Introduction Andrea Wulff, in her book Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the America Nation (2012), argues that the Founding Fathers of the United States of America –George Washington, John Adams, ThomasJefferson, and James Madison– on a sociopolitical level held that the new nation “should be...
Introduction This paper would like to take a look across the Atlantic, to North America (United States (US) and Canada), to see what their national identity-building models have historically been and how they can contribute to the Idea of Europe and vice versa. It is customary to compare two main...
Introduction Religious organizations in the United States played a key role in changing the Trump administration’s policy concerning the separation of U.S. citizen children from their undocumented parents, as part of the administration’s attempt to cope with the undocumented migrant situation in the country (Martin 2018). However, the lobbying success...
Introduction A majority of experts predict that by 2025 automation will dominate vast areas of our daily way of life. In the work environment, the main impactof this automation will be on “health care, transport and logistics, customer service, and home main- tenance” (Smith and Anderson 2014: 5). Although most...
Introduction Sports have played an important role in American higher education for the past 150 years. Many scholars argue that sports, combined with academics, develop in students the virtues of tolerance, involvement, community spirit and leadership. Conversely, many researchers maintain that intercollegiate sports have a disproportionate importance, resources, power, and...
Introduction Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home calls urban planners to an “ecological conversion” regarding the integration of city design with the natural environment and people’s quality of life with a special concern for the poor and excluded in our cities. This paper reflects...
Introduction The Millennial Generation (those born from the early 1980s to the late 2000s) are the future of society as well as of the Church. Now between the ages of 18 to 31, “they are relatively unattached to organized politics and religion, [they are] linked by social media, burdened by...
Introduction At present American culture seems obsessed with marriage, from TV shows like Married, Surviving Marriage, The Bachelor, Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars, Married at First Sight, through the $72 billion USD spent annually on weddings (Writer 2015), to the passionate debate on same-sex marriage. However, there has been a...
The U.S. population is aging faster than at any other time in its 200-year history. According to the latest statistics, there were 40.3 million Americans over the age of 65 on April 1, 2010. This represents an increase of 5.3% of the 35 million in 2000 (U.S. Census 2010). The...
Introduction The 2010 U.S. Census indicates that Hispanics have become the largest minority in the United States of America (U.S. Census Bureau 2010)1. The 2000 census already indicated that Hispanics were the fastest growing ethnic group in the U.S. Now they constitute over sixteen percent of the total population, a...
