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    reproduction and fertility as a threat to the country. The geographics of diversity in the United States is changing because Latina having a lot of children. The modern world makes women think about just themselves and living their lives. I am a young Latina mother that well to society I am the…

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    through circumstances and failed. For example, there was no executive branch to enforce any acts passed by Congress. During its short lifespan, the Articles of Confederation became increasingly ineffective at governing the continually growing American states. The main causes of this ineffectiveness aroused from a lack of stable foreign relations and economic conditions; however there was one benefit, which was the settlement of western lands. Nevertheless the end the Articles of Confederation…

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    They wanted North and South Vietnam to unite and become one big Communist country. In order to do this the USSR deployed 3,000 troops to Vietnam while the United Sates where stationed there (Historical Text). However, the Soviet Union was not the only country that favored the spread of Communism in Asia, the Chinese also played a part in the war. The Chinese already had an alliance with the North Vietnamese…

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    I first realized my interest to study law whilst playing with a law-book. In lieu of a toy my mother would hand me one of the many law books piled up on the kitchen table. I recall reaching for the book, dragging it to the nearest chair and accepting my mother’s friendly invitation to join her. The law books my mother had piled up had a unique way of influencing different aspects of our life. I remember thinking how my mother and I used the law books in completely different ways. Its intriguing…

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    The whole idea of overcoming obstacles, helping others and the stereotypes that are produced by concepts such as socio-economic inequality, are critical aspects to consider, when exploring the extensive similarities in the social context of “the Blind Side”, as well as in renowned Langston Hughes poetry. Both the “Blind Side” and Langston Hughes poetry both focus on complementary social contexts, in this case, a Capitalist society built upon the stigmatization of certain races and groups. A…

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    Day was motivated to join the antiwar movement in protest the Vietnam War, because he didn’t think there was a good reason for the United States to be involved. One of the reasons was that there were a lot of Americans dying in the war, which was broadcasted on the television on a daily basis. Among the Americans who died in the war, was his cousin. Along with American casualties, there…

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    Reproduction theory attempts to show how and why the United States can be dipicted more accurately as the place where “the rich get richer and the poor stay poor,” than as “ the land of the opportunity”. Many theorectical issues are: the role of education in the perpectuation of class inequality: the influence…

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    the mindset that it does not affect anybody but the consenting parties, so what is being done to society? Recently in the United States the Supreme Court has passed into law that samesex marriage is legal in all 50 states. This created an uproar throughout the country, and some radical conservatives tried to make a stand. Licensing offices all throughout the southern United States closed their doors the day after the hearing in protest of the new law. One woman in Alabama refused to give a ga…

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    In the United States the federal government makes the final decision when it comes to the major political problems of our day. Their word is the law, and most of the time it has the desired effect of extinguishing the problems on a nationwide scale. While this has worked many times in the past, it has never worked and continues to fail when dealing with the national education. Students and their educational needs simply span too broad of a spectrum for the federal government to satisfy each…

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    make them work for him. Upon him choosing to do this, he ruined his beautiful home in the Caribbean. He wrote in a letter to King Ferdinand of Spain, when he thinks of the other lands, “I never think without weeping...the people are in a languid state although they are not dead...those who left the Indies, flying from toils and speaking evil of the matter of me, have returned with official employment.” (Columbus 3). Everything he had tried to do with his new land backfired on him. He…

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