...Poverty in America; Created or Inherited According to an article written by Barbara Ehrenreich “How I Discovered the Truth about Poverty”, society defines poverty by its ethnicity, culture and economic status. Ehrenreich accredited this discovery to Michael Harrington. Government assisted programs were design to be a temporary remedy for poverty, instead it is a crutch for others. The implication that poverty was not caused by “low wages or lack of jobs, but bad attitudes and faulty lifestyles” projects images of laziness (608). Society defines poverty by an individual capability to earn wages without the assistance and dependency on the government. Ehrenreich describes the history timeline of poverty, referencing Harrington’s book “The Other America”. Poverty was not acknowledged as a problem until, Harrington discovered that one quarter of the population who is “the inner-city black, Appalachian white, farm worker and the elderly” lives in poverty (609). Based on his analogy these categories of individual...
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...TEENAGE PREGNANCY IN AMERICA: AND OTHER RELATED COMPLICATIONS Teenage Pregnancy in America: And Other Related Complications Teenage pregnancy is defined as a teenager or underage girl (usually within the ages of 13–19) becoming pregnant. The term in everyday speech usually refers to women who have not reached legal adulthood, which varies across the world, who become pregnant (MedlinePlus 2008). Adolescent mothers are more numerous in western societies and especially in the United States. Today, young people are sexually active at an earlier age compare to the previous generation, and there are several associated consequences. Sexual activity among adolescents is often associated with unprotected sex or use of ineffective methods of contraception. A large proportion of adolescents are suffering from sexual transmitted diseases (STDs) and girls become pregnant and young mothers. Given the increase in teenage pregnancies and the consequences on the quality of life of the young people, an intervention, is needed starting in the middle schools. According to a study done in late 2009 by the Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI), a pro-choice organization, nationwide, teenage pregnancy rate was 71.5 pregnancies per 1,000 women ages 13 to 19 (Huffington Post 2010). Before intervention, however, it is essential to understand the factors underlying the premature and unprotected sex leading to unwanted pregnancies and STDs among adolescents. These risk factors include individual characteristics...
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... a financial institution (“FI”) and Securities America, Inc. (“SAI”) and Securities America Advisors, Inc. (“SAA”) (collectively SAI and SAA shall be referred to as “Securities America”). FI and Securities America shall be collectively referred to as the “Parties”. WHEREAS, FI (which term shall include FI’s affiliates) is engaged in the business of commercial and consumer deposit taking and the provision of related financial services to their customers; WHEREAS, FI is interested in providing its customers and the public with access to securities brokerage services, insurance products and advisory services to be provided by a third party (the “Financial Services”); WHEREAS, SAI is a registered broker/dealer and insurance agency engaged in the business of offering, distributing and trading securities (“Brokerage Services”) and insurance products (“Insurance Services”) and SAA is a federally registered investment advisor in the business of providing advisory services (“Advisory Services”) through registered principals and representatives who are engaged by Securities America as independent contractors (a “Securities America Registered Representative” or, collectively, the “Securities America Representatives”); WHEREAS, FI is interested in having Securities America operate one or more Branch Offices under a Registered Representative’s supervision on FI premises; and WHEREAS, Securities America is willing to allow one or more Registered Representatives...
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...scholar arguing for and one against with my opining in the end little conculsion) “American Execptionalism” is theoretically classified as America being qualitatively different () from other countries. Therefore in terms of America’s identity historically, politically, economically and socially, these should be understood differently because America was created differently. Hence why the idea of American exceptionalism’ stems from the principle of America being unique. Furthermore, In addition to this the idea that “American exceptionalism” implies superiority is a key concept to embrace and identify through out America history, contemporary politics, foreign policy and social culture. However, due to the essay title I will be analyzing and examining to what extent is “American exceptionalism’ identified as U.S superiority. Although due to the wide context of the theoretical term ‘American exceptionalism’’ and word limit. I will focus on the significant impacts that has led to the idea of ‘American exceptionalism’ to be implied as U.S superiority such as American history, foreign policy, economic and social culture. History Explaination The significant impact of America’s revolutionary history sparked an inspirational movement of independency to pervious colonized nations although on a later stages for them. This highlights America as exceptional historically in being “the first new nation” () to become independent and also being the ideology for independency for ...
