Race in the United States

Suicide is a serious social and public health concern within the United States and around the world. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) article Suicide Consequences (2016), suicide is the tenth leading cause of deaths among Americans. Additionally, the CDC estimates suicide cost society over $44.6 billion a year in combined medical and work loss related costs, with the average suicide costing over $1.1 million. The monetary loss is an easy statistic to acquire and…

the public to support a lunar landing. President Kennedy justifies the expense on the research in developing new technologies required to reach the moon by pointing out the secondary benefits of such a mission. New technologies will allow the United States to have an advantage over enemies in areas of communication and national defense. In his speech, he cites such benefits as “a satellite system for world-wide weather observation,” as well as new methods of space travel that could potentially…

often define race as category or group of people having same traits that set them apart. I will have to agree with the sociologists thinking that race is social construct. Biologically speaking, it's just as possible for a given white person in random state here in the United States to have his genetics similar to a black person living somewhere in Africa. Race is something that is arbitrarily decided by society and date from centuries, in time of slavery and segregation. Concept of race was…

Lady Liberty, or commonly known as the Statue of Liberty, was given to the United States from France in 1886. Being the most potent of American symbols, her best well-known depiction is a woman with white European features. Going against the common norm, an article titled “Lady Liberty Will Be a Black Woman on a U.S. Coin”, published by the New York Times on January 13 of 2017, announced that the United States Mint will release a commemorative gold coin in April of 2017 that depicts Lady Liberty…

October 4, 1957 is when Soviet Union [Russia] launched Sputnik 1, starting the Space Race. 10 years earlier the cold war started mainly with United States and Soviet Union. Because of that, the Americans were worried because of the technology that they could possibly use for military purposes other than exploration. The Americans were being left behind in technology. They created NASA to build rockets and satellites to compete with the Soviet Union. Then on May 25, 1961, President John F.…

Mexico and the United States is thought provoking and captivating in the stark contrast between how two cultures are seen from varying perspectives. Kahlo is a renowned painter whose art is a significant part of Mexican culture and is powerful enough to remain relevant for over 80 years, her legacy influencing 2nd wave feminism and current political movements. Appropriate to the title of this painting, Kahlo is standing on the border of Mexico, to her right, and the United States, to her left.…

An arms race is a race to accumulate instruments of military power by rival states during times of peace. The idea in an arms race is to control the actions of the opposition. This creates a very unusual way to strategize during near war times. The near war times referred to here are the years of the Cold War between the Untied States and the Soviet Union. Tensions were high between the two countries, from the time in 1945, when the Soviets blocked the Polish government-in-exile in London from…

The big war that was call the arm race was going on for a long period. In the arm race is bombs fight, revenges, and making superpower weapon. Back in the Arm race war every country was going against each other trying to declare the war. As the war was going on, some country was building bomb, and big weapon. Then the U.S decide to make a bomb to drop on japan to end them off in the war with them. In 1941 the U.S. was on pearl harbor, then Jjapan sent air force strike on the harbor, and kill…

The Space Race After World War Two and during the Cold War, The United States of America and the USSR were in competition with one another to see who could conquer spaceflight capability. The Space race included efforts to launch artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, sending humans into space and setting foot on the moon. The First part of the race was to launch a successful artificial satellite. The USSR beat the United States to this with the successful launch of Sputnik 1 on…

separation of someone or something from a particular setting or group. However, when this word is brought into the realm of everyday conversation, it portrays a negative connotation. Often more times than not, the concept of segregation associates with race separation in society. To set a minor example, this would be the separation of two groups of people such as Hispanics and Asians. In reality, when racial segregation is referred to, it typically insinuates the separation between white and…