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    Christine Li In an effort to encourage national unity during World War I, American Congress enacted the Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918) which acutely limited 1st Amendment freedoms in order to restrain anti war discord. In the Schenck Vs. US case (1919), the Majority Opinion rules against Schenck and the protection of certain constitutional rights during war. Although war circumstances require national participation, the Court’s decision contrasts and dismisses the…

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    the States cut to an all-time low, but international sales were also cut down by half. Foreign countries looked down on the united states meat industry and wouldn’t dare buy exported meat from them. Congress quickly passed The Pure Food and Drug Act and The Meat Inspection Act. These laws were made to ensure that companies didn’t provide anything that was considered harmful to eat and that meat was slaughtered under sanitary…

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    The United States has expended hundreds of billions of dollars waging a 40 year war on drugs that is responsible for the incarceration of 500,000 of our fellow Americans. Drugs are a factor in the lives of many American, despite the enormous waste of money and lives, drugs are easily available as ever. Drugs are a part of most home life, they are in the medicines cabinets; in bedrooms of parents and children, young children also observe their parents consuming alcohol and on occasion some of…

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    detail, the book and it’s contents were enough to make people vomit. Roosevelt responded to public anger and pushed congress to pass the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and the Pure food and Drug act (FDA). This gave consumers regulation in order to make them make sure that their meat is safe, that their food and ingredients are safe, and that their drugs are…

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    He felt that if he didn’t take action and begin to regulate, then Americans would take extreme and unknown actions to resolve problems. This Act was created to regulate interstate commerce and he had many successes of prohibiting trusts shortly after his term began. These actions were successful because of antitrust laws. This resulted in stricter controls of big business. He also regulated…

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    Do you really know what is in the meat that we eat? Eric Schlosser has written a book on the process of meat packing plants that begs the question (Fast Food Nation). His work bears a remarkable similarity to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle written almost one hundred years ago. Schlosser wrote his book from a different approach but contains shocking information of how our meat is still processed today. He is rightly known as the Upton Sinclair of today. Schlosser went on a meat packing tour and…

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    During the Progressive Era (1896-1917) in the United States, there were journalists, writers, and photographers known as muckrakers. They aimed to reveal corruption and wrongdoing in big businesses and the government by publishing sensationalist books and articles. Although President Theodore Roosevelt initially created the term to criticize journalists who he believed had crossed the line in their pursuit of stories, many journalists in today’s world, including Jessica Mitford, consider the…

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    DOPA must be administered as the pure (-) – enantiomer, this is necessary to prevent a build-up of (+) – DOPA in the body which could not be metabolized by the enzymes present. The asymmetric synthesis of DOPA is carried out on an industrial scale. The two enantiomers in many chiral compounds…

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    greater impact in solving the issues of equal rights through tactics such as the Women 's Movement and Children’s Crusade, while the United States government had a more profound effect on addressing the concerns of the lower class population through such acts as their…

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    that will be examined in this paper. The organizations being examined are all under the umbrella of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, they are; the Center for Disease Control (CDC), National Institute of Health (NIH), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Resources and Services Administration…

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