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conducted a massive study and come to the same conclusion. While we are fond of citing the myth of rags to riches, the truth is that the majority of wealthy people come from money. Our statistics overwhelmingly support this claim. As Miles Corak states in A Great Nation if you are Born Rich, “a child born into the top 10 percent has a one-in-four chance of staying there. Conversely, children from regular households have only a one-in-seven chance of becoming wealthy themselves, and almost…

The United States Multilingualism Have you ever thought in the United States the most frequent language spoken isn’t English? Well now on days the United States is form from many people around the country which everyone brings something when they migrate to the U.S. As children we are taught English that’s the teacher goal for every student to learn English. But in my situation I was taught Spanish throughout the school until I got 2nd grade that’s when they started teaching me English. As…

produced within the United States rather than what is produced by Americans-whether in the U.S or elsewhere. GDP is designed better to give information on the state of the business cycle of the United States because it only focuses on the activity within the United States. Switching to GDP makes it easier to compare with other countries because most countries were already using GDP. What GDP measures and does not measure GDP measures the production within the United States so it measures the…

The United States of America is a melting pot of many different cultures, races, and ethnicities. The US has always retained its diversity in its citizens and simply having diversity is one of the factors that the United States prides itself in. According to information from the Census Bureau of the United States of America, as of 2015, there are approximately 321,418,820 people residing in this country. Of those 3 hundred-million plus people, there are more than five races among them all.…

practice of torture has been prohibited under The United Nation’s Declaration of Human Rights, which has been sanctioned by 155 nations (The United Nations, 1984). Nevertheless, the United States has ratified the use of torture as recently as 2008. The Bush administration allowed the use of torture methods in interrogations of individuals connected to the September 11th attacks and al-Qaeda. The United States was not the only nation that disobeyed the United Nation’s demand for a cease of…

In the United States, our governmental system is comprised of what is known to be a democracy. A democracy is a system of government where power is given to the citizens of a nation who rule through freely elected representatives. Although not many people want to admit it, but here in the U.S., democracy is dying at an absurdly fast rate, and our governmental system is quickly turning into an oligarchy. An oligarchy is a small group of people that have control of the government, rather than…

in the reduction of crimes. Currently, the U.S. has so much crime that we need to do something to limit these types of illegal acts. Moreover, the government needs to create stricter laws in order to reduce the crime rates in the United States. Crime in the United States should be reduced with the help of police for the following reasons. Innocent people are getting injured which causes them to go to the hospital and going to the hospital may create other problems. Not only, When these crimes…

law as being a member of a state. A person may have multiple citizenships and a person who does not have citizenship of any state is said to be stateless’ (Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2015.) A citizen of the united states lives under the law of the united states. So they have to follow the rules; the law of America (if there in the United states, otherwise they have to follow the law of the country they are in at that moment). In the united states there is a democracy. So…

“Democracy is a form of government in which all eligible citizens have an equal say in the decisions that affect their lives” (Harsanyi, 2014). While most believe that the United States is a democracy, considering being the first nation to adopt a democratic constitution, there are many democratic contradictions and inconsistencies of American politics that demonstrate otherwise. Hamilton described the American government as being “in the hands of the representatives of the people” (Federalist…

The Role the United States play in the World Today Being a Non-American citizen and living here for the past few years of college gives me ability to accurately judge the United States from both internal and external view. When looking from an external and internal view it is clear that the United States of America is the superpower of the world. Being the superpower I believe that there are roles that the U.S. should take. However, the role that I think the U.S. should acquire is not the role…