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It’s a complex topic, to say the least. There are literally hundreds of cultures that come together to make up the American population. “Right now, relations between the largest groups are pretty quiet,” criminal justice professor Yvonne Downes says. “We aren’t seeing any significant race-based protests, let alone any actual riots.”

Problems between ethnic groups are going to occur more frequently in urban areas because that’s where the greatest amount of contact will be, Downes explains. “People in rural areas tend to accept a very small number of ‘outsiders’ with some distrust but general acceptance,” she says. “In suburban areas there is greater tolerance, and those in middle or upper middle-class suburbs feel quite smug about their willingness to tolerate people from many different groups - as long as those people are well educated and have high incomes.”

While Downes notes that some racial hostility still exists, many Americans, especially youth, are willing to address the issues. “Young people in this country are less likely than previous generations to hold racist beliefs and to assert them openly, and there is a growing effort to accept multiculturalism as a philosophy and a reality,” she says. “American citizens tend to point to our cultural diversity as a source of pride and our greatness, and to believe that we have achieved so much because we have drawn on the strengths of nearly every other culture in the world.”

Applying for law school in America isn’t radically different from applying to an undergraduate or graduate program. While your academic history is weighted heavily in all three processes, many law programs consider recommendations from professors and employers as an indicator of your ability. Academic recommendations are not always required, because many people apply long after their college days have ended.

Any law school approved by the American Bar Association requires the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), a standardized exam of approximately 100 logic questions and a written section. The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOFEL) may also be required for non-native English speakers. Last but not least, most schools have an application fee. For example, it’ll cost you $75 to apply to Harvard Law School. However, some schools will waive the fee if an applicant can show that paying it would be a financial burden.

In addition to recommendations and good (or great) LSAT and TOEFL scores, most law schools look for a high undergraduate or graduate grade point average (GPA).Other aspects of your life, including unique job experience and community service, can help the chances of getting into the law school of your choice.

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While deciding when to join the workforce is usually a matter of choice, the United States has strict laws to prevent the exploitation and abuse of children, and to provide every citizen with a livable income. The current minimum hourly wage in America is $5.15, although state governments have the right to set a higher wage.

The concept of a nationwide minimum wage was established under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “New Deal” in 1934 but was not put into practice until 1938, when the Fair Labor Standards Act set the minimum wage at $0.25/hour. Individual states began instituting minimum wage laws at roughly the same time, but not all states were quick to adopt their own measures.

When age limitations began to be discussed, the definition of maturity was a central issue. Donald Mazzella, a historian and editorial director of Small Business Digest, says, at the turn of the 20th century “it was popularly assumed that boys and girls matured and were adults at age 14.”

To this day, the official minimum legal age for employment in most non-agricultural jobs is 14, while other positions require workers to be at least 18. Any employee under 16 is prohibited from working during school hours, and individual states have restrictions for working adolescents. Children of any age may deliver newspapers, work in businesses owned by their parents and perform in movies, theater or television. Most people begin full-time jobs after finishing high school, at age 18, or college, when they’re around 22.

When World War II began in September 1939, the Allied forces of France, Britain and a few other European nations squared off against Germany and Italy. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler launched campaigns in Eastern and Western Europe and Northern Africa, eventually betraying the Soviet Union, with whom he had a nonaggression pact, by invading Russia. During this time, however, the United States refrained from formally entering the war, despite their willingness to appropriate an initial $7 billion in weapons and various types of aid to French and British soldiers.

That all changed on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese launched a surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor, a naval base in Hawaii that hosted the majority of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Japan (which along with Germany and Italy comprised the Axis) saw the United States as a threat to their plans to dominate Southeast Asia. While the attack sunk or damaged 21 battleships and killed over 2,400 people, none of the vital aircraft carriers was lost. The United States declared war against Japan the following day, and Germany quickly declared war against the U.S.

In 1944, the United States and its Allies landed in France to fight the Nazis. Squeezed between the advancing Allies to the West and South, and the Soviet Red Army to the East, Germany surrendered on May 8, 1945. The United States, after fighting its way across the islands of Southeast Asia, dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945; three days later, an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945, bringing World War II to an end

According to an old legend, a military cadet named Abner Doubleday drew up the rules for “America’s Pastime” in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1839. Doubleday’s contribution has been largely discredited, though, especially after someone discovered that he wasn’t even in Cooperstown that year.

Instead, Alexander Cartwright of New York is now credited with inventing the modern version of the game in 1845 and fielding one of the first true baseball teams, the New York Knickerbockers. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938, and many of his original rules still stand today, including the distance between bases (90 feet) and the number of bases (four).

Baseball is indeed played in the Summer Olympics, where it has been a full medal sport since 1992, according to the International Olympic Committee. USA Baseball spokesperson David Fanucchi believes that, internationally, the game has been growing in both talent and its number of fans. “For a long time, it was mostly America, Cuba and Japan that had the top players, but now you can go to other countries such as the Netherlands or Italy or Korea,” he says. “China’s developing an excellent baseball program for participation in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. We believe that baseball will be a very popular sport in any Olympic Games as we move forward.”

But baseball isn’t the only Olympic sport involving a bat: Softball entered the games in 1996. The U.S. women’s team brought home the gold medal in its inaugural year and in 2004.