Throughout the world in the 1880's there was a large need for countries to gain places where they could get natural resources. ... The way the U.S. went about gaining markets was no different then what they had done before to gain land. ... Throughout the war there was yellow journalism to gain support from the American population. ... This helps how that the U.S. attempts to gain land were no different during the Spanish-American War than they were during the Mexican War, where the U.S. gained California and other land by taking it by force. ... The U.S. was no exception. ...

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By November there were 60,000 more deaths and another 70,000 by 1950 (Takaki 47). . ... Hiroshima, as it turns out, was no exception. ... Then came the Japanese immigrants. ... For the United States during the years between Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and America's atomic bombing of Hiroshima, there were two wars; the European war and the Pacific War. ... Those who were in the houses were buried in the ruins. ...

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The movie that I selected for my critique is called "We Were Soldiers", a movie set in November of 1965, during the Vietnam Conflict. ... The first scene that I chose to analyze in "We Were Soldiers" is one that comes some 45 minutes into the movie. ... Moore speaking of himself, "I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. ... The troops then file out and begin their rigorous training schedule. ... The focus then shifts back to Moore and Plumley, Moore making the comment that Kagen is a born leader. ...

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"No! ... They believe that if they are able to go to war and die for their country, then they should be able to buy a six-pack. ... About two-thirds of the alcohol-involved crimes were characterized as simple assaults."" ... Arrests for DUI peaked in 1983 when there were 1.9 million arrests. ... If it were legalized, situations would become out of control; crime and death rates from car crashes and suicide would skyrocket. ...

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The need for government proves that men abuse power, for "if men were angels, no government would be necessary." ... Since no one is perfect, the rulers and the ruled, there has to be methods for the government to control the people and to control itself. The government's dependence on the will of the people is one way to control itself, but there has to be other ways as well. ... There are two ways to avoid this. ... Under the Constitution, the authority of the people is divided into the federal and the state governments, and then further divided into separate departments at each ...

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The American Revolution wasn't like any other revolution, there was no revolt against the higher class nor was it about suppressing the lower class. ... They had as much right as England allowed and no more. ... If this was true then why shouldn't the colonists be taxed more? ... Conservatives were agreeing to the movement "no taxation without representation". ... There was too little troops sent to the colonies, the troops that were sent, didn't promptly suspend revolt activity against the British. ...

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The point is there is not a concrete definition of the term "American Dream.... This can no longer happen for everyone. People were more honest in the past, the work ethnics have changed. ... We are no longer competing across countries. ... There is not a concrete definition of the term American dream. ...

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All these programs like "No Child Left Behind" and "Head start were created to help students succeed academically. ... For example there was study done where a four year old child was placed in the head start program for about 6 months and the child could only identify two more letters than other children with the same background. ... In Singapore math classes are taught with fewer subjects in the curriculum but are taught more in depth, giving the students more of a chance to retain the material then learning part of a subject one day and expecting to students to learn from tha...

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There are also many other objectives that Terrorist try to achieve with there operations. There are many forms of terrorism in this modern era. ... Since Cyber-terrorism focuses more on money then to cause physical harm,therefore I must rule out physical violence as a requirement for terrorism. However, the media likes to focus more on the violent terrorist acts, as in 9/11.There is no doubt that 9/11 was brutally savage attack on United States soil, but it was clearly well planned and executed. ... The  suicide bombers were trained to pilot our/America's commercial passenger jet airli...

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They started what no other nation has the resources or determination to do. ... The American people were questioning what they had in there lives in America on which they had based their lives.(2) The feeling of security in your own house had melted away from people. ... The United States was in no condition to go to war. ... No one had the heart to tell them about the hardships they would face when they lost it because of there gender. ... People were working, which means they were getting paid. ...

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You were the innocent rape victim and should bear no guilt. ... Once you see that beautiful child, there is a bond like no other and maybe you may feel a need to keep your child. Also if you have no other options left at the worst you can abandon her child in a safe place were someone will find it. This is not the best choice but I think it is better then not given a human life no chance at all. ... There should be no reason to abort a child. ...

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In China there were no jobs, no money and really no way to live. ... Before you were allowed in, there were many questions to be asked. ... We memorized all of the answers, there was no chance we were going to jeopardize our chance of starting a new life. ... There were some that were there up to 2 years, and this was also because of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. ... There was no way to make the time go any quicker. ...

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Lets picture what the world would be like if their were no God. ... There are cultures and then there are societies. ... So what if there were no religions? ... Would there be no morality? ... A society would only do this based on a set of beliefs, and if there were no beliefs, due to no God, then there would be nothing to base it on. ...

