United States Navy Hospital Corpsman

Contemporary writing is one of my favorite styles of writing as it is an approach that forces the reader to think critically about a topic as it questions everything about our culture, values, and various forms of art. One contemporary piece that especially intrigued me while studying this period was “America” written by Tony Hoagland due to the simple yet powerful questions that it raises about American life. It is an interesting commentary on how American society has begun to put money ahead…

Conservation Corps or the CCC. The CCC was ran with a militaristic style; when the workers finished with the Corp, most went on to the army due to this reason. The lend-lease allowed America to start being an imperialistic country. Before The United States was an isolationist country, they did not want and foreign pressure in America. They did this by stop aiding countries, selling to them, and buying from them. The lend-lease changed this which allowed America to increase its exports due to the…

Chobani I. The Market In the past decade Greek yogurt has become U.S. consumers’ popular choice of yogurt, so much so that it accounts for one quarter of total U.S. yogurt market. Chobani pounced on the growth of Greek yogurt and created a rich, low-fat, and high-protein Greek yogurt. (America’s) Other yogurt companies saw the potential in Greek yogurt and they decided to follow in Chobani’s footsteps. Chobani’s competitors include; Yoplait, Dannon, and Stonyfield Farm, along with generic…

war, which was the bloodiest war in history during this time, and just party, but when world war two started with the invasion of Poland the United States was dead set on not getting involved in another war. This mentality worked until December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was hugely significant in that it…

Shattered society The shattered society The shattered society was an era of immense change that occurred in the United States of America for ten years between the years of nineteen sixty three and nineteen seventy three and marked America socially, shaping it the way it is today . It started with the assassination of the president thirty fifth president of the United States of America ;John F. Kennedy , who died on the 22 November 1963 at Dealey plaza in Dallas, Texas at twelve past…

According to Judith N. Martin and Thomas K Nakayama (2014), the characteristics that White people in the United States share are: an advantage of race privilege, which involving better access to education, opportunities, jobs and other. Such advantage, in turn, causes large disparity in the poverty levels between the minority such as Blacks and Hispanics and the White majority. The poverty level in 2010 for these two groups fell at 27.4 % and 26.6 % respectively. At the same time, the poverty…

father was frequently stationed from one place to another. Over time I grew accustomed to moving from one country to another, however, the biggest struggle I faced was when I moved to the Philippines for high school once my father retired from the Navy. Despite being a Filipino-American, I was still faced with discrimination, which I struggled with for years. Another struggle I faced was the language barrier, as I only knew a few basic words at the time, and I constantly experienced problems…

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…