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and farming as the economic activities. In 1977, John Burgoyne, a British general, drafted a plan that would plan out how Britain would isolate from other colonies. His planned how troops from Canada would move southwards invading New York and other Americans by surprise. The troops succeeded in capturing Fort Ticonderoga in June 1977. However, Burgoyne and his army were surrounded by Militia along Hudson River cutting off their supply chain. October 1977, Burgoyne surrendered his army to the…

The article, "There's no hate speech exception to the First Amendment", was written in 2017 by Joan Vennochi, an American newspaper columnist for the Boston Globe. The newspaper article was published in the Boston Globe, a leading American daily newspaper. In this article, Vennochi defends the idea that the First Amendment protects even the speech we hate to hear. The author establishes her authority to speak on this subject by previously working as a City Hall bureau chief, and also as a State…

Introduction The social safety net in the United States is a complex and varying system. The social safety net in the United States was numerous critics and proponents that try to make the system better or reform the system to fix perceived errors. The two major components of the welfare system in the United States is the Social Security or old age insurance and the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF). These programs have different perceptions with the American public and those…

Elvis Presley’s Death: Real or Fake? Would the family of a celebrity truly lie about a celebrity's death regardless of how many fans they have? Will they have the press in on their lies if they do? On August 16, 1977, Elvis Presley was found dead on the bathroom floor of his Graceland mansion at the age of 42. He was pronounced dead after arriving to a nearby hospital. Although all sources give information on this death, many believe that Elvis faked his death instead of actually being dead.…

Aida Hurtado Aida Hurtado is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Possessing over 130 publications, including nine books and forty-three policy reports, Hurtado is one of the highest-ranking Chicana faculty members in the University of California system (AAHHE, 2017). Dr. Hurtado’s research focuses upon social/group identity and language. She specializes in unequal distributions of power between social groups like ethnicity, race, class, and gender. Recent books…

the engineers failed their duty of disclosure. They have withheld vital information from their clients/employers on the consequences of their decision on launching the space shuttle (Texas A&M University, n.d) and mass producing Ford Pinto (Dowie, 1977). When the decision was made to proceed with the launch in the Challenger Shuttle case, the flight crew was not aware of the risk they were taking. In the Ford Pinto case, It is the responsibility of the engineers to inform their clients of the…

actually made 33 movies. He never really stayed in one spot while he was with his parents, and all the moving made him connect to only about two things; his music and his family. Elvis was born in 1935 and made a huge difference all the way through 1977, but people still celebrate and commemorate his life. Around the 1950s, Elvis was drafted into the army and put in charge of one specific group and was then stationed in Germany. He turned down an offer to become more than a regular soldier…

Anthropology 305 Assignment 3 23 February 2016 Pierre Bourdieu and Raymond Williams explored power in social organization and examined cultural discourse (Bourdieu 1977:168). They both discussed ideas about dominant powers and the cultures they fostered as well as the rules governing that power and the resultant resistance and submission (Williams 1977:121). Bourdieu called it Doxa and the Realm of Acceptable Discourse (ROAD), Williams called it Hegemony. The American people have always turned…

Meanwhile, Karl Marx and Hegel can offer concepts of difficulties related to economic, cultural and environmental adjustment, and ambivalent experiences which can mimic/resemble the challenges experienced by skilled immigrant families; through Marxian and Hegelian eyes, there is this-an indivisible link between globalization and skilled immigrants as skilled immigrants are dependent on globalization to that combined are a source of profiteering. Also, Mitchell (2012) deals with the main ideals…

Foucault particularly accentuates how this new wave method of imprisonment becomes an instrument of more effective jurisdiction: ''to punish less, but certainly to punish better'' Foucault, M. (1977). Discipline and punish. Additionally, he maintains that that this new means of punishment becomes the seed for ever growing control of an entire society with hospitals, factories, and even educational institutions modeled on the modern prison system…