However, the facts in post-war Iraq tell us that either is there liberation for Iraqi people, nor have the weapons of mass destruction ever been found. ... Iraqi people have never been liverated by the US. Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein commited extremely "grave violations of human rights" in that thousands of political opponents and ordinary citizens were subjected to all kinds of spiritual and physical misery. Therefore, America should volunteerly "meet the challenge to help liberate the Irapi people from the "totalitarian state".(Bush) In fact, what Iraqi people faced was horror and aggre...

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Before 1789, France was ruled by the nobles and the church which made up 1 - 2% of the population and the ordinary people that made up 97% of the population (Doyle, 2002). ... As a result the cost of food was increasing and the ordinary people could not afford it and were suffering from hunger. ... As a consequence, many people disliked absolute rule by the royalty and the nobility. The ideas of enlightenment started to make the ordinary people think differently; as they could see that the American Revolution had created a country in which people had more power on the government, instead of ki...

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They believed that state governments were more likely to protect the people's liberties than the central government. In the opinion of many Republicans, the government should work to support the interest of ordinary citizens who were the majority. ... The apparent differences in the views of the people became more apparent with the debates of establishing the Bank of the United States and how best to deal with the Nation's debt. ... The Republicans believed the "ordinary" people should have a say in the government and that the aristocrats should not have all of the control....

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Background House Un-American Activities Committee The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) was established in 1938 and focused its efforts on investigating alleged disloyalty perpetrated by ordinary people, public employees and any organization suspected of having links to groups that advocated on behalf of communism and facism.1 The HUAC's attention quickly turned to the arts and the potential it had to effect ordinary citizens' beliefs and practices. People involved in various artistic disciplines were called before the committee, with their attention eventually turning...

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The phrase "Columbian Exchange" refers to the interchange and sharing of flora, fauna, people, goods, ideas and disease between the "Old World" Europeans and the "New World" Native Americans. ... The Transatlantic exchange of people would also come into play. ... Often times the Europeans would exchange their "ordinary" goods for more valuable Native American items like gold, silver or gems. ... In some cases these beliefs were welcomed while in other instances they were forced upon the people. ... The exchange of various plants, animals, goods, ideas and people fostered trade and offered e...

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Many people do not realize that if there was less capital punishment, a lot of money could be saved that could be used in many other ways. Many people are not aware how much it actually costs to put somebody to death. ... The death penalty costs California 90 million annually beyond the ordinary costs of the justice system - 78 million on the death penalty from 1973 to 1988 to achieve eighteen executions that is an average of 2.3 million per execution (Information center 1). ...

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Ordinary voters are powerless and they sometimes are manipulated when choosing candidates during elections. However, the ordinary voters do not realize that a select group who make decisions, which do not take their interests seriously, leads them. ... According to Dye, public policy does not represent the peoples' demands (20). ... The people as individuals do not have the powers to change government decisions. ... The people as individuals are powerless and are manipulated during elections. ...

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White-collar crime may force many people to make unfair judgments. ... Most people judge from their information and their knowledge on the subject, perceive white collar criminals either as individual who care about their families or as a group of criminals who take advantage of the public (Henslin142). It is possible to determine whether white collar criminals receive more favorable treatment than ordinary offenders. ... Most white-collar offenders are ordinary people who got into financial difficulty and who saw their way out of it through illegal and fraudulent measures. ...

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According to the Anti-Federalists position document which was published by Melancton Smith on June 21, 1758, "representatives should be a true picture of the people ". Melancton pointed that the government should understand the real problems between the people, therefore, the members of representatives should include people from every social status level. ... He claimed that a person who can understand fifty people can understand twenty people as well, which meant that the interests of the people was unnecessary to be understood by a large representation. The Anti-Federalists Position documen...

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The soap opera The Young and the Restless is an example of escape fiction that deals with the everyday life of so called ordinary people. ... A considerable amount of people in North America are getting botox and plastic surgery in the hopes of feeling good about themselves. When viewers see skinny people on television they think that that is the ideal weight one has to be in order to beautiful and desired by others. ... In third world countries people are unable to watch television. ... People in third world countries also have a significantly lower amount of people with eating disorders an...

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They opposed the opening of the Constitution, "We the People of the United States", stating that without each states individual names listed, they would not retain their rights or powers. Their claim was that it was insufficiently democratic and at best the House of Representatives was a group of small, ordinary citizens that would find it difficult to influence Congressional decisions. ... They saw the Federalists as people who would oppress lower class people. They were concerned that with a lack of bill of rights, it wouldn't guarantee the people's rights. ...

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She is turning the tables and from pointing to the patronizing westerners - the tourists - who "look at the things they can do with a piece of ordinary cloth" and "marvel" at the hole "they squat down at", she points to the fact that western customs seem just as "backwards" and strange to Antiguans. ... These people died silently, in "a holocaust created by white foreigners and celebrated by their later counterparts as the will of a Christian God." ...