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Now today there are fast food restaurants on just about every corner. ... There is not a salad or a piece of fruit in sight. ... Fifty years ago, people did not buy a lot of bagged potato chips , and if a school age child had a bag of potato chips, then they were considered lucky. ... Then to give children more diversity in their sandwiches, peanut butter sandwich slices were created, and after that came marshmallow fluff and chocolate mixed in a jar. ... To recap, the taken away of recess, technology that requires little to no manual labor, fast food franchises, all these have slowly but sure...

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Throughout the twentieth century there were forty million individuals were killed during some sort of Genocide. ... There were several genocides that occurred throughout the twentieth century. ... The Bosnian Genocide there were three groups call the Balkan States that never got along and were then forced to live together among them were the Serbs, Croats and the Bosnians, this genocide was allowed as the Serbs tricked the government into believing it was ethnically cleansing, which the government then allowed. ... Any possible signs of genocide that occur needs to be reported to the world and...

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States were then to tax their own citizens to raise the month for these expenses and turn the proceeds over to Congress. ... There would be no loyalty to people only to ones self and their state. ... There were three major things wrong with the Articles of Confederation. ... There would have never been no unity. The United States would not have survived if there was no change or replacement in the Articles of Confederation. ...

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Even though the United States were neutral, war was coming and no one could stop it. ... The Americans were no longer neutral, they were a part of this war. ... He knew that if they went on with the operation there was no turning back. ... There were many soldiers yelling at each other. ... But considering the situation, there were men that made mistakes because of it. ...

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She had to have extremely high goals and there was no choice other then to reaching them. ... They only had each other to turn to, no outsiders. ... Things were very different there then in the suburb outside of New York City. ... There were many things about the Chinese home and the American home that played a role in how she was raised. There were things about the Chinese family that she was happy to get away from. ...

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The Electoral College system was built on the way people were educated back then. ... Back then not to many people were. They had to rely on the people who were educated. ... Popular vote holds no real weight in the elections. ... If there are 20 million people in Texas and 1 million is Massachusetts then Texas would have 20 million and mass would have one broken up into comminutes....

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So then, my primary care physician referred me to a Gastrointerologist that was supposedly part of my insurance plan. ... Then two days later, I received a call from his office, they no longer accepted my insurance and if I wanted the doctor to examine me, I would have to pay out of my own pocket. So there I was, back at square one. I went back to my primary care physician; she took some more tests and then referred me to another Gastrointerologist. ... I took the appointment, as there were no other alternatives, no other doctors that were part of my "plan". ...

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For why declare that things shall be done for which there is no power to do"(The Constitution that Delicate Balance page 13). Nevertheless if every state has different rights then if someone committed a crime, for example, he could leave the state he did it in and go to another state were the law would protect him. ... An example of this would be violating your first amendment right by causing clear and present danger by yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater even though there is no fire. ... When they were asked to remove them, they refused, and were then suspended. ... For example if a lawye...

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During the 1920's, there were many opinions and arguments about banning alcohol in the United States. ... They ruin their lives and end up with no one caring. ... Some people who were making their own alcohol were killed because they didn't have the proper ingredients. ... With that, there were specific rules that were enforced. ... What is going on now isn't working and there needs to be something done to make sure there is no more of it going on. ...

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Hey are you there? ... Ohm no I do not have any plans. ... Well we all knew where the bottles were hidden and there was no way the officer could possible know that we were illegally trying to cross them over, at least that's what we thought. ... Well no such luck that's the first place the officer looked and at that point cars were slowing down to see if they could get a glimpse of what looked like a big scene. ... We still had no clue what was going on, and then suddenly the officer returned with our ids and explained to us since it was our first offense we were going to be let go w...

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Each group of people, children, men, and women all had their own roles and both sexes were viewed as having about the same social importance. ... We are no longer one thing working toward a common goal, like gathering food. ... He also gets to live in a house that everyone knows belongs to the president and that no one else can live there. ... The groups were smaller, which makes it easier to work together, but they still found a way to make everything work out all right and for everyone to hold equal rankings and no one was better than anyone else because that is not what life was based on. ....

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Then there's where all the fun begins."" ... We went to the basketball court to see if there was anybody playing and when we got there, there were a bunch of guys that Rogelio knew, so they invited us to pay with them. ... "No hablo ingles."" ... "Then tell me all about her when we get there. ... Si o no?...

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