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Good question! Because no doubt this is a big problem in the United Stated, a really BIG problem you better call it an epidemic. But how is it possible that so many Americans are overweight because nowhere else in the world it is such a problem.

First of all, we have to define what “overweight” is. On the website publichealth.org the following is written about this “Generally, doctors and nutritionists classify people as either underweight, healthy weight, overweight, or obese. These different classifications are determined by body mass index (BMI), or a measure of body fat based on your height and weight.” If you have BMI above 30 you are considered as obese.

According to data of last September adult obesity rates now exceed 35 percent in four states, 30 percent in 25 states and all the other are also above 20 percent (State of Obesity, 2016).

The reason why so many Americans are obese lays partial within their culture. American food is mostly junk food and above that they consume XXL-portions with extra fat combined with a big cola full of sugar. Moreover, is healthy food much more expensive than junk food. But not only the food is a factor for the high obesity rate in the United States also a lack of exercising and stress influences this.

One thing for sure; obesity in the United States will not be gone any time soon.

Literature

Obesity Rates & Trends. (2016). Retrieved from http://stateofobesity.org/rates/

Why are Americans obese? (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.publichealth.org/public-awareness/obesity/

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They like them big, bigger, biggest. A few important car brands in the United States are:

Chryslar

Chevrolet

Cadillac

Dodge

Ford

Jeep

Tesla Motors (Wikipedia, n.d.).

What they all have in common is that cars in America are larger than in Europe. What we call an extra-large they consider as mid-size and it is not just about the size of the car itself they also have very heavy engines.

But why do like Americans their big cars? According to the article on Newsweek it is not just about or you can afford the car or that you even need it; a car speaks who you ARE as a human being. It is normal in America that cars mean a lot to the consumer; they have a car culture. Since most of the Americans spend much time on the road because of the big travelling distances in the United States. So the brand and size of your vehicle has much to say about who you are (Jessop, 2016).

Ford

A very famous and affordable American brand is Ford. Henry Ford manufactured the first car that a middle class American could afford (Wikipedia, n.d.). Because of this he became very successful which made him one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He even has his own noun: Fordism. “A specific stage of economic development in the 20th century. Fordism is a term widely used to describe (1) the system of mass production that was pioneered in the early 20th century by the Ford Motor Company or (2) the typical postwar mode of economic growth and its associated political and social order in advanced capitalism.” (Jessop, 2016).

Literature

Jessop, B. Fordism. (2016). Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fordism

Henry Ford. Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford

List of car brands. Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_car_brands#United_States_of_America

Pinchon, K. Why U.S. LIKES BIG CARS. (2016). Retrieved from http://www.newsweek.com/why-us-likes-big-cars-94167

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The first established death penalty in the United States goes way back to the European settlers because with them they brought the practice of capital punishment. The first recorded capital punishment in what we now call the United States was the death of Captain George Kendall in Jamestown, Virginia in 1608 (Deathpenaltyinfo.org, n.d.).

Capital punishment is nowadays still practised in 31 states of the USA. This is quite an ordinary thing since America is the only Western country which is still practicing the capital punishment (Wikipedia, n.d.). In modern society it is not common anymore to carry out death penalty because it is considered as unhuman and medieval. In other Western countries we do know life imprisonment which we use instead of the death penalty.

Death row convicts can choose in what way they want to be executed. They can choose for electrocution, gas inhalation, hanging or the firing squad (Wikipedia, n.d.). However, they do not have a free choice because it depends on which state you are an inmate. Not every state knows the same execution methods.

In the chart beneeth you can see how many executions are prosecuted throughout the years in the United States. There have been no executions in  1972 since the death penalty has been suspended that year. This was according  to Deathpenaltyinfo.org because of “the issue of arbitrariness of the death penalty was again be brought before the Supreme Court in 1972 in Furman v. Georgia, Jackson v. Georgia, and Branch v. Texas . Furman, like McGautha, argued that capital cases resulted in arbitrary and capricious sentencing. Furman, however, was a challenge brought under the Eighth Amendment, unlike McGautha, which was a Fourteenth Amendment due process claim. With the Furman decision the Supreme Court set the standard that a punishment would be "cruel and unusual" if it was too severe for the crime, if it was arbitrary, if it offended society's sense of justice, or it if was not more effective than a less severe penalty.” (Deathpenaltyinfo.org, n.d.).

Literature

Capital punishment in the United States. Wikipedia. Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States

Introduction to the Death Penalty. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/part-i-history-death-penalty#intro

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We know it all, however I did not know the origin of the celebration nor the reason why they celebrate it at all. I have always been too lazy to look it up so now it was the right time to search the Internet.

According to the website history.com is Thanksgiving celebrated every fourth Thursday of November. Americans gather then for a day of feasting, football and family (and the well-known Turkey). Did you know by the way that there is not a particular reason why they eat a turkey?

Each year on the fourth Thursday in November, Americans gather for a day of feasting, football and family. While today’s Thanksgiving celebrations would likely be unrecognizable to attendees of the original 1621 harvest meal. Back in 1621 it was a celebration for the first real harvest and the Indians helped the settlers with this. If it was not for them the settlers would not have survived at all.

Because of President Franklin D. Roosevelt Thanksgiving is held on the fourth Thursday of November. He declared this in 1941. The years before it always was on the last Thursday of November which could mean that sometimes it was the fourth and sometimes the fifth (History.com, n.d.).

What day is after Thanksgiving? Black Friday! Oh boy I wish I would live in the United States only for this day. A day off, do some Christmas shopping with a LOT of discounts J

Literature

FDR establishes modern Thanksgiving holiday. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-establishes-modern-thanksgiving-holiday

Thanksgiving. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.history.com/topics/thanksgiving

Thanksgiving. Wikipedia. (n.d.). Retrieved fromhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving