Appleby explains how "Jefferson and his supporters democratized American politics" (27). ... The printed reports of the political sides that people took gave people enjoyment and got them more involved with the government then they had been in the past. ... Women started getting jobs as well because there were many new opportunities. ... Appleby's main purpose in writing this book is to show how Jefferson affected the American society after the American Revolution and the changes in the economy and the people. ... After the American Revolotion Americans started to evolve into what we ...

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Since 1990, the Human Development Report has been publishing every year an index called the Human Development Index that has been used to measure every nation's development. ... Human Development Reports are important to know since the data shows how national locations are standing globally. ... According to the Central Intelligence Agency's world fact book, 58.8% speak English, and 21.6% know how to speak French. ... As more and more people start to immigrate into Canada over time, Canada's economy strengthens. ... Canada is one of the biggest countries in the world; in fact, i...

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(Lipsitz 2) In his book, "The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics," George Lipsitz argues that it is in the best interest of white Americans to "invest in whiteness, to remain true to an identity that provides them with resources, power, and opportunity." ... In his book, Lipsitz states that "[w]hiteness is everywhere in U.S. culture, but it is very hard to see (Lipsitz 1)." ... Lipsitz admits that "the murder of Bill Moore did affect [him] to an unusual degree, even more than the many reports of the deaths of dozens of blacks in the civil rights ...

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As Jack Ryan, the key role played in the book, starts to analyze all of the data, he is given to thinking that the submarine is on a course to defect and not to start a neuclear war with the United States. ... Consequently, the US starts its own search. ... A series of thrilling and very technical discussions and explainations of the naval vessals and their design and use is detailed int he book to much effort by the author and far more detailed than can be included in a book report. ... The book is of greater length and detail, the movie version does not do the book justice--especially tow...

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Peter Singer, a professor of ethics at Princeton University, is often considered the Father of the animal rights movement, says in his book Animal Liberation, "If humans have basic rights, such as rights to be spared unnecessary suffering, then animals have those rights, too, the fact that a being is not a member of our species has nothing to do with how much its pain matters" (89). ... Even though pharmaceuticals are routinely tested on animals, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported, "that 100,000 people every year are killed by prescription drugs and more than 2 million a...

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In Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips charts the ongoing American history of great wealth-how it has been accumulated, its shifting sources, and its ups and downs over more than a time span of two centuries. He explores how the rich and politically powerful have frequently worked together to create or perpetuate privilege, often at the expense of the national interest and usually at the expense of the middle and lower classes. The book is filled with intriguing chapters on history and a bold analysis of present-day America. ... Highly readable for all its charts and graphs, Phillips'...

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In the book "The Geopolitics of Emotion" by Dominique Moisi, he discusses issues that are happening around the world. ... Moisi claims, "But now some Americans are starting to doubt the unique value of America's individualism" (Moisi 114). ... The American Dream is to have social stability, be able to achieve one's full potential, and start a new life where one won't be judge by his or her past. ... For instance, Redding reported research findings from Hong Kong managers of higher scores for 'social needs.' ... Depending on how a person perceives the dream, o...

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They turned to media outlets such as television and newspapers to give them information about the War in Iraq that had started in 2003. ... The main purpose of this paper is to show how subtle propaganda affected American media in relation to the War in Iraq and served to change the opinions of the population. ... Terry Anderson states in his book: "One reality in Iraq that everyone can agree on was that the nation had enormous proven oil reserves. ... The vision is in depth, unbiased, human-centered reporting on the whole of America." ... The duration of the war has exposed how manipulative ...

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There are many people that realize what problems Native Americans deal with that are expressed in the book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. ... In the Meriam Report it states that "The Native Americans are easily sickened because they are closer together.... An example of this is, if there was a forest but it had not received enough water or sunlight for quite sometime, then all of a sudden a fire starts the fire wouldn't have any trouble with burning through the forest because it would so dry, that is what it would be like in your body in the sense of how fast the v...

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For each county sampled, the study collected data from two sources: (1) reports from the local Adult Protective Services (APS) agency responsible for receiving and investigating reports in each county: and (2) reports from "sentinels"-specially trained individuals in a variety of community agencies having frequent contact with the elderly. ... Consistent with three national incidence studies on child abuse and neglect, this methodology assumes the sentinel reports represent substantiated reports. ... Of this total, 70,942 (16 percent) were reported to and substantiated by APS agencies, but t...

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-Walter Cronkite The origins of the Cold War have been debated since 1945 when, at the end of World War II, the allied countries of Great Britain, The United States, and The Soviet Union had to decide how to map out the fate of Europe. ... McNeill, Herbert Feis, and Thomas Bailey blamed the start of the Cold War on the USSR's resolution to pursue a path of expanding the ideas of communism and a essentially wanting a socialist revolution come alive throughout Eastern Europe and eventually the world. ... As the 1940's began to wind down, U.S officials started to understand the ineffect...

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Of course, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there were reports of numerous scandals and reports of kickbacks, and other various types of shady activity within corporations and the government. ... Let me start with a simple definition of what "soft money" is. ... I want to briefly talk about how an "Iron Triangle" works why it constitutes much of the "soft money" in the political system. ... In fact, in the book it states, "Enron's employees and Political Action Committee have given over $600000.00 to Bush over the course of his political career" (Lewis 11). ... The Federal ...

