This fictional example, George Orwells 1984, describes the relationship between citizens and their totalitarian government in a dystopian setting. ... In this article, I want to start with a look at the power of citizen journalism against oppression starting with George Orwell's novel 1984. ... Orwell coined doublespeak in 1984 but it is now commonplace in modern media, especially during the second Bush administration. ...

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President George W. Bush January 2001 Policy Description On Jan. 8, 2002, President Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind act of 2001. ... Bush stresses teacher quality and the recruitment of qualified teachers in this Act. ... On January 23, 2001 President Bush sent his No Child Left Behind plan to congress. ... This policy was the creation of four people: two Republicans Judd Gregg (R-NH) and John Boehner (R-OH) and two Democrats Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and George Miller (D-CA) (Schroeder). ...

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President George W. ... President Bush did not plan the War in a way for it to be successful. ... President Bush and the Bush Administration framed the war in Iraq as one of necessity and not of choice to protect Americans from future attack8. ... President Bush was also able to do this by tying Saddam Hussein and Iraq to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.9 President Bush accused Saddam Hussein of allowing Al Qaeda members to train in Iraq. ... Bush waged the Gulf War in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. ...

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George Bush's administration continued to honor Mobutu, Ceausescu and Saddam Hussein, among others, all far worse criminals than Noriega. ... Compared to Bush's buddies in Baghdad and Beijing, Noriega looked like Mother Teresa. ... What agreement did the Bush administration finally reach with him? ... Somehow my belief is that George Bush, Jr. doesn't care. ... After the invasion of Panama, Bush announced one billion dollars in aid to Panama. ...

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President George Bush confronted little difficulty in winning Americans" support for the potential war against Iraq. ... Critics of President Bush continued to maintain that he was taking advantage of the issue of energy supplies in order to manipulate the U. ... On November 8, 1990 President Bush announced a military buildup to provide an offensive option, "Operation Desert Storm," to force Iraq out of Kuwait. ... President George Bush waited two days after th...

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Shortly after the attacks, on September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush declared war in Afghanistan. George W. Bush was elected by voters who expected a repeat of the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush. ... " But after 9/11, George W. ...

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George Bush decided that drugs are immoral and unlawful; hence labeling drugs a moral issue. ... Bush had ideas to become tougher with drug laws such as the death penalty and using the armed forces. ... Under the Bush Administration, exorbitant amounts of money with medial reform were spent. However, Bush's most prominent plan was the "Weed & Seed Plan", today known as the Community Project for Restoration. ...

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President George Bush called the invasion a "naked aggression" and ordered economic sanctions against Iraq. ... Next, Bush banned all oil imports from Iraq and trade. Bush did not stop with the pressure to try to get Saddam out of Kuwait. ... "This will not stand," Bush angrily told the press. ... President Bush's spokesmen, Marlin Fitzwater broke the news. ...

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Board of Education; 1954), deciding political issues (Bush vs. ... Nominated to Supreme Court by President George H.W. Bush, and took his seat on October 9, 1990. ... Nominated to Supreme Court by President George H.W. ... President George W. ...

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Disability Discrimination Introduction. Everybody wants a fair chance to succeed in life but discrimination means that some people are denied opportunities or are treated badly because of their disability. This treatment is unfair, unnecessary and against the law (www.adcq.gld.gov.au). We all should to be aware of how and where disability discrimination occurs: Disability discrimination can take many different forms. It can consist of comments about the disability, made by managers or executives, accompanied by some type of adverse employment ...

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In 1695, Captain George Kendall became the first adult to be executed in the Jamestown colony of Virginia. ... Thirteen exonerations of people sentenced to death in Illinois - including three provoked by a journalism class at Northwestern University - prompted Governor George Ryan, a Republican, to declare a moratorium on executions in that state. ...

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Even our good friend George W. Bush and his administration are in the process of increasing housing opportunities for minorities and reforming federal housing standards. Bush's proposals suggest that we increase the supply of affordable housing, help families with down payments/closing costs, educate homebuyers, and offer increased financing options (Roach 27). ...

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George Washington established the informal tradition of serving two terms and then voluntarily stepping down. ... These are fairly common tools used by presidents (Bush issued 165 & Clinton issued 110 during his first two years in office > many repealing those that Bush had issued). ...

