... 44. In 1992, the SPPA reported a median age of 42 for both plays and musicals, and in 1982 the median age for both was 39. This constitutes a steady median age incline between 1982 and 2008 of 8 years for non-musical plays, and 6 years for musicals. The 2008 ... those who are attending is getting significantly older. According to the same NEA report, between 1982 and 2008 the median audience age rose from 39 to 47 for non-musical theater Some arts leaders have convinced themselves that fine arts audiences have always been gray, but that isn't true ... 60% female.14 The Broadway League's...

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... , industrial, and mankind's water consumption, soon the world could face these same water crises. Consider this: to make 1 pound of plastic it takes 24 gallons of water. It takes about 39,090 gallons of water to make the average car, and 53 gallons to make a single to-go latte (Tree Hugger). In developing countries, India, Kenya, and Uganda for example, there ... , simply changing the way water is managed and regulated could effectively help them solve their problem, but more work would have to be done to make a significant difference. The Indian government is trying to start harvesting r...

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... We learn how to understand their feelings, and that makes us more tolerant. For example, before, you could rarely find a family of African-American people living in the same neighborhood with white people, or using the same public service, as well as going to the same restaurant. Diversity has ... But diversity did not just stop at the level of neighborhood, it has gone far and beyond to the larger scale of the nation. As Rodriguez notes in his essay, "Many Mexican Americans now live in cities or regions where they are the majority, changing the very idea of what it means ... same were f...

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Introduction The government of Mexico as established in the Constitution, is a federal republic that it is democratic and representative. As it is proclaimed in the article 39 of the Constitution; it says that the national sovereignty it belongs to the people and that all public power ... were susceptible to any kind of political thinking that could save the devastated economy of the country. After many attempting fails of different types of government, here is where the PRI, also known as the Institutional Revolutionary Party, takes into action of the political ideology of the country by no ....

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... consist of things like fame or fortune or love, and for some people these dreams seem to be unattainable. The whole point of the term "The American Dream" was to create a phrase that showed people how much America was centered around people reaching their dreams. This may have seemed true to some, ... to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" (King 4-5). It is easy to ignore when we do not face it everyday, but the American Dream is nothing more than a daydream for a majority of our population. Even so, those of us who reside in the majority are prone to overlooking ... these ...

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... is in right now. People generally remember a period shortly after World War II when America led the world to manufacturing, where some (most) American companies made their products right in the comfort of their hometown, and quality products had no rivals. This is definitely not what our world ... overseas, and consumer demand for cheaper goods being "cheap over anything else". Walmart fills a lot of these demands for America, with an American company that provides jobs for over 2 million people a year. Employing so many workers helps keep down prices and inflation for over 300 million A...

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The passion of poems is often expressed through powerful diction. The richer the poem, the more easily can the reader can connect. The poem, Two Sets of Notes, written by M.K. Asante Jr., sends the powerful message that people of color should value their education. According to Asante's poem, the tragic reality of education is that it is disconnected ... never made. Poetry is a pattern expressed through a concentrated, imaginative, and rhythmical way using unusual language that helps the reader bond to a message through the words. The poem, Two Sets of Notes, written by M.K. Asante, Jr., str...

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... reason, treaties with the Indians were less important and were not taken as seriously as treaties with, "civilized," European countries. The most common and important promise made by the American government to Indians was that whites would not enter their reservations without permission. This provision however was never enforced, and the Army was sometimes actively involved in encouraging trespassing, (Villarde). ... tribal culture was a thing of the past, something that should be forgotten as modern civilization developed, (Villarde). Allotment, which was when a piece of land was deeded...

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... , democracy is still incomplete in the United States; the continuing struggle for democracy is a major feature of American political history." So, how Democratic is the United States government? Greenberg provided a framework for understanding American politics. He said, "the framework visualizes the world of American politics as a set of interrelated actors and influences (institutions, groups, and individuals) that operate in four ... what issues become a part of the political agenda, how political power is distributed among the population, what rules structure how government works, an...

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... , who is a demographer at the Brookings Institution, the number of the poor children younger than 18 reached its highest level since 1962. Blacks had the highest child poverty rate at 39%, and Latino children accounted for more than half of the overall increase in poor children last year. However, the CEOs are not suffering from the effect of the Great Recession ... ...

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... economic prosperity, as well as a shift away from traditional values. However, there were some limitations set by religious sumptuary laws (Staerns, 2011). Sumptuary is limiting expenditures in the interest of government (Oxford, 1996). For example in China some people were actually put to death for their consumerist spending (Stearns, 2011). Consumerism also has a second meaning. Consumerism is the protection of consumers ... ...

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... own life and actions is a great way to overcome the obstacles that come with the American dream. Many people today have come to a lazy ideal that the American dream will just be given to them by the government. Cal Thomas argues that "Anyone who thinks dysfunctional government is going to help achieve their dreams is putting their faith in the wrong place" ... ; (Thomas, 569). Thomas is stating that the government is the reason the American dream has become so hard to achieve and that people need to take action themselves and not put their goals in the hands of the government. Many p...

