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    ELN (Ejercito de Liberacion Nacional) is a group that is based in Columbia, starting in the 1960s during the time when Columbia was going through a short area known as la Violencia, a ten year civil war. All of which had the influence of from the Cuban revolution. The ELN would possess a threat to United States based on their theological ideology and actions that took place in their home of operations. The group is notorious for kidnapping, extortion, and oil theft and drug trafficking. (U)…

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    Inclusion In America

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    inclusive nation. The civil rights fight for African-Americans was perhaps the largest fight for inclusion in American…

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    did. These technological changes influenced every aspect of daily life in America. Technological changes revolutionized the way of life for Americans because it changed the culture in America but it also changed politics and the economy. The United States caught up to the rest of the world in technological changes and advancement with its own industrial revolution. President Grant open the Centennial Exhibition…

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    self-interest are often measured relative to efficiency. However, this is not the only aspect that should commend the acceptability of a business sector’s technique of increasing profits and reducing cost. The privatization of prisons or involvement in state prisons by companies that gain from the forced labor of prisoners advanced by high numbers, low wage and extremely long sentences is one system that brings strong moral questions to mind. Prisoners acquiring jobs in jail, no matter how…

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    appeal, it was designed for manipulation. First, he defended his very presence in Birmingham by taking advantage of the patriotism that brought citizens from every state together to be American. He then listed in vibrant detail the injustices, past and present, heaped upon the backs of the African American race. King stood behind the civil disobedience that his group practiced with an explanation of his meaning of “unjust laws.” He refuted the claim that he and his followers were extremists by…

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    War On Drugs

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    have followed this initial volley in the war up to present day. Statistics from 2011 showed there where 1.6 million state and federal prisoners (Guerino, Harrison, & Sabol, 2011) according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The United States has nearly a half million more prisoners than China with about a fifth of the population. Out of that, 18%, or roughly 252,000, in state prisons and 51%, or roughly 106,000, in federal prisons were serving time for drug related crimes and nearly 70%…

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    The Battle of Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan was the first battle and victory in the Global War of Terrorism following the attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001 (Fall_of_Mazari_Sharif, 2015). The combined forces of Northern Alliance U.S. Army Special Forces, supported by the U.S Air Force and U.S. Naval Air Forces (Gutkin, 2001) fought against the Taliban, al-Qaeda forces, led by Osama bin Laden, and Pakistani volunteers for the control of Mazari Sharif. This battle took place on…

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    but the main difference is that in previous wars, such as the Civil War, World War One, and World War Two are that troops were welcomed home with parades and ceremonies. The Vietnam troops were welcomed home with spit and protests. Most of these troops were never liked, rarely supported, and to this day are overlooked because some people don 't want to remember the years of the Vietnam War. In the end, the many Vietnam troops united with the sole purpose of recognizing their fallen comrades and…

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    Jonathon Kozol Analysis

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    Jonathon Kozol visited 60 different public schools. He studied the conditions and success and failures of the schools. Kozol is a civil rights activist whose passion came when he began teaching in a minority Boston school. Kozol was affected in seeing the conditions minority children had to learn in. Kozol saw the struggles the students and teachers had to face daily. Many issues were explained in his book from race to politicians and differences in school zones. Realizing that there needs to be…

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    emerging from colonialism, were forced to adapt to a world influenced by the Cold War and dominated economically by the United States and the Soviet Union. In an attempt to adapt to the divided world of the Cold War, the elites in these newly independent countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa came to embrace a mixed capitalist-democratic and socialist regime, with heavy state investments in basic industries and pursued a policy of nonalignment, which often resulted in heavy borrowing…

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