State

In the United States, our governmental system is comprised of what is known to be a democracy. A democracy is a system of government where power is given to the citizens of a nation who rule through freely elected representatives. Although not many people want to admit it, but here in the U.S., democracy is dying at an absurdly fast rate, and our governmental system is quickly turning into an oligarchy. An oligarchy is a small group of people that have control of the government, rather than…

They don't even know the rules of the government but that kind of people are becoming the ministers in the different states. These kinds of politics lead to the Illiteracy of the people of the country or their state. They don't know anything about the people problems and will never solve their problems and they make money by using the power what they have. Some many politicians don't even know how to speak English…

Relating back one of our definitions from unit one of hegemony. People in power use power to stay in power and requires the participation of the general population. In the article Nkomo and Hoobler state, “Relatedly, because of the dominant group's fear of the loss of power, resources, or social exclusion, as in the turn away from the ideologies of affirmative action and multiculturalism” (Nkomo & Hoobler 2014). A lot of the time you see many people of color applying for a job, meeting the…

156. That is the number of countries that the United States has a military presence in. After World War II the US became a world superpower and since then the US has become increasingly interventionist. Although interventionism could be considered a practical foreign policy, isolationism is the only practical foreign policy as it is not one countries place to police the rest of the world since interventionism creates hatred for the United States, domestic affairs are of more importance, and…

For this reason, nations create national symbols of patriotism, such as the bald eagle or the pledge of allegiance in the United States. National symbols of this sort give people who otherwise have nothing in common a sense of comradery, “because, regardless of the actual inequality and exploitation that may prevail in each, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship”…

everything in their power to repeal this act, even without a replacement. The movement of equality for women is slowing down and may be coming to a stop if we don’t something to change that soon. In summary women are still not equal to men in the United states which indicates that America has failed to succeed in having equality in the united…

Melissa Zoque Professor Arostegui REL3380 10/04/15 Islamophobia in the United States Islamophobia is a term that refers to the discrimination and fear of Muslims and the Islamic religion as a whole. It is recorded that the word went into use in the 1990s denouncing negative activities like apprehension and scorn directed to Muslim cultures, however it gained its popularity after the effects of 9/11. It can likewise be used as a derogatory term, adding to prejudice and insults. This study…

In the United States, the National Football League A.K.A NFL has grown apart of American culture and become modern day American pastime. Each year the number of viewers of the NFL increase exponentially their exposure all over the nation. In the United States, the one sport that emerges as leading as terms as popularity is the NFL. Especially in recent years across America it heard through all kinds of media like internet, radio, newspapers, emails and obviously televisions. The NFL has been a…

The United States has one of the highest rates of arrests and incarcerations in the world. In the United States, it is estimated that about one in three adult citizens can be found on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) databases. (Dolan, 13) The majority of these arrests are of people who have committed nonviolent offenses. Many of the people who are arrested are free to go without conviction. However, both people who are incarcerated and people who are arrested but not convicted share…

The United States of America is facing more problems today than in the history of the country. The country is more divided today than ever before and that is a reason it is failing. The United States used to be the most dominant country in the world and now it is not going in the right direction. The government as a whole is failing the country and not looking out for the people in it. Selfish politicians have driven our economy into the ground and not made any decisions for the people. At the…