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    Richard M. Nixon Richard M. Nixon was president from 1969-1974 and was a republican. He had many roles as president. For example he passed a lot of legislation regarding drug abuse and crime. He attempted to settle Vietnam War on good terms and he issued 346 executive orders keeping it to his own council. He also promised the public more racial desegregation. President Nixon wanted to better the relationship with the Soviet Union. Chief Legislator: Richard M. Nixon passed a lot of legislation…

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    On August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon became the first President to resign from his position. He was facing impeachment and criminal trial for the Watergate Scandal. With no where to turn and his options run out, Nixon gave his last speech as President, where he resigned and apologized to the nation. Nixon’s resignation speech does not meet the expectations of a fitting response, as defined by Lloyd Bitzer, for the rhetorical situation he was in following the Watergate scandal. Nixon…

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    FLAWS IN JUSTICE In the book In Cold Blood, Truman Capote writes his book into four separate chapters to create different perspectives leading up to the conclusion behind the actions of the Clutter murders.Throughout the book Capote talks about the murders and the ones responsible for them, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith. Throughout the book Capote shows effectively how, at the time, the justice system looks past Perry Smith’s mental state of being, because of his actions. Capote uses several…

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    When you were a child, it is very likely that someone read a bedtime story to you before you went off to sleep. Normally, these fairytales would begin with, “once upon a time” and end with, “…lived happily ever after.” The ending suggested a positive future outcome for its protagonists, but unfortunately for most people, real life does not always play out this way. This is especially true if you belong to one or more of America’s historically marginalized groups: women, ethnic minorities and…

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    In 1980, Dr. Michael Lipsky released an award-winning book on the concept of street-level bureaucracy. According to his biography on the Georgetown University, Dr. is a Research Professor at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. He received his Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University and has taught a number of institutions including University of Wisconsin and Harvard University. Along with teaching, Dr. Lipsky has worked with the Ford Foundation and is a Senior Program Director at Demos.…

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    Memes In Society

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    People encounter memes in their everyday lives, whether it be on message boards, social media websites, or in conversations with friends and colleagues, memes are an inescapable aspect of American society. The first use of the term “meme” was by Richard Dawkins, an evolutionary biologist and author, who first used the term to describe the spread of cultural information between individuals within a culture. Internet memes, in particular, are used to spread the culture of the internet among…

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    The Watergate Incident

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    The Watergate incident simultaneously had the three results of changing the American people’s public view of the president, the relationship between the government and media, and the media from a somewhat collaborative to competitive industry. These all contributed to several areas of exploration. On June 17, 1972, five men were taken into custody for the act of burglary. They were found lurking inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters which was in Washington D.C. inside the…

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    Blood In a nonfiction book, In Cold Blood, the author, Truman Capote, tells the story of the murder case of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, in 1959. The novel is based on real-life crime which was committed by two convicts: Perry Smith and Richard Hickock. The crime is mentioned early on a book before the story begins: "four shot gun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives" (Capote 5). Those six lives are the four members of the Clutter family, and the two murderers who are…

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    The Vietnam War The Vietnam War was by far the most violent and traumatic of America’s three wars in Asia in the fifty years since Pearl Harbor. In August of 1964 two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin were attacked by North Vietnamese torpedo boats. President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the bombing of military targets in North Vietnam as retaliation. By February 1965 the United States had begun regular bombings of North Vietnam (History.com). The war did nothing but cause problems for the…

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    The first chapter that could be applied to The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien from How To Read Like A Professor by Thomas C. Foster would be Chapter 11: … More Than It’s Gonna Hurt You: Concerning Violence. For the most part, violence and death are everywhere in The Things They Carried. Explosions, gun shots, open wounds, all in a typical war setting that was fought by people who did not even need to be in the war. “By daylight they took sniper fire, at night they were mortared, but it was…

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