...even in the worst times. I also feel as if there is nothing in American history that we should change. I realize the fact that much of this nation’s history has brought great grief, but I believe that we have learned from our past mistakes. These past mistakes have made this nation into the great nation that it is today. Hope is all I can think about whenever I think about America. Hope for all people, no matter what race, size, language, or nationally. Hope that we grow as a nation, and can all come together to be the great Americans that we are. America has had some of the greatest history. Some you can’t...
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...Best and Worst About the Historical Development of the American Workplace Student’s Name Course Number Instructor’s Name Introduction The workplace history of America defines the past of organized labor, in addition, to the overall past of working individuals, in America. Pressures dictating the manner and authority of arranged labor have involved the evolution and autonomy of the corporation, endeavors by employers and individual agencies to restrict or regulate unions and American labor rule. As a reaction, arranged unions and labor federations have competed, altered, combined and separated in opposition of a backdrop of altering social philosophies and periodic federal intervention. The American workplace has espoused a group of values, solidarity being the most significant, the sense that every individual should look out for the wellbeing of all. From this followed commitments to mutual help, to a rough and ready feeling of partiality, to a disdain for elitism. The working individuals of America have had to unite in the struggle to attain the benefits that they have acquired through this century. Enhancements did not come effortlessly. Labor in United States has rightfully been explained as a stabilizing force in the state economy and a bulwark of the sovereign community. Additionally, the benefits that unions have been able to attain have brought advantages and disadvantages, direct and indirect, to the general public. Historical Development of the American Workplace...
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...Monologue It was the year 2002, another one of the blissful rainy days, the kind of day where you think nothing bad could happen. Inside my home it was warm and comforting even though it was small. I was asleep when the phone rang; I knew it was going to be my sister again so I didn’t even bother to pick it up. At the time she wouldn’t stop begging me to go to America to visit her or even stay if I wanted, but I would definitely not leave the comfort of everything I had. I mean I had my husband, my family, and my life built here and I knew that going to America would mean starting all over. I remember being lost in my thoughts when I realized my husband wasn’t home, It was a little odd because at that moment I was pretty sure he didn’t have work. I decided to go look for him, I remember feeling a lost puppy who needed someone; anyone to be there to guide them. I remember looking out the window and feeling my world shatter into a million pieces. I couldn’t hear anything because my heart was beating out of my chest and the tears would...
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...Bullying: The Worst Teen Crime A jock shoves a nerd into a locker. A mean girl calls another girl ugly. A teen that may be different is laughed at and gossiped about. These are all forms of bullying. We see it every day, teens being harassed and assaulted because of their background, appearances, or differences. These crimes are utterly immoral. Some people believe that this is just “kids being kids”. But that belief is terribly misguided. Teen bullying is a completely indefensible abomination that affects over 30% of US teens. It must be stopped immediately, or the future of America will be in tremendous danger. There are three types of bullying: physical, verbal, and psychological. Physical bullying is your day-to-day pushing, shoving, kicking, slapping, punching, or stealing. Verbal bullying includes name-calling, threatening, and teasing. Psychological bullying includes gossip, humiliation, and intentional ignoring, excluding, isolating, judging, staring, or belittling. If you look at a victim of bullying, he or she may seem emotionless. When victims get bullied, they don’t do anything about it. You might think, “That must mean they don’t really care if they get bullied or not. It’s not a big deal.” Well it is actually a huge deal. Outside, the teen might look normal and fine, but deep down, he or she is actually extremely depressed. They feel so worthless, like a piece of trash, so hopeless and alone. I have once been bullied before, so I understand the feeling. Everyday...
