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The citizens of the United States have been debating whether the police should wear body cameras. Recently this debate has gotten a lot more prevalent after the unjust deaths of an unarmed teen in Ferguson, Missouri , and the death of Eric Garner in New York City. The United States death by police rate is by far higher than any other country, “ In 2011 police killed six people in Australia, two in England, six in Germany, and according to an FBI count, 404 in the United States.” (Stanley 2).…

Do American citizens know that the government and online companies like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are obtaining personal information, possibly even their exact location? Privacy is the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. Today, privacy is a thing of the past because of all the tracking and eavesdropping that is occurring in the digital age. People unknowingly and knowingly give companies access to their photos, camera, and microphone. The…

Is public school funding fair? The word “Fair” can be define in many different ways, it all depend on how each individual define it. The word “Fair” could mean equal, unbiased, and reasonable; however, in this project “Fair” means “Justices”. A big part of school funding comes from local property and sale taxation. This system gives locals control over their education. However, this kind of fund create huge gap between different school districts in the same state, and this largely due to…

revenue and greatly increased government spending. It led many drinkers to switch to opium, marijuana, cocaine, and other dangerous substances that they would have been unlikely to encounter in the absence of Prohibition”. In his journal for the Cato Institute, Mark Thornton avidly discusses the issues that the Era of Prohibition placed on the…

Legalizing Marijuana: Making Cents of it All. Schools using outdated textbooks, Humvees lacking armor protection for troops. It seems like these headlines are commonplace now days. If we would have had more money, then we would have done more and better things. We could raise taxes but the general consensus of the American public seems to be that they are all for increasing fund for things like education; but when it comes to lightening out already empty wallets, no one is the most enthusiastic…

Experts from Harvard, the Cato Institute, and New York University estimate that by legalizing drugs, the United States would save an average of $41.3 billion annually on prohibition enforcement alone, and there would be a tax yield of $46.7 billion annually, putting the total economic…

For many years, marijuana has been perceived by society as a harmful gateway drug. Masses believe this substance to be the path to hardcore drugs such as cocaine, opium, LSD, heroine, and methamphetamine. In addition, there is a view that the substance is highly addictive, however, smoking marijuana can be stopped suddenly without any resulting mental or physical distress in comparison to that of alcohol and tobacco products. “There is no withdrawal sickness and no ineradicable craving for the…

“We’ve come so far,” grandpa Cher said. “We almost didn’t make it. We fought really hard, and we were starving.” “Could you tell me more grandpa?” I said. “Nowadays, you guys don’t have to worry about anything but your education. We came here so you can have a better life. We did not look forward to day but dawn. We thirst and hungered; not for food but for our children to live successful lives outside of Laos and Thailand,” he said. “So, is that why you keep waking up uncle early in the morning…

still waiting until they can find enough evidence to where this act will work for them and assured it will be a benefit for there own citizens as well. “Pressure will increase on Congress as more states affirmatively refuse the system,” says the Cato Institute 's Harper. “I don 't think there 's any way that Congress gets out of reconsidering Real ID, though they could do nothing and Real ID will just collapse.” “Along the same lines, Quam of the National Governors Association told the Senate,…

Hope for Public Education Almost every child in the United States receives an education, some children go through private schools, and some children get home schooled, however most children attend public schools. Each school may seem the same, however many schools differ and there are many problems with the public schools system. O’Rourke and Stevenson both give very compelling opinions on the school systems and what they think the public education flaws are, and both provide their own…