Another problem with the death penalty is the likely hood that racism continues to play an unacceptable and powerful role in capital punishment. ... We have a certain privilege on our own lives, but do the lives of others belong to us as well? ... Can justice justify our acts? ... The murders shock the small Great Plains town, where doors were routinely left unlocked, and people lived their lives in relative safety. ... This story takes place at the end of the 1950s, in a more innocent America, a small rural farm town. ...

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He also won the Guggenheim Fellowship for his play, The Amen Corner (1954). ... Charlie is a story/play loosely based on the murder of the black youth, Emmett Till, in a small town in Mississippi in 1955. ... The play, Blues for Mr. ... Mainly his plays are thesis plays-talky, over-written and cliché dialogue and some stereotypes, preachy and argumentative. ... Charlie, in other works Baldwin wrote of integration as a loving means through which we would force our "brothers" to love one another. ...

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Response How many times have we looked upon our own cities and towns and commented on how different old and once familiar landmarks look? ... When we reminisce, we do so with a personal "look" brought about by our past. Our experiences and recollections are clouded by our ancestral stories, opinions and judgments. ... The inter- and intra- play within individual villages and with others (villages) shaped the inhabitants rules and mores of land and natural resource use. ... The geographic separation of the Indians also played an important role as to whether they were mainly hunters/...

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., neo-Nazis led by Frank Collin wanted to march through town a town with possibly the largest concentration of Holocaust survivors in the U.S. ... Tolerance is only meaningful when the speech is jarring to mainstream sensibilities Larry Flynt and Hustler constantly push us to the outer limits of our tolerance. ... A production of The Laramie Project, a play by Moises Kaufman, is based upon interviews with the Laramie, Wyo., residents following the violent death of a homosexual male college student, Matthew Shepard. ... "Here we are, and we are going to continue to live our lives." ...

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(Appiah 97) Since early in our evolution, humans, like many other animals, have had the natural desire to form communities to fulfill our needs. ... Survival is the central role of any type of community, and in general they play positive, beneficial roles. ... This distinction is an essential part of survival and the fulfillment of our needs, and is often a positive aspect of human social structures. Purely in terms of function, our "imagined communities" are similar in fundamental ways. ... To say that these things "don't really matter" is to ignore our responsibility to work towa...

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This is where the United States foreign policy comes into play. ... The United States have a couple of choices concerning their position; they could play the part of world leader or the part of world loner. ... I believe that the United States should definitely play the part of world protector whenever and wherever possible. ... Granted some look at this as sticking our nose in other countries business, but I don't look at it that way. ... Now that I have proposed my opinion, it is important that we see what our national leader and our government say about foreign policy. ...

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Is this to say that our country still actively participates in discrimination? ... In cases with indigent defendants, an appointed lawyer is dealt, and the alleged is forced to play with that hand. ... On the other side of town, the local car dealer commits the identical crime towards a black victim. ... The only judge worthy of taking a life is the Lord, and a government who feels the right to do so is playing God. ... We need to rid ourselves, and our country, of capital punishment. ...

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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. ... With the affluence of the roaring '20's, and then the post war '50's, American cultural values of work hard - play hard seem to have been lost. ... Never before or since has our government so extensively sponsored the arts. ... Highways were built to take people quickly from one place to another, bypassing small towns and helping to create cen...

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On our way out into the lobby we saw my uncle Kiko and my grandfather Lupe waiting for us. ... When I finished eating, I went outside to take a look around town. ... We played for a couple of hours, and as the sun began to go down, I decided it was time for me to go home. ... We walked twice around the plaza, and then I asked Imelda if she wanted to sit down on a bench and listen to the banda play its' music. ... After I talked to him for about an hour, I went back to my grandparents house to get ready for our trip. ...

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Imagine a world in which our government dictates what we can and cannot listen to in the privacy of our own homes. ... The band was successfully banned from playing anywhere in the state after the singer shredded a bible on stage. ... Wal-mart is the largest music retailer in the nation, and along with K-mart, is often times the only local source of music for many rural towns. ... I believe that if our society is ever to be a happy and safe place to live, you cannot limit emotional expression. ...

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I was five when my father and I moved to a tiny town in southwest Missouri. ... The town's people mainly consist of white Americans who are very religious and strongly conservative. ... It all sounded so fun "playing games and spending more time with my friends! ... I know being affected by something as simple as a term can appear trivial, but even if we disagree with their decisions, our parents raised us. ...

