-
Public Services Low Income
1,113 wordsPeter Schrag presents the ills of Californiafs current politics in an angry and persuasive tone. He says California used to be got model and magnet for the nation - in its economic opportunities, its social outlook, and its high-quality public services and institute; however, California started to fade after the passage of Proposition 13, the initiative of tax limits (7). Schrag work clearly shows what is the problem in today California, and it is easy to understand even for those who have littl...
Free research essays on topics related to: low income, political power, educational system, high quality, public services -
Skilled Labor Labor Unions
430 wordsHIGH TECH COMPANIES SEEK TO HIRE MORE FOREIGN WORKERS Milwaukee Journal Business Section February 13, 2000 High technology companies that are asking congress to allow more foreigners to fill the labor shortage of skilled labor. Every year approximately 100, 000 jobs for educated workers in the high-tech. industry are created. Currently there are 115, 000 foreigners working in the United States with 6 -year visas. These workers are college educated and some are paid over $ 60, 000 per year. One o...
Free research essays on topics related to: high tech, skilled labor, labor unions, foreign workers, global market -
Forms Of Government Type Of Government
1,631 wordsDemocracy is the fastest growing type of government in the world. More and more countries are revolting against their dictators and parliaments and evolving into Democracies. Democracy means the people are sovereign, government by the people. Representative institutions, therefore, derive their authority from the people and are responsible to the people. According to democratic theory, elections, political parties, and representative legislatures are means of implementing popular sovereignty. Mo...
Free research essays on topics related to: north and the south, second treatise, political parties, forms of government, type of government -
Welfare Recipients Welfare Reform
852 words"No one likes the current welfare system. " As described in a report edited by Isabel V. Sawmill, an author of The Urban Institute, not many individuals were pleased with the welfare system preceding its reform in 1996. Governors complained that federal law was overly prescriptive, and were willing to take less federal money in return for more flexibility. The public believed welfare to be an "anti-work" and "anti-family" program. Welfare recipients found dealing with the system degrading and de...
Free research essays on topics related to: welfare recipients, welfare reform, poor families, critics argue, poverty stricken -
Early Twentieth Century Jerry Dingleman Duddy
510 wordsThe novel is based in Montreal, Canada of the early twentieth century, where teachers believed in strapping and immigrants travelling to Canada to start a new life. Duddy Kravitz, a student of Fletcher Field High in the class of Mr. Macpherson, one of the few teachers who are against strapping. Many students took advantage of him, and even gambled with Jerry Dingleman to win tickets, which were given by Mr. Macpherson to good students. Duddy is a boy, who always wants to be someone he is not. Hi...
Free research essays on topics related to: morals, duddy, jerry, early twentieth century, canadian -
Dollars A Year Run On The Bank Jurgis
778 wordsThe book begins with two people getting married, Ona Lukoszaite and Jurgis Radius Two Lithuanian immigrants who have recently arrived in Chicago. They have the wedding in the traditional Lithuanian style. Following the wedding there is a large celebration held near the Chicago stockyards. Food, beer, and music fill the hall. Following Lithuanian tradition, hungry people lingering in the doorway are invited inside to eat their fill. The musicians play badly but, do to the general festivity, no on...
Free research essays on topics related to: bride, celebration, lithuanian, jurgis, dollars a year -
Thirty Seven Power Plants
582 wordsOur world is evolving for the good and also the bad. California is progressing extremely rapidly and growing more quicker than anywhere else in the United States. Our resources, beautiful weather, job opportunities, and benefits lure in non-Californians. The population in California is dangerously increasing. Researchers predict that the states population will double in only thirty seven years. Thats sixty-five million by the year two thousand and thirty-seven. (www. Cap-s. org) A large populati...
Free research essays on topics related to: worried, homes, thirty, power plants, thirty seven -
Mike And Mary Men And Women Political
726 wordsBased on Mike and Mary Dobrejcaks experiences as described in Out of This Furnace, the working-class men and women faced difficult times as they attempted to create a better life for themselves and their families. In comparing the hardships between immigrant men and women, the challenge women faced seemed much more extreme based on economic, political and social factors. Economically, it was more difficult for women, such as Mary, to survive in a culture that considered men to be the primary bre...
Free research essays on topics related to: men and women, faced, progress, economically, mike -
Food And Drug Meat Packing
712 wordsIt's a Jungle Out There Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle (1906) gives an in depth look at the lives of the immigrant workers here in America. In fact the look was so in depth that the Pure Food and Drug Act was created as a result. Many people tend to focus purely on the unsanitary conditions instead of the hardships faced by the workers. Actually I think that Sinclair doesn't want the focus on the meatpacking, but on overcoming obstacles, especially through Socialism. Sinclair was himself very...
Free research essays on topics related to: food and drug, meat packing, packing industry, pure food, great deal -
Native Born Americans Criminal Justice System
804 wordsThe Changes and Affects on the Criminal Justice System that Occurred After the Terrorist Attacks of 9 / 11. After the attacks of 9 / 11, Americans demanded its government to tighten the domestic security policies, to prevent terrorist acts from taking place in U. S. in the future. In response to this, the government had suggested that this was to be done at the expense of taking away certain civil liberties from American citizens, while it shouldve simply reconsidered the principles of its prese...
