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    crime. Organized crimes are premeditated, not spur of the moment. The Impact of Organized Crime it isn’t easily measured, but we know it’s significant. Organized crime rings manipulate and monopolize financial markets, traditional institutions like labor unions, and legitimate industries like construction and trash hauling. They bring drugs into our cities and raise the level of violence in our communities by buying off corrupt officials and using graft, extortion, intimidation, and murder to…

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    Mary Surratt's real name is Mary Elizabeth Jenkins. She was born on May 4th, 1823, in Prince George’s County, Maryland, USA, near Waterloo, Maryland. “At an early age, she converted from the Episcopal faith to Roman Catholicism.” She was raised as an Episcopalian. For four years, Mary was educated at a Roman Catholic boarding school in Virginia. Mary Surratt's early life was barely significant. Mary Surratt was a Catholic, a slave owner, a businesswoman, a widow, and a Union resident. She became…

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    Overflowing with dramatization, grievousness and loathsomeness, this phenomenal family story of life and death mirrors China 's century of turbulence through the eyes of Jung Chang 's three generations of family: her grandmother, mother and inevitably a life account of herself. In this book, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, we get to see the painful effects of Mao’s personality cult, and his painful policies. At age of two, Yu-fang, Jung Chang 's grandmother had her feet bounded. She was…

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    “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” The Holy Bible, 1 Peter 5:8 KJV Manipulation, whether it be believed to be by the Devil himself, or young, mortal, deceiving minds, is the basis of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible. Originally published in 1953, Arthur Miller created a play based on the suspected witches in the small village of Salem, Massachusetts; the treatment of the women who were accused as witches; and how…

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    violence in other nations affects the people of the nations negatively and go on to say, “the given quote supports the claim that all nations are to blame by giving a specific example of how the U.S. is funding these militaries that enforce child labor which negatively affects citizens.” to describe why the claim violence in other nations affects the people of the nations negatively might not fit. The opposition might also use evidence such as “In explaining to the Security Council his effort to…

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    The Holocaust was an event of sadness and cruelty, as the Nazis invaded several areas of Western Europe. The Holocaust, furthermore, began on January 30,1933 and ended on May 8, 1945. The start of the unfair treatment towards the Jews began in January, as President Hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany. “Combining his talents for speaking with his drive and motivation, Hitler began to scale the political ladders, eventually taking over the whole German government and…

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    The Resistance against the Nazi Party A resistance is a force that does not accept orders and refuses to obey. Resistance in the Holocaust did take place. Non-Jewish people did fight back against the Nazi Party and reject their views. During this time, many people turned their back on Jews without knowing the full consequences of their actions. We remember the resistance because it shows that when genocide was committed, humans still had ethics and the bravery to fight back. The Resistance can…

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    The horrific World War II began with a simple unprovoked attack from the Germans against the people of Poland, which eventually lead to Britain and France declaring war. The nations, and others, were not fully prepared for the catastrophes and casualties that would take place during this deadly war. For example, the American people were at a loss of words after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and innocent lives were taken. When this event, and others like it, panic ran rapidly through every…

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    Harriet Tubman was one of America’s very first civil rights activists, escorting 300 of the estimated 60,000 slaves that escaped the iron grips of slavery. These missions made her one of America’s most iconic heroes. In her time period, this was a title unheard of for women and blacks, making this an achievement especially astounding for Tubman. The influence she built through many efforts in the fields of equality dissipated through America and contributed to a fight that paved the way for the…

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    Most humans do not possess the strength to separate fears from logic and compassion. Fear, in itself, is something that can take over the human mind in ways that other emotions cannot. If we look back anytime during history, we can see populations committing atrocities that violate the very core values of humanity which makes us wonder “How can someone ever think or do something like this?” What many men and women fail to realize is they too may also do the same exact action if put into the…

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