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longer threaten with price spikes. According to the Californian Against Fracking, California is one of the biggest oil supplier and exporter. We can expect there are more and more oil is obtained from fracking and flow into the international market. The U.S independence leads oil in fracking enriches the oil companies financially and protects the Californians from the…

presence it had. However, the weeks throughout the semester proved to be more than just passing time and attendance in class, but, indeed, a change in history. After the study abroad portion of the class and, shortly thereafter, changes to current U.S.-Cuban relations, I began to wonder what would happen to Cuba in the future. As I continued to research and formulate questions, and the hope of finding answers, to the future of Cuba, I realized that it was a country with a unique background and…

The United States has been a diverse nation since its early beginnings. It is the immigrants that travel to the United States that allows it to be unique. All immigrants travel to the United States due to their unhappiness in their native country. They bring their aspiration to create their own American dream and fill their lives with success. However, there are thousands of immigrants that enter the United States illegally with their families. It is those illegal child immigrants that are…

Marijuana be legal? Nowadays, legalization of using and trading marijuana turns to be more and more common all around the world. According to Altman, A. (2014), Colorado, a western U.S. state is considered as the first place where marijuana was legalized in the word, additionally, there are twenty other states in the U.S. including the District of Columbia that started to legalize marijuana. Sequence making marijuana legalized seems to be accepted by government all around the world. For other…

most commonly used illegal substance in the united states. However, it has the singular of being used both as a commonly used illegal substance and also a legal prescribed medicine. For the past decade the question has been if marijuana should be legalized for medical use. In 1996 California became the first state to legalize the use of medical marijuana. Since then 22 other states and Washington D.C. have legalized it medically. So why doesn't the U.S. government just legalize it all together?…

Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country” (Kennedy). The country of the United States is a symbol for freedom, strength, and perseverance. In the United States, the people always strive for the better, until the wars had ceased the advancements of the nation. World War II was a large weight for the citizens of the United States because they could no longer focus on internal matters in the country but of the world. So, when WWII ended, Americans…

Intro Hook: The United States has about 270,000,000 guns. That’s the highest total in the world. Background info: 22% of Americans own one or more guns. 35% are men and 12% are women. Along with the federal gun laws, each state has its own guns laws. Ranging from California which has the most restrictive gun laws to Arizona which has the most lenient. 43 out of 50 states have a "right to bear arms" clause in their state constitutions, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun…

Located in Northeastern Alaska, United States, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of the areas used to protect and conserve America’s wildlife and plants. It is the largest Wildlife Refuge in the country at 19,286,722 acres. For more than over a decade there has been political debates about whether or not there should be drilling for oil on the coastal plains. Oil drilling cause’s damage to the wildlife there and cause for animals to become extinct. I think that there should not be any…

Terrorism and its effects on the United States of America and Americans “With great power, comes great responsibility,” this quote was stated by Uncle Ben, in Spiderman, but holds true to real life situations. At the end of the 19th century, as the United Stated were entering the 20th century the global market was changing thanks to the industrial revolution and America expanding it’s exportation. Along with economic advancement, the US came to military prominence within a similar timeframe.…

"The promise of universal education was then a lonely beacon" is what Arne Duncan used to open his "The Vision of Education Reform in the United States Remarks to UNESCO in Paris, France." Speech. He addresses the problems with the education system and how the U.S. Will fall behind in the world of standardized tests if we don't improve the systems we have now. How we need to be more collaborative to still be a competitor in the world of knowledge. First, in Duncan's speech he had mentioned…