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further states that although the Model Minority Stereotype seems misleadingly positive on the surface, it is erroneous and distorted, which proves as a liability for many Asian Americans. The Model Minority stereotype unintentionally downplays and degrades other nationalities. Therefore, Asian Americans bear a higher vulnerability to harassment, hate crime, and discrimination compared to other ethnic groups on top of the huge encumbrance parents and society has already placed…

The program’s focus on strategy to strengthen the United States’ diplomacy initiatives and is ideal for students like myself who want to develop knowledge on rebuilding diplomatic relationships and how poor diplomacy affects countries and its citizens. This in particular is a research topic that highly interests me; my experience in Argentina, which has poor relations with the United States and neighboring Chile, has given me insight into how it can affect an economy and…

APPLICATION OF CONTRACTS After Forest Park filed the suit against USA Network, it argued that California law should govern the contract, while USA Network argued New York state law should apply. Under California law, “contracts created by conduct are just as valid as contracts formed with words” (California Civil Jury Instructions). However, New York State requires that an enforceable contract must have a specified and agreed upon price. After much discussion, the court decided that California…

Vietnam Video With the Cold War in full effect during the 1960’s, America faced a new type of war. A war fought to save the Southeast Asian country of Vietnam from communism. Many people did not know where this country was but they were told that it needed to be secured in order to protect democracy in the rest of Southeast Asia. Some men signed up to fight voluntarily, others were forced into the war through a draft. The war that was signed up for, turned out to be completely different. It…

The fall of the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon was the final piece to end the Vietnam War. In late April 1975 the North Vietnamese army were knocking on the doorsteps of Saigon. Knowing this the United States knew that they would quickly become unwelcome when the city fell so all the remaining Americans evacuated as soon as possible. Soon after on the 30th of April 1975 the South Vietnamese president, General Duong Van Minh surrendered the capital to the North. When surrendering the capital,…

thing that should be separated by color, not people. In the United States people are separated and limited to what they can do based on their color. There are the whites, blacks and rednecks. The white people are represented as the one with power and able to do anything. They see blacks as the cruel, rude and bad people. Lastly they see the rednecks as the lazy, worthless people. It's a shame that for hundreds of years; the united states has went back as cruel as 70 years ago where people…

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor heralded an unfortunate era for Japanese-Americans due to the decisions made by the United States government. At the time, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decried the attack as an event “which will live in infamy,” unanimously uniting the Houses of Congress behind him with a declaration of war against Japan (Roosevelt). With the military and navy ordered to use “ all measures...for our defense,” a policy of internment for Japanese-Americans emerged…

mores, gender roles, hair styles, and dress all changed profoundly during the 1920s. But for many others, the United States seemed to be changing in undesirable ways. The result was a thinly veiled "cultural civil war," in which a pluralistic society clashed bitterly over such issues as foreign immigration, evolution, the Ku Klux Klan, prohibition, women’s roles, and race. ” The United States closed the doors to all breweries, distilleries and saloons which was the beginning of Prohibition.…

In terms of the economy, the amount of defense spending of the United States’ during the Cold War Era was significantly smaller compared to the spending during World War I and II, with the second World War being the largest of the three. With that being stated, at the end of World War II, defense spending sharply decreased, but increased again in 1947, being the marked beginning of the Cold War, and proceeded to fluctuate, notably in the early 1950s signifying the Korean War and from 1955-1975…

Why are so many Americans obese? Many Americans overlook this question and the topic of obesity. Little do people know obesity is more common in the United States than people realize. The obesity rate continues to rise every year. Mississippi is considered the “most obese” state in the United States. Is it because they do not care? The United States is one of the most obese countries in the world; American obesity is due to eating out frequently, the cost of healthy food being more expensive,…