In a 2012 Washington Post article, Holder compared voter ID laws to a 'poll tax', referring to fees in some states in the South that were used to disenfranchise blacks during the Jim Crow era (Horwitz). ... Tobin of Commentary Magazine stated in a 2012 Christian Science Monitor article, "Analogies between voter I.D. legislation and Jim Crow poll taxes are absurd. ... Poll taxes that some southern states used to suppress the vote of ex-slaves was abolished in 1964. ... In a 2011 New York Times editorial piece, it claims that "there is almost no voter fraud in America."...

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The tactics used included literacy tests, grandfather clauses, poll taxes, and just plain scaring blacks and other groups out of showing up to the polls, usually with violence. ... In the discussion about whether these laws should be allowed, there have been comparisons made between Voter ID laws and the poll taxes that were used to stop minorities from voting back in the Jim Crow era. ... We call those poll taxes.... In the Patterson case, the court upheld a law that approved "burdening voters to protect election integrity, a conclusion that seems to bless the new ID requirements," as stated ...

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In the article "Money can't buy me love" in The Economist, Washington based Russia-watcher David Satter, states that the West had a dream of "a strong, friendly Russian government shouldering its shares of the world's problems". ... Also the government had a steady tax revenue stream. ... Russia has a remarkably inefficient tax system, which has allowed widespread nonpayment of taxes. Tax revenues last year were running at about $1 billion per month (less than that of New York City), yet the government was spending $1.5 billion per month. ... The Economist article "Russia, financial ...

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Major cities such as New York, London, and Tokyo lead the list. ... Thus a new type of city has appeared. ... Such taxes and policies are what cause such huge separation in the people economically. ... The "thick" are the main global cities like London, New York and Tokyo. ... In the article "Unequal City" by Chris Hamnet he reviews the global city London in the past and the present with referencing the work of Peter Hall in "The World Cities". ...

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In 1971, a couple of those Americans, antagonistic Goldwater Republicans abhorred by Richard Nixon and what the GOP had become--socially conservative and the pusher of big government--gathered in the home of MIT graduate and founder of a new political economic classification known as the Nolan Chart, David Nolan. ... During the 1970s and 1980s, antiwar, anti-authoritism, antigovernment and anti-tax feelings came together to revive a long-stagnant political tendency." (6:6) In the following paragraphs I will discuss Libertarians stand on hot-button contemporary issues scourging the nation--ev...

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County School Board of New Kent County, Virginia, 1968 v/s The court found a "freedom of choice" plan to be inadequate because it failed to achieve desegregated schools and because it placed the burden of eliminating segregation on parents and children rather than on the government which had fostered it. ... Rodriguez, 1973 v/s The court refused to strike down the property tax as method for financing schools, holding that education was not a constitutional right, and that variations in expenditures could not be proven to be "invidiously discriminating" against a specific class of persons....

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(Smith) The first definite record of the marijuana plant in the New World dates from 1545 AD, when the Spaniards introduced it into Chile. ... (Erriod's Cannabis Vault) Marijuana was introduced into New England in 1629 and from then until after the Civil War, the marijuana plant was a major crop in North America. ... At various times in the nineteenth century, large hemp plantations flourished in Mississippi, Georgia, California, South Carolina, Nebraska, and other states, as well as on Staten Island, New York. ... (New York State Journal of Medicine) Some who smoke marijuana feel no effe...

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After the meeting, Chancellor Henry MacCracken of New York University set up a meeting with thirteen other colleges and universities to formally make changes to the college football rules. ... Times have changed however, and in the last 30 years college football coaches' salaries have risen 500% and basketball coaches' salaries have risen 400%. ... One example of a university who considers the football players employees is Northwestern University, as stated in an article written by Erik Jensen (2014). ... According to the same article written by Jensen (2014), if the college is cons...

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At one point, you could even be jailed for not complying during times of shortage in Virginia between 1763 and 1767. ... An article from the American Journal of Medicine elucidates how "Marijuana users will suddenly turn with murderous violence upon who's nearest to [them]. ... In 1937, the Marijuana Tax Act was passed by congress, the statue successfully criminalized marijuana and limited possession of the drug to individuals who paid an excise tax for certain authorized medical and industrial uses (PBS.org 2014). ...

