Medical Cut-Backs Circumcision is one of the largest wide spread debates going on across our Nation and our world. ... This newfound knowledge was just brushed under the carpet and still millions of Americans go on every day believing that circumcision is the only clean way to be. ... In the Jewish culture when a newborn male reaches the age of about three to six months they throw a party for him in which his dearest family and friends come and watch the rabbi perform the circumcision. ... Going through the pain is believed to make one closer to God and is an everlasting symbol and remind...

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Letting God Back In As long as there were test that I forgot to study for I was praying in high school. ... Law dates all the way back to the Bible and the Bible is the basis of Christian religion. ... So where did the phrase come from, and why are we under the illusion that the First Amendment teaches separation of church and state? ... The court had to rule this way because the students were required by state truancy laws to go to school and attendance was monitored by state officials to make sure that children were either in these religious classes or study hall during this time. ...

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The Moment the War Comes Home After landing troops on the battlefield of South Vietnam with huge amounts of war expenses, Washington D.C. incessantly acclaimed for a liberal democracy in this small Asian country. ... As the massacre is looked back upon, there are several key events that set the tragic day. ... The announcement on April 30, 1970, of President Richard Nixon that US troops would cross the Vietnam border into Cambodia was the straw that broke the camel's back, ignited a wave of protest by students. 1 Schools closed! ... Many young men refused to go to Vietnam and applied f...

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The way I look at the situation is this: why wait for them to come to us? ... In doing so, we plan to (and will) install a "scratch our back; we'll scratch yours" system that will prove to be a win/win situation. ... With this set policy in mind, we must go after those responsible for acts of terrorism as well those who harbor and fund those responsible. ... Looking back on World War II, we sat and waited until the war was brought to us to help the world. ... The only way to ensure protection is to set policy for homeland security, and to go after those who seek to do us harm. ...

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Just sit back and relax, your going to have the time of your life in the next two weeks to come."" ... "Tony come and eat dinner."" ... - "Well her name is Imelda, she's 17 years old, and I'm going to see he again when I come back. ... It was time for us to go back home, and by that time I had everybody tired of hearing me talk about her. ... I didn't want to come back because I had fallen in love, so I told my parents that wanted to stay in Mexico for another two weeks. ...

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But, how do these illegal immigrants come into the United States? ... " If the United States didn't have immigrants working in restaurants with a low wage salary, restaurant owners would eventually go bankrupt or may not exist as many Americans expect their salaries to be paid at a high rate. ... Eventually, majority of these immigrants would go back to their native country once they earn enough money. In spite of the fact that these immigrants return to their native country, within a few months or years they'll come back to the United States to work again. ... For that reason...

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I can still hear my mom calling my name, "Bilal come, come and play,"" while she and my siblings played in the courtyard. ... That's my father, always a morning person: he would wake up really early to go to work and come home late; he didn't have much time for us. ... We could not wait for him to come back home to jump on his back or play basketball, soccer and all the other crazy sports. My dad used to be a swimming champion back in his day. ... One night, my brother and I were swimming and when we swim together, we always go crazy. ...

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Former Spec. 5 Edward Sowders said, "I'm going back to the militaryit's a choice between that or Canada again, where we all stay underground.... If they wanted to leave and go to Canada then that's okay, but they can't come back though.... What have I done to Nixon so he comes here to bomb my country? ... "You let us go off to war saying yay team lets go fight Vietnam," said Sgt. William Marshall, "Now 1968 comes along and it's boo team come on homebut don't say nothing about it because we don't want to hear about it because it's upse...

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They were not allowed to have family come or to make families while here. ... What is it like to be walking down the street and have people stare at you and call you names and tell you to go back home, when you are home? ... One thing that is holding back some of the Asian American people are the assumptions of what is to come when they come to America. ... If you go to America you will be rich and be able to come back home with tons of money for your family. ... I never had to go through anything like that. ...

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They had come in contract from the U.S. to work for a period of time and then go back to Mexico. In Mexico in this time there was many things going on. ... There were still many things going wrong. ... The robbers took all of the money, which meant they had to turn around and go back home since they had no money to pay for the paperwork. ... I know that it's hard with all the people that want to come to let all the people come in. ...

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The first cousin Hala is "torn between two worlds "in love in Jordan, drawn back to the world she has to come to love in Arizona- (Halaby, back page). It was her mother's dream to go to learn in United States. ... When her mother passes away, she decides to go back to Nawara (the village where her mother was from) to visit her family. ... In addition, she was denied permission to go to a slumber party because her mother said " you are not going to sleep anywhere outside this family until the day you are married- (Halaby 173). ... Remember to make your day new and old, but be sur...

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Where do immigrants come from? ... Where do immigrants come from? ... All I could think of once more was; I'm going to die, I'm going to die. ... The next morning, we were all released and sent back to Tijuana. ... Racism (Schaefer, 2012, p 10) was still a huge issue back in the late 80's. ...

