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    What is a hate or bias crime? It is usually violent, motivated by prejudice or intolerance toward an individual's national origin, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and or disability (addiction). Addiction by definition is a condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing or activity. Although I could not find any specific documentation of Hate and Bias crimes on people with addictions, I am focusing on the hate crimes that are related to…

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    The "Dirty War" (Spanish: Guerra Sucia), also known as the Process of National Reorganization (Spanish: Proceso de Reorganización Nacional or El Proceso), was the name used by the Argentine Military Government for a period of state terrorism in Argentina[1] from roughly 1974[2][3] to 1983 (some sources date the beginning to 1969), during which military and security forces and right-wing death squads in the form of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance (Triple A)[4][5] hunted down and killed…

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    Native American Values

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    lifestyle. The expansion of the US boundaries to the west led expeditionary campaigns to invade the territories of Indian tribes. Indeed, under the guise of expanding religious creeds, education, and civilization in general, Native Americans were forced to reduce their space of maneuver to finally assimilate the meaning of the term confinement. Core societal values such as freedom, liberty, and equality were segregated from Native American culture and the structural development at the foundation…

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    Melting Pot Theory Essay

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    that is uniquely American. However, the cultural diversity in America is clearly evident, from physical characteristics to different religious beliefs and customs. As minorities immigrate to America and attempt to assimilate into society, they are forced to live a pluralistic lifestyle of blending with the current society, while struggling to maintain their heritage and identity “Minority individuals must learn to function in two environments: their own culture and that of the mainstream…

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    with it overshadowing her authentic emotions she has toward a particular event, leading her to take drastic measures. In the short story The Lay of the Werewolf, when Bisclavaret 's wife is alerted on the true accounts of her husband’s weekly disappearance her “her face became flushed with fear” as she was “greatly alarmed by the story” which led her to begin to “consider various means of parting from him, as she no longer wished to lie with him” (De France 3). Bisclavaret 's wife…

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    will no longer be known by anyone or spoken after the disappearance. The language extinction is both sudden and gradual. The language’s chances can be changed in a generation or so if it is no longer being learned by children or youth. New languages are being born…

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    According to the COI, enforced disappearances are a deliberate feature of the system, sending warning to the population that anyone who does not demonstrate absolute obedience can purely disappear. The arbitrary detention of political opponents is a widespread practice and often even extends…

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    A Long To Water Quotes

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    many young boys who are known as the lost boys of sudan were forced to either flee their home or to fight in the sudanese war just as Ger Duany was.During the war the boys who didn't end up fighting had to go thru many struggles and hardships some of those being not enough food, separation from family,war chasing them etc.The boys who did end up fighting also had to deal with many struggles some of never getting an education,being forced away from family the chance of getting killed in war etc.…

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    Mirrors, such as multiplications, and narcissistic seductions, which point to a celibate eroticism, which must not account to anyone, but to himself, is the name that came to my mind to define this core of works that are one of the classic moments of the American imagination. Years that appears as “happy” nowadays, while then they appeared, as all the times, full of contradictions and tears. Every event is seen in the key of consumption, absorption, chaos of the metropolis par excellence, New…

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    How is it possible that either close to five hundred thousand to one million people in Indonesia that were murdered between the year 1965-1966 might be a forgotten history? The Indonesian mass killings took place at a time when Southeast Asia, still emerging from colonialisms, was energized by social ideology. At the time, the United States was already on ground in Vietnam. In Indonesia, it was led by President Sukarno and a home to one of the world’s largest Communist parties and was seen by…

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