...Many immigrants all around the world believe the United States is the land of opportunity. They think they can come to America, get rich, and live the life they have always wanted. They are all just looking for a fresh start in a new country, hoping that it offers some better economic opportunities than the last. Immigrants from the 1970s and 80s have faced many of the same challenges that the immigrants today still battle, including the language barrier, basic living, and daily hate because of their race. While it may still be possible, it is very unlikely to move to America and turn nothing into something. That goes for the past as well as the present. Moving from one place to another is never easy, especially when it is to a new country. Not everyone wants to leave their homeland, but sometimes they are forced to because of its disadvantages, such as: the desperate poverty, squalor, disease, and unemployment. When it is too difficult to even put food on the table or a roof over their family’s head, many people know that it may be time to find something new. In the 1880s, Southern and Eastern Europeans heard word of land and wealth in America and so began their adventure into a new world. One major challenge the immigrants of the 1880s had to overcome was the language barrier. Without being able to communicate, foreigners were practically handicapped. Many jobs required its employees to be able to talk to those around them or to customers. Many immigrants did not have the...
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...A little child who worked his way out of poverty by utilizing his education and now wants the same for America. His life story includes many accomplishments some that have been recognized nationally and the wanting of a better future for America. On the other hand as a young child he was bad student, quick, to temper, and was at times a felon. This would all change as he got older, he would go on to practice neurosurgery at john hopkins university, become an author, and now is currently running for president. This man's name is Dr. Ben Carson. Ben carson was born September 18, 1951 in Detroit Michigan. Ben was from a family of three which included his older brother Curtis and his mother Sonya Carson. Unfortunately for Carson's mother sonya had decided to get married at the age of 13 to his father which ultimately ended in a divorce. Due to the fact that Carson’s father had another family of his own leaving sonya without anyway to support the kids. Since sonya had dropped out of school at the age of 13 she did have any...
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...There are many issues our country, the United States of America, is facing here in the 21st century. One of our major issues is our citizens suffering from poor housing or homelessness all together. This major issue is displayed in the book “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” written by Barbara Ehrenreich. Within this book, Barbara writes about her journey to see if single mothers are able to survive financially on minimum to low paying jobs. Therefore, she decides to put her journalist career on hold in order to try out surviving on low wages in three different cities in America. Her first city is Key West. There, Barbara works at two different restaurants and once as a maid for a hotel. At that time, she lives in an efficiency and then at another point, a trailer park. She mentions one of her observations being that if you have only one room in a hotel, you can’t save money by making healthy, cheap food. Also, if you lack health insurance, you will wind up with significant, expensive health issues. After all of her realizations and a particularly tough day at work, she decides to walk out and...
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...Biomedical Example Marco Carter-Johnston HCS/335 Biomedical Example In this paper I will be analyzing the Mickey Mantle case involving him getting a liver transplant. It has been brought to my attention that Mickey has been treated differently than others with the same or similar illness due to him being a celebrity. During my analysis I will be utilizing the Seven-Step Decision model to determine the outcome of this case. I will carefully look at the case to determine if I feel as though his case was in violation of the code of ethics, what are the long and short-term consequences, whether good or bad. Look at some alternatives and values and compare them. I will also determine if the procedure was done for profit or respect for who he is. Lastly I will come up with a decision on whether or not I feel as though if the decision made was ethical or not. Determining the Facts Mickey Mantle was a famous baseball player for the New York Yankees from 1951 into the late1960’s where soon after was voted into the baseball hall of fame. With several years of heavy drinking it began to take a toll on his health that resulted in cirrhosis, hepatitis and cancer of his liver. Over time his liver began to get worst and doctors told him that he has to have a liver transplant soon or he was going to die. The hunt was on for a liver for mantle, but there is a waiting list for those who are in need of a transplant and it can take up to 130 days before his doctors get a response...
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...Jucinta lewis Kate Bradley English Comp Argument essay 11-17-11 “If I write about the poor, I don’t need a good imagination-I have to have a good memory” Eaton 1970 Poverty in Rural Vermont America is changing and maybe not for the good. In many states, it isn’t out of the ordinary to see a homeless person on the sidewalk asking for money. Here in Vermont however it was never such an issue. However, in recent years there isn’t a day that a person can drive through a local town like Main Street in Brattleboro without seeing someone asking for food or money. There aren’t enough jobs for these people or they don’t get paid enough to survive. Stories of homeless families are a lot more common than one would like to think. How many people in this weak economy can actually help someone out? Most people would, but they themselves are struggling to survive. So with everyone having such a hard time surviving in Vermont, what is the solution? Most people would answer we need more jobs; others would say that there needs to be an increase in pay rates to keep up with the daily cost of living. With Vermont poverty increasing over the years, jobs and services aren’t enough to keep people from living in poverty or even becoming homeless. Many Americans don’t understand what homeless families struggle with and trying to explain to a child why they live the way they do. The first step in understanding this issue is confronting cultural attitudes towards poverty. Professor...
