The United States

Cultures using hyphenated forms of “American,” such as Mexican-American, African-American, Asian-American, Native-American and many more is a step in the right direction for culture acceptance. With this positive move in the world, there could be a change in how cultures view themselves, leading to how others view them. The multicultural society has to take into account for this change because without their acceptance it would just be hate. Bharati Mukherjee in her essay “American Dreamer,” asserts, “WE MUST BE ALERT TO THE DANGERS OF AN ‘US’ vs. ‘THEM’ MENTALITY.” Although Mukherjee has a great point here, I have to disagree. I don’t feel that we have to be aware of the ‘US’ versus ‘THEM’ mentality with the change in cultural acceptance.

Since its inhabitance, competition and dominance has been a concept that remains prevalent throughout American life. Past ideologies such as Manifest Destiny, Cultural Imperialism, and Ethnocentrism are all practices and beliefs comprising what it means to be American for many citizens, while also continually shaping outside perception of Americans today. On one hand, many countries have and continue to fully embrace American culture, globalization, and the rise of capitalism. In contrast, many countries have and continue to reject America’s stride for world assimilation regarding their ideals and values.

After the War of 1812, America initially sank into a time of economic regression and the public began to lose faith in the government. The United States was in debt, British products flooded the ports, and many citizens became more concerned of their own welfare compared to the country’s. However, through years of improvement and hard work, the United States began to prove itself once again to the foreign countries. Beginning in the 1800’s, the technological developments began to greatly transformed the United States. At first, many people considered America to be a weak and undeveloped state, however, throughout the years, America slowly began to prove to the other countries that it is becoming a strong and independent state. In the end, America became an industrialized country, domestic trade became popular, and the transportation system in the country was

Every single person in creation has heard the word “America”. Each individual on the planet has expressed emotion over hearing the term “America”. Some say even the infinite far reaches of the universe have trembled in fear of “America”. Limitless discussions were made on what immensity the country has done for the world and how much importance they have over all realm. “The Americans were first to land on the moon”, “America have just built the first nuclear reactor”. Mankind fear as well as respect the nation as being the most powerful country in the world that will rightly lead the planet into fulfillment. America today is one of the most vital pillars supporting the human race, and over time they have been evolving to further succeed in life as well as trying to push humanity a step forward into the vast, infinite sciences of the universe, trying to drive civilization into absolute attainment. You could even say that without this

The basic explanation of what this compromise was, is basically a package of 5 different bills that the United states Congress passed in 1850. That is not all though, for it is rather more complicated than just being 5 different bills. to further understand the compromise, you need to think back to the slave and free states of our country at this time.

SEAL Team One had furnished two ‘volunteer’ teams for the Panama Mission. Both teams boarded the single C-17 that was provided with the additional fuel tanks, one team would be dropped by parachute with the newly modified short wave radios at the Pacific side of the canal. The modified radios still have the distance to transmit any place in the world given the proper antenna dimensions. However, the radios were designed to be compact and given a hardened casing that would better protect them for military use. They all used either hand-powered generators or AC current.

The United States was constructed into a democratic society, therefore establishing the power of American citizens. Once the rights and protections of Americans were authorized, the citizens needed the government to insure them, which often comes by law enforcement. Law enforcement agencies are a major component of the criminal justice system, which enforces the law and provides the community with protection. However, in some cities law enforcement has been unable to ensure consistent protection for citizens, due to lack of resources. The budget cuts in California dating back to 2008 are still negatively affecting cities in the state. For example, Oakland Police Department cut back on traffic stops, drug investigation, property crime, and

In the 1900’s, the United States has expanded their trading routes with oriental lands such as the Philippines. A striking speech, delivered by a first-term republican senator, Albert J. Beveridge, strongly advocates the annexation of the Philippine islands to the USA. The most striking points about the senator’s speech are his three poorly thought out reasons justifying Americans to colonize the Philippines, which were religion, profit, and race.

In truth, its history dates back as far as the sixteenth century, following the first great expansion of European capitalism, which resulted in slave trade, colonialism and neo-colonialism (Ezema, 2009). Throughout history, world powers have continually sought to perpetuate their way of life: from the philosophy and mythology of the Greeks, the political ideologies and linguistics of the Romans, and the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance (Daghrir, 2013). Thus, it comes as no surprise that the aftermath of the post-war era, which saw the collapse of Soviet communism and the emergence of the United States as the sole hegemon, saw the aggressive spread of American ideals, values, and beliefs. Indeed, just as American goods flooded world markets in the post-World War II era; American culture now penetrates every continent through the aggressive development of mass communications, trade expansion and information technology.

It has been seven years since the largest and most powerful capitalist country in the world faced an uncertain and volatile financial meltdown that affected domestic and international soils. The United States of America (USA) was hit by a recession that began in early 2007, under the leadership of President George W. Bush.

Recently emerging as a significant trend amongst the health-conscious community, quinoa has become a symbol of healthy and organic living across America. Due to this sudden rise in demand, this Bolivian superfood has been hitting the shelves of stores around the country faster than ever. This journey to American supermarket shelves is one that has recently come under scrutiny for its effects on the environment and the Bolivian farmers who grow and harvest it. In this paper, I will discuss the details of the importation of quinoa from Bolivia, the impact this grain has had on the natives of Bolivia and the environment as a whole, and the symbolic and material value this grain possesses in the everyday culture of the United States.

out of the US. While many nations may have similar programs, the US’ CBP is one of the few groups that best track and locates funds. By handling the currency side of CTF and has tremendous success in this endeavor. (Weiss 28-45. 2005)

American exceptionalism today is an incarnation of national hubris, the idea that the U.S. has a right to act in the international sphere without regard to other countries. This sort of illusory nationalism worked during the Cold War, but America’s capacity to project power in the world is slipping in the wake of two expensive wars and a global crisis engineered by Wall Street. The mythology and ideology of American exceptionalism is

The Department was organized over two hundred years ago. As one of the largest law firms within the borders of the United States, the responsibility of the Department extends to both criminal and civil matters. It carries a mission that is dedicated to delivering justice and is consistently re-considering ways to measure performances within individual Districts in order to ensure all respectable aspects of deliverance are utilized. These considerations involve developing more action plans aimed at delivering higher standards of production while keeping the highest level of integrity intact. The Firm was created by a Judiciary Act to serve as the nation’s primary source of litigated actions.

Besides, Americans see temselves in such a way that they find it hard to believe they can be anything different from magnificent and altruistic world citizens who pursue everybody else’s happiness and freedom. In Culture and Imperialism (1993), Edward Said, the Palestinian-American academic and writer, states: “America describes itself with words such as: altruism, specialness and opportunity to the extent that the word ‘Imperialism’ has been used only rarely and recently in accounts of U.S. culture, politics and history.” (8)