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Today we are talking about the Espionage and Sedition acts, the issuing of the Executive Order 9066 of relocating Japanese Americans, and the USA Patriot Act. These 3 events all took place in the USA. World War I a very hectic war, during that war 2 acts were passed, the Espionage Act and the Sedition act. The Espionage Act was became law June 1917, this law ment if you were to say anything bad about the Military or president or on how the government stinks, then you would be arrested or put to…

authorities, leading many people to believe that they will try to apply that misconduct elsewhere, and based on how they have handled previous situations, the NSA will lie to Congress about it just to make them think that they are doing the right thing (USA Freedom…

larger emphasis on homeland security and preventing terrorism. On October 2, 2001, the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT) was introduced in an attempt to improve homeland security. The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 should not have passed because it violates the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, intrudes upon the First Amendment of the Constitution, but passed because of the widespread fear of…

Poland is a small country compared to the US and is less wealthy. For starters, Poland has 38.53 million people—a tenth of the number of people living in the US. When viewing Poland’s health care spending there is a drastic difference compared to the United States. This being due to a smaller population which does not allow Poland to spend a mass amount of money on their healthcare system. They also have less people to pay taxes for them to be able to spend as much as the United States does on…

Among U.S states, some states are different in various ways. These states can be significantly different for many reasons ranging from obvious to not so obvious. For example, Arkansas and California both have differences in the weather, people, and lifestyle. First, the weather in Arkansas and California is quite different. To begin with, Arkansas rains more often throughout the whole year; therefore, the air is more humid in most cities. One of the reasons is the Arkansas River that runs…

After 9/11, The United States was very intent on fighting and stopping terrorism and terrorist attacks. In order to help fight terrorism a bill called The Patriot Act was passed to help fight terrorism. Since then problems have arrived with the passing of this bill, problems that lead to questioning the legitimacy of The Patriot Act. If The Patriot Act was justified, then Edward Snowden would not have had to do what he did. The United States needs supervision while enforcing The Patriot Act to…

In this paper, I am going to conduct a brief ethnography based on the movie, McFarland, USA. Also, I will focus finding some of the most crucial ways that enable youth to make a sincere relationship with their friends regardless of any cultural elements such as languages or different norms. First of all, I would like to consider any difficulties and situations that prohibit youth having a genuine friendship. It is fact that everyone is living the world having their own culture. In other words,…

Just a few days after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York City and in Washington D.C., Pennsylvania State Governor Tom Ridge was appointed to be the first director of the Office of Homeland Security. This office overlooked and regulated a nationally seen strategy to keep our country safe against domestic and international terrorism attacks. The Department of Homeland Security was put in place to ensure that we are safe no matter time of the day or the year. President…

Brandon Mayfield of Portland, Oregon was an attorney and converted Muslim when he was arrested in 2004 in connection with the Madrid bombings that killed 191 people (Abramson, 2005). The FBI held him for two weeks as a material witness but let him go after admitting that his fingerprints were erroneously matched with another set that were found near the scene of the bombing. This kind of mistake rarely happened; however, it prompted the government to tell Mayfield that his home was secretly…

After the event of 9/11 it catalyzed a nation wide awareness of national security. In the face of this devastation, a conversation began regarding the national security at the expense of privacy. As the years progressed this world of data mining and collection began to grow and extend beyond itself. With the fear of terrorism engrained into political topic, the encroachment of privacy became a concern for an average American. This world of interconnected compilation of information became a vast…