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... new idea of America's working poor. He talks about how there are people in this country who have been promised the ideal of the American dream but upon attempting to pursue it have gotten stuck in a rut of endless debt and living to never having enough. He points out ... focus on the premises and ideas. After reading Abramsky's work I agree with his idea that poverty goes against core American values and what the government promises to offer their citizens. The American dream promises that anyone who works hard will be able to achieve prosperity and wealth. As Abramsky lays out this ... ...

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... judged whether it be by gender or skin color. It has happened from not only civilians but from people with power in the government. It is the government's duty to uphold their promise from 1776, when the founding fathers stated that all people are created equal and have the right of ... know that they were still not free. Later, in the same paragraph, King mentions how the Negro is still "languished in the corners of American society," (King 1) Just as Stanton, King refers to the exact same sentence in the Declaration of Independence, "that all men and women ... or not lower themselves ...

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... FBI and why they have no right to spy on citizens. The points included state that it's "un-American" for the government to do that because the idea of freedom paints the whole American picture. And because these secret agencies able to listen to every phone call and read every e-mail/text, it ... takes away the privacy and freedom. Before the US knows it, the government will have total control over everyone's life, and that's just ... their power. It's so easy for them to reach any source of information in an instant right under our noses. It's not right for the government to use surveil...

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... In Balkos, Warners, and Maxfields articles, they describe the problems American people are facing with eating healthy and being overweight. Balko is describing to the readers the effect the government is having on the people and how they should eat. The government is trying to control the peoples welfare and how they should ... be trying to take control of what they are eating and not let the government try and control it for them. "Instead of manipulating or intervening in the array of food options available to American consumers, our government ought to be working to foster a sense of...

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... nation in the world refuses to help people who were sent to this disaster area. This was the worst terrorist attack on the American soil. Inability and unwillingness of government to take responsibility raises many questions. Many people who were in charge of these agencies should have never been in charge of them, ... sends billions of dollars in foreign aid overseas, yet can't find 10-15 billion of dollars to help people who cleaned up the site. USA government has plenty of will and money to bomb other countries into submission, to bring democracy, but no desire to help Americans deal ...

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... the destruction of fires. Europe and London finally realized how important it was to have a fire department, but it still took time for government to agree with them and buy in completely and create an organized department. In 1865 the first Fire Brigade was formed and it affected ... African Americans were slaves and they use to aid in manpower of a big fire in New Orleans. African American slaves never questioned where they stood in society, but, the government needed more men to control the fires that were taking over the city so they let the African Americans work ... with the Cauc...

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... is most for famous for Common Sense. Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and the third President of the United States (1801–1809). The purpose of government is to provide a system in which individuals give a portion of ... anti-leftist proponents. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. The most important government response was the beginning of the Palmer Raids. Prisoners were questioned without access to attorneys and their bail was often s...

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... bigger superpowers than the countries that founded them. Guatemala and the surrounding provinces however, didn't allow for Mexico or any other country to gain control of it again. "A Central American convention declared Central America independent on July 1, 1823, and formed the United Provinces of Central America, a federation that included Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua." ... president, Morazanfrom then until his death in 1865, Carrera dominated Guatemala, ruling almost as a dictator."5 After this point, the country had minimal changes; it wasn't until 1...

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... species, is worth enquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of some misery to mankind" (28). He believes the government needs a leader although human nature states otherwise naturally how a person is born over others. Kings are usually born into royalty and Paine says, " ... impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver" (26). In this statement from the pamphlet Paine believes government is the reason for lost innocence and if man were innocent the nation wouldn't need a lawgiver. He says that we need a lawgiver...

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... to use this method. Generally goes around $5 to $20 to find out informations about their lives. It generally brings up a topic whether the government should regulate one anothers life or not. There are positive and negative outcomes of being able to wiretap into societies personal and most private lives. ... Many people in the United States may disagree that allowing the government to look into peoples lives may be beneficial. Even though this sounds crazy, this may be able to protect an individual from any situations ... enough valuable information that is given through the criminals, ...

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The American colonists wanted an active role in their government with the ability to dictate their own laws, taxes, and of the like. However, as Parliament gained more power in Britain, they only saw it fitting that they should have ... Parliament in this way, they were not much more than salves being run by a slave master. The colonists were driven by the notion that they were not free if their government was being run by any people other than themselves--and freedom is precisely what they were after. The more powerful Parliament became the more power they wanted. Eventually, they overthrew...

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... comes a life of paying property taxes. Fail to pay them, and lose everything you worked hard for. Your idea of the, "American Dream" will end up being a nightmare! Owe the Government, and face the nightmare of having everything taken out of all your bank accounts and imprisonment! Who bestows such powerful rights upon them? What ... own land? If you own something it is yours. No one can take it from you. In America you just rent your home and land from the government, and if you do not pay your property tax, they come and evict you. They take your home and land. When our nation was foun...

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... the self-discipline needed to meet the rigors of the new world, it is easy to see why theocracy was an appealing form of government for these settlers. British, Swedish, and Dutch immigrants all shared the same basic faith of Christianity. Furthermore, complete church membership was required ... the country urbanized, new opportunities became available, to its people, and laws were adapted to accommodate them. According to Crèvecoeur, "The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servil...

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