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...In 1776, the United States of America gained its independence from Great Britain. At this time, America was a small, developing country. Flash forward 239 years, America is one of the world’s most powerful and influential countries. How does the world view this powerful, influential country? We will determine how other countries view America by learning and analyzing how America treats its own citizens, how America treats other countries, and how America manages its own budget. We propose that the world views America as a well-developed, economically, and politically stable nation that treats its citizens with the utmost respect. One way to analyze how the world views America, is to examine how America treats its own citizens. One of a country's main priorities is providing quality healthcare for its own people. “The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but comparative analyses consistently show the U.S. underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance” (Commonwealth Fund). When America was compared to other similar industrialized nations—United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany, France, Australia, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand, Canada, Netherlands—America ranked last out of the all countries in term of quality of health care for its citizens. Despite having the worst quality of healthcare for citizens, American citizens by far pay more than any other citizen from any other country for their health care. “The U.S. leads the...
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...to celebrate Columbus Day? Most say is because he discovered America which is false. The Native Americans did if you are looking at human history. Columbus discovered America for Europe which brought economic success for Europe which boosted the global economy. The Columbian Exchange Brought goods between america and europe. Globalization between the americas and Europe with many colonists and supplying America with citizens. Economic success from Europe for benefiting from the new found goods of the americas. The Columbian exchange brought major trade between the americas and europe. The trade brought horses, sugarcane, and Wheat to the americas. The americas brought potatoes, tomatoes and corn to Europe. These items caused a growth in trade and a global success for America and Spain. Everyday food items such as Citruses, grapes, bananas, and coffee beans are a result of the Columbian Exchange. Columbus inspired trade between america and europe and everyday items we take for granted are in use today...
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...Get Prison” we basically read and learn more about the high crime rate in America, and what excuses we make for these high crime rates. We can see that the crime rates have fluctuated over time since the 1900’s, but even at some of the times of the lowest crime rates in America, it was still higher that even the higher crime rates in most other Western industrial societies. When making comparisons with the US and European countries, we learn that there is a much higher rate of lethal violence, such as suicide in the US. Even though the rates of violent crime in America has declined over recent years, author’s believe that this has more to do with changes in America’s economic status rather than law’s and government policies. Some of the changes in the crime rates could have to do with the “imprisonment binge”, but the number of incarcerated criminals does not reduce the number of criminals we have in America, it just reduces the number of criminals we have roaming free in America. We know that crime is not completely avoidable, and the government has been making changes to help reduce the risks and the likeliness of lethal and dangerous crimes happening. Some of the precautions that have been made include: effective gun control, decriminalization if illicit drugs, amelioration of poverty, the prevention of child abuse or neglect, and they also are taking precautions for at-risk adolescents. In America, there are many “excuses” for the high crime rates that we have. Some of the...
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...The Elite is number two of four books in The Selection series. The main character, America Singer, lives in the country Illea. Illea is the country formerly known as The United States. The country is divided into eight castes, Number Eight being the poorest and One being the richest. America was chosen in the first book to be a part of The Selection, where she must compete with thirty four other girls to marry Maxon Sheave, the prince on Illea. The whole compition is broadcast to the country. The competition carries over to the second book, where only six of the thirty five girls remain. The remaining six are known as The Elite. Throughout the entire book, America is torn between her former boy, Aspen, who is now a guard at the palace, and...
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...Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and Australia have settled down in America and these people constitute what America is today. Regarding the ethnicity, the influence of Hispanic or Latino groups is very strong in the land. Richard T. Schaefer rightly observes that “more than one in eight people in the U.S. population are of Spanish or Latin American origin” (Schaefer, 2006, p. 236). The writer, after taking the data from the same book, asserts that among the population of America, one third is constituted by these Hispanic groups. Among the major Hispanic groups, Mexican Americans take the major portion. The other groups, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, and others have relevant influence in America. These Hispanic or Latino groups, that constitute a major portion among the population of America, are not well considered in the land. This research paper takes a study on Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban, and central/south Americans and analyses the linguistic, political, social, economic, religious and familial problems of these groups in America. Mexicans: Mexicans are the largest group among the Latino Americans. They contribute about one third of all Hispanic groups: “as of 2002, about 23 percent of Mexican Americans are English dominant, 26 percent are bilingual, and 51 percent are Spanish dominant” (Schaefer, 2006, p. 241). It indicates that Mexicans in America use a different language other than what is commonly spoken in America. Many times the Mexicans are...
