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    The United States is currently experiencing increased income inequality and a large gap between rich and poor that continues to grow. After the Wall Street meltdown in 2008 and the recession that followed, economic recovery has been extremely slow and the inequality of America’s income distribution seems to be intensifying. Since the recession, the top one percent of earners in the US has experienced notably higher percentages of income growth, while the incomes of the middle class have become frozen

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    The gaps have grown larger between Republicans and Democrats based on fundamental political beliefs. America’s two political parties have become so divided that it has come to be known as polarization. Divided government has been extremely common after World War II. Political polarization has increased intensely since the New Deal in the 1930s. The New Deal coalition emerged during the 1932 presidential election and had launched a partisan realignment in American politics, allowing the Democrats

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    The Great Depression, though generally thought of as occurring mainly in the United States, was actually worldwide. The economic depression began in the United States in 1929 and took place mostly in the 1930s. It is known as being the 20th century’s largest widespread depression. In the United States the depression started with the stock market crash in 1929 and took nearly 10 years to recover. Countries large and small felt the depression, and some continued until the start of World War II. During

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    After World War II, the United States entry through the bombing of Pearl Harbor stressed the important role that the United States would have among countries and other great powers like Germany, France and Britain. Through the Truman Doctrine and reparation acts for Germany, to re-establish their nation but now into a democratic one, the goal was to keep communism in one place through containment policies. The use of propaganda and the media helped set the stage for America to fear communism, thus

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    New York rather than the king of Great Britain. The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States had certain conditions for the head and chief of the executive branch. The Constitution states that the president must be a natural born citizen, or at least a citizen at the time the Constitution was adopted. He also must be at least thirty five years old and a resident of the United States for fourteen years or

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    Stephen Jay Gould, can represent the Westward Expansion of the United States. In the early 1800s, the United States started trying to expand west. The U.S. acquired Florida, Texas, the Gadsden Territory, the Mexican Cession, the Oregon Territory, and the Louisiana Territory. All of those acquisitions helped evolve the United States into what it is today. Almost all of the land we own is from the Westward Expansion. Unfortunately, the United States were greedy and had to keep branching and expanding out

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    The United States, is still ruled by an unjust ruler like King George III. The way he ruled was filled with tyranny, which is the overruling of an individual or group. King George and other tyrants were people with too much power, making the colonies and anyone under their rule an utter nightmare. Luckily, we don’t have this because of the Constitution, which protects America from tyranny. A constitution in general is a set of basic principles that determines the powers and duties of a government

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    The United States and the Western Coalition has long looked at the Middle East as an asset with little risk high reward potential. They have all looked at them as high reward low risk a region that in contrast, has an abundance of natural resources in particular oil with very underwhelming population. Even if they had a product that could reach out and touch the masses the internal struggles and lack of cohesion and structure to get out of the region. Both the United States and Western coalition

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    Within the Constitution of the United States of America, the word “privacy” appears exactly zero times. Not once does the legal document that outlines the social order of the United Sates, define, or explicitly state a “right to privacy” for its citizens. Even with this fact prevailing over society, American citizens still esteem privacy in the highest regard. According to a survey conducted by the PEW Research Center, a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and

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    "Obesity in United State of America." One can imagine how obesity is taking over the world 's population, so rapidly and it is obvious that the United States of America has high rates of Obesity. Obesity, also known as overweight, is a serious epidemic disease that can cause harm to the systems of the body including the heart. Obesity is the biggest threat to the United State of America 's population and something urgent has to be done, otherwise our future generation is at stake. the parent of

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