Question by Tim B: European or American working life?
Which is better? Western Europeans work fewer hours have more vacation time and get free health care. On average most jobs in Western Europe pay more than similar roles in the U.S with the exception of executive and board room jobs. It is also now easier for low paid workers in Western Europe to reach executive and board room positions than it is in the U.S going against the traditional ‘land of opportunity’ ideal.
However the U.S system has many benefits. Road, rail, and air travel is superior as is the service industry. Factories and farming is more efficient and rates of alcoholism and drug abuse are much lower in the U.S.
Best answer:
Answer by zoeksalamander FREE healthcare?
Better go back to your study material before you ask a question again, healthcare most definitely is not FREE here.
Turtle Island Project friend – a fellow Lutheran pastor – founded the Manoomin Project that pairs American Indian guides with at-risk teens to plant wild rice restoring the important grain to northern Michigan and teaches youth respect for themselves, others and the environment. Native American elder tells teens about racism, alcoholism, hatred and hope. This is a two-minute preview of an upcoming story about: The Manoomin Project – the fourth summer. — The Manoomin Project: Overcoming racism, alcoholism – American Indian gives hope to troubled teens At-risk teenagers from northern Michigan recently learned they can turn their lives around after an Native American elder revealed he has a lot in common with the youth. American Indian Glen Bressette of Harvey spoke to the teens in a wooded area on Presque Isle near Marquette – overlooking Lake Superior and not far from the burial grounds of a famous northern Michigan Indian chief. The teenagers, many of whom have been sentenced in juvenile court, are helping the Manoomin Project – an endeavor that is restoring wild rice to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Bressette told the teens – that when he was theior age – he struggled with racism, alcoholism and run-in’s with the law. Bressette said when he was a teen – police shot at him for stealing gas. Bressette’s parents are both members the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians. His mother belongs to the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and his dad is a member of the Bad River Band … Video Rating: 4 / 5
If you like classical music, here’s a new piece to try at home on your Cello. Otherwise, for anyone with half an ounce of intelligence, the video is self-explanatory. Skinheads and rightwing extremist ilk make me ashamed to be white. They blame jews for all their failures, when they need to start looking at their drug addictions and alcoholism, their kleptomania, their refusal to get higher education, their lying, stealing, cop killing and outright anti-social mental dementia. If this crap element in society didn’t have the jews on the forefront of pushing Socialism during the 1800′s and 1900′s… the degenerate neo-nazis of today would still be working under the “Capitalist Pigs” for 60 and 70 hour work weeks and forced to support their drug habit on peasant wages instead of a socialist welfare check rolling in to bankroll their addictions and alcoholism. They need to start looking at their lifestyle to figure out why they are failures instead of blaming jews and minorities. Had they lived before the Socialist revolution, they’d still been pedophiles, cop killers, drunks, drug addicts, losers and degenerates. They can blame their failures from their criminal degeneracy and drug addictions on themselves!!! Thank you.
www.blacktree.tv Chris Brown was the big winner, but it was Kanye West’s night at the American Music Awards. Instead of his typical tantrum — a trend West started four years ago when he lost the favorite new artist prize — the rapper claimed two trophies Sunday and called on his colleagues to up their game. “It’s our responsibility as musicians to keep pushing each other,” West said. “We will be the new Beatles, the new (Jimi) Hendrix. I want to be Elvis.” West was named favorite male rap artist and his CD, “Graduation,” won favorite rap/hip-hop album. Brown took the night’s top honors — artist of the year — as well as favorite male artist in both the pop/rock and soul/R&B categories. “I was shocked,” the 19-year-old crooner said backstage. “I’m so thankful and grateful. I thought Coldplay should have won the award, but I’ll take it.” Brown’s gal pal, Rihanna — who wore chains and a leather corset to perform her love ballad, “Rehab” — was named favorite female artist in both the pop/rock and soul/R&B categories. Alicia Keys was another double winner: Her CD, “As I Am,” was both pop/rock and soul/R&B album winner. The American Music Awards traditionally centers on its performances, and Sunday was no exception. The show featured high-energy sets from Miley Cyrus, Ne-Yo and Beyonce, though a pair of lackluster medleys opened the program at the Nokia Theatre. Christina Aguilera channeled Madonna and the New Kids on the Block channeled an earlier version of themselves as each … Video Rating: 4 / 5
New York City’s Bellevue Hospital has a renowned psychiatric emergency center that treats 7000 men and women annually. This gritty program takes a daunting look at the daily operation of the center by focusing on a handful of people as they struggle with their illnesses. The entire experience is presented, from arrests of the criminally insane and admissions of new patients to long-term treatment and therapy groups. In addition to working with mental disorders, doctors and nurses also confront drug and alcohol addiction in an environment where 50 percent of their patients have substance abuse problems. An HBO Production.