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...Inequality for All After watching this extra-ordinary and well presented idea of inequality in United States of America by Robert Reich I kept on thinking for hours as I see many of the workers all around every time and every day I come across so many people who are low-waged and living a middle class life. I feel myself as one of those middle-class person as I see them surviving the odds and still trying to lead a respectable life. Since I got deeply touched by the documentary here are some points that I would like to discuss regarding my reflection about inequality for all. Inequalities of many kinds exist in our society. The society itself is a big structure of many social divisions. We can divide any society in many social groups like religion, caste, class, sexism, racism etc etc. The biggest difference in all of us comes with class that is lead by our capacity to consume. The main criteria for division in social class are dominated by occupation and property. We can never fully eliminate this inequality factor among us, however it can be managed by state to provide welfare to its citizens. Here, our main focus is inequality of social class. The distribution of wealth is unequal and half of the wealth of entire country is possessed by only few men. Giant fast-food companies have the largest gap between the pay of CEOs and workers of any industry, with a CEO-to-worker compensation ratio of more than 1,000-to-one. The practical choice isn’t between capitalism and Welfare-state...
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...AHE 1108 History of sport Examine and discuss the role of women in sport in ancient Sparta By Srdjan Vulic Identification number: S4129049 Name of lecturer: Rob Hess and Matthew Klugman Name of tutor: Fiona McLachlan Tutorial group: 11.30pm, Tuesday, Semester 2, 2014 Date of submission: 3rd September 2014 Sparta was a city in Ancient Greece between 650 B.C and 362 B.C which was seen to have one of the strongest soldiers and women due to their early commencement of training in tough conditions to strengthen their bodies and to toughen them up. Men were always seen as the dominant species compared to women, they were seen to be stronger and had more dominance and respect in the Olympic Games and sport. Instead of encouraging women in Greece to participate in the Olympics they were instead dispirited and some laws were made to prevent them from participating. Spectators would rather watch men participate then women because they believed women were weak and were not as exhilarating to watch as men. Spartan women had more freedom and respect than many other Greek women, ‘Spartan women were allowed to be landholders and they were free to speak for themselves, unlike many other Greeks.’ Spartan women were ordered to do no less body building than the males, Lycurgus the lawgiver of Sparta believed ‘stronger children come from parents who are both strong.’ The women were trained the same way as the men, they would both be taught how to survive in tough conditions and they would be removed...
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...A Claim Against the Drinking Age in the United States of America The substance of alcohol has long been a topic of intense debate, particularly in the United States of America. In its relatively short history, the United States has had a prohibition which completely banned all alcohol distribution and consumption, as well as a drinking age which has changed over the years. Ultimately, it seems that legislative bodies in the U.S. cannot make up their minds. A big part of that indecision may stem from the fact that most amendments have been largely ineffective in culling what has been a very real, very large problem in the United States: alcohol related deaths or sicknesses. Nearly one out of every ten deaths in working class adults dies from alcohol-related incidents (10% of all deaths), making alcohol the fourth largest cause of preventable deaths in the United States. As a result of this, promoting responsible alcohol consumption and continued responsible actions once its effects take place are paramount in responding to those significant statistics. The method that seems to have been most focused on in curtailing dangerous alcohol consumption has been legally regulating who is allowed to consume it (as mentioned above: prohibition, and drinking ages). In short, alcohol consumption has been made illegal, and consequently deemed unjust, for people below certain ages. Many people have raised ethical, practical, scientific, and legal arguments surrounding...
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...elected Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld pardoned the three surviving prisoners; he claimed that the men had never received a fair trial.” Furthermore, the march had a significant importance in American history by being an inspiration to generations of labor leaders, leftists activists, and artists.“The incident received considerable nationwide publicity and seriously damaged the image of the growing labor movement, which was branded as a breeding ground for political dissidents rather than an organization of workers trying to secure better conditions for themselves and their families.“ The protest concerned mainly the immigrants in the nation, specifically Germany. The activists were inspired by the working conditions the innocent civilians went through and the wages that the workers received. “In 1893, the Haymarket Martyrs Monument was erected in a cemetery in the Chicago suburb of Forest Park. A statue dedicated to the slain police officers, erected in Haymarket Square in 1889, was moved to the Chicago Police Department’s training academy in the early 1970s after it was repeatedly damaged by leftist radicals. An official commemoration, The Haymarket Memorial, was installed on the site of the riot in 2004.” Though, these protests were not uncommon, this inspired others to fight for their rights and individual voices. At last, the impacts associated with this Haymarket Square affair reduced hours to eight, America had become more stable and internationally more positive. The...
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...able to shoot straight." Question 1 The names of the texts illustrate very well, how each of them approach, what it will say to serve in the army. Text one engage the subject with the question; why they serve. For Track, and most other youngster, the major motivational factor is family. They simply want’s their families being able to live in a safe world. They feel some sort of duty to protect them from anything that will try to harm them. This idea comes in connection, with Palin's experience, that Americans are patriotic, and boys like Track therefore feel this duty. Palin does also express, that they want to defend America as country but also as an idea. Fundamentally America is built up around the idea of freedom, so when they enlist to defend they are not only defending a piece of land, but they are also defending the fundamental principles of America. Sarah Palin, suggest that citizens should support their fellow American soldiers, who risks their lives for the country. The second text is focusing on a Veteran who got both mental and physical scars. He has been diagnosed with Post-traumatic stress disorder. Like text 1, it is expressing that support was/is important; text 2 is expressing, according to the Veteran himself and his father, that even though it helped mature him it was not worth it. Actually the Veteran's father, who encouraged his son to enlist, says; “I wish he had never got in”. Like the name of the text is pointing out, it also says that war affects a...
