Is it because we want to escape from our chaotic and complicated surroundings? ... The Astrology of the Hippy Movement "The deeper, more subtle, changes that the Hippy Movement generated are still being integrated into our social and political structures as well as our collective psyche. ... So our philosophy is a mélange of the teachings of Christ, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Krishna, Gandhi, even some latter-day saints like Lennon, Leary and Morrison. ... In small towns they often stand out like a Peter Max poster in a funeral home. ... Once they discover other hippies their age that they can ...

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This problem that environmentalist fight day after day is caused by the globalization of our economy. ... The short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson shows many similarities to globalization of our economy today. ... To begin with there are endless factors in the story that relate the town in the story "The Lottery" to the global economy. ... In the town, one person has to suffer for many to be happy. ... Yet, once a year for a protest, in the newspapers or in our sociology class we learn about the price that others have to pay for our joy. ...

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Although some of them have positive effects on the earth, not all of them affect our world positively. ... While globalization helps people make more money, it also makes easy to live in our world. For example there are lots of international fast food companies such as McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut and we did not have to go America any longer to buy a Big Mac or when you go to the United States, you can visit China Town in San Francisco and buy traditional gifts for your friends from there. ... All of these threats cause even climate change which is a serious threat to our future. In ...

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Americans have consumed alcohol as a means of recreation since our country's birth. ... Mariposa is a classic example of a town where unsafe drinking occurs. Mariposa is a small mountain town about twenty minutes south of Yosemite national Park. The town consists of about 2,000 people, and everyone knows everyone. ... Europe's legal driving age is eighteen; I think America needs to get some advice from our ancestors to make our nation better. ...

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Jefferson did not like having the French occupy the vast territory to the West, and in fact he proclaimed that whoever occupied New Orleans was "our natural and habitual enemy". ... Citizens from the town of Norfolk, the town the Chesapeake had sailed from, were angry and vengeful. ... The citizens held a mass town meeting at which it was unanimously agreed that they would stop relations with any British men in the area (Tucker 1). ... Even though no country has ever made as many mistakes as the United States has and lived to tell about them, diversity in opinions was a major factor in shap...

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Places To Live Throughout our country, there are many different ways people can go about living. ... Due to the fact that houses are more secluded than those in a suburban town, if someone were to commit burglary of a house, they are less likely to be seen by neighbors. There are also not as many police officers patrolling the streets of a rural town. ... Cities are often known to having a bad part of town. ...

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Major corporations like Wal-Mart, Target, Lowe's and Home Depot have monopolized the shopping experience once enjoyed by the mom and pop stores, the backbone of small town America. ... The "Super Centers" have invaded and crippled small town America and have gone further offering Internet shopping for "our convenience". The reduced need to employ the younger generation has lead to an increase of unemployment especially in small towns. ...

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The towns began to larger, and so did the demand for people such as blacksmiths, carpenters, and other people who are necessary for a thriving town. ... In America many people starved, many people died from disease, many people died without having made any large amount of money, however many people also set up thriving farms, and businesses that helped our country become what it is today. ...

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I am very grateful for our country, and all of the privileges I have growing up here. ... We don't only have one ruler who makes all our rules and laws, but instead the people in America are ruled by the people. ... We aren't just represented by our president. We are also represented by our town councils, our mayors, our governors, senators, and everyone else that makes up a part of our government. So there are always places open in our society that we can fill to make our own changes. ...

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"If drugs did not exist then our governors would have intended them, to make the population more vulnerable to arrest and imprisonment (Vanity Fair 4)." ... The illegal drug use among adolescents in small towns and rural America is reaching alarming proportions. ... Regardless of the way towns are classified, teens are thinking it's no big deal to use drugs. Rural and small town areas need to begin shaping up (marijuana.com)." ... That would cost a fortune, but isn't the future of our country worth that much? ...

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In today's economy, most products are mass produced in massive warehouses, packaged, and shipped to our stores without us ever thinking of how it got there. ... In 1820, a total of 58 towns with a population of more than 2,500 made up America. Nearly 20 years later, the expansion resulted in 126 towns with a major influx of people. Over those two decades, the total population in all those towns went from 443,000 to 1,844,000, a increase of more than four times than in 1820! ... Air was not the only was machines polluted; the water and land also became heavily polluted. [3] The Industrial...

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Remembering back to my childhood, I can't ever recall our family ever doing anything that related to our ethnic or cultural roots. ... After a brief period, we left and went along our way. ... Sometimes we did travel with my uncle and cousin, but rarely did we ever have a place to call our own. ... I remember once going through a town out in Arizona, to look for my mom's brother, who was homeless at the time. It was the most peculiar town that I have ever seen though, to this day I have never seen anything quite like it. ...

