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The United States of America is on the brink of becoming the corruptly divided capitalist society envisioned by Karl Marx over a hundred years ago. The top of the upper class, referred to by Marx as the bourgeoisie, is constantly gaining more power, wealth, and dominion over the rest of the citizens in the United States. In the future, the middle class and lower class will be nothing more than what Marx referred to as the proletariat, or workers for the upper class. This generation of students…

Bill Gates and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation: Bill Gates is one of the wealthiest men in the world, his net worth alone is $77.7 billion dollars as of July 14, 2016, ranking him number one of the wealthiest people on the planet according to Forbes. This to some, will not come as a big surprise since Gates is both the founder and owner of Microsoft Corporation. However, with great power comes great responsibility to dedicate the wealth you have earned to something that will benefit…

common national personification of the American government or the United States in general. The text underneath the cartoon has the women saying “See, the dear child can stand alone!”, while ‘Uncle Sam’ says “Of course he can! Let go of him Granny; if he falls I’ll catch him!” The cartoon depicts how Canada was becoming more and more independent, and while England believes Canada is ready enough to be independent. The United States of America on the other hand, believes that Canada…

the game is different. America has an overabundance of food and other countries who do not have this large supply of food, they want to receive it be it in financial aid or the United States assistance. These countries are on the receiving and will stay there till something changes.…

According to the United States Department of Labor, the average annual income before taxes per consumer unit in 2014 was 66,877 a 2.8 percent decrease from 2013. In contrast, the average expenditures per consumer unit in 2014 was 53,495, a 4.7 percent increase from 2013. The bureau reports that in 2014 food cost rose 2.4 percent, housing cost increased 1.5 percent, transportation increased by .8 percent, gas prices decreased 3.9 percent, vehicle insurance increased by 9.8 percent, and health…

“The United States is the only developed country without a national paid-maternity-leave program. The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 mandates that employers offer twelve weeks of job-protected leave to workers for family-related issues, but 40 percent of working women are ineligible, because of the various restrictions” (McCloskey). Eliza Strickland, Senior Associate Editor at IEEE Spectrum, acknowledges that a single mother today earns only 60 cents to every dollar a man makes, while…

Tax Paying, Undocumented Immigrants, Should be Able to Purchase Health Insurance It is estimated that about 11.2 million Undocumented Immigrants live in the United States, about 728,000 of these individuals are Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients (Castaneda, R., 2016). Under the Affordable Care Act, these are individuals that can qualify for health insurance, but due to the Affordable Care Act, section 1312 (f) (c), undocumented immigrants are not allowed to purchase…

immigrants must still help progress this nation; however, true progress can only be achieved by those who have a firm grasp of the language of their new country. A common language forms unity. The American identity and economic infrastructure relies on a united country and will be compromised if there is a lack of communication and cohesiveness within the country. For the nation to have the best chance of economic success in America, immigrants coming to the U.S. need to learn English for…

The United States Space program is so expensive that to fund , every citizen would have to give the government $54 yearly . That’s an average of 20 billion dollars since 1964. Our Space program should be ended permanently. Our national debt is already high in our imperfect country and at a time like this, space seems to be less important than our countries problems. Our space program budget is astronomical. While we are debating on ending welfare, we just spent millions of dollars for a…

The Great Depression The great depression took everyone in the united states on a rollercoaster of anxiety and worry before it could possibly get any better. The crash of 1921: The diagram below shows how the stock market of S&P index rises and falls. It started off at about eight dollars, then dropped about one dollar. This was still happening but more towards the favor of the companies by going up more so than down. In 1929 the top 500 best public companies (financially wise) were at their…