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The Bahamas: Against a National Lottery
Casino
Nation
The Islands of the Bahamas, located just southeast of Florida is a chain of islands that make up a tiny yet proud country in the Caribbean. Currently the government of the Bahamas, based on the British parliamentary system, is debating on the legalization of a national lottery for the country. Since the Bahamas is a…
The Differences Between Gross Domestic Income and Gross National Income
Income
Nation
GDP stands for Gross Domestic Product and GNI stands for Gross National Income. GDP is the sum of the gross values added by all resident producers in the economy plus any product taxes and minus all subsidies not included in the value of the products. GDP is measured by the country’s overall economic output. GDP…
To Be an American Is Not Just to Have US Citizenship
American Identity
Culture
Nation
What does being an American mean to you? When you search “what is an American” on the internet, it is defined as “relating to or characteristic of the United States or its inhabitants” and “a native or citizen of the United States.” Being an American or having an American Identity doesn’t just mean that you’re…
Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson, summary
Europe
Nation
Nationalism
Imagined Communities The concept of nationalism, according to Benedict Anderson, has never been deeply discussed. There has never been a great thinker treating this concept as thoroughly as other concepts. Anderson suggests that one should not think of nationalism as an ideology like “fascism” or “liberalism”, but to relate it with “kinship” and “religion” in…
Colorism Amongst Black Teens
Discrimination
Nation
Personal Experience
Colorism is a dark side to the internal prejudice acts or attitudes against our own brothers and sisters. Colorism is a seed of deceit, a silent hatred that divides us as a nation, race and as a people. We were given equality by our four founding fathers declaration through our constitution. We have a right…
Gung Ho: Cultural Problem Occurs Between the Japanese Managers and American Employees
Japanese
The movie “Gung Ho” is about a Japanese automobile company called the “Assan Motors” beginning to do business in the United States where cultural problem occurs between the Japanese managers and American employees. In the start of the movie, Hunt Stevenson goes to Japan and asks the firm owners to re-open the auto plant. After…
The Trail of Tears Short Summary
Cherokee
Trail of Tears
The “Trail of Tears” is one of the bleakest and most tragic moments in the history of the United States. The symbolic name of the “Trail of Tears” is given to the removal of the Native Americans from their territories in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama and yet a few other…
Japanese Internment (Diary)
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Japanese
My name is Makino Toshio, a second generation Japanese-American. My father migrated to Hawaii before settling on the mainland, like many others of Japanese descent. Before World War II, I worked on a Japanese truck farm. The attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan increased tensions for all individuals of Japanese ancestry in the United States….
Mexicans and Mexican Americans
Mexican
In our educational system we are taught about American history and the struggles that African Americans have gone through, even to this day. Yet there has always been a question in the back of my mind, “ When are we going to move onto the topic about Mexicans and Mexican Americans?” The only memory I…
Juan De Onate- Mexican Adventurer
Mexican
Juan De Onate was a celebrated Mexican adventurer. “colonial governor of the New Spain state of New Mexico. and laminitis of assorted colonies in the present twenty-four hours American Southwest” ( Shi & A ; Mayer. 2010 ) . Juan De Onate struggled to derive support for his geographic expeditions due to his birth background…