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am as the experiences shaped me into the person I am today and I strongly believe that I have the best of both worlds. After spending my first year of college in the Philippines, my family and I moved back to America. Since moving back to the United States, I have encountered and overcome several personal obstacles which not only affected my personal views and beliefs, but also my goals and overall plan in life. Though I also experienced a few culture clashes from living abroad for six years,…

Education in the United States promises equal opportunity to every student. However, does equal opportunity truly grant every person with the resources and access he or she needs in order to succeed in a standardized education system? With incredibly different ethnic groups coming together in one system, how can a general education adapt to a multicultural curriculum in order to promote appreciation for cultural diversity? Thurgood Marshall once stated that “the United States has been called the…

in their mind, they do not notice the discrimination that they are spreading. Basically, they see their actions as nondiscriminatory and factual. Which is untrue, for centuries hate crimes have been recorded, and prejudice and racism roam the United States. Due to the views of the dominant culture, minority groups are often perceived as less "literary" than their white…

In 2005 member states of the World Health Organization including the U.S. signed World Health Assembly resolution 58.33 stating that everyone should have “access to health care services and should not suffer financial hardship when obtaining these services.” Finally, the Lancet study, a peer review study in 2008 stated the "[r]ight-to-health features are not just good management, justice, or humanitarianism, they are obligations under human-rights law." Yet to date the United States is one of…

answered by the United States team. The Soviets answered with another goal and as the period was about to end, the American team snuck in another goal to tie the score up 2-2 at the end of the first period. The Russians changed goalies going into the second period and although they outshot the Americans 12-2 in the second period, the Soviets managed to only score one goal,…

War II the United States seemed to "open up from its shell" of isolationism. Due to unforeseen circumstances the US military had to intervene in the global catastrophe and fight which in turn interrupted their current policy of isolationism they had been maintaining basically since George Washington times. This transfer from isolationism got the US way more involved and in touch with the rest of the world. This change affected the United States in three major ways. It made the United States a…

What was the Great Depression? The Great Depression was a horrible and depressing time for the United States. The United States faced many crashes in the stock market. However, the stock market that crashed in October 29, 1929 was very severe to the point it engendered the Great Depression. The times became so difficult and hard to the point people started killing themselves. The numbers of people commiting suicide in the Great Depression “ averaged 12.1 per 100,000 people in the decade prior…

Eastern Hemisphere and to return to the isolationist policies of their founding father, George Washington. American, for the most part, practiced these ideals of Washington in the 1920s and 1930s; however, during the 1940s a shift in the mood of the United States was present through the various legislations passed and actions taken. Ultimately, the attack on Pearl Harbor triggered the US’ entrance into World War II, but until…

Previous to the lunch counter sit-in in Jackson Mississippi racial tensions were already rising in the United States, particularly in the south. The post war economic boom and the Brown vs. Board of Education case in 1954 made the times ripe for dramatic shifts in the American culture. Prior to the sit in African Americans had already begun organizing events with huge turnouts, and shortly after the sit in we witnessed the rise of Martin Luther King Jr. with his I have a dream speech. His…

some variance in what students read from school to school. Many countries have a set literary canon that requires all high school students to read the same books, no matter what school they go to because these books are deemed important. In the United States there is not a national curriculum, so the texts that students read may be different at different schools. Whether or not a canon should be implemented is a topic that is commonly discussed, and one that is associated with controversy.…