State

The United States is known as the country to work hard and succeed, yet at the current time it is facing a high employment rate and a piling debt. According to Trading Economics, the unempolyment rate is 4.6 percent, whiles according to the US Debt Clock.org our country is in over 19 trillion dollar and counting. In addition, according to the US Debt Clock.org at the current moment, the official unempolyed number is 7,391,722, while the actual unempolyed number is 14, 820, 393. Although people…

The United State is 3.8 million square miles wide and has over 324 million people inside of its boarders, but shares the same federal government. The few people in the three branches of the federal government make laws for this vast and diverse population, and the people of the country do little to demand better representation. This is because the American citizens have been conditioned to be docile bodies, where the governing state “[increases] the forces of the body (in terms of economic…

the reason for adoption has changed the need for it has not. The only question which remains, is should we adopt internationally. There are over 400,000 children in foster care, and more than 100,000 of them are available to be adopted in the United States. It is not hard to come to the conclusion that we need to care for our children here in the US. Along with the need to adopt domestically,…

My first interaction with State Department was at the age of ten at the consulate of Guadalajara. My uncle’s family was going to interview for a tourist visa so that they could come to the United States to visit us that following summer. When we arrived I saw my country’s flag waiving and I was very excited, but I also remember a heavy presence of fear. It was one year after the September 11 attacks. I was very young, but at this age I understood why the hostility was present that day at the…

Poverty At one point or another everyone has been short of money and felt like they have hit rock bottom. Society today is not aware of the amount of poverty that is all around them. Poverty can be observed on a large global scale but can also be observed in a smaller communal scale. There are many factors that contribute into increasing the amount of poverty in a community but there are ways in which poverty can be reduced. Often times poverty can be tracked down to a couple sources such as…

Federalism - Dividing Power between States and the United States Morone, & Kersh, (2016) indicated that Federalism fosters the loyalties of the state; having different states allow the Americans to have close ties to their respective home states. Besides federalism practices pragmatism, giving power to the local official make it easier to run a bigger country such as the United States which has a diverse population and local official understand people's problems better hence they make policies…

The relationship between the United States and other nations have been an on going devolopment beyond the democracy of what makes the United states different or the same as others. The United States was one of those countries that has had conflicts going in the states of itself but has seem to maintain a better living than other nations. The american free way has always been one of the top positions based off the laws and the liberty. The populations of all the nations has increased and…

It is absolutely absurd to think that even after coming so far as a society we continue to blame the outsiders for our taxes being outrageously high. This is what a Michigan Politician had to say about the matter, “Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.” What is even more preposterous is the fact that the only thing that differentiates us is something so arbitrary, citizenship. Citizenship…

Hawaii’s state flag has the colors of red, white, and blue, and it has a Union Jack and 8 stripes. The design of the flag has a Union Jack on the left hand corner and the 8 stripes go side to side. The Union Jack represents the historical relationship that Hawaii had with Great Britain and the 8 stripes represent the 8 main islands; the Big Island, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau, and Kahoolawe. The current state flag was adopted in 1959. State Seal The state seal of Hawaii contains…

The premise of the book Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State by Andrew Gelman is to explain the divided red and blue color map that represents the way states vote in elections, Republican or Democratic. Throughout the book, Gelman presents substantial data, numbers and graphs, to show the voting trends of individuals, counties, and states as a whole. Analyzing all this information, Gelman reveals that how an individual votes relies on many factors that interplay with each other…