On January 1, 1994, Canada, Mexico and the United States passed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Promoted to Congress by the Clinton administration, with the assurance that it would give rise to more jobs - exactly how many though, is not precisely known. Yet, according to the ...

Ring.... Ring...It's 7:30 PM, it's dinner time, do you know where everyone is? You may not know where your entire family is, but Telemarketers are pretty certain that they will be able to find you, whether the timing is convenient or not. In today's new day and age, the fight to gai...

The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson With the assassination of Lincoln, the presidency fell upon an old-fashioned southerner named Andrew Johnson. Although an honest and honorable man, Andrew Johnson was one of the most unfortunate Presidents. Over time there has been a controversial debate as ...

The use of Fetal Tissue in Research and Transplants Fetal tissue research is done to provide information to society that will eventually lead to the prevention of some diseases and hopefully one day help to discover a cure to some incurable diseases. Right now researchers are doing fetal tissue ...

Commander In Chief: The Hero of the Common People It had been a long time coming. Hopelessly divided by the issue of slavery, thirty-one million American citizens were in 1860 Called upon to elect the 16th President of the United States. The Democratic Party met At its National Party Conventio...

Among the many comments received about the early selections collected in The Heath Anthology of American Literature, the plaintive comment, even from early Americanists, about the number of so-called new writers represented there strikes me as most honest and forthright. Indeed, more than a few coll...

Several pressing issues have arose throughout time, such as abortion and capitol punishment. The controversies have been addressed and decisions have been made. A new topic has emerged l states (1986, Congress), (Buchsbaum, 8). This crowds court rooms and jail cells, often times forcing judges...

Financial Crisis The financial distress of the last two decades has revived interest on the question of the stability of the financial system. On the one hand, the "pessimist" view, associated primarily with Minsky argues that not only that the financial system is prone to such crises ("financial...