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...George Romero is one of the most creative innovators of the zombie film genre and uses the scary images of zombies feeding on human beings to depict a crumbling American society. The America Romero focuses onfocused on by Romero is one where consumerism and racism have become very rampant creating inequalities (Gagne, 1987). Romero does not explicitly show the inequalities in the movies but he uses symbols to show the societies levels that perpetuate poverty, often the poor African Americans. In his interview with the NY Times, Romero said that his zombie movies are symbols of revolution, a generation consuming another. This paper will discuss the theme of consumerism/consumption as portrayed in the Romero’s films in reference...
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...marijuana in Missouri and to support the legalization of marijuana, because of it being able to provide many medical as well as economic benefits for the United States if legalized. THESIS STATEMENT: Marijuana has been regarded as a harmful plant that can endanger lives and is thought to be nothing more than an extra problem to be dealt with in today’s society. However, based on its economic value and medical benefits, the cannabis has proven to outweigh its negatives with numerous other positives. By completing the details for each source below, you will have all the necessary information to complete the bibliography on your working outline. Source 1: Netflix Article title:The Union: The Business Behind Getting High Author: Name of periodical: Surviving Disaster. Volume: 1 Pages: 1hr 44 Date: 2007 Database used: movie Date information retrieved or DOI: Type of supporting material: statistics Specific information obtained (copy and paste): Didnt take notes just listen to repeat information Source 2: Book read Article title: Marihunana the forbidden medicine Author: by Lester Grinspoon Name of periodical: book Volume: Pages: Date: 2012 Database used: n/a Date information retrieved or DOI: n/a Type of supporting material: quotation Specific information obtained (copy and paste): Source 3: Article title: Why Marijuana Should Be Legal Author: by...
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...issue, so if a man and a woman went up for a job, it was given to a man. Also, the New Deal that was made when FDR came into presidency brought new advantages for women and working. Even though women weren’t supposed to have jobs during the depression, they still did because they needed as much money as they could get to survive. Since there were many times when women had jobs and men didn’t, it disrupted the traditional role they had, which led to families getting separated. During the depression women were considered “homemakers” and weren’t supposed to have jobs. Their job, typically, was to take care of cooking, cleaning, and the children. Men in the families were considered the “breadwinners” which meant they went out and made the money. When they got fired, women stepped in. Husbands didn’t like having their wives working, in effect of this divorce rates were going up and families were getting more and more stressed. “A 1940 survey revealed that 1.5 million married women had been abandoned by their husbands” (America in the Great War). Not only did this affect the whole family, but everyone, if someone had left, it was up to them to find their own way to survive and up to who stayed to make sure their family didn’t starve. The final point during the Great Depression is African American lives and what they did to survive during this time. African American women, as well as American women, have easier times finding jobs than men did. Any African American person was automatically...
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...Conflict and war are inevitable and sometime necessary Of the many wondrous and beneficial qualities we as a society possess, our inclination toward war and conflict is not one of them. In fact it is one of our most destructive and damaging activities humans do. As horrifying, catastrophic and fatal as war may be, it is a necessary element for the survival for humans as a species. Before we talk about why war might be necessary, let us first discuss some of the major causes of war. The most dominant reason for war in human history is ideology, or most specifically religious ideology. From the crusades that begun with Pope Urban II speech at the Church Council at Clermont in 1095 and ended with the expulsion of the Hospital of St John from Malta by Napoleon in 1798 to the current conflict in Israel religion has been a cause for conflict. “…Hubristic identities are a possible cause of war …He defines the term ‘hubristic identities’ as ‘the aspiration for recognition’ of one’s superiority, which is not recognized by other major international actors’… Fascist and communist regime from this hypothesis, and further integrate the notion of ‘image’ – for example, monumental works in the capital city – emphasised by the leaders of such regime. Logically, such ‘hubristic identities’ require some kind of proof for both the domestic and foreign audience to strengthen their claim of their superiority. In such a scenario, winning the war is perhaps the most viable and most credible...
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...(Leary, 2008) The US was having little success in bringing down the North Vietnamese as the Hmong were losing to the uprising of the Vietnamese army and the tactics of guerilla warfare was used against the US soldiers in Vietnam. There were enemies everywhere and they were all hard to take out because a majority of the enemy did not have uniforms and dressed up just like civilians. As the US fought the war it was also fighting against another war at home with its people, who were protesting against the war. As time progressed and the US knew there was no hope of winning the war the US then tried to find a way out withdrawing all its troops and getting out of the war. When a ceasefire agreement between both sides was made on February 1972, the US then quickly evacuated their troops and left the Hmong allies to fight the North Vietnamese alone. (Quincy 1995) After US left, the Hmong genocide soon came afterwards for aiding the...
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