Lotteries in the United States

remembers walking into a restaurant across the street from Rockefeller Center and being turned away for the type of glasses he was wearing. My grandfather said that they were the glasses he came with from Cuba and since they were not made in the United States they looked different. Right away, the restaurant did not want to higher him because they knew he was an immigrant. He was very discouraged by this. This was not the type of life he was expecting. But he continued looking and eventually got…

Even though gambling in the United States has been treated for years as just another benign form of entertainment ─ like going to the movies or amusement park ─ it has so many detrimental effects on society that it is time for legislation to be enforced rendering it illegal. With gambling being legal to some extent in every state except Utah and Hawaii, (Hammer 2001), gambling has become an accepted part of American culture, with popular vacation destinations such as Las Vegas now being touted…

Today’s society displays the U.S. Armed Forces such as a brave and courageous seeking career to have. All the twenty first century commercials picture these careers for all kinds of people, the strong or smart and that everyone can join with their different skills. There are many reasons why people join the U.S. Armed Forces, these are educational opportunities, pay and benefits, full medical care for the soldier and their family, and lastly Patriotism. As a result Patriotism is one of the…

taxing for black people as a whole; in the Fortune 500 black people make only up to .8 percent of the companies on the entire list.(Berman) The number goes even further down when the topic goes to black women. Black female CEO’s are a rarity in the United States, so much so that a black female would have a better chance starting her own company, than staying and working her own way up. However in the case…

a large part in how this social issue is constructed and proliferated. For example, Moore’s article Racism in the English Language, speaks specifically about the impact that language (symbolic culture) has on society’s attitudes and thinking. He states, “Language not only expresses ideas and concepts but actually shades thought.” Additionally, he explains that color symbolism in “white” and “black” words and phrases have negative connotations yet are frequently used, often without thought.…

Wealth inequality, or the unequal distribution of wealth, is a heavily debated topic in the United States, a nation that, according to Inequality.org, “exhibits wider disparities of wealth between rich and poor than any other major developed nation.” To some, like Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, “we can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both;” to others, wealth equality is a form of socialism. The…

The United States of America should not pay blacks Reparations. One reason they shouldn’t pay them Reparations because there's no reason to pay the people in today's world they didn’t have to go through the slavery and knows what it feel like to be held up, traded for goods and to be beaten. That's why i argue that the blacks today should not be paid reparations. Reparation means the making of money for a wrongdoing. In the early 2000’s Reparations was given to veterans and diverse leaders.…

the Vietnam War is extremely likely to come to mind due to the fact that it has claimed the spot of the nation’s longest war. It may also suggest itself because it is the only foreign war in our nation’s history that ended in a defeat for the United States, making it somewhat unpopular among the nation. What one may not consider, however, are the hardships, controversies, and the lives of the people, both the soldiers and the families they left behind, affected by this war. One of the biggest…

people that strive for the American Dream: immigrants, workers, students, and all sorts of that. And they all have one thing in common: they are all American. “Approximately 43.3 million foreign-born people live in the United…

Northern Virginia Community College AMREEKA Introduction The movie, Amreeka, is about a single Palestinian mother, Muna who lives in the West Bank. She and her son, 16 year-old, Fadi move to the United States of America (USA) when Muna wins the US diversity visa lottery (green card). Initially, Muna does not want to take the chance of leaving her mother and her land of birth to migrate to the USA, but Fadi convinces her that in the USA, he will get the opportunity of getting…