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the American Dream Still Possible?”(David Wallechinsky 55) implies that even tho in the 21 century will all the many new innovative ways to be successful with the internet, that it is still hard for many families to survive financially in the United States. “Michelle, 19, is a freshman at the University of California at Merced. She says she is concerned about the financial burden her education is placing on her family”(David Wallechinsky 57), being a student at a prestigious university can be…

sex trafficking not only in suburban areas but potentially across the United States and around the world, much like other national and international organizations.…

message, fight and display support for our democracy, or become a traitor in the eyes of an entire nation. Refusing to purchase a Liberty Bond or protest the war could be very life threatening due to the rampant nationalism found throughout the United States. The government used the people’s very own fears as a tool for homogenization, vigilante groups began popping up with a deep seated sentiment towards the enemy, Germans were being lynched, curriculum in schools were being adjusted to show…

All these communities that tend to reside in specific places in the United States tend to lack many things including money and that is one of the main reasons of why they start to move to different areas. One of the biggest examples is given by the author Castañeda in her article, “The history of Mexican Americans in this country…

The changing foreign policy and alliances during World War 2 (1939-1945) saw Australia begin to shift its dependence from Britain to the United States of America (USA), due to threatening attacks from Japan, consequently impacting Australia’s participation in the war and the shaping of the nation’s policies and identity. As the Axis forces continued to advance with Japan at the forefront, threat toward Australia grew and the country questioned their connection with their ‘Mother Country’.…

the reputation of obesity and its interconnected diseases in the Unites States has increased sharply. Ever since the early 1970s, the segment of children ages six to nineteen has been categorized as being overweight has been more than triplicated, from 5 % to 17%, even though the segment of adults categorized as overweight or plump beginning 1/2 to 2/3 of the population. Everybody comes to an understanding that the United States has experienced an exceptional heaviness widespread in the past 30…

Imagine the idea of, “These United States”, instead of “The United States”. A country without controversy, is a country that doesn’t care. While a revolutionary is one that leads change, on the contrary, a rebel is one that elicits change. A rebel is intellectual, hard-headed, and critical of the current order of either government, society, or human nature. During the nineteenth century, Henry David Thoreau was a philosopher, writer, abolitionist, and most notably, had conflicting theory…

specific ideology, with an aim to spread it around the world. As stated in the policy, the Soviet Union “…is animated by a new fanatic faith” (Foner 217), with that faith being communism, which stripped people of their individual freedoms. The United States viewed this as a threat, specifically because communism was a direct contrast to its own beliefs and ideologies. In addition to their strong belief in communism, the Soviet Union was also different from previous powers due to its aim to…

In Jim Cullen “The American Dream”, Cullen argues that in order to obtain the American Dream you must continuously strive for what you want no matter what the circumstances are. Cullen explores different aspects of the American Dream and shows how it shaped the American identity. Two aspects Cullen describes is the pursuit of happiness and work ethic. Cullen describes pursuit of happiness as the bases of the whole American Dream as in if one wants to pursue happiness then they must do all the…

I found a survey conducted in Germany and the United states on the attitude of a proposed trading agreement between the two countries. The data shows that younger generations are more supportive of economic trade with Germany than the older generations. The article states “…young Americans (67%), those ages 18 to 29, are significantly more in favor of TTIP than their elders (45%), age 50 and older (Support)”. These results make me wonder if this difference of opinion comes from the knowledge…