The United States has prided itself on making “life‚ liberty and the pursuit of happiness” stated in its Declaration of Independence as accessible for its citizens as possible. Recently‚ the country has tried both politically and socially to reduce the exclusion and discrimination of any and all groups of people from society as evidenced by topics such as gay marriage‚ equal pay for women and the frequently debated topic concerning the constitutionality of abortion. The Fourteenth Amendment of the
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Health Care Spending in the United States HCS/440 StJohn Sturton University of phoenix‚ Augusta Campus January 10‚ 2012 Over the years the cost of health care in the United States has surpass the overall growth of the economy. Even though now days with the economy supposing to be in recession‚ more and more Americans are trying to make good on health care spending than using it toward other diversions that they could have spent it on. Why? First‚ healthcare expenditure is on a different
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The Vietnam War and the United States The Vietnam War (1965-1975) was fought between the North and South Vietnam. The North was called Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the South was the Republic of Vietnam which was supported by the United States. The war was extremely costly‚ United States spending over $150 billion dollars. It started with good intentions that got lost in the lengthy battle for the North’s freedom and hopes that America would put a stop to the communistic presence from overtaking
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similar terms such as transsexual and “trans” have been used as well. Non-conformity‚ in terms of gender especially‚ tends to evoke uncertainty in terms of law‚ which is most likely why transgender people are not explicitly offered rights. Some of the most groundbreaking cases have resulted in making law‚ creating rights for transgender individuals. However‚ while tolerance of transgender people as a whole has evolved‚ the consistency in granting rights has
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The United States in one of the richest‚ most populous and most powerful countries in the world and plays a central leadership role in the world. On the world stage‚ the U.S. often challenges other countries about their records regarding human rights. Yet the United States is failing its own citizens by not granting every citizen access to basic health care. Many citizens in the United States needlessly suffer and die each day due to the inequities of the health care system in the U.S. This is a
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Segregation in the United Sates has been a controversal topic throughout history. With many people turning on African Americans or black people. The 1960s were a growth of progress within a small amount of time. Before the Civil rights movement in the 1960s‚ many schools were segregated‚ with white people in one school and black people in another. In that time period black people were highly discriminated against. It would have been very uncommon for a white person to have a black friend or
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Drug use and abuse has been an American issue since the 1800’s. This country’s early struggles included insignificant‚ by today’s standards‚ issues such as trying to prevent farmers from manufacturing their own whiskey (Brown Jr.‚ 1981). When one considers the current task of trying to keep entire communities from being destroyed by the effects of the trafficking of illegal drugs; there is no comparison. When most people hear the term drug trafficking‚ they automatically think of smuggling illegal
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communications‚ particularly e-mail and fax machines‚ are the main reasons for this decline. However‚ the weak economy over the last couple of years has also contributed to this decline. Finally‚ the extremely competitive environment of express mail has an effect on USPS ’ volume. As standard mail becomes obsolete and the electronic revolution takes over‚ the United States Postal Service needs to develop a new strategic action plan in order to adapt and sustain profitability in this dynamic environment. There
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ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES IN WW2 AND THE HOLOCAUST World War II (WW2) was a military conflict that began in 1939. It came to be the worst war in human history based of the loss of lives and material destroyed. Though it began as a European conflict between Germans and the French coalition‚ it spread to include other nations of the world like the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States of America (US). Boundaries and lines between combatants and non-combatants blurred with
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The United States is a capitalism nation‚ which is a normal phenomenon to have a wealth inequality. Otherwise‚ it would be a communism nation. However‚ when the wealth gap is too wide‚ there would be a big problem. In recent years‚ the wealth gap has expanded historically and unprecedentedly wide. The middle class and working class people start suffering. If the gap keeps expanding‚ the United States will be destroying by this economic issue. A better way describing this situation‚ The United State
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