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    The Animal Liberation Front is a terrorist group that intends to change international policy for animal use and treatment. The group has successfully damaged businesses where animal abuse took place, and freed animal victims of abuse. Some of the businesses that have been targeted have shut down in fear of another attack, which have led the ALF to be successful. The interesting aspect of the ALF is that they have taken a vow not to bring injury to any form of life, and therefore take a careful step to not injure the workers of the businesses perpetrated. The ALF in contrast to another terroristic group like Boko Haram, which has been named one of the five deadliest terrorist groups on the planet, has caused no deaths and two injuries at most…

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    Milian was because he was speaking out against the other terrorist acts going on in Miami because many were upset with the control of Fidel Castro in Cuba. During the 1970’s into the early 1980’s, many bombers of the Alpha 66 and Omega 7 groups were targeting Cuban cigar shops, shipping companies, and the offices of magazine editorials that claimed to support a Castro Regime (Emilio Milian, 2016). For the most part, Domestic Terrorism is still true to its definition of acts only carried out by…

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    Peter Singer in, Animal Rights: debate between Peter Singer & Richard Posner, makes clear his position that animals which feel, deserve the consideration of their well being by humans. This position echos his stance as an Utilitarian because the moral theory of Utilitarianism weighs the sum of happiness and least unhappiness in a holistic approach that reaches beyond mere inclusion of human beings. Singer therefore encourages us to include the animal kingdom in the conversation of maximum…

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    Gays and lesbians have been standing up and sometimes even rioting for many years. For example, “The Stonewall riots (also referred to as the Stonewall uprising or the Stonewall rebellion) were a series of spontaneous, violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBT) community against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. They are widely considered to…

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    Singer, Peter (1972). Famine, Affluence, and Morality. Philosophy and Public Affairs 1 (3):229-243. “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” was written by a well-known Jewish philosopher named Peter Singer. Singer has made many endeavors in ethics, tackling different taboo issues such as abortion, euthanasia, and animal rights. He grew up and attended school in Melbourne, Australia. In college, he became an avid proponent of veganism and vegetarianism leading him to pen his well-known book Animal…

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    Gay and Lesbian Liberation, he describes the occurrence as “an event which had occurred a thousand times before across the U.S. over the decades”. New York police had targeted and raided another gay bar, which had been illegally operating in the city, in order to attempt to shut it down. Wright goes on to say that shutting down these bars was a routine procedure, the entering of “Seven plain-clothes detectives and a uniformed officer” caused the bartenders to stop serving drinks and the usual…

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    does not entitle us to abuse them, and similarly the fact that some people are less resourceful than others does not mean that their concerns may be disregarded. Peter Singer published Animal Liberation in 1975 which has been mentioned as a leading prompt on leaders…

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    A half decade after the conclusion of the National Literacy Crusade, Deborah Brandt composed an analysis on the history of Sandinista education entitled, “Popular Education” in Nicaragua: The First Five Years (1985, edited by Thomas W. Walker). Brandt argued the symbiotic relationship between the militia members of the Sandinista National Liberation Front or the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) and the historically disenfranchised rural peasants through popular education…

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    War, genocide, and slavery have been common themes throughout American history. In determining why these atrocities have happened and reoccurred, one must consider the roles obedience and disobedience have played in these events. Obedience is the conformance of rules established by an authority figure. On the other hand, disobedience is the refusal to follow the rules established by an authority figure, even when realizing the consequences. In A People 's History of the United States, Howard…

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    example to display global economic disparity and how much South America needs to join the economic race of the Western world. While tourism is an amazing way for South America to grow economically, it is a double-edged sword. Often, tourism comes hand-in-hand with gentrification and the feared white presence.Ever since the domination of the Spanish Inquisition in South America, race has been a massive issue. Lighter skinned (“White Latinos”) Hispanics, are treated with more respect and are…

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