...Globalization has made a huge impact on underdeveloped countries manufacturing products that are cost effective, labor intense and accommodating to the needs of the consumer. A low cost offshore assembling practice is what companies are looking for in order to make substantial profits and “American-Made” products do not fit into that category. As indicated in the case study , Apple’s iPhone as many other companies have chosen to manufacture their products with the Taiwanese-headquartered company named Foxconn’s Longhua Factory located in Shenzhen. Foxconn is China’s largest exporter and assembles approximate 40 percent of the worlds consumer electronics. One of the issues with using overseas manufactures is jobs in the United States. Stated in the Wall Street Journal by Scott Thurm, “Thirty-five big U.S.-based multinational companies added jobs much faster than other U.S. employers in the past two years, but nearly three-fourths of those jobs were overseas.” This is a substantial number, ¾ of the jobs in these companies are overseas leaving U.S. workers to fight for one job. The need to be number one comes with greed in my opinion. When companies are making sure at all costs, no matter what is takes to get a product out consumers should be aware. Companies are making so much profit and consumers are paying so much money to be part of the “in crowd.” There should be more regulations on companies using or employing companies outside the United States. American’s...
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...America started out with freedom by declaration of independence. The declaration of independence started out when America declared freedom from the British. America made a treaty before The Declaration Of Independence but they rejected that treaty. Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, John Adams, and Robert R. Livingston wrote The Declaration Of Independence. This helped out America a lot and without the Freedom, America would be tons different and there may even be slavery still. On April 14 1865 the day Abraham Lincoln got shot. Abraham Lincoln got shot in the head by John Wilkes Booth. John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln in the Ford Theater. Abraham Lincoln died in a bed at 7:22 am the next day. A flag was put over...
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...Wilburn declared that the advances the Soviet Union had “. . . made it even more obvious that America may not always be first” (9). He proves this by telling the readers all the different advances the Soviet Union has made over the past few years. After all of these different advances were made everyone became interested in the Soviet school system that was producing all of the intelligent people. He then continues to write about how the United States, “Educators on the national, state and local levels have given much attention to the revision of the curriculum and school offerings” (10). I do not agree with the fact stated that all of the advances the Soviet Union made “was a great blow to America’s pride,” but I do agree with the fact that America started to revise their educational system to help them grow faster....
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...The belief of hope is very hard to obtain. Some could say that’s true,some could say it’s not true. So basically, it’s a fact. Captain America will save the day yet again by giving everyone hope. Everyone needs hope every once and awhile. In fact, 85% of people say that Captain America was made to give people hope. 1941 was the time when Captain America was created. Captain America was made by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Both of them were a cartoonist. The serum that made Captain America who he is, was called super soldier serum. It was made by Dr. Abraham Erskine. Who died after the experiment. Everyone tried to obtain hope. They tried their hardest, but still they failed, until Captain America was born. The reason they needed hope was because...
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...Not everyone likes that America is a diverse country. By making this commercial it upset a lot of people. It started with the coke commercial and the individual videos from each singer, then they made a video about how each person felt being able to live her in America and how they have felt about all of this being done, and then finally there was the deadspin quotes where people were mad that the commercial came out and the Stephen Colbert report on the whole situation. The commercial was made to show the diversity in America and how we can all be one but after seeing all of this is shows me how many people are really against America being diverse and having people here with different nationalities. I however, think that this commercial was very inspirational and intriguing. This commercial has opened up my eyes and showed me how diverse our country really is. What I also didn’t realize before watching this commercial was how horrible and disrespectful Americans can be to foreigners. While watching this commercial I saw how upset these people were about how they have been treated and how different and out of place that they felt sometimes being in certain groups. No one should ever have to feel the way that they have had to feel in their life. Most of the people that were in this commercial were born and raised here in America. Just because they have different nationalities and have learned things about their cultures and know different languages does not make them foreigners...
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...America once held a close relationship with England. England acted as a mother to America, supporting and protecting the country in times of war, claiming land in American territory, and sharing the same social identity. However, America started to develop as an independent country that did not have England in the picture. They believed their rights were being violated by the English, could control their own economy, and saw the English as strangers with the same identity. Eventually, America separated from England by determining their own government, taxes, and identity. The American value of freedom was challenged very often due to the English, which ultimately led to the divorce of the countries. Changes in colonists’ attitudes can be shown...
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...parties within a nation,” (dictionary.com). America was introduced into this war by a vicious attack on a harbor, it evolved into changing the American people's life but it made America stronger. This is World War II. The war didn’t only affect Europe and Asia it also affected America. The country wouldn’t be where it is today without this war. Wars are never good, but they can be necessary. They can be necessary for what people believe in and what the people want which is what America is all about. So how did America get involved in this war? It happened December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor. “There were a total of 2,335 military personnel killed, including 2,008 navy personnel,...
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...History of Immigration in America Ethnic, cultural, and religious of immigrants in differences from both late nineteenth and prior to late twentieth century led to widespread assertions of the whole nation that it had made a new America. “Can We Still Afford to be a Nation of Immigration”, by David Kennedy, divides two greatest immigrants came to the United States. The author examines two historical migratory waves both in positive and negative consequences effected to the nation. America is the land of opportunities and freedom, where people come and work, seek for new better life. In either negative or positive results caused by immigrants in our economy and social culture, this country still be able to continue supporting new migrants and it will remains as the nation of immigrants. Through-out nineteenth century, mass urban and rural immigrants came from many different countries in different social culture and religious. After the first World War, population growth in Europe shipped million people out of the continent, that “population boom was the indispensable precondition for Europe to export people on the scale”. Especially by the late of this period, there were at least half of 70 millions “had left Europe” migrated to the United States. They made a huge impact to the nation and made American changed drastically and permanently. There were Italians, Jews, as well as many others from Northern and Eastern Europe. They carry with them the America Dream, in which they hoped...
