Bankruptcy in the United States

The world has become a confusing and overwhelming place to live. While there have been (many)successful steps forward made in the areas of science, medicine, technology and space travel, in the realms of politics and government, it can be challenging to recognize progress. There are significant and recurrent problems within every country. Often times, with each new problem eagerly arising, there seems to be an underlying tone of familiarity and recognition within these problems. It is almost…

In the novel, The Crystal Frontier by author Carlos Fuentes narrates the experience of nine different people to show his readers the continuous relationship between the neighboring countries of Mexico and the United States of America. Throughout the novel the nine stories, all contain different people and their experience with however it’s not till the end when the stories all interact with one another, to fully understand what Fuentes was trying to portray by telling these stories. One person…

The vast wage gap that exists between most middle and low class Black Americans and the top earning Americans, coupled with the disproportionate arrest rates in the black community have created a chasm of inequality that may never be closed. The United States government (allegedly) used drugs to create a crack epidemic that resulted in the death, poverty, or arrest of millions of Americans. As Kanye West put it “we’ve been hanging from the same tree ever since.” He is alluding to the lynching…

In the case of the United States, Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), a painter and a collector, first opened a museum, Peale's Cabinet of Curiosities in Philadelphia to show and record the history of discovery in the new world in 1786. He displayed his own portraits of George Washington, and later with bones he unearthed of a North American woolly mammoth. According to Ford Bell, early American collectors put emphasis on a different impulse compared to the kings in Europe. Bell said "In the U.S.…

The Great Depression is an example of how badly the world economy could decline as it was the longest and one of the most globally spread depression that took place during the 20th century. It took it’s roots from the United States in the 1930s and spread across the whole world, lasting until 1941. On September 4th, 1929, the stock prices across all US started falling drastically and in a period of just a month, on October 29 of the same year, the stock market crashed. In the next 3 years the…

colonization and exploration changed the world politically, socially, and economically. So much so, that some effects are still seen to date such as: racial inequality, religious freedom, American innovations and ingenuity, and most of all, the United States of America’s place as one of the most powerful nations of the…

Raised in South Korea as a rich girl Suki was the daughter of a Korean millionaire. Her father owned a shipping company, hotels, and a mining business, but one day lost it all. In South Korea, the law states that bankruptcy is a jail able offense (Kim, 2011). So, Suki and her family fled to the United States without any money or support. Queens, New York is where they end up settling when arriving into the US. Not knowing much about America she had a difficult time adapting to the American…

Imagine the idea of, “These United States”, instead of “The United States”. A country without controversy, is a country that doesn’t care. While a revolutionary is one that leads change, on the contrary, a rebel is one that elicits change. A rebel is intellectual, hard-headed, and critical of the current order of either government, society, or human nature. During the nineteenth century, Henry David Thoreau was a philosopher, writer, abolitionist, and most notably, had conflicting theory…

having to deal with the financial risks and most importantly, the health related issues. Individuals without health insurances are exposed to the high medical costs that could easily lead them into deeper debt and worse case scenario into bankruptcy. In the United States, fixing a broken leg can reach costs up to seven thousand dollars. The average…

Revolution, the United States underwent a decade of political and economic unrest under the rule of the Articles of Confederation. Then, our nation adopted the Constitution. The document reshaped our nation economically, politically, and socially, from a vulnerable, divided nation to a powerful, stable nation. However, now, our nation had a traditional economic system, which focused mainly on agriculture, and enormous resources that waited to be exploited (lecture October 25). As the United…