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  • Education America
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    Answer America's Call Throughout the history of America there have been several different answers to her call. Every different time period has had it's own call, from the days of Jefferson and the Constitution, to the days of Kennedy and the Vietnam conflict. What is this generation's call? With the Cold War dead and behind us, America is calling from a different line. No longer is America in need of a sophisticated high budget military, but for new minds and ideas. Long gone are the days of fig...
  • America's Continental Empire
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    Building and Keeping a Continental Empire Alive There are five key ingredients in building a continental empire. A strong continental empire must be able to up-hold these five key things to survive. These five all important things are a strong central government; foreign policy, to deal with other countries; manifest destiny, to deal with matters of land; infrastructure, which deals with state business, transportation, and financial matters; and the ability to solve internal problems such as soc...
  • Writings Of John Smith
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    John Smith is one of the most famous people in American literature history. He was a dedicated man to his country of England, and wanted nothing more than to claim America in the name of the king. During his adventures to the new land he encountered many new things and people including a young Native American woman named Pocahontas. He also wrote many journals enticing people to want to come to America. This shall tell you the story of John Smith from his journeys as a young man all the way to w...
  • Chinese Immigration Effects Present Times In America
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    America is made up of every nationality on this planet. There is at least one person of each race and nationality on this continent. Immigrants impact our way of life more than we really know. America is assimilation and a multiculturalism collection of this world's people. When the Americas were first discovered, it was just mere occasions where a fisherman had landed in the Americas and was not aware of what he had found. The actual finding that this was a new continent was monumental. New peo...
  • America
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    In the early 1900's, America was looked upon as being The land of Opportunity. Immigrants looked to the United States as a place where they could begin to rebuild their lives with a fresh new start. America soon began to be called the melting pot of the world. Immigrants were no longer Irish, French, or German. They were American. Immigrants were assimilated into the American way of life. They gave up their individuality. Towards the end of the century, people began to realize the importance of ...
  • War And People
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    Despite the fact that the war happened in continents far away, the war had a great effect on modern North American life. For one thing, it helped end the depression. The poverty of the 1930's seemed to disappear almost overnight as North America made weapons for the war effort. The economy was re energized. Finally, people had jobs again. The second world war also lead to the development of the atomic bomb. This helped to make America the super-power that it is today. People are scared of the U....
  • Acceptance Of Many Diverse People
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    In his series of essays and 'letters' on American life, Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crevecoeur gives his readers numerous examples of the superiority of America to all other countries of that time. He believes that one reason for superiority is that America is with out the aristocracy so prevalent in Europe at the time, which led to a hardworking and socially equal society. Another reasonCrevecoeur sees America as a superior society is the accepting, and assimilating into one new race, the poor peo...
  • Lot For The People Of America
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    "Sometimes lies are more dependable than the truth " From this I learned that reality can be harsh and not what you want to hear all the time so people lie to make themselves feel better. In the book Ender says this because he doesn't want to face the fact that he can no longer be with is family and he will be in battle school. I also learned that people do not lie on purpose, but they instead they do not notice that they are lying because they truly think it is the best thing to do at the time....
  • Universal Draft
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    Draft vs. Doom The draft is a taboo subject in America, but regardless of its controversy it is a subject that must be examined. The daft, however rash, is essential for America in case of a national emergency. Many people in this age of America lack patriotism for their country. Of course, many citizens ignore the fact that they are living in one of the only countries that offer you freedom and the choice to succeed as far as you want. However, "Of those to whom much is given, much is required"...
  • American Dream Promise Of America
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    Color of America Essay 1.) During the last few centuries many people have migrated to America. One of the main reasons for that is that they all hear about the American Dream and the Promise of America. The American Dream / Promise of America is pretty much a false idea. People from many different places hear that there is freedom and fairness here in this nation, and they hear that there is opportunity in America for everyone and that everyone had a word in things. This promise wasn't really a ...