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But in October the CIA Director, George Tenet, suggested that Iraq did not pose an immediate threat to the United States and was unlikely to share its weapons with terrorists " unless provoked by an invasion."" ... As one reason to go to war, President Bush is reported to have said that Iraq might use its unmanned drones to rain chemical or biological weapons on the United States. ... For example, on November 10, 2002, the Washington Post and the New York Times both ran similar stories that detailed the Bush administration's plans for war with Iraq. ...

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In January of 1973, the United States Supreme Court decided on the case of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed.2d 147. The Decision made by the United States Supreme Court gave every woman a federal constitutional right to an abortion. Since that decision in 1973, the issue of abortion has been at the center of much controversy and has left many Americans divided over the issue of abortion. As the legal scholar Ronald Oworkin once said, "No judicial decision in our time has aroused as much sustained public outrage, emotion, and physical violence or as much intemperate professi...

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For more than a century, major powers have tried to control an enormous source of wealth and power in the Middle East. This enormous source is known as oil. Oil is plentiful in the Middle East with the two largest holders, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, managing the oil price time bomb. Iraq has been at...

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The Right to Die: The Legalization of Euthanasia Christiaan Barnard, a South African cardiac surgeon, once said, "I have never seen any nobility in a patient's thrashing around all night in a sweat-soaked bed, trying to escape from the pain that torments him day and night" (Walker 18). Should a...

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Merely a couple days after the September 11th attacks, the United States Department of State reported that President George W. Bush publicly declared: We should not hold one who is a Muslim responsible for an act of terror. ... (source: Bush Urges respect toward US Muslims, Boston Globe,Boston,MA,9/14/2001;Mary Leonard) In addition, Vicki Silverman, a Washington File Staff Writer, confirmed that "the president pointed to the thousands of Arab-Americans who live in New York City "who love their flag just as much as the three of us do" and called on all to treat Arab-Americans and Muslims with...

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Capital Punishment is a new idea or way of dealing with criminals. This has been around for ages and dates back as far as the 18th century B.C. With more and more liberals stepping forward, more and more laws and bans have been placed and issued concerning the death penalty, or capital punishment. W...

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America has always prided itself on being the land of the free. Our national Constitution and Bill of Rights have ensured that the people of America maintain their basic rights, and more. Nevertheless, many of the rights guaranteed in these historic documents are often the subject of heated debate. The right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures under the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment's guarantee against self-incrimination, the First Amendment's protection of speech and petitioning activity, all of these issues has been subject to contentious arguments in cour...

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NICARAGUA HISTORY Nicaragua takes its name from Nicarao, chief of the indigenous tribe then living around present-day Lake Nicaragua. Although it is the largest republic in Central America, has a relatively tiny population of approximately 4.5 million people. Nicaragua is bound on the north by Honduras, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, on the south by Costa Rica, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. It is slightly larger than the U.S. state of New York with an area of 130,000 square kilometers. The capital city is Managua. ...

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Smith said, "I heard the shots coming from the bushes this woman came up to me and said that they were shooting the President from the bushes." ... While checking the bushes he saw a man behind the fence. ...

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LMU Munchen - Institut fur englische Philologie - Sommersemester 2002 OS/HS: Australian Cinema Seminarleiter: Prof. Dr. Graham Huggan Autor: M. Endres, Connollystr.3, D 80809 Munchen Abgabetermin: 31.08.2002 Seminararbeit Australian national cinema 1970-2000: A window to the chancing face of Australian national identity and self image Contents 1. National cinema - an introduction S. 04 - 06 1.1 "The Hollywoodisation- phenomenon S. 03 - 04 1.2 Australian national cinema S. 04 1.3 S. 05 - 06 2. ...

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The federal progressive income tax has been an issue that has been argued on the floors of Congress, in front of the United States Supreme Court, in front of television cameras, and around the dinner table. The tax served its purpose in supplementing revenue during the Civil War and World War I, but continued taking from Americans" income in peacetime, allowing fewer dollars to be spent on goods and services. When the American government was in a deficit, it was harder to argue for the abolishment of the income tax, but now that Congress is looking at a government surplus for the first time in...

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Abortion has been an issue that has bothered me, ever since I moved to Texas. Texas being a conservative and pro-life have voiced out against the feticide and attacked abortion clinic and doctors. A friend of mine underwent an illegal abortion from fear of being kicked out of her church and family. ...

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