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    Presidents In The 1990s

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    In the 1990s, there were two presidents; George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. George H. W. Bush was elected once and Bill Clinton was elected twice but was later impeached. There were also two vice presidents in that decade; Al Gore and Dan Quayle. Ten years ago, Al Gore claimed that the Earth would be in “a true planetary emergency”, but the Earth is doing just fine today. James Addison Baker, Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger, Warren Minor Christopher, and Madeleine Korbel Albright all served as…

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    Throughout history, the social progress, and sometimes regress, that has occurred can be explored by examining the situations deemed worthy of social and legal intervention by the most influential powers of that time period. Constructing a culpable, highly visible character as a metaphor for an emerging social or political concern is a recurring and sometimes convoluted way of regaining control of, or subduing, a perceived issue by a dominant group in society. Adopting a monster as a metaphor…

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    Mainstream Media Bias

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    personal life (Soley-Cerro). Moreover, at times it did seem as if the mainstream media covered Trump a lot more negatively than his opponent Hillary Clinton. The amount of negative coverage got the attention of Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Gingrich sounded off on the media for their one-sided coverage and stated, “It will never go away, it will never end, and it’s not an accident, it’s not confusion, it’s not misinformation” (Walker). However,…

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    Cold War Liberalization

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    The United States remote strategy has been understanding for a national security since the end of cold war negated the statute of control. From past Republican president George Bush's disclosure of the "new world solicitation" to the Clinton affiliation's structures of "improvement" and "beyond any doubt multilateralism", Washington has discovered control a convincing show to take after. Since the end of crisp war have such a grouping of emergencies jump started out in such a sweeping number of…

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    I’m normally not one to talk about politics, but, well, this wasn’t a normal election. This presidential election was the first one that I, as a 21-year-old, was able to vote in, and you bet I exercised that right. I requested my absentee ballot, filled it out and overnight-ed it to my home state Florida, hoping that it would make a difference. Come Election Day, I flipped on CNN and vehemently watched the poll statistics pour in, only to find myself utterly shocked as Trump’s votes…

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    “Dog Whistle Politics” is defined as political messaging employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has an additional, different or more specific resonance for a targeted subgroup. Like a high-pitched dog-whistle, the message is only audible for the group it is intended to reach. Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class was written by Ian Haney Lopez and looks into the racially charged coded…

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    Chapter 5: League of Women Voters of California, Yes ERA! (1974), and Phyllis Schafly, “What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women? Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman wrote the and introduced the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in 1923 in order to ensure the right that women have identical opportunities as men. This would ensure that women have the same rights as men, thus meaning that women would have to give up certain protections. Labor unions opposed this legislation because they believed it would…

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    Jacob Bennett Mr. Musick November 9, 2017 Lizard People Running the World How lizard people or Reptilians are running the world. A conspiracy theory is a belief that some influential organization or group of beings is responsible for an event or circumstance. Theorists all over the world come up with other reasons or explanations as to why an event happened or what is going to happen. Believing in conspiracies is a technique that average or below average people use to reign or gain a sense of…

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    Oxycontin Case Analysis

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    Obviously, for many users, OxyContin serves merely as a substitute for heroin, but many people with legitimate pain problems were duped into taking the drug. For instance, that was seemingly the case with Rush Limbaugh who started taking the drug after back surgery. After all, most patients trust their doctor’s word as the gospel and the maker of OxyContin, Purdue Pharma, convinced doctors that it had “reduced addiction risk.” That was a completely false marketing claim as OxyContin is just as…

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    Talent will take you so far, but hard work and being persistent will take you further: Looking back through the last year or two, I see that I have made it appear as though my motives for running have proliferated. I cannot say that these motives will seem appealing to everyone, but certain idea’s of mine should be followed. Looking through all my dedication to the sport of running; I see where I’ve not only grown as a person, but also as an athlete. Feeling as though I had purpose, I decided…

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