Contiguous United States

Did Jay Gatsby achieve his American dream or did he thrive off a false sense of hope? Throughout The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, Jay Gatsby or James Gatz in which was his real name, achieved numerous goals but also suffered through grotesque events that ultimately led to his downfall. The setting of this novel is in Long Island, New York during the summer of 1922. During this time Jay Gatsby had symbolized the American Dream of many exquisite people that thrived and urged to live like…

Reflection Paper Number 1 In “Learning Matters: In Schools We Trust” (The Merrow Report, 2013), the evolution of education in the United States is highlighted. This evolutionary history includes what schools were to do for society, its social obligation, and the individuals and entities that felt they should be in charge. Various individuals discuss mass education in an effort to answer these various questions. Education, as it was conceived prior to mass education, was primarily for the…

(heart) disease (CVD): refers to conditions that involve narrowed or blocked blood vessels that can lead to a heart attack, chest pain or stroke” (Mayo clinic, 2014). The United States of America has an estimated life expectancy of 79.56 years at birth; considerably lower than other developed high income countries such as the United Kingdom or Canada (CIA World Factbook, 2014). In fact, it appears one of the major factors that reduces life expectancy and causes death in the US is cardiovascular…

Patriot Act is used to gather information on terrorists in the United States. The U.S.A. Patriot Act stands for Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. The Patriot Act was enacted shortly after 9/11 to further help America to prevent terrorist attacks…

Prior to the military invasion and occupation of Puerto Rico in 1898, the Puerto Rican was already emigrating to the United States. Many of those heading to the mainland were “Puerto Rican revolutionaries who were conspiring on U. S. territory to break once and for all with the yoke of Spanish colonialism.” The four-century-old resilient stronghold of Spanish imperialism over the island was beginning to be confronted when, in 1868, the first pro-independence uprising against Spanish rule…

Which in the United States was also used to upon the racism, police brutality and government corruption. Rap artists such as NWA and Ice T were demanding that the world directed its concentration to the social injustices by becoming the influential voice of the LA…

welcomed. 4. Hierarchal Society: People accept power in the hands of few and will accept the inequalities within the society. a. For Four seasons an employee will not wait for instructions from supervisor to provide exceptional service in The United States as compared to an employee in France. Thus Four season managers have to invest more time in training employees in France in order to provide superior, personalized customer…

Racial discrimination is the prejudicial or abusive behavior towards members of another race (WordNet). Today in America minority groups such as: Black Americans, Asians and Latinos are faced with racial discrimination everyday. It affects employment, educational opportunities and the criminal justice system. A study in the National Bureau of Economic Research (2004) has shown that it is less likely for a person with a "Black" sounding name to get a job callback. So A person with the name Laura…

realized as it is proclaimed that, All persons held as slaves... are, and henceforward shall be, free"(Lincoln National Archives and Records Administration). Yet, even after the Civil War is concluded two years later, and slaves across all American states are released from physical bondage, no formerly enslaved person can truly consider themselves liberated. They are free, in the sense that nobody can…

interview questions. The interview questions were on different subjects including their cultural beliefs and values, differences in family between Germany and the United States, beliefs of counseling, head of household, religious belief, faith and the church, adjustments to being in the United States, similarities of Germany and the United States, language barriers, and what he wanted to share as the most important thing about Germany. We were able to converse with each other and learn from…