Category: American Culture

The Gateway Arch How much money do you think it takes to build a monument? The Gateway Arch cost $13 million to build overall, but only 25% was paid for by St. Louise’s funds. Clearly, it was very expensive, but it has many purposes for St. Louis and its culture. In St. Louis historical past,…

The American Dream is an opportunity to succeed and have a better life. The American Dream is freedom and equality. Its a way to get better rights to live a life where their choices are their own choices. It is also new opportunity to attain jobs, better pay, and a better lifestyle. This dream gives…

America today is omnipresent, but take us back 100 years and you find much more defined straight and narrow socio-cultural boundaries. Those who came to America during the earlier immigration waves were forced to experience a much different reality than they anticipated with the American way of life including different cultural values than the rest…

What gives us the right to decide when is someone’s time to live or die? Do we have that power? Is it a paper that gives us that power? Is it a verbal message that someone once expressed, and we are following their wishes? Ethics are moral principles, and is it moral to let someone…

Gun violence in America is an urgent, nagging problem, which requires proof-based, innovative solutions. It is a serious national problem leading to more than 30,000 deaths and 78,000 non-fatal injuries every year [See Alpers and Wilson]. Although the rate of gun homicides in the United States of America has declined in recent years, U.S. rates…

Poverty, homelessness, hunger, crime, juvenile delinquency, drug abuse, single motherhood. These are just some of the pressing social and economic issues that plague our society today. But what if I told you that there was another problem, underlying all of these issues, that if we could solve it, would dramatically increase peoples chances of escaping…

The Dick Van Dyke Show was one of the greatest television shows of the early 1960s. By genre classifications, the show was a situation comedy (sitcom). The show was created by Cark Reiner and ran from 1961 to 1966. It was based on the ideal suburban American family through the personal and professional life of…

People in Central America are struggling with crimes of law enforcement, parenting, and even the way the government operates. What’s worse than that is the judicial and executive system isnt doing anything enough for these people living in Central America. Central America can do so many things different that can help those who live there…

Introduction The Columbian Exchange, a period of extensive cultural and biological exchange between the Old World and the New World following Christopher Columbus’ voyage in 1492, had a profound impact on the history of humanity. As we reflect on this transformative era, it is essential to examine both the positive and negative consequences of the…

The Columbian Exchange, a term coined by historian Alfred W. Crosby, refers to the widespread transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and culture between the Old World (Europe, Africa, and Asia) and the New World (the Americas) that occurred after Christopher Columbus’s voyages in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. While the Columbian Exchange brought…