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They also believed that government existed for the good of the people, to protect these rights. Therefore, according to these ideas, people now could protest to the government that took away those unalienable rights. These new ways of thinking supported the idea that people should protest or abandon any government that failed to protect these rights. ... These taxes raised the prices of many ordinary goods and services and impacted the colonists' way of life. ... Still, there was some amount of representation for the people in Britain but not for the people in America. ...

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This is important because this eventually created a nation that was ruled by the people and not by king or the Pope. ... This meant a closer step toward universal male suffrage, since "ordinary" people could also have a voice in the government through their representatives. ... The influences the puritans made upon the lives in New England were more than just well governed counties but a society that takes in the people's opinions and requirements to improve their lives. ...

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Ordinary Hutu individuals were encouraged to kill Tutsi neighbors through radio propaganda. ... State sovereignty would not have been an issue as well as the security of other countries since the Hutu extremists did not have the resources to fight in international war, and instead used the people of the country to kill one another. ...

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Ordinary men were allowed to talk about politics and public business in public places almost everywhere such as Taverns, parlors, commons, and streets (29). ... Because of the new ability of people to discuss politics freely, this new change caused controversy because people did not always agree with one another. ... New people who didn't used to be involved openly in politics got involved. ... The printed reports of the political sides that people took gave people enjoyment and got them more involved with the government then they had been in the past. ... This linked people together ...

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The IRS wastes the taxpayer's time and money chasing suspected drug dealers rather than attending to the affairs of the ordinary taxpayer. ... Drug prohibition removes the possibility of resolving drug disputes through a legal process and leaves people to their own violence oriented solutions. ... It would reduce drug prices and hence make it un-necessary for people to steal or resort to theft in order to buy drugs. ... The war on drugs has led to what people often refer to as the "war on drugs exception to the bill of rights." ... Prices will go down, drug related crime will dissipate,...

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Many people are not familiar how Constitutions are interpreted to justify our current laws. Moreover, many people don't know Constitution played an important role of shaping moral values in our society. ... But not until the civil right movement era, people started raise up the question that whether death penalty is against the Eighth Amendment or not. ... The definition of "unusual is "not common or not ordinary". ... Another issue is the execution of minors and mentally retarded people. ...

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It is unconvinced to just judge these kinds of people to be spies. ... People use to send greetings and cares through letters to their friends or relatives when they are far away from home just as the father does to their children in the camp. Also, these are ordinary things owned by a Japanese family, and in our common sense, people keep stuffs taken from hometown just for the memory or because of their cultural blessings and lifestyles. ... The father also describes himself as any one of the typical American people who are encountered on a daily basis. What he mentions are what a local peopl...

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The United States negotiated numerous treaties which they continuously violated in pursuit of the Indians' lands and assets, and ultimately to impose their will on Indian tribes and people as they seen fit. These actions by the United States reinforce the colonialism theories and the four components of the colonization complex toward indigenous people in the United States. ... When treaties were agreed, such as the Black Hills of Dakota, and the sacred land to the Sioux Indians the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use...

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Morone author of the text "By the People Debating American Government" "The USA Patriot Act gave police and security personnel far more latitude to monitor, search, and detain suspects both abroad and at home" (Morone 683). ... Unfortunately, according to Trevor Timm, author of the article "Ten Years After the Patriot Act, a Look at Three of the Most Dangerous Provisions Affecting Ordinary Americans" "Provisions of the PATRIOT Act have been used to target innocent Americans and are widely used in investigations that have nothing to do with national security&...

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People tend to cling to their own group and our sense of national unity is weakening. ... Carver's stories focus on ordinary lower-class people who aren't particularly smart or particularly successful as described again in Cathedral, "I'd wished she'd come back down stairs [my wife], I didn't want to be left alone with a blind man."" ...

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To the Vietnamese, Little Saigon expresses a distinctive and indispensable Vietnamese character, Tran- a 65-year-old Vietnamese woman says, "I don't come to buy things, I come to see people, strangers mostly, who come...to do ordinary, everyday things, but in an environment where, because of the familiarity of faces and language, we never feel out of place" (Dizon). Moreover, the presence of Vietnamese people is what makes Little Saigon more noticeable and exclusive. ... With no doubt, Little Saigon offers Vietnamese people a certain comfort of being with people who share the sa...

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These speeches and letters were important in providing extra ordinary insight as to why secession would occur in the South. ... Many of the commissioners were prominent men from the community, but when the secretary of the Interior in Buchannan's administration, Jacob Thompson, joined in, people began to take notice (30). ...

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Gregory McNamee reviewed Kevin Philips Wealth and Democracy and found that the book "examined cycles of economic growth and decline from the founding days of the republic to the recent collapse of technology stocks, Phillips dispels notions of trickle-down wealth creation, pricks holes in speculative bubbles, and decries the ever-increasing "financialization" of the economy--all of which, he argues, have served to reduce the well-being of ordinary Americans and government alike. ... Payroll taxes mean working people don't take home much more than 20 years ago. ...

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