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At present day we are nearing back to the 1,000,000 point again. ... At the turn of the century there were many reasons for people to come to America. ... Many are starting to believe that to much immigration is going to end up hurting the United States. ... Experts are saying that this boom will have major effects in the years to come. ... If we start having to many come over it is going to start taking jobs away from American born citizens. ...

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No matter how tough you are, when you're coming face to face with death there's no avoiding the unsettling fear that soon enough you will leave this earth and never come back. ... My mother suddenly made us all leave the zoo and go back to the hotel. ... My grandfather forced my grandmother to go home and go to the hospital because of her dark yellow skin coloring. ... A few weeks had come and gone, and it was the morning of September 13th, 2007. ... I knew it wouldn't bring her back, but I let him let out his sadness and anger. ...

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Illegal immigrants are leaving their homes with expectation to come to the US to make money, then return home. ... The United States needs to control who comes into the country and who is leaving the country. ... Because of the issue with illegal immigration, the United States is going to go into economic decline while providing for these illegal immigrants. ... It may not seem like it now, but they are paying the US back. ... With their citizenship costs and taxes, the US will get its money back. ...

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It was my first time going to El Salvador and I was very nervous and scared, I didn't know what to expect. ... Back home in Virginia we usually have high temperatures with humid air. ... My mom came in and told me that she was going to the market with my aunts to buy food for dinner and asked me if I wanted to go. ... I remember my mom asking me if I liked it so far and me nodding yes, when in reality I wanted to scream and tell her how much I wanted to go home already. ... The day was finally here and it was time for us to come back home to the United States. ...

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In modern day society minorities are striking back. ... Mrs.Smith recalled a time when her male colleagues held a meeting before she arrived and discussed the way the meeting was going to go. ... It is a way to keep women held back and it is very hard to prove. ... Women have definitely come a long way. ... Women have come so far and are continuing to break through the glass ceiling. ...

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However the reason why I would not vote for Romney is that it seems that he has a lot of fantastic promises and stating that he knows "what it takes" to get people back into work and balancing the deficit with lowering taxes and closing loopholes and lowering deductions but never clearly states on how he is going to be able to achieve these promises and even if they"re going to be beneficial to Americans. ... Then Obama goes onto say that he has a clear four trillion deficit plan, which insures that children can afford to go to college and that there would be no tax break to overseas companies...

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I could even extend that period and come back to the mountain once a year, or even every ten years and the physical characteristics of that mountain are not going to change, save for the rare chance of a large natural disaster. A rock is very stable and does not go through the processes of change. ... The new blossoms are waiting to come out and it is a time of joy. ... For my own choices I have placed "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" and "How High" as comedies, "Crazy/Beautiful" as a romance, "Blow" as a tragedy, "American Beauty" and "American History X" as ironies. ... Ed Norton, in jail...

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When it comes to the morality of fighting a war with Iraq, one must simply just consider the Just War Theory. ... This money comes from the taxpayers. Whether taxes are raised or other programs are cut or decreased, the money must come from our tax dollars. ... It will take years for the economic system to get back to even where it is now. ... "government's" money really comes from. ...

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Also the work of women and the extra attention they are getting when it comes to the workplace is briefly mentioned. ... One page was dedicated to theatre productions going on. ... How advertisers go about getting that message across is slightly different toady from back then. ... Advertising back then was pretty shameless as well. ... It is just not as blatant today as it was back then. ...

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Since the dawn of man, people have been looking at the stars, yearning to go to them. ... Almost all the items we use today have in some way, shape, or form can trace its roots back to the Space Race of the 1960's. ... It has only been 50 years and technology has come this far. Imagine how much farther our gadgets can go in the next 50. ... Just like the Indians spears couldn't match up to the Europeans muskets, we wouldn't be able to fight back very well. ...

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" Immigrants from the 1700s to modern day have all held one thing dear to their hearts that connect them and explain the reasons for why they come to America, and it is called the American Dream. ... For example, in the book, he had invited her to come to his shop at nighttime and get her pay, but things didn't go as expected. ... I struggled to get away, but he held both of my hands firmly behind my back. ... During the time, when the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory had erupted into flames and Rose had escaped only to find herself seeking for a chance to go back in and retrieve Mauree...

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Philip Caputo's, the author of A Rumor of War, use of vivid language made the book come alive, as if it were a movie. ... After a while, Caputo goes back to being a Platoon leader, and the war involves much more action and enemy contact now. ... No one spoke and I felt it come back again, that old, familiar, cold, cramping fear Goddamn this war, he said, Goddamn this war," (248). ... He goes "whoring" along with the other men and he loses some of his close friends... I can only imagine how these men feel to this day when they look back on it. ...

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The government also doesn't really say when the law comes into affect, it just does when it needs to or when it has too. ... I also believe that the law is sometimes not justified and it comes to affect when it really doesn't have to. ... One thing I don't understand is why the criminal justice system uses the three strikes law when it comes to juveniles. ... This law was established for one reason and that was to cut back on criminal activity and to put all the "bad" and "multiple offenders" in prison. ... There needs to be a more efficient way to cut back the steadily crime ...

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