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    and published on CNN. This article target audience is anyone who wants to understand what democratic socialism is and how have American practiced it. He goes on to say that the united states biggest equal rights movements such as: woman suffrage, child labor laws, consumer protection laws and the progression income tax law were lead by socialists. Dreier uses a combination of rhetorical questions, One Sentence paragraphs, Quotes, similes and an Anaphora to convince his audience that socialism is…

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    Great War Dbq

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    Belgium were able to hold out against Hitler’s forces. In order to avoid complete annihilation Brittan managed to evacuate 338,000 troops. France later surrendered allowing for Germany to take over Western Europe in just a few months. Luckily the United States sent supplies to aid Brittan in defending their home country. Hitler betrayed the Soviet Union and invaded them despite the pact that they had. Not only were soldiers sent to invade the USSR, but also Einsatzgruppen,…

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    live in poverty” (“Homelessness/Poverty Fact Sheet”). This is sad and not many people think about it at all. To stop homelessness and poverty in the U.S we will have to educate people, enforce laws or rules, or build something new. One required step to solve homelessness and poverty in the United States would be to have a good education about it. Not everybody has a good education about this. “More than 43 million people (1 in 7) in the U.S live below the poverty line” (“Homelessness/Poverty…

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    Police and the Black Community Currently, the actual relationship between the African American community and the United States police is going through a bad time. The reasons for that recent civil disorders in the United States are police brutality and the discrimination acts against black people. While the election of Barack Obama as president had seemed to be a new era in American race relations; the killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Trayvon Martin in Sanford…

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    some states opted to restore the minimum legal drinking age (MDLA) back up to 21. In 1984, President Ronald Regan, in an effort to make the drinking age uniform across the United States, enacted a law setting the minimum legal drinking age of 21 for all states in the country. The President took away individual states’ options to oppose the age law when he mandated that, to receive federal highway funding, states were required to set the MLDA to 21 years. Not surprisingly, by 1988, all states…

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    government to control and rely on that came with Salutary Neglect from Britain, the colonies then had to deal with the new laws and the taxes that were eventually put in place starting in the mid eighteenth century that restricted much of what they had free control over beforehand. Starting in the 1750s, the colonies were located along the coast (Doc 7) of the United States. Because of their location, it enabled them to gain power, and eventually grow to gain more money that would lead them to…

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    Racial Profiling Problem

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    Racial profiling is a problem that has been going on in the United States for far too long. Everyday, people are being pulled over and searched just because of their race or their ethnic background. This leads to many problems, such as the accused becoming upset, feeling he/she is being wronged because of race. These feelings may cause the accused to become uncooperative or hostile. When this happens, the officer is then more likely to act aggressively in the situation, which can very easily…

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    First World War up to the end of the Civil Rights Movement in the late sixties, Afro-Americans and other people of colour could be denied employment based on their race, therefore causing a significant pay gap that remains today. Jim Crow laws in the United States and Native reserves in Canada created extremely segregated areas, dividing cities along racial and economic…

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    Is Gay Marriage Wrong

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    been taught that same-sex marriage is immoral. Same-sex marriage was recently legalized in every state in the United States on June 26, 2015. Some people think that gay marriage is in the race for equality and everyone should be able to marry whoever they please, no matter their gender. On the other hand, other people think gay marriage is immoral and should not be taking place. People argue that our laws should not be based off the Bible, but gay marriage is wrong because for centuries the…

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    The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees all Americans equal protection of the laws. Throughout the history of the United States there has been discrimination against specific groups of people. Americans have discriminated against Native Americans, African Americans, and Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans in the past. There is not a time when a national emergency justifies creating laws and rules applicable only to people of a certain ethnic, racial or religious background. Hundreds of native…

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