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    What the president did The Uniting and strengthening America by providing Appropriate Tools Required to intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 or simply put, The Patriot act was signed into law on October 26th, 2001. The purpose of the Patriot Act is to deter and punish terrorist threats domestically and aboard. The act strengthens law enforcement granting them the necessary tools and applications in order to detect and prosecute terrorists around the globe and domestically. The Patriot…

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    Gallagher (2012) was the first report which dealt with finance issues about dissolution of a civil partnership. The Court of Appeal confirmed that the approach based on same principles of the division of assets on divorce can be concluded…

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    Joseph Stalin and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and presidents Truman and Eisenhower and the United States were engaged in a cold war that ranged from Europe to Asia. The USSR was out to instill it’s influence and to spread Communism throughout Asia whilst preventing the United States from stopping their flow and instead putting forth capitalism as the way for Asian countries. A war of influence raged on between both superpowers as they went back and forth to who should reign in Asia.…

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    movements have helped bring social, political and structural changes and have led to different types of political outcomes. For example, in the case of the former Soviet Union, policy change leading to the fall of the U.S.S.R in the early 1990s, the marginalization of minorities by the State of Mississippi in the 1960s during the Civil Rights movements, or perhaps the case of Nazi Germany’s State capture prior to WWII. We can study these political outcomes that have been significantly influenced…

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    between the United States and the Soviet Union that existed after World War II until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Essentially, using proxies, both countries fought each other over the spread of Communism. (Trueman, 2015) One can suppose the Cold War actually began in earnest when the Soviet Union tested its own atomic bomb in 1949. Due to the rising Soviet threat, President Harry Truman, in 1951, created a new federal agency known as the Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA). This…

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    Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and nowadays Russia Introduction According to Horvath & Robert (2005), USSR, that is currently Russia has been a communist nation since the 19th century. The Soviet Union has been a socialist federation containing many institutions of the country and other non-governmental organizations. In the past, many human and civil rights were limited prompting the formation of some civil rights organizations. The political dispensations were so limited, and this…

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    Several years after the Civil War ended in 1865, new and old industries began to emerge, creating what is known as the Industrial Revolution (Klunk, 2016). Through innovative ideas, many individuals developed industrial plants and machinery, which contributed to the rise in growing industries. It was these innovations that facilitated growth into the modern day American economy. To analyze the development of industry, business, and labor after the American Civil War, this paper will discuss…

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    The next cause of the Somali Civil War is the prevalence of clans in Somalia. The role of clans in Somalia is an important social unit in Somalia just as it is in the rest of Africa. Upon saying that, there is a lot of division that goes into the formation of these clans despite the fact Somalia is very homogenous and the population is 99% Somalian (Terdman 2008, 12). Due to this, the vast majority of its citizens share both a common language and a common culture. (Woods 1997, 1) Still, clans…

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    Labor Unions Are Necessary to Protect Workers Rights Introduction Good morning madam chairman, ladies and gentlemen. Today I will persuade you that labor unions are necessary to protect workers’ rights. This paper will examine how labor unions brought about changes in the work place thus protecting the rights of its workers. There four worker’s rights that I would like to expand upon. First is the 40 hour work week. Secondly is the 8 hour work day. Thirdly is the employees’…

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    of the American civil rights movement arose mainly out of the public sector workforce, as workers felt they were not receiving the type of benefits the government should have been offering them, which led to an abandonment of the original trade unions and instead created new collective organization. “From the early 1960s onward, the most legitimate… defense of America job rights would be found not through collective initiative… but through an individual 's claim to his or her civil rights.” This…

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