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What is America?

America as a topic of academic study spans nearly every discipline, from history and political science to public health, literature, and cultural studies. Its breadth makes it a common subject in introductory college courses as well as upper-level seminars, where students are asked to examine the nation's political institutions, social tensions, and evolving identity. What makes the topic academically rich is precisely its complexity: the United States has served as a site of competing visions, from debates over economic policy and national power to questions of individual rights and social change. Papers touching on figures like Edward M. Bannister, Sam Patch, and Heather Whitestone illustrate how individual stories can illuminate broader national narratives.

The papers archived under this topic reflect a wide range of approaches. Historical analyses trace developments across defined periods, such as America's rise to world power during the Gilded Age or the military origins of the republic from 1763 to 1789. Policy-focused essays examine specific controversies, including welfare from a libertarian perspective, same-sex marriage, and the Cuba-related Helms-Burton legislation. Other papers take a social or public health angle, addressing issues like childhood obesity or health promotion strategies. Comparative and philosophical approaches also appear, as in contrasting the theories of David Hume and William James within an American intellectual context.

A strong essay on America establishes a focused thesis rather than attempting to survey the entire nation's history or character. Evidence drawn from primary sources, policy documents, historical events, or specific case studies carries more weight than broad generalizations. The most common pitfall is treating "America" as a monolithic subject — the strongest papers define a precise time period, population, or issue and argue a clear, defensible position about it.

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Leadership Theories and Their Role in Business Organizations

Leadership is important in the management of any organization, regardless of if the organization is a profit making or charitable one. All the people who have leadership traits can be managers, but not all managers are leaders. This paper aims at distinguishing between leadership and management, application of leadership theories in organizations and analysis of the effects of power and influence on followers. Leaders have the power to influence the behavior of followers into doing the things that they want them to do. Discussed in the paper are the roles of transformational and transactional leadership. For better understanding, the traits and characteristics of leaders are identified, to allow for management to imitate them. How leadership supports the mission and vision of the organization is also discussed, in length, to allow leaders to link their duties towards the realization of the organization's goals.

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Community Policing Efficacy: Programs, Evidence, and Limits

The Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act of 1994 heralded the beginning of a massive effort to reform policing strategies in the United States, in part through implementation of community-policing programs at the local level. Congress has allocated billions of federal dollars over the years since to support such efforts and by the end of the 20th century, close to 90% of all police departments serving communities larger than 25,000 reported implementing community policing strategies. However, empirical studies examining the effectiveness of this style of policing are limited and most reveal a modest improvement. This report examines studies that have revealed some of the factors that contributed to the failure of community policing programs to meet the expectations of policy makers. A lack of police organizational commitment and citizen leadership are major factors that have undermined attempts to implement community policing more fully.

Realism and Modernism in Gilman, Fitzgerald, and Baldwin

Over the course of the late 19th and early 20th century, American literature began to turn inward. Instead of looking to outer manifestations of the human character, American authors began to use interior monologues as…

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Obamacare: Pros, Cons, and Impact by Age and Class

Health care is undergoing a dramatic transformation and needless to say it is one of our largest industries that contribute handsomely to the Gross Domestic Product, greater demands are placed for the value of dollars that are being spent to provide for healthcare services to patients. Now-a-days, in this ever demanding environment marketing as a discipline is being practiced (Berkowitz, October 2010)

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Columbus's 1492 Account: European Bias and Colonial Attitudes

This is a rhetorical and anthropological analysis of Description of the Discovery of America, written by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Description of the Discovery of America is a primary source document describing how Columbus perceived the natives of the New World and how he perceived his own responsibilities to them as a Christian European.

Essay Undergraduate

War on Terror: Redefining Terrorism and U.S. Foreign Policy

This is a five page paper analyzing the key points in Understanding the War on Terror by Patrick Coaty. The paper has a premise stated in the introduction, followed by evidence and support, with a conclusion at the end. The various types of terrorism are discussed. The focus of the paper is on the evolution of the war on terror, which hinges on an understanding of what terrorism itself is.

King and Staples: Aristotelian Rhetoric and Civil Disobedience

This paper compares Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's "Letter from Birmingham Jail" with "Just Walk on By" by Brent Staples. The paper draws similarities between the two works with respect to pathos, logos and ethos. Both letters are also responses to critics and this is also discussed in this paper.

Illegal Immigration Costs to the U.S. Criminal Justice System

This paper is a look at how much it costs the federal government and the state of California to combat illegal immigration and the crime caused by the people who illegally cross into the United States. Crime is the first issue discussed, but the paper also looks at education, healthcare and other issue that are associated. the final pages dicscuss possible solutions to the problem.

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Margaret Fuller's Feminist Arguments for Women's Rights

Margaret Fuller Introduction Margaret Fuller was born in Boston and pushed hard at a young age by a father who, when she was just four years old, recognized her high level of intelligence and sought to instill in her a thirst for knowledge. Her father, Timothy Fuller, a Unitarian rationalist, treated her "…not as a plaything, but as a living mind," she explained (Gornick, 2012, p. 2). While it is true she later wrote at length about how much she appreciated being induced by her intellectual father to study literature, philosophy and to learn languages even before her teens, she reportedly suffered "lifelong migraines, permanent insomnia and impaired eyesight" as a result of the intensity of the pedagogic pressure from her father (Gornick, p. 2). She also had a constant worry that "her intellectual output was insufficient," Gornick writes in The Nation; this was ironic because she was such an intellectual powerhouse and so given to voicing her august opinions that some of America's greatest literary icons (Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example) could barely stand to be in the same room with her (Cornick, p. 2).

Paper Doctorate

Arizona SB 1070: Immigration Law and Federal Authority

On January 13, 2010 Senator Russell Pearce, representative of District 18 in Mesa, introduced Senate Bill 1070 which stated as it's intent to make attrition through enforcement the public policy of the state of Arizona. To pursue this goal, the state empowered state and local law enforcement agencies to, in effect, stop and ask for the papers of anyone they considered to be in the United States illegally. Arizona did not have the authority under the constitution to grant itself the power to enforce federal immigration laws.

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