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America is often described as melting pot. However, I believe America is better described as a mosaic with the different people and different cultures meshing together but still maintaining their distinctness. Each group that makes up America has their own story to tell. Within the social foundations of American education, there is the plight of African Americans fighting to end the racial segregation of schools; Native Americans pushing back against the efforts to assimilate them, Catholics who…

The United States of the 1950s was rife with controversy, uncertainty, and tension. Much of this resulted from the international problems that plagued the country, largely due to the end of World War II and the onset of the Cold War. But domestically, the Civil Rights movement was heating up and applying pressure on the US government more significantly than it had in several decades. In 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously overturned the long-held rule of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which had…

Fast food restaurants have become an icon around the world. You cannot go very far without running into one of them. The fast-food industry is the largest employer of minimum-wage workers in the country. Today, more than 160,000 fast-food restaurants feed more than 50 million Americans each and every day, generating sales of more than $110 billion dollars each year. Some of these restaurants include McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Dairy Queen, Subway, Pizza Hut, Burger King, and Taco Bell.…

Race Relations: Social Movement Paper Wilmington University Jamie Cole-Neicen Shanna Watson What does the term social movement mean? This question cannot easily be answered. I have learned that it cannot be considered a mass fad or trend and it is not an interest group that has access to political powers. Social movements are not unorganized, fleeting and without goals. Social movements are usually people involved in conflictual relationships with other people, linked…

Chinese to blast tunnels thru Sierras mountains eastward from Sacramento, CA. ~ Before 1900, 4 other trans railroads constructed across diff sections in West. - In 1883, 3 of them competed (1) Southern Pacific tied New Orleans to LA (2) Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe carried ppl between Kansas City & LA (3) Northern Pacific connected Duluth, Minnesota w/ Seattle, Washington. (4) the 4th trans connected St. Paul, Minnesota & Seattle in 1893. - James Hill’s planned Great Northern was the…

CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION FAST FOOD Fast foods are termed as fast, simply accessible and low-cost alternatives to home-cooked meals, in line with the National Institutes of Health (NIH). They additionally tend to be high in saturated fat, sugar, salt and calories. In line with the federal agency, several fast food chains have passed through growing public awareness regarding nutrition by giving some food that are lower in fat and calories than their nominal fare. Fast food is the term…