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Economic Essays and Term Papers
Great DepressionGreg Squires The was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which touched virtually all of the industrialized world. The Depression began in late 1929 and lasted for nearly a decade. Many factors played a role in bringing about the Depression; however, the main cause for the was ...
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Apartheid In South AfricaAPARTHEID
Apartheid is the political policy of racial segregation. In Afrikaans, it
means apartness, and it was pioneered in 1948 by the South African National
Party when it came to power.
Not only did apartheid seperate whites from non-whites, it also segregated
the Blacks (Africans) from ...
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OverpopulationThe twentieth century has drawn to a close and humanity faces the problem of being able to support its population without inducing catastrophic and irreversible destruction on Earth’s life-support systems. Throughout time, humankind has been living as though there are no consequences to its ...
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Farmers' Discontent In The 1800sThe period between 1880 and 1900 was a boom time for American
politics. The country was for once free of the threat of war, and many of
its citizens were living comfortably. However, as these two decades went
by, the American farmer found it harder and harder to live comfortably.
Crops such as ...
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Mandan IndiansThe were a small, peaceful tribe located at the mouth of the Knife River on the Missouri near present day Bismarck, North Dakota. The Mandan were most known for their friendliness and their homes, called earth lodges. The women of the Mandan tribe tended their gardens, prepared food, and ...
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Forest Managementis the maintaining and management of not only the
trees in the forest, but the streams, habitat, watersheds, and even the
decaying trees or logs on the forest floor. Managing our forests is not only
important to the wildlife, but to our future economy and way of life. We need
to continue to ...
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Communism 2The doctrine of the rights of man was faulty, according to Marx, because none of the supposed rights of man, go beyond the egoistic man, man as he is, as a member of civil society; that is, an individual separated from the community, withdrawn into himself, wholly preoccupied with his private ...
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White Silence, White SolidaritIn the article of y, the author is an Euro-American and an educator of multicultural education. What she thinks of multicultural education is a fiend that criticized as skirting around white racism, and celebrating the European ethnic immigrant experience. She thinks that white people of their ...
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Solutions For Trash And LandfiAmericans use enough cardboard each year to make a bale as big as a football field and as high as the World Trade Center Towers.
We even throw away so much aluminum every three months that we can rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.
Each person, yes, included you, in America creates about 4.4 ...
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Mikhail GorbachevOne of the most dramatic and revolutionary changes in Russian history is the restriction of the consumption of alcohol. instituted his anti-alcohol campaign on May 16, 1985 in order to decrease alcohol consumption by Soviet citizens and instead teach them the rewards of moderation. Some such ...
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ImmigrationFor many to the United States would be a new beginning during 19th to early 20th century. There were many acts and laws to limit the number immigrating to the United States. Many of these acts were due to prejudice and misunderstanding of a culture. One such act was the Chinese Exclusion Act. ...
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Cigarette Smokers Are Bad For NonsmokersI was hiking up Whistler mountain last summer to see the beautiful
view but, I turned back down the trail because of rude a smoking couple.
People should have better manners and try to smoke away from nonsmokers.
Second hand smoking is annoying and bad for your health. People may not
have noticed ...
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Sexual HarassmentMore than half of working women have faced the problem of at some point in their careers. The situation tends to be worse in male dominated workplaces; in a l997 Defense Department study, four percent of military women have reported enduring such abuse. Although the severity may vary from ...
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The Political Parties In The United StatesThe United States was the first nation to have had organized parties. The Democrat party goes back almost to the origins of the American nation.
In 1791, Jefferson and Madison went to New York to meet the anti-federalists grouped around governor George Clinton and the Tammany Club. Jefferson and ...
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The Corruption Crisis Of The EAbstract: The Corruption Scandal of the European Commission and its possible effects on the institutional balance and the question of legitimacy
The first chapter is an attempt to define corruption. It is important to divide overlapping and complicated terms such as corruption, scandal and fraud. ...
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Civil Rights Movement 3Civil rights are the freedoms and rights that a person may have as a member of a community, state, or nation. Civil rights include freedom of speech, of the press, and of religion. Among others are the right to own property and to receive fair and equal treatment from government, other persons, ...
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Between The Forest And GreedWithin the past decade there has been a rising "environmentally conscious"
movement. The spectrum of issues in contention by environmentalism has expanded
virulently and is reaching its zenith. Public dissatisfaction with the
environmental movement is forming, as the movement has taken the fight ...
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The Inequality Of American JusDavid Cole wrote, "our criminal justice system affirmatively depends on inequality" (5). Cole has substantial grounds for making this statement. Race and class have long been issues in the criminal justice system, but does the system "affirmatively depend on inequality?" Does the criminal justice ...
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Marxist Analysis Of Thomas CroFilm is a medium on which society thrives. Ever since its invention, film has managed to captivate society but offering "...sensational ‘junk food for the mind' that does not deal seriously with our social and political problems but instead diverts and entertains us" (Berger, MAT 164). ...
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Capital PunishmentThere has been many controversies in the history of the United States, ranging from abortion to gun control, but has been one of the most hotly contested issues in recent decades. is the legal infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a crime (Cox). It is not intended to inflict ...
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