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United States of America
Location
The United States is in the north of America between Canada and
Mexico. It is Capital is Washington D.C. It is a Country of great
geographical extent and has four time zones. It is boundaries to the
east and west are the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
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Population
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The population is thee hundred thirteen millions eight hundred
forty seven thousand four hundred sixty five (313.847.465). The
recognize 6 ethnic groups: whites, blacks or African Americans, native
American, Indians, Alaska Natives and Asians. In the population
whites dominated by 70%, blacks by 12% and the others are 18%.
In USA 90% of people live in urban areas.
Language
The official language is English and is spoken by the majority of the
resident population, but the number of Spanish. Speaking
resident in the United States Spanish is the second most widely
used language for communication.Other commonly spoken languages are Chinese, polish, Korean,
Vietnamese, Portuguese, Japanese, Russian, French and others.
Population
Whites
Blacks
The others
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Form of government
The United States is a constitutional, presidential and federal republic.
His form of government is known as presidential democracy because
there is a president. The choice of the president is indirect across
umpires or big electors. His period is 4 years. There are three levels of
government: the federal level, the state level, and the local or
municipal level.
The president has the chiefs attributions of condition and of
government, besides being the commander in chief of the Army. He isalso chief of the executive power.
The principal political parties are the Republican Party and the
Democratic Party.
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National Symbols
The flag
The most revered symbol of it is citizens, is the flag. The red and
white stripes and white stars on a blue background relate the history
of the country, his indomitable spirit and his love of freedom. The
June 14, 1999 a date now celebrated nationwide as Flag Day. The
founding fathers according would have 13 red and white stripes
which represent the 13 newly created and 19 stars on a single fund,
which would represent their merger into a single union.
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Shield
Here is another key symbol: The seal of the united states on the
front, containing the main design, a bald eagle in a claw holding on
olive branch, symbolizing peace, and in the other bundle of 13 arrows
one for each of the original. Eagle chest appears a shield of red and
white stripes and the peak there is a bar with a Latin inscription that
reads e plumbus unum, which means out of many, one, on his headis a constellation of 13 stars, on the back there is unfinished pyramid,
which means enduring strength. The secretary of state has in custody
this shield or seal, which, by law, must appear on all important
documents.
The September 15, 1789 a congressional resolution proclaiming
that the version of 1782 would be the seal of the United States.
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Anthem
The national anthem of the United States is recognized worldwide.
Born during the early hours of September 14, 1814, after a 25 hour
bombing fort McHenry.
Scott key, who besides being a law year was a poet, reached into his
jawed pocket and found an old letter. He began to compose a poem
titled in defense of fort McHenry on old English tavem song: to
Anacreon a haven is key wrote the letter following the melody and
rhythm of the sung. The composition was first perfumed in public on
October 19, 1814 and has since been sung in parades, at official
events in schools and even before the start of sporting events.
The march 31, 1931 by a resolution of congress aligned by president
her Bert Hoover, the patriotic poem was designated national anthem.
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Three figures embody the best known symbols of the United States:
the statue of liberty, Uncle Sam and Columbia
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Racial Segregation
Between 1870 and 1970, the south of the USA lived through one of
the most shameful periods of the history of his country. Abolished theslavery and influenced by the racist ideologies anti-black creates a
system of racial segregation in which the northern whites established
his supremacy on blacks and Hispanics.
The discrimination and the racism were habitual in cities a New York,
Boston, Detroit and Chicago.
Since the conditions could not eliminate the rights of the blacks onhaving been guaranteed by the constitution, the term of
segregation was used by the concept of Separated but Equal".
In them one was denting the right to vote of the blacks. Soon there
was restored a regime of apartheid in which more than 13 million
blacks were forced to live isolated from the rest of the society. The
housings, schools, transport, hotels, restaurants, even the wash basinswere divided to prevent the white man from contaminating for the
influence of the black.
In some cities managed to apply a martial law that was prohibiting to
the blacks to go out the street from ten oclock in the night.
In the south it was prohibiting to the blacks to associate and to inform
in the unions.
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Martin Luther King
He was one of the principalleaders of the movement for the
defense of the civil laws and
important defender of the
resistance does not force to the
racial repression.
He was born in Atlanta on January 15, 1929 and he died because an
assassination in Memphis, on April 4, 1968 before a political meeting.
King studied in the booker T. Washington High School of Atlanta, and
entered the Morehouse College, a university reserved to the black
young persons, at the age of 15. In 1948 he graduated in sociologyand a master in theology in June 12 of 1951. In June 5 of 1955 he
receives the degree of Doctor of philosophy.
He married on June 18, 1953 Coretta Scott. They had four children:
Yolanda King in 1955, Martin Luther King in 1957, Dexter Scott King in
1961 and Bernice King in 1963.
In 1955 Luther King directs a boycott against a company of publictransport in Duffle-coat. Kin was arrested and imprisoned; his housing
was destroyed and received many threats against his life. The boycott
finished in 1956.
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He is recognized because:
He took part as activist in numerous protests against the war of
Vietnam and the poverty in general.
For his fights directed to ending with the American Apartheid and the
racial discrimination across not violent means.
It was decorated with the Nobel Prize on the Paz in 1964, among
other things.
After his assassination he became a symbol of protest in the struggle
for racial justice.
If I knew that tomorrow the worldends, I still today, plant a tree.Luther King
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Index
LocationPopulation and LanguageForm of governmentNational Symbols
The Flag
Shield
Anthem
Ku Klux KlanRacial SegregationMartin Luther King
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