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    Unite The Right Analysis

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    just an internet joke. Things went downhill during this event when the left clashed with the right, followed by both sides fighting police. Later after a state helicopter crash and a car attack on a counter-protest crowd on the 12th had basically caused the event to cease. Only after it was declared hazardous and unlawful by the Virginia state police. The author of E Pluribus ONE, Sophia A. Nelson, wrote an article critiquing the rally and pointing out its’ flaws, issues, and prejudices. Nelson…

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    Selma Alabama March

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    was still police presence and a lot of protesters for four days, the demonstration reached Montgomery Alabama on march 21 of 1965. The peaceful demonstrators reached the state capital however the leaders were unable to present a petition to the governor at the time George Wallace. Dr. Martin Luther king spoke at the State Capitol steps to about 25,000 people. Many speakers said that it was the greatest demonstration in the history of civil rights…

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    fact, the United States played an important role in enabling the mujahedeen during the Soviet invasion. In 1979, President Carter signed a directive for secret aid to the warriors and the CIA started funding the mujahedeen in 1980. At that time the United States funded the mujahedeen because they wanted to…

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    Marihuana Legalization

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    When first asked in 1969, 12% of the United States population agreed to the legalization of marihuana ever since then, the support for marihuana has grown rapidly. A 2013 Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans are now in support of legalization of marihuana. Since the discovery of marihuana, no one has ever been recorded dead because of overdose or recreational consumption of marihuana. I believe legalizing marihuana in United States will impact positively on each sector of the nation…

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    Globalism Is Bad

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    integration the countries become interconnected and dependent on each other. A great example of globalization that shows just how much one countries economy can affect other countries and their economies around the world is the 2008 crash of the United States financial markets. The majority of developed countries felt the effects of the crash as their own economies shifted negatively ("Globalization…

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    After the end of World War 2, two major superpowers rose from the ashes: The United States and The Soviet Union. For almost half a century, following the end of humanity’s worst war, a nuclear stare down, known as the Cold War, raged on. A major goal for both sides was to stop the spread of each other’s political ideology to other countries…

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    his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protections while he gives it." This quote by Andrew Jackson reflects his views as a president, military leader, and American citizen. Mr. Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United states of America. He ran for two terms for President that started in March 4th, 1829 up to March 4th 1837. He was on the side of democrat when running. He started in the political 00scene in 1801 when he was elected to the U.S. House of…

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    self-government by reference to the others whom he excluded especially African Americans. By moving into political opposition, Jefferson sought to realign the state or government with the American in the person of its people. Jefferson nationalism had limits, he did not favor a unitary state or a federal government armed with power to coerce the states into obedience of its laws but his position grew naturally from his belief in union held together by ties of sacred affection and interest…

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    Geo Group Research Paper

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    The GEO Group is a corporation that specializes in providing correctional, detention and community reentry services. For more than 30 years the GEO Group has profited billions of dollars from federal and state policies that have in concert increased incarceration and detention in the United States; half of the prisoners in the GEO Group’s privatized prisons are non-violent offenders for drug offences, the Geo Group have recently began expansion in immigration detention.…

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    There were tireless hours of preparation that went into the parade. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns stayed up into the late hours of the night to finish tasks that could not be finished later, quite frequently. Finally the day arrived for the parade and what a day it was. There were around 5,000 marchers, but they had to fight their way to the finish as there was opposition awaiting them down the parade route. Some of the marchers had tears brought to their eyes from the insults that were hurled…

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