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...Ryan as his vice president. Refers to the man as a “strong and caring leader that is down to earth, and confident in the challenge this moment demands.” Romney reminds the audience that freedom is what first made America special. He makes an attempt to win hearts and minds by referencing small businesses and graduating students. He implies that Obama made promises of hope and change but did not follow through with them. “This was when we were supposed to start paying down the national debt and rolling back those massive deficits. This is the hope and change America voted for. It’s not just what we wanted. It’s not just what we expected. It’s what Americans deserved!” Romney exclaims. Just then the crowd begins to chant U.S.A. Romney talks of his childhood, and how he was a “baby boomer” in the middle of the country, reminds the crowd of Neil Armstrong’s walk on the moon, Talks of his mother giving up giving up her acting career to marry his father. He tells us he grew up in a Morman family in Michigan. “My mom and dad were married for 64 years, and if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist, because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That’s how she found out what happened on the day my father died. She went looking for him because that morning there was no rose. My mom and dad were true partners,” Romney says. The camera then cuts to a couple older women holding back tears from his heartfelt...
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...Hannah Montana / Miley Cyrus Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus are one of the same, but everyone sees them different, let’s take a long look. Hannah Montana is an American musical comedy series created by Michael Poryes, Rich Correll, and Barry O’Brien which focus on Miley Stewart, who is a teenager living a double life as an average schoolgirl by day and a famous recording artist Hannah Montana by night. The show follows the day-to-day life of Miley, her brother and friends while also starrying Cyrus’ country singer father Billy Ray as her dad. The theme song for the show is “Best of Both Worlds” written by Matthew Gerrad and Robbie Nevil, and performed by Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana was created or born on March 24, 2006. In 2006, Hannah Montana was nominated for three awards: Teen Choice Awards, Golden Icon Awards, and Casting Society of America, even though she was nominated she did not win an award. In 2007, however, she did come back to win those awards with a few more added on. Destiny Hope Cyrus was born November 23, 1992 in Nashville, Tennessee, to Letitia Jean “Tish” and country singer Billy Ray Cyrus. Her name was derived from her parents’ belief that she would accomplish great things with her life. Do you think they still feel that way? Destiny was given the nickname “Smiley” which was later shortened to Miley. Against the advice of her fathers’ record company, Cyrus’s parents secretly married a month after Cyrus’s birth in November. Her mom had...
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...The pain of knowing my family is still in Haiti is the worst pain I have ever felt. It’s worse than the sores on my hands from the splinters of my rake, even worse than the beatings and burns I got from the Haiti officials. This (ms mac said identify) is by far the worst pain I have ever felt in my life. While I was in Haiti, I befriended the American missionaries; I had no idea of the price I would pay because of our friendship. After attackers dragged me out of my house and beat me almost to death, they proceeded in burning my face to give me the mark of a traitor. The next day the U. S. Coastguard found me almost dead. They took me out of Haiti and brought me to America. This would be wonderful if only I had my wife and three children here with me. It has been six long, lonely years since I have seen them. The first month in this new country I used a borrowed lawnmower to cut a neighbor’s grass. The people around town started asking me to do the same for them. When I made enough money, I bought a new lawnmower and gave it to the man who had let me borrow his; it was my way of saying thank you. Even though I send most of the money I make back to my family, I did manage to save up enough for a used truck. With the truck came new opportunities, which widened the range of lawns I could mow. When winter came, my small mowing operation became obsolete. I found myself looking in the newspaper for new jobs. I asked myself, “Who will hire an illegal Haitian...
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...Financial Trends Still, America is going through the worst economic downturn of its entire history. Money was running out faster than people could grab it. The last section was an emotional side of the thirties. This part, however, shifts it focus to a more factual side of the decade. The thirties had a lot to do with numbers, money, and the government. The 1930’s was the year of The Great Depression. As mentioned before, this was the worst economic crisis in United States history. The Depression’s whirlwind of terror ripped through so many different aspects. After that fateful day it seemed everything that was kept in a bank was gone. Because so many people feared for their money and assets after the Stock Market Crash, a lot of people went...
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...Is everyone living in New York treated fairly at the workplace? If you said yes, I would say many immigrants living in the New York State would disagree. Actually, according to the United States Census Bureau, “Over 37 percent of New York City residents were born in another country with a total foreign population of 3,066,599 since 2011.” (Quote) New York City is known as the melting pot for all ethnicities; it is historically famous for Ellis Island and for being known as the gateway port to America. However, there is a group not counted for in the U.S. Census Bureau number which is undocumented immigrants. According to Passel’s analysis of 2000 to 2006 data, there are 374,000 undocumented workers in New York City, making up 10 percent of...