Free research essays on topics related to: criminal justice system, native born americans, international terrorism, civil rights, civil liberties -
Spanish American War Carl Sandburg
1,796 wordsAs a child of an immigrant couple, Carl Sandburg was barely American himself, yet the life, which he had lived, has defined key aspects of our great country, and touched the hearts and minds of her people. Sandburg grew up in the American Midwest, yet spent the majority of his life traveling throughout the states. The country, which would define his style of poetry and his views of society, government, and culture, would equally be defined by his writing, lecturing, and the American dream he liv...
Free research essays on topics related to: odd jobs, carl sandburg, social democratic, industrial society, spanish american war -
Lake Michigan Great Lakes
814 wordsChicago Tim SchochChicago is a port and transportation center on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan in the state of Illinois. It has a population of 2, 783, 726 and has been the seat of Cook County since 1931. Long known as the nations second city, Chicago dropped to third place among largest U. S. cities during the 1980 s as its population declined during the decade by 7. 4 %. Its three-state metropolitan area showed a slight increase, totaling 8, 065, 633. Many of Chicagos people are offs...
Free research essays on topics related to: lake michigan, great lakes, chicago, world famous, citys -
Eastern European Jews Chinese Exclusion Act
723 wordsChinese Exclusion Act Be it enacted, That from and after the expiration of ninety days next after the passage of this act, and until the expiration of ten years next after the passage of this act, the coming of Chinese laborers to the United States be, Suspended; and During such suspension it shall not be lawful for any Chinese Laborer to come, or, having so come after the expiration of Said ninety days, to remain within the United States. (Chinese Exclusion Act, The, 257) The Chinese exclusion ...
Free research essays on topics related to: eastern european jews, anti semitism, mass immigration, chinese exclusion act, chinese immigration -
Southern Colonies Middle Colonies
365 wordsThe Colony Groups Colony Groups The New England, Middle, and Southern colonies had very different viewpoints on how life was to be lived. The New England colonies believed that the society had to stick together to survive, and they were primarily based on shipping and moving of goods. The Middle colonies were a blend of the New England and Southern colonies, with a mixture of independence from the South and unity from the North. Economically, they both farmed and shipped goods. The Southern colo...
Free research essays on topics related to: middle colonies, colonies, crops, england colonies, southern colonies -
Statue Of Liberty Ellis Island
630 wordsStatue of Liberty, national monument proclaimed in 1924. Located in New York City, the monument consists of two small islands, Liberty Island and Ellis Island, that lie in Upper New York Bay. The Statue of Liberty is located on Liberty Island. Ellis Island was once the location where most immigrants entered the United States. The Statue of Liberty is a monumental sculpture that symbolizes freedom throughout the world. Its formal name is Liberty Enlightening the World. The statue depicts a woman ...
Free research essays on topics related to: ellis island, statue of liberty, statue, liberty, york city -
Antonia Willa Cather Willa Cather Wrote Women
849 wordsWILLA CATHER WROTE WHAT SHE LIVED Sara Orne Jewett, a local colorist from Maine, once suggested that Willa Cather write from her own background. Cather followed that advice and became famous for her stories of the American frontier; especially those about heroic women who struggled to tame the prairies of Nebraska and the Southwest. Cather's first novel was published in 1912 and was called Alexanders Bridge. In 1913 came O Pioneers! which took its title from a poem by Walt Whitman. My Antonia, p...
Free research essays on topics related to: nebraska, cather, antonia, willa, willa cather -
Samuel Clemens Mark Twain
605 wordsJohn Tomlinson Mark Twain Samuel Clemens, better known by his pin name Mark Twain, was perhaps one of the most infantile writers this country will ever have. He accomplished allot throughout his life, and was able to travel around the world and live many adventures of his own. He also spent some good time exposing the inhumanities of slavery and the bad treatment of Chinese immigrants. So not only was he a very good writer but he was also cared about the well being of other humans. When Samuel C...
Free research essays on topics related to: civil war, samuel clemens, make money, chinese immigrants, mark twain -
De Mott Social Classes
727 wordsSchool the great Equalizer In his essay, I should have never quit school, D. De Mott rejects the myth that all social classes receive the same education. He supports his essay by denying that the stating line is the same for all students in the American educational system. De Mott begins his essay by giving us an example of the mythological belief that school is a fair institution where everyone begins at the same starting line. Next, De Mott gives general ideas about the American publics denial...
Free research essays on topics related to: lower class, social science, de mott, social classes, educational system -
Union Pacific Pacific Railroad
927 wordsRAILROADS AND THE GROWTH OF THE WEST The Railroad affected The United States in its own unique way. One of the most notable railroads of its time was Union Pacific Railroads first transcontinental line, the greatest and most daring engineering effort the country had yet seen. This particular line was built in the mid to late 1860 s. During this time period it is said that America had a Railroad Fever. The goals of the transcontinental railroad were varied. The railroad was seen as a new form of ...
Free research essays on topics related to: civil war, 000 men, railroad company, union pacific, pacific railroad -
Native Americans Upper Class
699 wordsThe United States in 1890 consisted of many nations-divided mainly by class. Other factors that played a major role at this time was a persons ethnicity, race, and even gender. It was a time of mass immigration from all over Europe people were flocking here in search of a new life. The African-American population was finally starting to gain some respect in the public eye. The biggest problem of this time is never really focused on throughout history. In United States alone there were approximat...
Free research essays on topics related to: 1890, african american, native americans, immigration, upper class
Customer center