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In our textbook, Moser and Waters accurately depict the essentials of family values. ... Our textbook represents a wide variety of different assumptions on the qualities of a family. ... With my Father growing up in a small town in West Virginia, his family used the current day template of raising a family. ... In our textbook, Moser and Waters accurately depict the essentials of family values. ... With my Father growing up in a small town in West Virginia, his family used the current day template of raising a family. ...

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I feel the access to the internet is not a problem for our society. ... This levels the playing field for all people because access is not an issue for nearly anyone living in a city or town across America. ... The ability to use and operate a computer is necessary to function is our technological society. ... Our government will be preparing students for the real world and giving them the skills they need to be productive citizens. Our government will finally be doing all students and all of society the service that it was meant to provide. ...

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It also helps to open our eyes to the mistakes, and how our government can question itself over some of the issues we were fighting for. ... The book is told from Jeanne's own experiences in her own town, and how her peers at school treated her. ... It also goes into some detail on how their neighbors, and people throughout their town treated them after the news of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. ... We segregated these people from our society out of fear and hate, from what had happened to Pearl Harbor. ... So the natural reaction would be fear, but we grouped all Japanese into one categ...

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He continues by saying that the people came to our nations capitol to claim whats rightfully theres. "We have come to our nations capitol to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir." ... He goes on to tell how they as a people will never be satisfied while there is police brutality going on towards black people, and blacks are living in ghettos they cant get out of and residing in towns that post signs "whites only". .....

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The development of the railroad was a major turning point in the Nineteenth century and in our American history. ... The railroads strongly influenced where people would settle, laying down track and then establishing towns along the route. ...

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On the other hand, a study was performed in Notel, Canada which pertained to a small rural town that did not have television until 1973. Before the town received its first taste of television a psychologist at the University of British Columbia by the name of Tannis MacBeth Williams went to perform a study. ... "Other people have sometimes reported our findings by saying that the level of verbal aggression and the level of physical aggression more than doubled." ... More often than not individuals would rather hear about who Jennifer Lopez is marrying next, than the fact that our national d...

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It's hard to believe, but this little old lady has such a big influence on our culture. ... The biggest part of our culture is food, and everyone loved being at grandma's house for Sunday's or holidays. ... We had to speak with proper English and no cursing, we also had to have our clothes ironed before we could leave the house, as well as our shirts tucked in. ... We do not know how to live our lives without depending on society. ...

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And not only that, but we are also wasteful with our money and food as well. ... With fast food restaurants located in every town and city on the map, and our seemingly endless supply of food, it's no wonder we waste so much food. It's all too easy to take our supply of food for granted. ... Who could worry about wasting food when our pockets are full of enough money to buy fast food everyday, and our kitchen cabinets are stocked full? ... And there seems to be nothing yet to change our ways. ...

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This is true, but what he failed to point out is like with Australia, communities are widley spread out and to walk home from town would take hours. Where as to walk home from town in Edinburgh would be no hardship to a lot of us. ... So neither of the countries have a free press by our standards. ...

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"Mafia Towns" are found all over the United States there is a total of 26 but the largest is in New York City. There is one boss in each town, also known as a Don, and numerous families that follow them. ... "Cosa Nostra is the largest, most sophisticated, most powerful, and most remarkable crime syndicate in the history or the United States... it is unlikely that any other crime syndicate, at least in the foreseeable future, will play anything like the role that Cosa Nostra has played in our nation's social, economic, and political life..Cosa Nostra's survival into the next millen...

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What are the consequences due to the lack of our incompetency and could this have been avoided? ... In the near future, one in 3 Japanese will be over the age of 65 and in some towns it has already became a reality. ... Our current population is 313.9 million people. ... The average child per woman in America is at or below 2.Our economy uses more resources than any other country in the world. ... The future of our planet is depending on how we use resources such as food, water, and natural energy....

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However, our ability to do all this would not have been possible without the Declaration of Independence, in which America first asserted that it was an independent and free nation. ... The British navy destroyed the costal economies of the colonies by plundering what goods the colonists were allowed to transport, as well as by burning the towns that lay along the coast. ... The reason that I would have signed the Declaration of Independence, even given the threat to my own life, is to ensure the freedom of our nation from tyranny. We were prevented from forming a democratic government, pre...

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On July 4th 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved and signed by fifty-six men, to whom they agreed to "mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor"; these men represented the thirteen North American colonies that were proclaiming their separation from Great Britain, founding the United States of America. ... They consisted of six acts, among them were, the Boston Port Act, "to discontinue, in such manner, and for or such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, a...

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