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    The United States of America has always been involved with wars. From the American Revolution to the Iraq war, the U.S. is there. Now, when a country gets in a war, there are obviously positives and negatives associated with getting involved in a war, whether it is needed that they get into a war or not. Death is a serious negative when it comes to war, but if you look at the long term consequences that might come out of a war, then this might greatly affect the country. From an economic standpoint

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    Democracy in USA In the United States we praise democracy and are proud to be a very democratic nation. The United States constitution was the first to demonstrate a formal blueprint for modern democracy in 1788. The democratic system today is still based on the restricted franchise, but the American system today points towards a fully democratic system more than anywhere else in the world. The American democracy mainly arrived from the Britain. It was in 1796 elections when John Adam was elected

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    fourth times. I arrived in United States on July twentieth 2000. The air was very dried and extremely sizzling. United States’ unwelcoming was just great because Korea and America temperature was totally opposite. I often visited America because my relatives were settled here before I was born. My father side of the families came to the United States 40 years ago and my father received education in the United States. I did not know if I was going to settle in the United States until my father was sick

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    China and the United States has its own unique culture. What is culture? According to Kluckhohn and Kroeber ‘Culture consists in patterned ways of thinking, feeling, and reacting, acquired and transmitted mainly by symbols, constituting the distinctive achievements of human groups’ (Dowling, Festing, & Engle, 2013, p. 24). There are many interesting facts surrounding their culture. In this paper I will compare China’s culture to the culture of the United States to determine if China is a good match

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    company. During the 21st century, the economy of United States have changed due to the industries that have been selected to be privatized by the government such as transportation, education and health care. Private sectors in the United States have taken control of these industries which is formally controlled by the government. It is noticeable that, the presence of privatization in the United States during the 21st century has affected the United States citizen negatively. The transportation

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    right away, the United States had acquired a massive overseas empire. Some Americans expressed disbelief over the control of the Philippines, but expansionists wanted to join the entire archipelago. Believers of extension viewed the Philippines as a market in their own way and as the entrance to the markets of the East. Many Americans, including the president, were influenced by "the general idea of getting what we can get." After the treaty with Spain on December 1898, the United States of America did

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    have been indoctrinated that the United States and capitalism are the moral choices in the perceptions of government. These views of our history are rooted in our countries past, and since we learn from our pasts, we carry forward a view of the United States moral dominance in world affairs. Yet during the cold war, the United States was not the only country portrayed as the moral center of the world. After the end of World War Two, the Soviet Union and the United States fought a war of words, the Cold

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    Moving to United States

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    Moving to United States The most memorable event in my life was when we moved out from Russia to a country that changes lives and is known as a dream land called the United States of America. When we sat on the airplane that was going toward the United States in August of 2004, we knew our lives are going to be changed in the way we always wanted them to. After twelve years of not going to school and being discriminated by Russian citizens, this moving to a new country was the most amazing, not

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    The united states of america has been in many world affairs since its creation. One of the earliest international events that can be attributed to having direct links with the Great Depression was the Manchurian Crisis of 1931. War had broken out between China and Japan, who had both suffered due to the counter measures and high tariffs set by America and Europe to combat the Great Depression. Japanese army officers in Manchuria manufactured an incident, took over the province and on their own created

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    The United States prides itself as a nation with a government that treats its citizens with equality regardless of race and ethnicity. Based on this country’s legal actions, is that an accurate description? The people of the United States are divided into different groups based on the color of their skin. The divisions created racism and eventually led to segregation. The segregation of African Americans and white people led to the passing of the Jim Crow laws. These laws strengthened Southern segregation

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