Ziegler). For the past year‚ there has been a great deal of negativity surrounding incoming immigrants‚ recent immigrants‚ and immigration in general. These attitudes were made more prevalent when the newly elected president‚ Donald Trump‚ instituted an executive order to temporarily ban entrance to the United States to seven Muslim-majority countries (Trump). This ban was eventually lifted by the Ninth Circuit
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Under the Articles of Confederation‚ the government was weak and states were like independent countries. So to try and fix these problems The United States Constitution was founded. It established America’s national government and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. However‚ it wasn’t working as planned so it had to be ratified. After the adoption of the Constitution George Washington and Thomas Jefferson helped to establish a stable government. They did this by creating a separation
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The veracities about women’s roles were constructed in ways that have been altered or erased for social and political purposes. The roles of black women were undermined during slavery and Hawaiian women’s roles were taken away after colonialism. Women’s roles should be recognized because it makes a significant contribution to decolonization and resistance. The erasure of women’s roles have been constructed in favor of white supremacists and colonists‚ thus‚ keeping knowledge about women’s roles away
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Case Briefing 18 United States v. One hundred sixty-five thousand five hundred eighty dollars ($165‚580) in U.S. currency I. Statement of the facts During the deep winter in Maine‚ the St. John River‚ which forms the border with Canada‚ freezes over as it flows through the town of Van Buren. This river is transformed into a pathway‚ suitable for travel by foot or by snowmobile; to avoid U.S. Customs‚ this river becomes an opportunity for illegal entry into the United States. Typically‚ smuggling
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