United States

topic of controversy in the United States of America. Just from watching the news each morning you can see a new headline of someone or getting shot and killed with a gun., or even a mass shooting. People actively advocate against guns; while others choose to advocate against guns.While many people want to ban guns, others me included want to keep guns for personal protection, sport, and collectors items. When it comes down to it there is one question. Should United States citizens be allowed…

The United States spends more money managing conditions than preventing them. In 2009, $2.5 trillion was allocated to health and only 3% of the total amount was spent on public health activities aimed at disease prevention (Bauer et al., 2014). With proper prevention strategies, there would be reduced occurrences of health conditions based on lifestyle. However, if there are no health prevention and promotion activities, more of the budget allocated to the health care will continue to be used in…

The United State Democracy is seen by other countries as successful, but what creates problems is the western culture rooted in the U.S. Democracy. Some countries have a more patriarchal standpoint when it comes to everyday life. The males in these countries have…

citizens and in the nineteen nineties the world population was just over five billion citizens. That is an increase of approximately half a billion people throughout the world. In the United States the population for the nineteen eighties was at two hundred twenty-six million five hundred thousand…

After the lengthy and painful election process that the United States had to witness, the word refugee may still be ringing in our heads. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the major party candidates, threw around the word with seemingly opposite connotations. The online Webster’s dictionary even goes so far as declaring it one of the top 20% of words in public use. Though it defines refugee as: “someone who has been forced to leave a country because of war or for religious or political reasons,”…

Compulsory military service would be a positive addition of responsibilities to our citizen body and would result in a safer, more responsible, and more united country. A population of generally well-trained and active people will do wonders for our general health and allow for a stronger, more vibrant nation that utilizes the potential and experience of its citizenry. Public service creates a channel by which Americans of all educational vocations and backgrounds can unite behind a common…

Race in the United States is a touchy subject to say the least. Many in this country would like to believe that racism is a thing of the past and that the United States is as equal as it has ever been. Sadly that is very incorrect. The United States has a dark history with race relations and the residue from centuries of inequality are found everywhere in our society. One area of racial inequality imbedded deep in societies foundations would be that of crime and punishment. The law fixes…

suffers from a large uninsured population, financial barriers to care, a shortage of primary care providers, and potentially important gaps in the quality of care. One who think, who the United States is a high-income country there would not be much of a health gap compared to other countries. However, the United States and it citizens tend to among unhealthy people, mainly due to their certain unhealthy behaviors. American caloric intake is very high and one reason is he a bunch of resources…

What are the different transportation modes in the United States? The transportation refers to a wide range of systems that transport good, materials and people through the United States and the World. Disruption to any of the modes of transportation in the network causes hardship for those affected. First, US Freight Railroads, are part of the Freight Rail network, they are privately owned and operated, and are a $60-billion-dollar year industry with 140,000 miles of track utilized by 565…

For years now the issue of how to handle the minimum wage in the United States has been a hotly debated topic upon many politicians. Currently, the federal minimum wage is $7.15 with the lowest minimum wage requirements being at $5.15 per hour in Georgie and Wyoming. With the cost of living rising every year and an unchanging minimum wage, many workers are struggling to make ends meet. In a hope to ease the economic burden of the minimum wage workers the Obama Administration is pushing for new…