Background History

Throughout the years, the United States has had a lot of leaders. At the beginning, was George Washington taking the oath in the balcony of Federal Hall in New York on April 30,1789. He helped organize the Constitutional Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. When the new Constitution was ratified, the Electoral College unanimously elected Washington the first President of the United States. Currently we have the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, is the first African American to hold the office.

United States has gone through rough times from what was the American Revolution, which initiated everything to the Civil War. The war between the United States split America into two sides. The bitterness and divisions caused by the war still plague America today. One of the most recent historical event is the down fall of the twin towers in New York on September 11, 2001. This brought to mind to a lot of American citizens that the United States still has enemies today.

During this time period, we are experiencing numerous natural disasters. One of the biggest and recent disasters that affected Southern Florida was the hurricane Katrina in the year 2005. Katrina roared into the Louisiana coast with 125 mph sustained winds, causing a storm surge that broke levees that shielded New Orleans from surrounding, higher coastal waters, and leaving 80 percent of the city under water. So many people lost their houses and are still fighting to get even half of the things they used to have.

Americans think that the United States will always be "the wealthiest nation" in the world and that our economy will always produce large numbers of high paying jobs and that the U.S. will always have a very large middle class. Recently, this has been proven untrue. The economy has been dropping and many people have lost their jobs and private companies, stocks are dropping every day, that could lead to the closing of many industries.


Health Issues have been a big problem for many American Citizens. There are several kinds of diseases spreading throughout the nation. The most common is lung cancer; is the cancer responsible for the most deaths in both men and women. Alzheimer's disease is the fifth-leading cause of death in women, and the tenth in men. Doctors do not know exactly what causes Alzheimer's disease. Kidney disease is the ninth-leading cause of death for both male and female Americans.

Therefore what I am trying to clarify with this is that even though the United States is an overall stabilized country, it still faces many issues today. Some of the issues they face are such as problems with other cultures and countries, natural disasters, economical status and diseases.  If the United States took each problem one at a time and everyone got involved this issues would not necessarily disappear, but they could be decreased. The United States is a place where people come searching for a better life and by trying to minimize these problems, we can make it a better place to live in.

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