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...The United States has a massive immigrants population. The scale of immigration into America in history was dramatic. However, the hostility toward immigrants also existed for a long time in the history of America. Interestingly enough, from the middle of the eighteenth century to the twentieth century in the American history, the rate of immigration increased dramatically as the hostility toward immigrants increased. This becomes a national myth that Nevertheless, there were several historical causes that had stimulated the immigrants and had made the immigration flows happened even with the increasing hostility of the American residents. The most likely explanation is the European emigration was unprecedented so that American could not resist such great population shift. The nature of this hostility is mainly due to factors such...
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...Jefferson's and Hamilton's Vision of America Amy Lorrington HIS/409: American Revolutionary History December 15, 2015 Jefferson's and Hamilton's Vision of America After the American Revolution, the politicians in the country began to discuss ways in which the country should handle business so as to make America financially stable. Many politicians, such as Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, had opposing views on how the country should achieve this result. One opinion was to increase farming but to maintain export relationships with Europe for the manufacture of goods. Another opinion was to increase farming, but to also decrease export of goods with Europe and to diversify the workforce within America to produce the goods that were previously imported from Europe. Document 1, Notes on the State of Virginia, was written by Thomas Jefferson in the 1780s as a way to introduce American commodities to the European population as a valid source of trade of goods. Prior to the American Revolution, clothing in America was imported from Europe. During the Revolutionary War period, Americans were required to make clothing from their own resources as clothing from Europe was not available. European clothing was made from materials such as linen and silk, but these materials were not available in America. Americas used materials such as cotton and wool to make their clothing (Baumgartner, 2014). According to Jefferson, clothing made from cotton was comparable to the quality...
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...Chinese Immigrants in America Starting in the mid 1800s, there were waves of Chinese immigrants flooding into America looking for a new life in a new country. They were pushed into manual labor jobs such as working on farms or owning restaurants because they would not be allowed to work anywhere else. They were discriminated against and were not welcomed because of their different skin color. There were also many restrictions regarding citizenship and how it affected both their families and the land that they own. My essay contains three main points about the Chinese immigrants in America are their difficulties in obtaining jobs in America, the discrimination that they endured, and the hardships of trying to obtain citizenship. The first...
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...for answers to all their questions in hope for some type of guidance. Although during this time America did, in fact, go through an immense revolutionary movement, the Reconstruction, it was not enough to get the people of America back on their feet. The Reconstruction of the after the civil war to the twentieth century helped shape America back to its origins, perhaps in better conditions. During this time, the turn of the 20th century, there were enormous shifts in industrialization and urban development through the United States. The progress made during the 20th century was astounding. This was a time of new innovations and This was heavily an achievement in America’s progress. America shifted from rural, agricultural jobs to industrialization and urban developments for sources of jobs and a new economic foundation; which was a major help in finding jobs and developing America into what it is today. During this time America heavily transformed from a rural to an industrial economy basically,...
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...English be the official language in America? A very intense discussion now a day is if we should make English the official language of America. Most American’s say yes, but there are also American with a foreign back round that say no. There are really good arguments for making English the official language, but there are also really strong reasons to why English should not be made the official language in America. I will give my reasons on why I don’t think it matters if it is made the official language or not. If English was made the “official” language of America it would make more sense to many foreign people. It would get them to realize that they should know how to speak English along with their native language. It won’t mean that they’ll forget about their culture, but they will have to learn many new things if they plan to stay in America. Many American complain about foreigners talking in their native language because they think we’re talking about them. There are many small reasons on why it should be made the official language, but there is one big reason that I had never thought about until I talked to Mrs. Thompson. When you go off into a huge business the most common language we use in America is English! Even when we are making business overseas we still use it as the official language. When we go to the stores, pharmacies, schools, and even big events like charities or special events we speak English! English could be made the official language and solve many...
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...My vision for America is that America will change a lot. America has changed a lot since the last 100 years. Wars have been fought, discoveries have been made and new inventions were thought of. As long as people disagree there will always be wars to fight, and as long as people are learning there will always be new discoveries and new inventions. Those are my reasons why America will change a lot. In the last 100 years there have been many wars like World War 1, 2, Vietnam War, Korean War, Desert Storm and the War of Afghanistan. Those have all changed America a lot. Also many of our soldiers are fighting right now and that is probably going to go down in history. Plus since there is going to be a new president next year he will have different...
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...In 1783 the treaty of Paris was signed. That ended the Revolutionary war and let the colonies break away from England and become the United States of America. Were the colonist justified to seek independence? The British taxed them with acts, didn’t listen to the colonies in the British government and also England is a small country that's 4,417 miles away. The colonist were justified in becoming Patriots and seeking independence from Britain. Parliament taxed the colonies with many acts, some of them even make the colonist lose their privacy and natural rights. During the stamp act the Pennsylvania Journal and Weekly Advertiser put a skull and crossbones where you have to put the stamp. The stamp that you needed was supposed to go on...
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