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So it is reasonable to remark that the theories reported to crime may be also considered true for deviance. In the 14th Century Italy, the idea of free will started to gain ground. ... Auguste Comte (1798-1857), of France as the founder of Sociology, commented by his studies while imprisoned that people pass through stages that can be grouped based on how they try to understand the world in which they live. ... Weber (1864-1920) described how cultural and religious forces controlled the social climate to prevent crime. ...

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The legislative bill, which instigates the controversy and events taking place in this book, calls for two separate days for primary elections. ... The rest of the book describes their hiding in the McDonald's one room apartment and the call placed on the Senate issuing a statewide search involving the DPS for the missing Senators including Longoria, whom sided with the bees and Brooks, who was in Oklahoma and kept his intentions covert to everyone. ... There has never been any question of our willingness to work under the same rules we started with this session. ... When they find out ...

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The legislative bill, which instigates the controversy and events taking place in this book, calls for two separate days for primary elections. ... The rest of the book describes their hiding in the McDonald's one room apartment and the call placed on the Senate issuing a statewide search involving the DPS for the missing Senators including Longoria, whom sided with the bees and Brooks, who was in Oklahoma and kept his intentions covert to everyone. ... There has never been any question of our willingness to work under the same rules we started with this session. ... When they find out ...

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The CBS investigative report "Harvest of Shame" was aired on television on November 26, 1960. The timing of this documentary's release was not coincidental, as the producers wanted Americans to understand where much of the food they had just enjoyed for Thanksgiving dinner actually came from (Blair).The nearly hour long report came under some criticism for being an exaggeration of actual life working on farms, but much more people praised the film for not being afraid to showcase the truth, no matter how unattractive that truth was. The report was regarded as "the first ti...

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" With works of art, students have the opportunity to learn about where a certain artist and their work came from rather than finding it in a history book. ... The arts continue to be important in the educational systems because they teach students life skills, such as how to work with each other, and how to communicate with others. ... Current communities have started to thrive more on the arts because people need to be entertained and want to be relaxed with the arts. ... It is amazing on how important the arts can be by improving a student's academic achievement scores. ... It...

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Research reports are divided on the causes of school violence. ... They say that when students are likely to live in poverty, witness drug abuse at home, have parents arrested and/or sent to prison, then it is not surprising how many students behave well, rather than some of them are violent. ... Edwin Sutherland developed a theory that attempted to explain how group relations impact a person's attitude and behaviors. ... A child who starts acting violently will often do so during periods of unstructured and unsupervised time. ... Children learn that failing to intervene or re...

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It's tremendous to see how American capitalism has influenced the history of an entire continent in Western Hemisphere that the result are still exist until nowadays. ... The railroad completed in 1890, and started to run into its business. ... " (4) May Stacy commented in her book 'The United Fruit Company in Latin America. ... "In their report on Central America, the British could not avoid acknowledge their lack of power to deter the increasing American influence in the region.... Peter Chapman in his book 'Banana, How the United Fruit Company Shaped the World...

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How equal are we? ... According to the NCAA's Gender Equity report, over the last 10 yrs., an average of 30 male athletes have been lost per college campus each year, compared to only gaining 7 female athletes. ... The way schools budget their athletic funds would be a good place to start. ... Gavora, an expert on the Title IX debate and author of the book "Tilting the Playing Field," the key to restoring equality of opportunity to Title IX lies in making the actual interest of the students rather than their representation in the student body the benchmark for apportioning athletic opp...

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However, only 39 percent of schools teach students how to properly use condoms ("Facts on American Teens' Sources of Information About Sex."). ... One in four teen's reports only receiving abstinence education. ... Many researchers believe that this may be due to European countries starting their students with sexual education at a much younger age. ...

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But in 1938, the New York Academy of Medicine reported marijuana as a relatively harmless drug with no physically addicting effects and that it did not help in having any effect on the crimes of violence committed by people. ... In a pharmacy book written by the emperor Shen-Nung about 2657 B.C., he recommends marijuana as a cure for "gout, rheumatism, malaria, beriberi, constipation, and absent mindedness (Stwerka 5)." ... Marijuana was first mentioned in an American book in 1843 where it was recommended as a treatment for gout, tetanus, hysteria, depression, and common insanity. ... Harold A...

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We hear on the news how health care providers are incapable of providing medical care to an increasingly number of chronically ill and the aging population. ... In rural counties all over the United States it is easier to check out a book at the library or rent a video from the local store than it is to find a doctor who can provide medical treatment. ... By most standards, a primary care physicians starting salary is about $150,000 compared to a specialty physicians who makes two to three times more than that. ... In response to the GMENACs report, Congress eliminated subsidies to medical sch...

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According to Stig Hansen's book (1), the United States and Norway provided essential funding to the recently reestablished Somali Police Force, but those funds never made their way to the officers. This shows how huge the scope of corruption is within Somalia (which will come back into play later) but it also means that after nearly 100% of the force defected, Somalis were left again without a police force. Similar situations have been reported in The DRC and the situations in both countries have led to whatever police are left mostly making their living on bribes. ... Another extremely t...

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This method points to the 44 sounds represented by the English alphabetic construct and how the combination of these letters blend together to form individual words Phonics and Whole Language Instruction (Ponnuru, 1999). ... In a report published by the National Reading Panel (NRP) concerning teaching reading to children, the panel states, "Phonics teaching is a means to an end Programs that focus too much on the teaching of letter-sound relations and not enough on putting them to use are unlikely to be very effective- (2000, p. 10). ...

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