As a farm-boy raised in northwest Michigan, I was brought up to work hard, never do anything you cannot take back, and always know that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. ... "Nine times out of ten when the death penalty is sought it is because the victim is white, even though blacks are most often the victims of violent crime" (Prejean, 61). ... However, since 1972, in Georgia, 60% of all murder victims have been black, and 91% of all capital sentences have pertained to a white victim. ... On the other side of town, the local car dealer commits the identical crime t...

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The flaws of capital punishment are also important to note, as Innocent people being executed or being released within weeks of execution have alarmingly become more and more common as of late. ...

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The cultural and developmental aspects of American history in the 17th and 18th centuries are certainly among the most important and influential factors in the shaping of this country's long and storied history. The society that existed at that time had very different views on life and how it should...

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As scheduled, the Enola Gay took off of the Tinian runway at 2:45 am, sharp, and began its course over the Black Sea. ... Exactly 60 seconds after the activation, the world's first atomic bomb, ironically nicknamed Little Boy, began its fall towards the ground. ...

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And yet, when Noriega was finally indicted in Miami in 1988, all the charges except one were related to activities that dated back before 1984, when he was our boy, helping with the U.S. war against Nicaragua. ... The fact was that at exactly the moment it invaded Panama because of its outrage over Noriega's abuses of human rights, the Bush administration announced new high-technology sales to China, noting that $300 million in business for US firms was at stake and that contacts had secretly resumed a few weeks after the Tiananmen Square massacre. ...

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