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    practice safe drinking maturely. If this class is completed and passed by a certain individual, he or she are allowed to consume alcohol at the college in that state. If not, they are to be restricted from doing so. Once attending, an alcohol orientation program is required for students to complete online, and students are regularly screened for signs of alcohol problems at the student health center (Walters 579). Each attendant at the college is also trained to recognize the possibilities of…

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    Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” written by Michelle Alexander, she talks about the issue of mass incarceration throughout the United States. She points out the legal discrimination felons are subject to, hence a second class citizen. Alexander sees the problem of the majority of the prison population are African American males. She states that the War On Drugs helped spike this mass incarceration, and had the intent to discriminate against African American males. Hence the name…

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    years new threats of terrorism have been encountered by the United States. Many think of these threats coming from the outside world when really they are coming from within the country. This is what we know as domestic terrorism. Over the past decade, this has become a rising problem of violence striking across our nation. This problem is not only becoming a threat to the people of our nation, but the security of our nation. The Department of Homeland Security has been taking many precautions to…

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    and working style. A number of European–born immigrants are diminishing gradually in the United States over the past 50 years;…

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    Stats was the growing difference in the quality of life between eastern and western countries for a span of about 138 years, beginning in 1810. The primary cause of this trend was the industrialization of western countries such as England and the United States, leading to higher life expectancy and greater income (Mayr, 2017). Following the growth of the quality of life gap, a contradictory trend began in 1948 when the practice of colonialism ended. Since then the quality of life gap between…

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    pesticides because of the fear mongering politicians. A war thought to last 90 days became a two decade long nightmare. The Vietnam war was an invasion under the guise of protecting people from the disease that is communism. As Vietnam split, the United States did too. Friends and family argued over war or peace. Young and old debating who…

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    Racial Profiling

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    The US has been plagued with an abundant disease; there is not a single state that has not been affected. Unless the federal government attempts to take charge of this cancer, it will continue to get worse as it has throughout the past centuries. The government should take charge to end racial profiling in order to bring effective improvement in the United States’ law enforcement. This enforcement needs to recognize the faults in arresting more African American individuals than Caucasian…

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    office of special education at the U.S. Department of Education. The purpose of their study was to examine to what extent state departments of education in the United States are including goals for student social behavior in their mission statements as well as how state initiatives focus on improving student social behavior. All 50 SDE’s in the United States and the District of Columbia were included in this study. The main question of the study was-Do state mission statements include student…

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    Police Cruelty

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    to the United States. A land that would offer them independence and give them the freedom that they so desperately wanted. In their search for independence they realized that in order to live freely there must be a group of people willing to give their lives so that peace is maintained throughout the land. As a result of this, the United States adopted the use of the police force. When the police force was adopted by our government it was meant to protect the citizens of the United States. In…

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    Child abuse and neglect is common in the United States. Over 680,000 children are abused and 1,500 die. Laws that are made to protect children from abuse and neglect some are not being enforced properly and the federal government they say is to blame. The Children's Advocacy Institute form university of San Diego states that children are suffering. Federal officials say that they're encouraged the number of abused children is lower than 2012. But children's advocates say abuse is so often not…

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