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...In 1941, Japan launched an aerial attack on the United States. Japan’s purpose was to take out the United States main defense and take over Hawaii. They ended up sinking a few battleships and destroying a lot of airplanes. It was a very tragic day for the U.S. and is often known as the “the day which will live in infamy.” On December 7, 1941, Japanese airplanes flew in and attacked Pearl Harbor. More than 350 Japanese planes were in the skies of Pearl Harbor around 8 A.M. They attacked about 33 American ships on the orders of Admiral Chuichi Nagumo and ended up destroying 20 naval vessels, 8 battleships, more than 300 airplanes, killing more than 3,700 people and wounding more than 1000. The attack was inconvenient because Japan and Hawaii...
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...Center, the Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. These planes had been hijacked by “19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda” who planned to carry out suicide attacks on the U.S. (9/11 Attacks). On this day, at 8:45am, the first plane crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center, instantly killing many and trapping many more on higher floors. “Then, 18 minutes after the first plane hit, a second Boeing 767–United Airlines Flight 175–appeared out of the sky, turned sharply toward the World Trade Center and sliced into the south tower near the 60th floor” (9/11 Attacks). Many had already been evacuated out of the south tower but many more were...
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...Ms. Nguyen English IV 25 March 2011 Narcotics The term narcotic comes from its original use for medicine which were use to heal the body. Not all people know the full background of narcotics. Narcotics have a huge impact in America society such as, addictions, crime, and death. Narcotics are a billion dollar underground industry of drug trafficking. Drugs journeyed from being a medical cure for many ailments to a highly dangerous and often abused substance today. Narcotics play a major role in many aspects of this country. The word "narcotic," arrives from the Greek word for stupor, which means to dull the senses and relieve pain (Hanson, 252). There is a long line in history where narcotics were developed (History of Opiates). The first document written of Opiates came from third-century B.C. Greek culture (History of Opiates). Now, people learned to dry Papaver somniferum plants to create stronger forms of Narcotics, which is strongly abused in America (America’s Drug Abuse Profile). Most narcotics, such as heroin, are developed from a beautiful, one to two feet, five to six leaf plant called the Papaver somniferum, known as the “Poppy plant” (poppies.org). The Poppy plant’s main purpose was medicine; use to help humans relieve their pain and suffering (Plants cultures- western medicine). In the United States, "narcotics" is a word often used incorrectly to describe any illegal drug, such as, heroin, morphine, Codeine, Oxycodone, Vicodin, cocaine, and marijuana (treatment4addiction...
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...The Roaring 20s If there were time in history that was the embodiment of excess and hedonism, one would think of the so called “Roaring ‘20s.” This era of extreme irresponsibility has much more under its skin than the glamour of the degenerate wealthy, occupying popular opinion. This page of history was a time of extensive social and political change as well as a massive influx of wealth. One can say the “Roaring ’20s” was the crest of an upward surge in American economics and politics. As with most circumstances, a climax can only lead to a downward surge. This was left blissfully unaware to the gleeful citizens of the ‘20s. Wealth was not so much a distant hope as much as a it was within grasp. Many people were getting richer every...
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...you might ask? The French must better understand American behaviors in how they feel and act, upon the essential nature of their freedoms. The French must take these learning and place them into their own practices to ensure they have a long last Democracy. In the Introduction chapter of “Democracy in America” by Alexis De Tocqueville and Richard D. Heffner, Heffner goes into length to describe all of the extravagant and detailed descriptions Tocqueville gives about the way Americans feel and act, due to the essential nature of freedoms from their Democracy. I have organized this paper into six different paragraphs that will be described in the following: First, an opening paragraph will let you know what literature I am referencing to when discussing this topic....
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...friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge -- huge structures collapsing have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger. These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat. But they have failed. Our country is strong. A great people have been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining. Today, our nation saw evil -- the very worst of human nature -- and we responded with the best of America. With the daring of our rescue workers, with the caring for strangers and neighbors who came to give blood and help in any way they could. Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray they will be comforted by a Power greater than any of us, spoken through the ages in Psalm 23: Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil for you are with...
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