  • People About Gun Violence In America
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    'Taking an aim back at America' Bowling For Columbine is a well-directed documentary that informs people about gun violence in America. Michael Moore is successful in showing that America has been going through many gun tragedies; and portrays the sense that America's problems are out of control. He conveys this through informative facts, images, and comparisons. Throughout the film Michael Moore throws many cold facts on the screen that makes it obvious that the strong nation of America is unru...
  • America
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    Eric Carlson Promoting America - an awesome challenge America, the country which I believe is still the land of opportunity, gives many benefits to its citizens, and sticks to all its own slogans. America has a democratic government "of the people for the people". I believe those words "of the people for the people" is the best words spoken from our forefathers. Those words mean we all as people no matter what, we are the pillars of America's constitution. America, has no official language which...
  • America During The Terrorism Attacks
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    Many people are protesting the United States' current military involvement in Afghanistan. These protestors should not be pacifist people because many people were killed in America during the terrorism attacks when America didn't even do anything to cause this attack. They should be behind all the decisions the United States government makes. If the military did not go to war, then there will be many more terrorist attacks. Protestors should not condemn the attacks on the country of Afghanistan....
  • Good People Of America
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    "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing". People look in the face of evil like it does not affect their daily life. Why do people stand aside while evil is in their midst? In this essay, I will show that it is unfortunately common for people to remain quiet while injustice flares up like wildfire. A good person who does nothing to help and improve on the wrongs of man is as guilty as the bad person himself. In my life I have seen time and time again the way people igno...
  • Future Sociologist A Scientist Of People
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    What classifies us as being American citizens Why is there an America Why is America admired throughout the world In all these answers one would tell you democracy. As a global society America is the eager teenager protesting their new thought democracy. Democracy, a principle that has created enemies and friends, war and even model governments all over the world. According to the Merriam Webster dictionary the definition of democracy is a government by the people; the people hold rule of majori...
  • Assimilation Of People Into American Society
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    Several years ago, America was taught to be a 'melting pot,' a place where immigrants of different cultures or races form an integrated society, but now America is more of a 'salad bowl' where instead of forming an incorporated entity the people who make up the bowl are unwilling to unite as one. America started as an immigrant nation and has continued to be so. People all over the world come to America for several reasons. Most people come to America voluntarily, but very few come unwillingly. ...
  • Reform To America Through Religion
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    America experienced many kinds of reforms during the time period between 1825 and 1850. The different types of reform movements in the United States during this time period sought to expand democratic ideals through religious, women's, and social reforms. The era's reformers were portrayed as idealistic altruistic crusaders who intended to improve American society. Church attendance was still a regular ritual for about three-fourths of Americans. In fact, Alexis de Tocqueville declared that ther...
  • People In The 1900's
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    The reasons why people come to America today, and those who came in the late 1800's and early 1900's are very different but also pretty much the same. People who came to US in the 1900's were mostly poor, unqualified people who came for religious freedom, and an end to religious persecution. Every kind of person came to America for different reasons. Jewish people came from Eastern Europe because they could not get a good education in a country where there is anti-Semitism. In some Eastern Europ...
  • America
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    well to start of this essay id like to say that anyone who thinks that the internet is a good way to find good accurate information on certain topics is a tree hugging hippie that aint ever tried it before! ... alright now that thats out of the way... back in the cold war days president re agen was all scared thinkin that the soviets would start shootin at us with all them nukes that they got and he didnt want to be the president that let america go to hell so he thinks we need a way to protect ...
  • Defenseless Civilians Of Iraq And Afghanistan
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    I've recently read an article in local newspaper referring to the latest Terrorist attacks in Madrid, Spain. The media coverage of this event will be widespread for the rest of the week, but after people have heard it enough times, they will lose interest. And since it didn't happen in America, I doubt it will be heard of for much more then a week. This brings me to people's views on not only how and why terrorists are driven to such great lengths distorted, but also why their opinions are taint...

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