"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 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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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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When our country attacks the foreign powers that reign terror on the innocent people of other countries, it opens the terrorist's eyes to our vulnerability. ... The Issue to Argue "On September, 11th our new world was a small town with a huge main street where everyone suddenly knew everyone else, wore the same colors, felt like kin. ... So do we hide from our problems or face them? Argument digs into our comfort zones and bruises our pride, but it's also the way we get smarter, and more humble. ... All that changed in June 1994 when an apocalyptic Buddhist cult, Aum Shinrikyo,...

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African-Americans have a strong work ethic within our families. ... Within our families and community, there are more flexible roles, meaning that our parents do not necessarily have to be there all day everyday for us. Our grandparents, aunts, uncles, and sometimes cousins take on the role of mother and father while our real parents are working, out of town, or if for some reason our biological parents are no longer around. ... We sing, dance, shout, and cry during our service. ... The church is an extended family in our community, and this is seen in the fact that we call members of our c...

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Interestingly, Kubler-Ross calls attention to American society's increasingly depersonalized approach to the aging and dying, and notices that our reliance on technology and machines is "our desperate attempt to deny the impending death which is so frightening and discomforting to us- to ultimately avoid "[reminding] us once more of our lack of omnipotence, our own limits and failures, and our own mortality- (Kubler-Ross 23). This only intensifies this deep-set fear of losing control of our lives to nature. ... As religious values become less standard are no longer a strong influence an...

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Through out the centuries slavery has been a huge part of our history dating all the way back to the Spanish Empire in the sixteenth century. ... Slavery was a big part of our nation becoming established, most slave work was hard labor that without it our nation would not have survived. ... Many indentured servants were able to escape to neighboring towns since no one was really able to tell them apart from a normal civilian. ... Slavery has been in our history for thousands of years. Slavery is a huge reason why our nation was so successful for becoming established. ...

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Anyway the old town section of Moscow was just as beautiful as the first time I saw it, last April. Now is when we get to meet most of our translators. ... For our first concert, it went really well. ... So we finished our night off with lots of sad and emotional hugs as we went back to our hotel room. ... Discussing who we met, how hard it was to leave them, and our anticipation for our next trip. ...

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However the great bridges of our nation were not built today. ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal of the great depression put millions of people back to work and built our nations infrastructure, as we know it today. ... Never before or since has our government so extensively sponsored the arts. ... Our abundant industrial and technical capacity was spent in the production and distribution of luxury goods and gadgets (what economists and sociologists call "unproductive" goods and services). ... Highways were built to take people quickly from one place to another, bypassing small ...

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But, he who placed us here, and commanded that we should stay until he willed to call us hence, has enforced his law on one written on our own hearts - a horror of death inwrought into our nature, so that we violate our own sensibilities by disobeying his will, unless, indeed, our feelings have become so distorted and perverted that they are untrue to their original action" (The Lowell Offering p 202). ... He decided to setup his own little town full of shops and houses for his railroad employees to live in. ... I as an American citizen am ashamed of the way we treated our own people, and am...

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Within in hour of impact with the two towers, each tower had collapsed to the ground leaving our country in total disbelief of how to comprehend what just happened on our soil to our fellow Americans. ... Numerous American citizens cannot truly believe that our government had no idea of the strategic attacks on our country. ... All people knew was that our tower was OK. ... Nevertheless, they turned around and used our weapons and our skills we taught their soldiers against us. This is a lesson for our government and a lesson for the world, exhibiting the facts that we must know and trust ...

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Is this what our government is doing? Is banning all guns the answer to our nation's crimes? ... This may explain why the town does not have a police force. ... Are all of our nations gun laws and regulations actually helping to reduce crime? ... As an American, I believe our freedom of rights should not be gunned down. ...

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She moved to Gallia County and realized just how male oriented a small town can be. ... Smith said," Men do not give proper credit for our knowledge and manipulate women with negativity and hidden agendas." ... The men of our world are starting to realize the importance of women in the business world. ... She reported that the resilience of our economy -in fact its very survival depends on our ability to create value for all Americans. ... The authors of our textbook say that the corporate culture tends to revolve around white, heterosexual, American males. ...

