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    Cultural Artifact

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    how much should the readers know about the subject; The article was able to use layman terms, that an individual can understand, for example, GDP growth, which is widely used by economist and investors and essentially, it measures the health of a particular country, a high GDP growth, as 20 will be noted as a strong GDP. Likewise, a GDP growth rate of 1 % indicates that a particular nation, the economy is weak. Moreover, the artifact mention politics and the economy, perhaps a reader would need to know a tiny amount in order to grasp the whole idea. Secondly, the production of the artifact. – The producer was able to use ideas to have a reader to agree with their assertion. – Which was to not worry about the ensuing cronyism, and that crony capitalism has gotten better in the emerging markets, throughout the years an excerpt from the article states, “it may seem that this new golden era of crony capitalism is coming to a shabby end. In London Vijay Mallya, a ponytailed Indian tycoon is fighting deportation back to India as the authorities there rake over his collapsed empire. Last year in São Paulo, executives at Odebrecht, Brazil’s largest construction firm, were arrested and flown to a court in Curitiba, a southern Brazilian city, that is investigating corrupt deals with Petrobras, the state-controlled oil firm. The scandal, which involves politicians from several parties, including the ruling Workers’ Party, is adding to pressure on Brazil’s president,…

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    A little known fact among the American people is that on August 24th, 1814, the White House was burned to the ground all because of political and military failings (Smithsonian Institute). The main reasons for the destruction of the nation 's capital were rooted in the inexperience of the Americans at running a country, coupled with an intense Anglophobia, which led to bickering and lack of direction as politicians intentionally made poor decisions in an effort to move away from British…

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    I am writing to address the perception of institutional legacy, biases, or discrimination in the selection and hiring practices of federal civil service positions at TRADOC G2, G27 Operational Environment-Theater Support Center (OE-TSC). This inquire respectfully requests a review of the selection process after the CPAC referral listing is forwarded to the hiring officials to ensure selection is based upon individual qualifications (i.e. experience, education and expertise) rather than cronyism…

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    Stiglitz analyzes the behavior of major corporations in his essay Rent Seeking and the Making of an Unequal America. Stiglitz explains the immoral system in which the government reaps the spoils of their companies without exerting effort in areas where people are working extremely hard. Similarly, Michael Moss delves into the same elite extortion of the working class. In “The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food”, Moss speaks of the conscious sacrifice of healthiness in food…

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    Class Warfare In America

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    Class Warfare in America is a common issue, but throughout The Real Class Warfare in America Today and Class Warfare One More Time: The Left-Wing And The Right-Wing Versions, class warfare of politics is discussed. Recently, many people have had differing views on how to get rid of the difference in social classes. Within The Real Class Warfare in America Today, Mark Hendrickson discusses the ways cronyism is affecting the society. But, with a differing view in Class Warfare One More Time: The…

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    get pregnant and do not have the means to raise a child. Giving a child up for adoption is an option but that child may not go to a forever home and they may end up in foster care until they are 18 which, once again, isn't fair to the child. As previously stated, John Kennedy is a Republican or Conservative and he quite obviously aligns with the ideology of Conservatism. He was one of the founding members of the North Cross Methodist Church and he believes in the traditional American…

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    Rio Olympics Impacts

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    In the period of Sochi winter Olympics, the Russian arranged for more than 40000 police and special service staffers around the Olympics village( Corcoran J), and the federal government limited the movement of people and goods in the region starting on January; compared with the closet Rio Olympic events, security force of 85000 staffers fulfill the Rio, among the 23000 soldiers, which aimed the dangerous at the sidewalk( Jacobs A & Kaiser A) in case of some terrorist incidents; before the…

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    situation can be seen through the role of President or Prime Minister in the appointment of government officials. For instance US constitutions, President has power to appoint any individual to assumed the position of the government such as appoint personal advisers without congressional approval. Most of the individuals appointed as government officials tend to be supporters of the president. Political leader have a great deal of patronage when they are authorized to make decisions regarding…

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    Jackson Pros And Cons

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    When it comes to Native American history, Jackson ranks right up there with the worst genocidal tyrants. Because white Southerners in the early 19th century craved the land inhabited by native tribes like the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek and Cherokee, they needed the government to expel the original inhabitants so they could seize the property for themselves. Although the law only permitted voluntary and peaceful removals of natives from their land, Jackson ignored the law (as well as the…

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    China are seen as a country that is based on two governments, one system, and people of Hong Kong wants their fair share of acknowledgement of their own, as a state, from the mainland. In this op Ed, “Hong Kong and the Realities of China’s Rise”, readers will see Yuen Ying Chan using rhetorical devices like appeal to authority, and parallel syntactic structure. By using these two rhetorical terms, Yuen Ying Chan argues that Hong Kong deserves to be living, not under the control of China but to…

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