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and equality in the United States. However, gender inequality still as a problem exists in most of the countries like the United States. Great strides have been made by women in this 21st century, but the problem of gender inequality continues to exist in this modern society. Based on a 2012 report, women only earned 77 cents to every dollar a man earned for equivalent work. It was clearly proved that women continue to earn less than the men. On 2013 October, the United States Bureau of Labor…

The United States adopted the foreign policy of containment when entering the Cold War. The policy of containment was a system that worked to hamper the growth of the communist sphere of influence, presented by the Soviet Union in the late 40s. The four strategies (in order of occurrence) the United States took to obtain and practice the policy of containment were the Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift and the National Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The magnifying power of…

North Korea invaded South Korea in an attempt to bring communism to the south. The Americans sided with the south to try to stop the spread of communism. The United States (U.S.) and the United Nation (U.N.) did not believe in a communistic society. This brought in western countries to help out which lead to millions deaths and billions of dollars lost. Which leads into the beginning of the war. Before the Korean war began the North was invading…

agreement with most federal and state laws, however, it is widely argued that possession of the substance and use, in any form, should be legal. Marijuana should be legal due to the safe and effective treatments for certain health conditions, its ability to boost revenue, and create more effective law enforcement and criminal justice systems. The revenue boosts from sales and taxes of marijuana can positively affect and impact our society. In 2012, Colorado’s state government legalized…

Today, there are a large number of foreign people fleeing their country of origins to arrive into first world nations such as the United States and Western Europe. The news has been publishing a “migration crisis”, which is many people from the middle east and other unstable countries -e.g. Syria, Iraq, Palestine, Eritrea etc.- and arriving in western Europe in almost millions each month and thousands each day. The reason for that is because their country of origins are not safe places to live…

$40 million dollars lost. This is the amount of estimated losses after a group of migrant workers in San Quentin, California went on strike for two weeks. (Bacon 1) The workers in this area were fed up with the harsh living conditions, long work hours, and low wages. One migrant worker said “My children didn’t even know me because I would go to sleep as soon as I came home” (Bacon 3). This is the sad reality that many migrant workers face because of growers drive to cut the cost of producing…

The thought of human trafficking in the United States was never something I gave much thought to until about a week ago, when the FBI saved 84 children as young as 3 months old, from being turned into sex slaves. Those 84 children were a part of a multi billion-dollar industry that entraps nearly 4.5 million people worldwide. The sex trafficking industry in Georgia alone was brings in around $290 million dollars a year. Making human trafficking the second most lucrative crime in the world, many…

The definitions of pay riding and free riding are not directly stated, but merely implied in Borders and International Terrorism - pay riding is is being the first to take action to change something, whether alone or in a small group, and bearing the disadvantages of being the first to stand up for something as opposed to free riding which is used to describe those who incidentally benefit from the actions of the pay riders. Overtime, a unilateral solution can become a multilateral if the actor…

The United States got themselves involved in the war to help assist the Cubans in their fight for independence. By helping Cuba in their fight the U.S was helping protect their highly valuable trade routes they had with Cuba. Spain’s brutal acts to suppress Cuba began to appear in U.S newspapers which caused support to enter the war. Even though President William McKinley was against entering into a war and attempted to prevent the war and U.S involvement. After the unexpected sinking of the USS…

but can’t seem to find the answer too. The Iraq war was the reaction to one of the worst days in American history. September 11. 2001 an Islamic extremist group called Al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out multiple attacks against the united states and its citizens. The most remembered moment was when two of the four…