Country Essays

More than half of all fatal road accidents in Metro Manila is caused by jaywalking, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority said last June 06, 2012. MMDA chairman Francis Tolentino said this is the reason why the agency has stepped up its anti-jaywalking campaign in the metropolis. He said most of …

The issue of whether the United States should change to the metric, a decimal-based system of measurement units, has been widely debated in our community for a long time. No one decided the United States should go metric, so the traditional system of weights and measures is still not used …

The 1800’s were hard times for those who weren’t white males. Every other human being was basically considered a minority including American woman and African Americans. There came a point where the minority groups had enough of their voices being ignored which is when fearless leaders in each group appeared. …

              The Chicago School refers to the theorems and hypotheses in the premises of criminology and sociology which is generally used by many educational and research institutions today. Scholars and the major proponents of theories in the Chicago School hail mostly from the UC …

Robert A. Dahl in his book “How Democratic is the American Constitution” points out several ‘undemocratic elements in the Framers’ Constitution’ and uses them as justification to question the democratic intents of the fathers of the Constitution. In essence, what Dahl does most of the time is that he uses …

The series of events that took place leading up to the Trail of Tears, a forced migration undertaken by the Cherokee Indians of the eastern United States between 1838 and 1839, began in the political arena during the United States’ War of Independence.  The Cherokee wars and treaties, a series …

It is a popular belief that the sub-prime lending crisis started at the end of 2006 due to high foreclosure rates, excess inventory of houses, high housing price index which eventually fell drastically due to excess supply and no demand as home owners were not willing to sell at a …

While the early works spelled the beginning of success for Gotanda, it was his bittersweet drama about the dissolution of a nisei marriage, The Wash (1985) that placed him firmly in the public’s eye as a playwright of standing. Originally, The Wash was workshopped at the Mark Taper Forum’s New …

             Since the first settlements in the British colonies under rein of Queen Elisabeth I for many centuries ahead the significance and attitude toward the justification of empire has greatly varied. The age of trade introduced new ideas and new outlook on the society structure and foundations. Frequently those who …

Overview The meaning of American Democracy (Shapiro 2005) talks about the normative requirements of democracy in America such as procedural or institutional democracy; substantive democracy; and protections of the individual rights and liberties of the people. This is being done by investigating the recent events such as the elections and …