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    of United States citizenship to the Cherokees remaining in the East and their acceptance of fair state laws.” (Perdue and Green 153). Ross eventually sought the help from the writer Howard Payne to write against the removal. In which he stated that the Cherokee people never have and never will accept the Treaty of New Echota, and that they have rejected the treaty three times. Also, the government hadn’t fulfilled that what had been promised in the treaty. For example, the land that was promised turned into Arkansas. Howard Payne stressed that the Cherokee must fight with their reason. (Perdue and Green 159). While most Americans supported the Cherokee Removal, many white people supported the Cherokee and their battle against the removal. One of the earliest supporters was Jeremiah Evarts, who believed that the removal was unconstitutional because the Cherokee were a sovereign nation and cannot be forced off of their lands. Women’s rights groups were also very supportive and believed that the Natives had been helpful to the whites and deserved to be treated right. John Ross and Howard Payne fought for the Cherokees rights and the dishonesty of the treaty of New Echota. In conclusion, the fight against the removal lasted long past 1830 and across races.…

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    of pressure upon them about leaving the land. “The idea of Cherokees being civilized was not going to happen fully because of the new pattern of racist thought” (Green & Perdue, 15). The Cherokees were the most civilized Indian tribe, so they did not understand why they were being justified for removal for the American citizens. Andrew Jackson said “making treaties with the Indians was absurd, so the best way to get the land from the Cherokees was to just take the land” (Green & Perdue,…

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    Chief John Ross had a valid and undeniably strong argument against the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. He argues that treaty “is a fraud upon the government of the United States and an act of oppression on the Cherokee people” (John Ross’s Letter). He states that the Cherokee people, which was over 15,000 people, would never had agreed to the treaty and the treaty was made wrongfully. He argues that there should be another meeting and the Cherokee people should be equally consulted. John…

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    21st century is known to be the start of new beginnings. It was that generation where machineries evolve the economics and social life of the human beings: from traveling to one place to another, a click of a button for communication, and to sending news to the residents of the world. But, as the year progress the mortals abused the capability of these machines. One of the problems is how they report news and how they edit stuff to create news and spread rumors. Can news reporters be fully…

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    regards to today’s news. Social media has changed many aspects of journalism. Now, for the consumer, sharing news has become more important than searching for it. Based on who you follow or who you’re friends with will determine what kinds of information pops up on your timeline. Because of things like Twitter, where news is easily accessible with real-time updates, there is a demand for instant news stories that quickly inform. Newspapers cannot cater to the majority of the population because…

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    The new social media has not made for a more enlightened, connected and democratic society. Instead, it has used mechanisms to instill fear and mass hysteria to those following them and will continue to negatively influence and mislead people in the future. The traditional media that baby boomers have used is the newspaper. A newspaper passes through many editors and every person is assigned a single section, so you know your section well. Information is passed through journalists to writers…

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    The American news spends a lot of time discussing the events that take place Iran, Syria, Eqypt, England, and a few others. Some countries are not a majorly discussed country in the news in the United States. There are several others that could be mentioned more, as well. Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Denmark, Switzerland, and Sweden are just a few that we rarely hear anything about in our media. American news networks seem to only discuss a fraction of countries that make up the world.…

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    my life, and as well as potential risks it poses. These ideas prove that social media has had a negative impact on our society. First of all, people have been relying too heavily on technology for everyday life. Yzzy Gonzalez wrote a descriptive article discussing the way she relies not only just on social media, but how much of her day is controlled by apps. She states, “I eat my breakfast reading theSkimm, Deadline Hollywood, Cupcakes and Cashmere, and many more news sites and blogs, all…

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    News comes today comes in many forms from a twitter update on your phone to the more traditional newspaper delivered right to your house each morning. Some news we find intriguing, while other articles we just skim over and think nothing of it. So why does some news catch our attention? Is it the shock factor, something interesting or is it just so horrifying you have to read it? Today one of the most controversial topics flooding the news is gun violence and gun control. It seems we cannot go…

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    Do you believe social networking can have a big effect on you or others? As of January 2014, there are 48% more Americans using social networking sites since 2008 (Pew Research Center). Social networking is one of the best things to happen in today’s society. The different sites that are made for social networking are being used by multiple individual’s years round, in many different ways. This topic has been a huge argument. Some may see social networking as a bad thing for our society but, I…

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