Contributors like Political Action Committees give billions of dollars every election in order to get candidates elected who will meet their interests groups wants. ... The significant role money has in government decisions and elections pose a threat to democracy, with interest groups giving the vast majority of contributions. ... Without the ability to give large amounts of money today in politics, being able to make a difference as an average citizen is becoming harder and harder. ... Additionally, the education level and social status of interest group members and lobbyists give them an ...

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This was also largely paradoxical to the anti-colonist foundation of the United States, and brings to mind Patrick Henry's reflection of American sentiment in the American Revolution: "give me liberty or give me death!...

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In this process, religious traditions can help in the process of forming Asian immigrant communities by giving specific Asian ethnic groups another source of solidarity, in addition to their common ethnicity, on which to build relationships and cooperation. ...

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The Electoral College, even though it rightly neglects to give candidates with low amounts of support the presidency, completely undercuts the ability and right for a third candidate's public support to show in the electoral college (one federalist principle taking precedent over another federalist principle, both taking precedent over democratic principle). ... In document E, George Will writes, "Even when the popular vote margin is wager-thin, the winner-take-all electoral vote allocation tends to produce a winning margin that looks like national decisiveness," meaning that no matt...

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Thus, the organization of language and explanation of sexual misconduct gives rise to gender discrimination consisting of the notion that males commit sexual offenses while females are the victims of such. ... In fact, the "Women's Center, the Sexual Assault Education and Prevention Program, and the University Sexual Harassment Prevention Office give particular attention to educating the campus community to the destructive consequences of gender-based misconduct" ("President's"). ...

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There is little disagreement that government should be in some way involved in creating a solution that gives Americans in need of medical assistance the right to life, liberty and the continued pursuit of happiness. ...

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Some Canadian citizens argue that globalization is a positive development because it will give rise to new industries and more jobs in developing countries. Others say globalization is negative in that it will force poorer countries of the world to do whatever the big developed countries tell them t...

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This gives a notion of the significance attained by bureaucratic interest factions in that seldom is a critical component of legislation advanced by Congress unaccompanied by consent from the organizational agency that was involved with the execution. ...

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Japanese internment in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of 1941, caused a new sense of ethnic and national identity within the Japanese American community. In Jane Naomi Iwamura's article, "Japanese Americans and the Birth of a New Civil Religion,"" the author argues that: "wh...

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Immigration: Mass Media Influences on the General American Population The mass media industry has influentially shaped American society's behavior on immigration into a strict systematic view that immigration is a necessary tool needed to strengthen the economy, stabilize cultural diversity, and exp...

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According to the survey conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, "the most common reasons that parents give for home schooling their children are moral or religious reasons, a desire for high educational achievement, dissatisfaction with public schools' instructional program, and concerns about school environment, including safety, drugs, and peer pressure-(Bielick, Chandler & Broughman, 2001, 10). ...

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The life of Abraham Lincoln can be linked with the development of the question on whether the institution of slavery could grow with the nation or not. An interrelated issue that was linked to this issue was the issue of race. Examining Lincoln's attitude toward slavery also opens up political and cultural contentions at large in the American nation. Abraham Lincoln is often referred to as the Great Emancipator, yet, he did not publicly call for the emancipation throughout his entire life. He claimed to be "anti-slavery" in the hope that the expansion of slavery would be stopped...

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In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. He defeats the notion that the period was one of economic and cultural dependence on the English, and he ...

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At the time this Report is being released, the world economy continues to emerge slowly from the most serious economic crisis of the post–World War II period-one that has deeply transformed the global economy and highlighted the increasingly important role that emerging markets and developing economies play in the global economy. As advanced economies are searching for ways to speed up their economic engines, emerging and developing countries have been important drivers of the global economic recovery. As a result, the nature of the relationship between advanced economies and emerging on...

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Abstract This paper explores disaster management in response to varied homeland emergencies such as: chemical and biological scenarios, first responders, homeland security strategy, weapon delivery, and the national response plan. We have learned over time by way of trial and error that it is highl...

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