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    How the 2000s impacted modern day society. The first decade of the 2000s has not only shaped the identity of today, but it has formed the building blocks for decades to come. The 2000s have had an astounding impact on modern day society. Because of the defining pop culture, presidents and foreign democracy and news headliners, all of which has shaped the present day American culture, people will never forget the 2000s. The 2000s were a time to be noticed. People would do anything to stand…

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    Article Summary #1: Author William Tucker uses his 2000 American Spectator article to explain why the death penalty is actually a deterrent to criminals. Tucker analyzes the statistics of crime over the years and concludes that when death penalty rates are up, murder rates are down, and when execution rates decrease, the rate of homicides rises (par. 13). While many criminologists believe that the death penalty doesn’t affect the amount of murders that take place in America, Tucker counters by…

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    2000 Word Pre-Essay The American Dream There is so many things that people don’t know about the American dream because a lot of the facts about the American dream because some but one in the 19th century dream places help the society about the determined Germans fled the failed revolution in the 1840s lots of people have noticed that the despite of the American experience is one sociologist of success and families everything that is in the American dream is all true and when it is true…

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    it is still considered historic because it is now in the past. As stated by Dr. Drake in many lectures, “history does not necessarily repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” From 1865 to the 2000s, different areas of history have a stronger rhyming scheme than others. Looking back to 1860s and comparing it to the 2000s, we can still see how the role of the federal government, the benefits and drawbacks of economic growth, and the United States role in world affairs has been reoccurring, however, the…

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    The Y2k Crisis

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    year of 1999, the real concern for technology failure had become an enormous topic for people around the world, “It does the whole coast and the whole country and wraps around the globe” (Maney). This is the year that data would need to change to the 2000s, which is a problem that was not prepared for. New Year’s 1999 would become known as the end of the world, and referred to as Y2K, “The Y2K bug was a computer flaw, or bug, that may have caused problems when dealing with dates beyond December…

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    Capital Punishment An examination of juries in death penalty cases in the early 2000’s shows that 25 percent of juries had no black members, and only 70 percent had two or fewer. Any experts support the strong while male dominance effect and a black male presence effect in cases that involved a black defendant and a white victim. Thus, the attendance of at least five or more white men dramatically increased the likelihood of conviction, and the exercise of the death penalty. Whereas the…

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    Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 was signed into law on October 28, 2000 by President Bill Clinton in an effort to fight against trafficking in persons, of all types; forced enslavement and slavery, the sex trade,. The act is in place to assist in the re-implementation of particular Federal programs to assist in prohibiting violence against women, among other purposes as well Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000). The TVPA allows the United States…

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    Throughout my essay I will be referring to five documents, to discuss conservatism in America from 1945-2000, based off the text book, The Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents, written by Ronald Story,…

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    1990 V. 2000 Case Study

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    After looking at Maternal Deaths 1990 v. 2000, it is important to look at the number of maternal deaths in 2011 compared to those in 1990. Just like before, the relationship between the two variables is if the data point is above the regression line then there was more deaths in 2011 than in 1990 and vice versa (Figure 5). This makes sense because higher the y-value the lower the x-value and it is the same the other way around. For this data, the least square regression equation was…

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    The author’s position regarding the role of US monetary policy and the housing market bubble during the early 2000’s is that they don’t “believe that the monetary policies of the period played a large role” (Dokko et al., 2009, p. 3). Therefore, in their view, the three causes that contributed to the housing bubble were low mortgage interest rates, low short-term interest rates, and relaxed mortgage lending standards. One crucial cause of the housing bubble was the widespread belief that home…

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