Social Problems with America Essay

Everyone knows what the word poverty means. It means poor, unable to buy the necessities to survive in today's world. We do not realize how easy it is for a person to fall into poverty: A lost job, a sudden illness, a death in the family or the endless cycle of being born into poverty and not knowing how to overcome it. There are so many children in poverty and a family's structure can effect the outcome. Most of the people who are at the poverty level need some type of help to overcome the obstacles. There are mane issues that deal with poverty and many things that can be done to stop it.

I believe that America is facing a great deal of problems at this time; however, the top four issues in my opinion are economic instability, unemployment, gun control and limitations on Constitutional rights. I selected my top four based upon how the issue impacts American citizens and their families. I also selected things that I

     The first major social problem facing America today is the crisis of births to unmarried woman. In “Straight Line to Calamity” George Will writes, “rising illegitimacy is a self-reinforcing trend because of the many mechanisms of

On Christmas Eve in 2010, my grandmother received a gift from a hospice nurse who was assisting with my grandfather’s deteriorating health. Initially both surprised and embarrassed by the gesture, her emotions quickly changed once she removed the wrapping. A single package of Ramen Noodles was revealed. Embarrassment changed to confusion as she attempted to wrap her mind around what she had received. The hospice worker drove a 1997 Plymouth Voyager that she regularly complained about not being able to run properly for more than a week. She wore old worn out clothing and my grandmother claims she had never seen the woman wear jewelry before. It was evident that she was not wealthy. Although she could not afford a gift, the nurse in her

The issue of poverty in the United States seems to lie on the grounds of race education and family structure. As expected I found that educational levels paralleled poverty levels. Unexpected , research was found to prove that race did in fact play a substantial role in poverty. Family structure along with other influential factors either locked an individual into poverty or provided a means for escape from the continuing cycle. Other factors contributing to poverty was the location of homes or neighborhoods and the accessibility to better paying jobs.

In order to fix the dysfunctional structure of America, we must Better educate our voters and make them more involved in current affairs to create the most efficient electorate that will choose the best political leader based on the country's situation. Despite having the most powerful job in America, the president truly doesn't have much power. The electorate controls which politicians will represent the government; voters have the most influence in the affairs of America. If the electorate is better educated and scientifically literate, then choosing the best leader that will lead the country for the beats interests of America won't be as problematic as it has been in the past.

Looking in the mirror and seeing our self-grow, and change is surprising. Whenever we stop for a minute and think about our life everything is different. Not only you and I changed; the place we live in changed too. Anyone can tell that American society is changing from day to day. Changes usually don’t come fast, even though we are impatient to wait. America’s society changed day by day, time by time, and year by year.

The choice to use an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were two of the biggest decisions that were made in the twentieth century and the effects were felt all around the world. Andrew J. Rotter, the author, “Hiroshima: The World’s Bomb” is a Professor of History at Colgate University who specialized in recent US history and the Vietnam War. He has also written on United State-Asian relations during the twentieth century, including the books, “The Path to Vietnam” and “Comrades at Odds: India and the United States.” Rotter writes this book to make the argument that the creations of the atomic bomb was not just an America inventions, but rather a world wide effort that developed over decades, even if many people did not know what their discoveries and hard work would be used for. This book was written in a very clear and concise manner that allowed for someone, like myself, who does not have a background in nuclear physics, to understand how the making of the atomic bomb was an international effort.

The well-being of our country can be greatly helped or threatened by major events or changes. Recently, events such as the 2016 presidential election and changes such as decreases in people striving to lose weight and the obesity rate increasing have considerably affected the well-being of the United States. These events and changes have directly affected the people of our country and will continue to affect our people until something has been done in addressing them.

Ironically, approximately twenty years later, the United States of America was blamed for doing just that. Arguably, the entire Atomic Bomb situation began on August 2, 1939, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt received a letter revealing by purifying uranium 235 one had the potential to create a bomb. It also revealed the efforts in Nazi Germany to create a bomb (Bellis 1). In response to this letter, a secret government project called the “Manhattan Project”, began (Bellis 1).

Several terrorist organizations have claimed to possess small tactical nuclear weapons acquired from the former Soviet Union. This is the most possible likely method of acquisition but its probability of becoming a reality are very low. In the 1990s a terrorist organization out of Japan was well funded and attempted to purchase nuclear weapons from the failing Soviet Union (Bergen 2010, 1). Both official and unofficial channels were explored and neither proved successful. Even during its collapse, the most chaotic time in recent memory, soviet nuclear devices were not being made available for sale, even to those with large

Throughout United States history, power of the upper class has been maintained by assigning “different” people a lower, less desirable, place in society, predisposing them to social inequalities. Social stratification creates a system of social classes in which people born into a specific class have different “life chances” (Macionis 28). These classes are somewhat maintained by the fact that people tend to “take care of their own,” meaning that members of the upper class generally favor other members of the upper class and offer opportunities for advancement in society to those they feel most similar to (Doran). People from lower socioeconomic classes generally experience less life opportunity, have increased poverty and therefore have

Technological weapons made from nuclear are other possible weapons that are mass-casualty that can be used in the future decade of attacks (Blair and Dennis [220], 24-25). A nuclear weapon is not only a security perturb of the U.S, but also a global concern. Consequently, U.S security defense team should put more effort in halting the illegal marketing of nuclear substances to terrorist groups like al-Qaida or any other terrorist group.

Many countries have been greatly influenced by the dangerous amounts of power of these weapons and have taken it upon themselves to add these weapons of mass destruction to their arsenal. This sparked the Cold War which was a massive tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold War left everybody in a state of terror. Nobody knew if or when there was going to be a nuclear attack on the United States. The risk of the Soviet Union launching a nuclear attack was very high, which led the American Government to keep a buildup of arms which included the deadly nuclear bomb to prepare for a counterattack if necessary. “The ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation had a great

When it comes to the topic of social problems, most of us will readily agree that the United States has its fair share of issues. Where this agreement usually ends, however, surrounds the question of where these problems originate. Whereas some are convinced that it is an individual’s problem, others maintain that it is the system-based issue (Eitzen et al., 12). Through the use of Social Problems by D. Stanley Eitzen et al. throughout this course, the authors discuss the causes and solutions of social problems such as the inequality towards sexual orientation, gender, race and poverty, from a systemic perspective. Although I agree with the author’s systemic view on those issues, I cannot fully accept putting blame solely on our social