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    Policy Statement: The United States Congress should increase funding to provide body cameras nationwide to decrease tension between police and civilians. Introduction The deaths of police officers are 44% higher than it was last year and over 194 African Americans have been killed in encounters with police thus far according to an article from USA Today published in July 2016. Police use of force has been heavily scrutinized in recent years after fatal police encounters with unarmed Black men…

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    (The Washington Post). He was in Hiroshima on a business trip and suffered severe burns to his upper body after the bombing (ibid). Yamaguchi returned to Nagasaki, his hometown, and the second bombing occurred a few days later (ibid). He died at age 93 on the fourth of January due to stomach cancer(ibid). Yoshitaka, a thirteen year old student, was in class when he saw a pale flash and collapsed (Stevenson). When he regained conscious, his classmates that were stuck under the debris grabbed his…

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    New Hampshire

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    Overview: New Hampshire is located in New England region, in the north eastern parts of the United States Of America. The state lies between latitude 42-40 north and longitude 70-37 west. The state is about 180 miles long with extreme width measuring 93 miles. They rank forty fourth in size among the fifty states of United States. The state is roughly in shape of a right triangle. The state holds a total land area of 8968 square miles. It is bounded by Quebec province in the north and by Maine…

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    The most serious threat to the United States of America is not a physical terrorist attack, but rather a cyber-related one. In Washington, D.C., you can probably count on one hand the issues that both Republicans and Democrats can agree on – and this is certainly one of them. The inevitability of such a catastrophic event and the destruction that it could cause is a nightmarish scenario that without a doubt keeps our elected officials and military leaders awake at night. The questions aren’t “if…

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    best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stand for.” Today I will inform you all on the tragedies that occurred on September 11, 2001, and will also be informing you all on the changes the United States made to prevent terrorist attacks like this from happening again. On September 11, 2001, 19 men associated with Islamic extremist group al Qaeda hijacked four airlines full of passengers and carried out suicide attacks each intended for…

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    for those students. Before the 1970s, there were millions of children with disabilities who were refused enrollment in public schools. This was not something just in the United States, but it also occurred in other countries as well. One would be surprised to know that the laws for special education are fairly new in the United States. Certain states had programs for special need students, but those programs were limited. Then there were other states that just didn’t want anything to do with a…

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    behavioral health of the Sudan refuges 1 year after their arrival to the United States. They are trying to determine how well this group of children handled the losses that they experienced in childhood. The small children were forced out of their villages and trek hundreds of miles to refugee camps, within those camps they lived in groups with substandard living conditions. A group of Sudanese refugees were brought to the United States in 2000-2001. Researchers developed a system to survey this…

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    Morray Barber Analysis

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    of how they immigrated to the United States. I was curious to see the different ways that people do it to come to America. I was impressed with Mr.Benninga story of how his family came to the United State. Mr.Benninga family decided to come to the United States after Holland was attacked by German. His family had to get a ship and sail to London. I was able to relate to Mr.Benninga story because my family went through the same situation. Our families came to the United State to escape violence…

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    What constituted a legal voter “were matters which neither the Constitution nor federal laws governed” (para. 1). There have been multiple Amendments, which have made vast improvements on voter equality such as the 15th Amendment which the United States Department of Justice (2015) continued to state, provided specifically that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on the basis of race, color or previous condition of…

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    rights in exchange for safety. The United States Department of Homeland Security was founded under the Bush administration through the passing of the Homeland Security Act by Congress and was made an official Cabinet-level department on March 1, 2003. This was all set in motion by a terrorist attack on American soil on September 11, 2001 organized by the Islamic terrorist group known as al-Qaeda, when two planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 flew into the North…

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