For a Few Dollars More

food for families, and could be sold to produce revenue. Many former slaves were forced into becoming sharecroppers because of the strong need to grow crops. In this system, landowners divided their land and assigned each head of the household a few acres of land, along with some tools and seeds. This allowed families to keep a share of their crops, which could be used for food and to collect revenue. Not only did the lives of African Americans change economically, but they also changed…

assessment test that will reflect upon that student if they perform poorly. The last and probably most useful thing about the common core state standard is that it truly does prepare students for future education and life in general. It does so in a few different ways… with the amount of time that teachers have to teach, it become virtually impossible to go into depth with each and every lesson that has to be taught. So, in effect students are having to learn to fend for themselves and take…

reaching them. The more common method is measuring the GDP per person. It is the division of the GDP calculation by the population. It provides a measurement of how much each person would have produced if everyone in a county produced the exact same amount. It also would provide a basis to determine how equitable a country is by comparing the GDP per person to what is the actual division of…

olympic games, rarely pays off. There have been few games that bring financial good for a host country. The olympics require constructing new venues for sports that aren’t traditionally common, and upgrades on the hosts transportation, sanitation, and security systems. To add to that, many olympic stadiums end up being left unused. Thousands of civilians oppose their country hosting the olympics and would rather their country spend the billions of dollars on reducing poverty or improving the…

the spill from spreading. Exxon spent 4.3 billion dollars on the cleanup costs and compensated 11,000 Alaskans for the oil spill damage caused to each person’s property within one year of the accident. Since the oil spill clean up was declared complete, Exxon has made efforts to prevent a catastrophe similar to this from taking place again. Tanker routes have been altered to avoid environmentally fragile areas, training programs have become more effective, new technologies that improve ship’s…

items that were everyday supplies. Every colonist had to provide a home for British soldiers. People were quartered in their own homes without a choice. The public often got a rather flavored version of the truth. The "Boston Massacre" occurred when a few British soldiers were cornered by a…

place for adults to enjoy their trip to Disneyland is, “The House of Blues Stage” (Attractions). This is a place geared toward teens and adults that features famous artists along with up and coming artists from the area. Overall there are quite a few places for adults to enjoy themselves at Disneyland if they want to skip the lines for all the…

America and other places all around the world are also finding out ways to mine asteroid incase earth runs out of resources. Those are just a few ways that the space program could pay off in the future. Another reason that the space program should be invest in is that space is a large place and the human race needs to know as much as possible about space. A few things that could be found…

who give more to society than just entertainment. The first big contributor to society are teachers. They educate the future leaders of America, and are paid just enough to get by if not less. In “Teachers Unions and Student Performance: Help or Hindrance?”, journalist Randall W. Eberts stated “America’s need to provide high-quality education to its children has never been greater.” This quote suggests the importance of teachers in our society, rendering the fact they should be paid more than…

Legalize Amerijuana I’m blameworthy doing something “illegal” in eyes of the law, but accepted by so many Americans. The few times I smoked marijuana, I felt ashamed, guilty and rebellious. Why did I feel that way? Is it because the U.S government label the usage of marijuana “illegal” and I was breaking the law or is it because the stigma of marijuana not being socially accepted. In the Rolling Stone Magazine interview by Jann S. Wenner, President Barack Obama has discouraged the substance…