Susana Hennessey Lavery and Marianne Szeto, of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, discuss policy and community strategies to change the food environment in San Francisco including the Mayor’s Healthy and Sustainable Food Directive, citywide initiatives such as, Soda Free Summer and the Southeast Food Access (SEFA) Working Group’s work to promote a robust food system in BVHP. Series: Food and Addiction: Environmental, Psychological and Biological Perspectives [6/2010] [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 18567] Video Rating: 5 / 5
American killed, headless corpses found in Mexico
Police found two headless corpses in Ciudad Juarez linked to a massacre of partygoers last week in the city, amid drug violence that also killed a US citizen near a bridge to Texas. Read more on AFP via Yahoo! News
13 executed at Tijuana drug treatment center
The assault may have been carried out in retaliation for the seizure of 134 tons of marijuana in the city last week. Gunmen stormed a private drug treatment center in Tijuana and executed at least 13 men at close range, authorities in Baja California said Monday. Read more on Los Angeles Times
13 retirees killed at Mexican drug rehab center
Thirteen retirees were shot and killed in an execution-style massacre at a Mexican drug rehabilitation center near the border city of Tijuana, a police official told AFP. Read more on AFP via Yahoo! News
Question by mj: does anyone know any american artists whose works have homosexual or alcoholism themes?
I am doing a research paper comparing american literature and american art. the author i chose is tennessee williams, who has many homosexual and alcoholism themes in his books. if anyone knows of any american arts who has themes in thier art work that are similiar to the ones in williams’s writing (homosexuality and/or alcoholism)
thanks:)
Best answer:
Answer by P-dizzle Morrisey I believe of the smiths has some homosexual themes thrown in his songs
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2nd generation Scilon Austin Fullmer auditioned for ‘American Idol’ and failed. Simon Cowell called him “one disturbed young man.” I guess thats what Scientology does to you, Screwin your mind. I guess he couldnt audit those thetans so he could sing better. Xenu couldnt help you pass that audition if he wanted to. And singing is not your purpose in life, I guess you have to go to the Sea Orgy now. forums.whyweprotest.net Video Rating: 5 / 5
This American Masters documentary takes a solemn look at F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life and literary legacy. While acknowledging his demons (alcoholism, his wife Zelda’s mental illness), it only glancingly refers to his and Zelda’s infamous antics and notorious partying. Instead, this 85-minute biography looks at the influence of his St. Paul, Minnesota, childhood, where he was the poorest in a well-to-do neighborhood, and the driving ambition that sent him to Princeton, where he never felt he measured up to his wealthier classmates. This obsession with class and money drove his writing and his marriage to Zelda, a socially prominent Southern belle. Weighing in are such literary luminaries as biographer A. Scott Berg and novelists EL Doctorow and Ward Just, as well as the usual host of scholars. These experts are balanced nicely with the reminiscences of those who knew the Fitzgeralds more intimately, including former neighbors and Zelda’s childhood friends.
www.ovationtv.com Truman Capote could be as flamboyant and acerbic as he was poignant and articulate, crafting fiction and non fiction into masterpieces like “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “In Cold Blood.” Yet, as Capote often wrote about the controversies of his own life, his friends began to distance themselves and Truman turned inward toward a world of prescription drugs and alcohol. In this clip, Truman talks briskly about his addiction to tranquilizers and is confronted on air about his alcoholism. Truman Capote is part of Ovation’s American Revolutionaries series, and premieres Tuesday, March 16th at 11pm EST/8pm PST. OVATION TV, ART LIKE NEVER BEFORE. TV LIKE NOTHING ELSE www.ovationtv.com
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