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    The United States government spends an enormous amount of money. Where exactly does the U.S. government spend all that money on? There are three levels of government, federal, state, and local. As of today 2016, the amount of the three levels of government spending is estimated to be around $6.6 trillion. Federal spending is estimated to be $3.95 trillion, state spending is around $1.62 trillion, and local spending is around $1.82 trillion. Federal spending is divided into three categories by…

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    Racism in American society has been deeply engrained into the cultural norms since colonialization. Racism has infiltrated every facet of our lives, including in the medical field. This medical racism was particularly portrayed by the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments, which occurred from 1932-1972. The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and its relationship with governmental organizations represent the idea that racism is deeply engrained in American society and the discontinuation of the study portrays…

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    was enacted after Andrew Johnson left the U.S. senate. In 1864 Andrew Johnson was elected vice president of the United States. A year later President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865 at the Ford’s Theatre in Washington D.C. On April 14, 1865, just a couple of hours after the Abraham Lincoln’s death, Andrew Johnson, a democrat, became the United States seventeenth…

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    The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were written by Jefferson and Madison in order to nullify the Sedition Acts and declare states power to judge legitimacy of federal law. Jefferson and Madison argued that since the states were around before the Constitution, and created the document which made the federal government, they had the right to interpret the Constitution and choose whether they wanted to obey laws passed by the federal government. Furthermore, this gave tremendous power to the…

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    derived or directed by time. Until no human escaped the hold of time. There are a lot of people who had a different insight in time and can be characterized history 's crazy figures of punctuality. For example, George Washington is one them. To mention few of his acts George Washington asked “a man to bring him some horses he was interested in buying at five in the morning, and the man arrived fifteen minutes late he was told by the stabl groom that the general had been waiting there at five but…

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    Perhaps what makes the United States identifiable as “the land of the free” is its system of democracy. The Constitution and an enumerated Bill of Rights that our founding fathers created give citizens the ability to do and say pretty much anything acceptable within the law as long as they do not infringe on another individual’s rights. The Constitution provides an outline for the government as well as a way for citizens to elect the president through the electoral system. However, results over…

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    Modern Era Propaganda

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    The definition of propaganda is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. People often mistaken propaganda as new and modern, but it 's been around since ancient Athens. Of course, their form of propaganda was much different than what we use in the modern age. Back in Athens, their form of propaganda was traveling prophets going city to city. In the modern age, the U.S. government has issued various…

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    “Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.” – Mahatma Gandhi (4). This quote explains that religion today has to go through an "acid test” in order to see if the world agrees with what its beliefs are. Luckily, today in the U.S., we have the freedom of religion, so Americans can practice whatever religion they like, which is one of the things that the U.S. has assented to. As Americans, we also assent that slavery is bad…

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    Scr 13 Pros And Cons

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    The SCR 13 is supposed to urge the federal government to turn over all of its national parks, forests and monuments to the states and its people. However, there has been a lot of controversy behind the bill. This first paragraph will discuss the purpose of the bill, what problem does it seek to solve and who is helped or harmed from the bill. The purpose of the SCR 13 Ohio Senate bill is to urge Congress to transfer all national land that is open to the public and is owned by the federal…

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    America is often described as melting pot. However, I believe America is better described as a mosaic with the different people and different cultures meshing together but still maintaining their distinctness. Each group that makes up America has their own story to tell. Within the social foundations of American education, there is the plight of African Americans fighting to end the racial segregation of schools; Native Americans pushing back against the efforts to assimilate them, Catholics who…

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