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    Energy security is a global issue. It can be defined as “The uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price” (Chester, 2010). Energy security is not limited to the mere availability of the energy resources, it is rather linked with the national security of any country. If a country has energy resources to serve the need of its citizens, it means country has more sustained and long term energy security for the technological as well as economic development. Energy security…

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    Gilded Age Industry Dbq

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    rapidly growing corporations impacted the United State’s economy by concentrating wealth in a small class of affluent individuals. As a result of this change, rich Americans responded by seeking to justify their wealth, while workers voiced growing dissent with harsh working conditions. A major impact of big business on the economy from 1870 to 1900 was that the expanding corporations led to the centralization of wealth in the hands of a small group of wealthy men. Evidence of this is often…

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    Anthem and the Concept of Free Will Anthem by Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego,” The story is about a man’s rebellion in regards to an authoritarian, communist society. A young man by the name Equality 7-2521 craves to comprehend “the Science of Things.’’ The problem is that he exists in a desolate, dystopian future in which sovereign thought is an offense and whereby science and technology have reverted to primeval levels. All terminologies of individualism have been stifled in the world of…

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    individuals who compose it, its means of tyrannising are not restricted to the acts which it may do by the hands of its political functionaries.” What Mill is implying here, is that the power of public opinion, can be more constraining to individuality and dissent than any law. Thus, there must be protection for people against prevailing public opinions, and the tendency of society to impose its values on others. The protection of all opinion, is necessary, because with great passion, societal…

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    Throughout his novel Between the World and me, Ta-Nehisi Coates seeks to answer the question: “how do I live free in this black body?” (12). While attempting to answer this question, he analyzes America’s institutions of education. Coates’s initial critique is, “I sensed that the fear that marked West Baltimore could not be explained by the schools. Schools did not reveal truths, they concealed them,” (27). He is absolutely right. Institutionalized education restricts curiosity, fails to…

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    various anticholinergic deliriants. However, the circumstances of apartheid-era South Africa engendered a need for a focus on non-lethal agents as well. With internal dissent amongst the oppressed black population as a major concern for the military, Project Coast began to research non-traditional methods of crowd control and riot suppression, including weaponized forms of recreational illicit drugs such as MDMA, phencyclidine, methaqualone, and cocaine. MDMA and methaqualone in particular were…

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    of Cubans defected and sought shelter within the United States. Even though Castro implemented positive policies such as expanding healthcare and education, his regime instituted state control of the press and actively worked to suppress internal dissent. Though popular with students, workers, and peasants, Fidel 's policies drained the economy and caused discontent within the middle class. Any opposition to Fidel and his party was met with swift and violent retribution, raising concerns of…

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    everywhere. The Haggadah is a book of celebration; it’s ‘telling’ of traditions has been spread across Jewish communities for centuries. However, the cultural merging and respect that accompanies the book spans across communities that are not of Jewish dissent. Furthermore, there are also many instances in which history disappears and later reappears. For example, in The Renaissance Bazaar (Brotton, 2002), the use of translators during the Spanish Conquest is something that was often omitted…

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    A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing “Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet.” (I Timothy 2:11-12 English Standard Version) A good Christian home is a place that most associate with a sanctuary that provides a safe atmosphere to explore personal spirituality and promote personal growth. (Popescu, et al., 2009, p. 404) Consequently, this can leave women of faith more vulnerable to abuse.…

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    Stalin to Fascism Review Sheet Vocabulary: Amritsar Massacre an incident in 1919 in which British troops fired on an unarmed crowd of Indians performing acts of civil disobedience Balfour Declaration statement issued by the British government in 1917 supporting the establishment of a homeland for the Jews in Palestine civil disobedience illegal nonviolent refusal to obey unjust laws collective large farm owned and operated by peasants as a large group command economy economic system in…

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