...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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... corporations and Governments with their banking, investing, asset management and other financial products and services 1. The company is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. The company has huge presence in America spanning across 40 states. It serves approximately 54 million consumers in US and its foot print covers 80 % of the population. The bank is being led by Brian Moynihan who succeeded Ken Lewis as the President and CEO effective January 1, 2010. Some of the key highlights of Bank of America are: As of 2010, it is the second largest bank holding company behind JP Morgan Chase in United States by assets which stood over US$ 2 trillion As of 2010, the company is the fifth largest company in United States by revenue which is over 111.4 billion2 The company was also the 3rd largest non-oil company in the US after Wal-Mart and General Electric In 2010, Forbes listed Bank of America as the third largest company in the world 3 The bank has over 5500 branches along with approximately 16300 ATMs and an online banking with 30 million active users 4 The major competitors of Bank of America are JP Morgan Chase, Citi Group and Wells Fargo Bank. 1 http://www.forbes.com/companies/bank-of-america/ 2010 Bank of America Annual Report 3 http://www.forbes.com/companies/bank-of-america/ 4 http://investor.bankofamerica.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=71595&p=irol -homeprofile#fbid=W6HlSIbzfcd 2 4 Bank of America: Mobile Banking Case Report Financial Snapshot 5 Company History The company was founded...
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...1. ------------------------------------------------- Background US -Pak relations in the last six decades have been unstable and moved in a cyclic pattern with ups and downs, sometimes having close partnership and sometimes having sharp friction between the relations, which are set according to the global and regional geopolitics.US PAK relations have different aspects during different presidencies,e.g:-during the Eisenhower, Nixon and Regan they were not smooth but during the Kennedy,Johnson,Carter,Bush and Clinton administrations however, policies were significant. Pakistan came into existence just as the cold war was started between AMERICA and SOVIET UNION. There were two camps, Soviet and US camp. Infant Pakistan and India had to pick their camps. 2.1 ------------------------------------------------- Relations during Liquat Ali khan: In 1947 liquat Ali khan became the first prime minister of Pakistan; in 1949 two invitations were received to liquat Ali khan. In 1950, Liquat Ali khan (1st pm) of Pakistan was invited by soviets and Americans, and then he chose to visit United States that was the start of Pak-Us relations, and India joined the soviet camp. When liquat ali khan visited USA he was warmly welcomed by the US president TRUMAN, here Liquat ali khan delivered a speech and said that both USA and PAKISTABN have same past both were under the colonialism and liquat ali khan was pro west so liquat Ali khan joined American block. Liquat Ali khan supported USA...
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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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...defensive capabilities. In contrast, many societies view America’s desire for military strength as a means to impose its will on others and to freely enter into conflict in order to preserve its dominion over others. Critics believe this was the case in the First and Second Gulf Wars. However, most Americans support a strong military with a more altruistic motive than status or power over others. They fully support America’s response to events such as the Haitian earthquake and the Indonesian tsunami. Americans view their military power as an important aspect of society to insure safety, world stability, fairness in the global market, and the advancement of humanitarian activities. Critics of America believe that American leaders are obsessed with strengthening their military in order to strengthen their own power. They feel that America wishes to use its military might to coerce other nations to follow American edicts. They attempt to support their contentions, regarding America’s thirst for military dominance over others, by asserting that America enters into wars, such as the First Gulf War in 1990-1991, in order to dominate other countries. In the case of the First Gulf War, America’s critics state that America sought to preserve Kuwait’s oil fields for American consumption. It is a likely assumption that Kuwait’s overall friendly relations with America, including trade relations, helped their military relationship. However, the assumption that this factor was the primary motivation...
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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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