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...The following report is about the immigration in America. The report contains the thesis about the immigration in America. The main research is based on the immigration in America and its impact on people of America. It can be seen that there is a clear difference between the Melting Pot (book) and the Lost Boys of Sudan movie with regard to the theory of immigration in America. Immigration is the flow of population from one place to another or from one country to another. The reasons behind immigration can be various depending on the circumstances faced by the population. It can be better employment opportunities, better living standards, education facilities or economic or political scenarios that cause people to move from one place to another. Out of the various countries in the world that face the immigration, America faces the highest rate of immigration amongst other countries like Europe, Australia, and China etc. There are both positive and negative aspects of immigration in a country. The positive aspects can be attributed to the infiltration of more talented work forces coming from a country and on the other hand, considering the negative point of immigration, it increases the struggle and competition among the natives and the people that are resident in that particular country. For many decades, large American cities and east and west coast states have been under the influence of immigration and America has been considered as the country containing...
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...Isolationism was used as a way for America to stay in its comfort zone. Internationalism was a stance that America had to take once things got to be too much. What if America would have simply chosen Internationalism since the beginning? Between 1920-1930, America kept to itself, and ignored the international affairs happening. It was not until the sinking of the Lusitania when America realized that it was doing the wrong thing the whole time. By internalizing all of its problems and choosing to act at the last second, America caused its economy to completely fall in on itself. On a psychological level, it is not good to isolate oneself, and causes more problems than the person started with. Just like with people, when countries isolate themselves, they are setting themselves up for failure. The only way to thrive and grow as a country is to rely on other countries through trade and healthy conversation. We need to be able to sell overseas in order to keep our economy going. International engagements are also crucial, as our country is not safe from terrorist attacks when we stay separate from the other countries....
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...Topic: Donate Life America Introduction I. Attention Getter: 22 people die every day as a result of not receiving the transplant they were in need of, and of all deaths in the US, only 2% are used for organ donation (Blood Center of Wisconsin). II. Credibility Statement: I have taken the steps to be a registered donor and have been one since I turned 16 years old three years ago. III. Relating to the Audience: As young people, we are used to being in good health, but not everyone is so lucky. Organ donation can turn a life threatening condition into a thing of the past, and it can even benefit someone you know and love. IV. Thesis Statement: The non-profit organization Donate Life America strongly promotes and raises awareness...
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...found out that they are roughly 11.9 million immigrants living the in the United States. All of those people left their homelands to come to American for a better life. They never though for once that coming here would be such a struggle, and how they will be humiliated by others who are citizen of America. Immigration is a common issue in the United States Every person should have the right to have the chance to have a better life. It is one of the main reasons why people come to the United States, to have freedom of religion, to have better paying jobs, and to have a proper education. Where you are born does not have a lot of impact with who you become. When coming to America from another country like Africa, or like me coming from Haiti, it is a hard transition. There is a lot to take in, with learning English and being around another race. Other race put a lot of pride into representing they come from. Where I was born has little to do with it. My heritage and my ancestry go with me wherever I go. When asked to describe myself, Haitian is a word I most likely choose first. I say Haitian before I begin to use words like strong willed, independent or trustworthy. Being that I use Haitian before any other characteristic goes to show that being Haitian shapes me to whom I am. Living in American for ten years, I learned about American culture. American culture is a culture of all cultures, it is a diverse culture. As a person I believe that it is very important to stay true...
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...the border of America would you ever consider the importance of human rights? As an American citizen who were raised in this great country, not a single child would question if their human rights were being taken away. Mostly because America could be considered the first pioneer to develop and establish natural human rights within their country. Human rights are important because it give each person an equal access of rights, during World War II the Holocaust was an incident affected human rights by stripping it away from the victims treating them as trashes within society. After World War II, the United Nation was formed to enforced human rights as a universal right to all people. America...
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...sister, Razan, was murdered in their own home by their neighbor. Sadly hate crimes like this one have been increasing over time in America since 9/11. The rise of hate crimes towards Muslims is mainly caused by Islamophobia. Islamophobia is the irrational fear, discrimination, or hatred of Islam and its followers and can be rooted so deep into people's minds, many may not know they have it. Islamophobia does not just appear from nowhere, It is caused by people unwilling to...
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