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But what does seem ironic is that in the late 1950's "some wanted Elvis Presley to run out of town, though today he is featured on a postage stamp" (Nuzum 6). ... These are just some of the never-ending list of censorship examples our nation has experienced. ...

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Everyday billions upon billions of dollars worth of illicit drugs are smuggled into the country to take over our street corners, turn our neighborhoods into war zones, and turn children into puppets. ... Freedom to choose what to eat and drink, how to raise our children, what religion to belong to- if any- and how we choose to live our lives. ... Police issue seizures and searches based on racial profiling, the environment of their surroundings, and whether or not a person is in the wrong part of town. ... This obsession for a drug free society does nothing but create corruption, crime, and...

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Everyday after school, I broke out my favorite box of crayons and went to town scribbling and practicing writing letters, words and simple sentences that I learned in class. ... My friends and I annoyingly referred to him as our favorite grandpa and he got a kick out of it. ... Caves loved to assign the longest, most boring reading assignments out of our Robert Frost poem books. ...

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Underage drinking is becoming a major problem for our nation. ... There are many debates on this subject, some argue that the Drinking Age Law has been effective on our youth, while others argue that no matter what measures are taken to prevent underage drinking, teens will continue to drink and experiment with alcohol. ... This is especially popular in college towns, where store clerks realize that underage drinking brings in vast amounts of money each week. ... For now, the best thing we can do for our children is educate them on the dangers of underage drinking and do our best to instill...

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According to the director, Mary Ann Kuharski, "as Americans we find ourselves on the road to and from work, stuck in traffic, heading out of town, running errands, etc. ... When we place our message on highways and byways we are able to be a visual reminder, an educational outreach with our important messages. ... We have received numerous calls from those who have seen our billboards and are affected by the innocence of a baby's photo and a factual message.... We have a little girl with Downs and you are right – she is the greatest blessing in our lives. ...

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In addition to this the natives were our trading partners. ... Eventually these settlements were not only trading posts but also actual settlements with women and children, and soon became small towns and even cities. ... (Brinkley, p. 249-250) Hence, this voyage was named "The Trail of Tears" and was one of the grossest displays of exploitation that our country has ever seen. Throughout the history of our nation, Native Americans gave up their land to whites and their "Manifest Destiny." ... (Brinkley, p. 140) In summation, no book and/or paper could attempt to justify or compe...

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If we needed to buy groceries we had to ride a bus or asked my grandfather to take my mother and me to buy food and buy our personal things. ... In this town everyone knows one another. ... Our biggest focus was school. ... We owe it not only to ourselves but also to our families, communities and our homelands to put our best foot forward and represent our cultures in a positive light. ...

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The houses are on the outskirts of town, where people in the city live mostly in apartments. ... I wish our culture put more value on relationships like the Romanians do. ... I don't like this about our culture. ... This is a stark contrast to how our culture views money. ... It would be similar to our reaching eighteen or twenty-one. ...

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Ann-Mei's mother returns home after the night but the rumor is already circulated around the town. ... This demonstrates lack of respect of women in China, it was the Merchant Wu Tsing who raped An-Mei's mother; however, people in the town including her own parents and aunts blame An-Mei's mother for showing temptation, alluring the man. ...

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Not even the music was sincere, as Gitlin points out, the music is taken from the black side of town, bleached, stripped of some kind of soul and mass produced by white boys. ... The youth culture was all about breaking out, they just didn't know it yet, everything was a way of saying that something is changing, and we have to go along with it, because to do anything else is to go crazy, like our parents....

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In history, cities and towns understood that their present urban lifestyle, in particular, their patterns of division labor and functions, land-use, transport, industrial production, agriculture, consumption, and leisure activities, and hence their standard of living, made them essentially responsible for many environmental problems humankind was facing. ... Societies are confused and frighten by the "assault on our senses" (Hall, 1994) brought about by the advent of mass media, violence, global connectivity, social issues, ecological disasters, war, famine, pestilence, and death. .....

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Issues like inadequate teaching staff, lack of materials, limited education, and unequal education face our education system today. ... For example, a small town farm community with around 200 students in attendance may not have the materials (textbooks, learning tools, and computers), educational staff, and resources as a large private school. ...

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