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But I also believe that we must reexamine our own attitude - as individuals and as a Nation - for our attitude is as essential as theirs. ... The team playing the defending champions wants to come out hyped up and with their "A-game" every time they are competing with them. ... In Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the aliens act like the communists in that they possess similar goals, which are to "take over the town's military, government, and other types of authority." ...

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Self-government is a town meeting; a band club vote on what to sell and the fair; an employees vote whether to Jon a union. ... Our patriotism focuses on that and sees no further, missing glaring contradictions. ... Our government has three branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. ... Why does some radio station only play certain artist? ... Our founding father where the great minds America has ever known. ...

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In the following paper I will explain to you about the inequality in our country and why it occurs. ... In the essay "Imagine a country" the author describes inequality in our country based on the perspective of a functionalist, conflict theorist, and social interationist. ... For example, you do not often encounter children from Manhattan families playing with children from Harlem. ... Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country. 10. ...

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Augustine is not only the oldest town in Florida it's the oldest in America Senator: Bob Graham is the senior senator from Florida. ... As chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Graham helps oversee our nation's intelligence agencies. ... This initiative is a far-reaching, methodical approach to identifying the most sensitive information in our government and then safeguarding that information. Senator Graham has also taken the lead in reforming and improving our intelligence community's efforts in counter-terrorism. ... He continues that commitment through...

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The father of constitutional law, chief justice John Marshall played a pivotal role in the construction of democracy in the United States. Marshall was our nations fourth chief justice and is accredited with helping to establish the power of the United States Supreme Court and strongly enforcing constitutional law throughout the nation. ... At the age of ten John's father moved his family 30 miles to the town of Blue Ridge Mountains. ... It is through the great mind of john Marshall that the laws that govern our land through the Constitution have withheld the test of time. ...

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No other person was more involved in our nation's birth. ... Meanwhile, Franklin raised volunteer colonial armies to defend frontier towns and supervised construction of a fort in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. ... Above all, he would be honored for the role he played in helping America win its freedom and then in writing the Constitution. ... During the era of 1775 until his death, he became important and essential to making our country what it is today by dealing with affairs between foreign countries and America and drafting important documents clarifying Americans" rights and duties....

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Martin and Smith claim that, "Many Americans are unaware of the fact that rural children experience serious difficulties because they do not fit our stereotypes of at-risk youth." ... Age also played a role in the perception of gang crime. ... These conditions have taken a serious toll on our neighborhoods" (Martinet, 1992). Another author suggests that disorder in our schools leads to violence. ... Methamphetamine use is growing in cities and towns throughout the country. ...

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The proclamation had immediate and long term effects on our nation. It played an important role in the anti-slavery movement from the smallest towns of the United States all the way to the shores of Europe. ...

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Issues like inadequate teaching staff, lack of materials, limited education, and unequal education face our education system today. ... While elementary school children are playing games, high school students are being deprived. ... 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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This story may have indeed played a role in influencing public opinion about U.S. involvement in Vietnam. ... The commanders stated that "the VC were able to pop right back up out of the ground and fire That gives some indication of the extent of fortifications in the town" (Hammond 58). ... Before Tet, television journalists tended to describe the war as "our side" versus "their side" (the "good war") whereas after Tet "our war" became "the war" (Hammond 159). ...

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When I found out that I was going to write a paper on my family and our culture, it never struck me that I would be looking into their past. ... He then began to tell me that he left his small town of Mexicali. ... My mom did not want them to play any school sports because that was manly of them to do that. ... They allowed my sisters to play in school sports, and they would go to their games and cheer them on. ... We are all expected to do our part in the home as well. ...

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Introduction Scholars of international politics routinely debated on two kinds of global structures that best describe the actual world, that is, multipolar and unipolar. The word "multipolar" in international relation is scientifically defined as "a distribution of power in which there are a n...

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For example, according to Mary Rowlandson's book, "The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mary Rowlandson," the Native Americans "would boast much of their victories; saying that in two hours time they had destroyed such a captain and his company at such a place; and boast how many towns they had destroyed, and then scoff, and say they had done them a good turn to send them to Heaven so soon. " When the Pilgrims first came to the New World they had worries and fears. ... When my parents first came to the United States many people didn't know much about our culture. ... Sq...

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