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Academic Standards in Colorado Colorado is well known for being the first state to legalize marijuana. It is a hot topic around the United States, however, Colorado was also one of only six states asked to inform the Federal Government on the process of developing new standards in-line with Common Core, another frequently debated issue (Colorado Department of Education, 2016). Academic changes over the last several years have led Colorado to develop strong state standards, which prepare pupils…

The United States of America is known as the “land of the free”, but seems to have a serious problem with racial profiling, which includes police who target people of color and minority ethnicities for no reason at all. These innocent individuals are discriminated based on their appearance, by their race and also by their skin color which is clearly discriminatory. Those who judge them do not even realize how these individuals are suffering because of this problem. For this reason, racial…

background check only because his records never made it into the system (“Background Checks”). This proves that a stronger background check can save more lives and keep a better control over who has a gun. There should be stronger background checks in the United States. With a stricter background check there will be less killings like in states with very strong background checks and most gun owners already support a better background check. With 300 million guns already sold and an additional 6…

The great recession that is known as the “Great Depression’ started in 1929 and continued until about 1933 in United States. This severe economic phenomenon that was originated in United States not only affected the USA economy but also shook the economy of almost all the countries of the world. This great depression led to severe decline in the real output, acute unemployment rate and consequently all the economic sectors and variables were negatively affected. As a result, the living standard…

was decreasing due to the poor demands that they had in Europe and at the same time sugar and indigo were facing a heavy competition from the West Indies. With nothing to produced the economy of many plantation owners were going down as well as the United States economy, but at the same time that the tobacco, sugar and indigo were facing rough patches, the demand of cotton was increasing since it had become one of England’s most requested item was cotton, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin…

rural or remote areas. To reach the people that need healthcare the most, many countries have tried to pass into law policies that help shape the way healthcare systems operate in their countries. In 2010 the Affordable Care Act passed into law in the United States, and it was very similar to the Universal Health Insurance policy passed into law in 2009 in Peru. Both laws aimed to achieve a universal coverage for its citizens. The Universal Health Insurance policy mandated the…

industry, free trade, and globalization. Rivoli’s journey began when a student activist at Georgetown University asked “Who made your T-shirt?” during an anti-globalization protest. She then decided to trace the origin and travel of a T-shirt sold in the United States in order to examine not only the history and economics behind global trade, but also…

committed to their party. In the 2012 election, many American voters begin to change direction from one party to the other. (1) “There's another difference between 2004 and 2012 that is salient. In 2004, George W. Bush's Republican base was pretty much united on issues. Foreign policy realists and neocons were all on board.” In the 2012 election campaign spending went up compared 2004 campaign and fail to generate voter turnout. (2) “An estimated $6 billion spent in the 2012 campaigns and an…

Meanwhile, childhood poverty does not exist in Norway. India, France, Russia, and most other industrialized as well as non-industrialized countries have banned genetically modified organisms in their food supply and the UN has recently declared that the United States is in violation of human rights laws by depriving the citizens of Detroit of water while companies like Nestle pump millions of gallons of water out of already drought ridden California to bottle and sell back to the populous. In my…

On the back of each dollar bill in circulation, the Great Seal of the United States appears. Made up of two symbols; one, an eagle clutching a scroll, olive branch, and arrows; the other, an unfinished pyramid with an all seeing eye. In Gordon Wood’s The American Revolution, he rhetorically asks, “how many Americans today know what the pyramid and eye on the Great Seal mean” (99). While most Americans today may look past these icons, both sides of the Great Seal signify the distinctly American…