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What is thought of as "probably the most important and the most satisfactory Act ever passed by Congress," the Judiciary Act of 1789 created for the people a system of courts that would ensure the presence of justice in the new American society. ... Often considered the decision most important to the future of America, the case dealt with the subject of a state tax on note issues of the Bank of the United States, which had been slotted in by Congress in 1816. Maryland argued in this case that the creation of the bank was the result of Congress exceeding its powers; hence, seeing that the b...

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Inmates over the age of 60 can cost three times that amount. ... In recent times some governments have sold their prisons to private enterprise as a cost-saving measure. ... One Inmate said that the number was twice as high, reported the Financial Times of London. ... Sexual Abuse: In the article "The Rape Crisis Behind Bars,"" The New York Times state that a conservative estimate is that in the United State, "more than 290,000 inmates are sexually assaulted behind bars every year."" ...

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The article The Triangle Legacy: 90 Years After Fire, Sweatshops Persist highlights the history of sweatshops in America and the continuing problems our society faces when garment manufacturers attempt to cut costs. ... The New York City Fire Department arrived minutes later to be greeted by a sidewalk filled with the bodies of the helpless victims. ... The Fair Labor Act of 1938 was one of the most poignant parts of President Theodore Roosevelt's New Deal. ... Also the companies are not required to pay import tariffs and taxes. ... At these locations, corporations can pay a minimum w...

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When developing my research I came across this cartoon from the New York Times in 1949.8 The message is clearly that coming from an American point of view it has to hold up the world through a globalisation of its ideas and way of life, in order to keep the world out of the hands of the USSR and Stalin. ... Heralding John Winthrop's famous metaphor as the new state being a "City upon a hill"9 the puritan founders have implemented an idea that the New England community would grow to become a model for the rest of humanity. ... In January 1946, Walter Lippmann, a hugely influentia...

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Probably not, unless it's "tax-and-spend liberal."" Is there a literate adult living in this country who hasn't heard or read that dull, deceptive phrase literally hundreds or even thousands of times? ... The New York Times gave it to cultural critic Janet Maslin, who mildly criticized its "insult slinging- and "sarcastic overkill- but was too awed by its thirty-six pages of footnotes to determine whether any of them were accurate. ... Meanwhile, in the Los Angeles Times "repeatedly identified by Coulter as a mainstay of the liberal media monopoly "her book's friendly ...

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Eugenics seems to have been a group of people using at times shaky genetics to spread fear and oppression of the lower classes. ... The ardent question then became, what to do with the poor and how to deal with the new immigrants that were mostly seen as less civilized then western Europeans. ... An article from 1873 about the sanitary conditions of New York City and its effects on children quoted Spencer saying "that the savage habit of exposing superfluous to parish from starvation, repulsive as it seems to the modern mind, was one method by which the human race was perfected.... The ex...

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In January of 1973, the United States Supreme Court decided on the case of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed.2d 147. The Decision made by the United States Supreme Court gave every woman a federal constitutional right to an abortion. Since that decision in 1973, the issue of abortion has been at the center of much controversy and has left many Americans divided over the issue of abortion. As the legal scholar Ronald Oworkin once said, "No judicial decision in our time has aroused as much sustained public outrage, emotion, and physical violence or as much intemperate professi...

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He cites statistics showing hospital admissions for asthma at six or more per thousand people in the South Bronx neighborhoods, and 1.8 per thousand statewide in New York. ... Kozol said in the discussion with the Children's Express New York Bureau, "Most black kids in America grow up and don't know any white people."(Children's News Express Bureau) Kozol stated in that same discussion that "New York City, which is one of the most racist cities in world, has dumped all its toxic industries in the neighborhoods where poor black and Latino children live. The ri...

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With those harbors and airports which are capable of high rates of transportation, China has the ability to transport up to 9.5 times more goods in a year than the other three mentioned countries combined. ... " (Transparency International, the New York Times) According to the Corruption Perceptions Index of 2012, published by Transparency International, China outscored all the other three democratic countries, ranking 80th in the world (the lower the number is the less corruption is within the country).  ... The government can respond to investments faster; they can give out tax cuts an...

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In fact, the Social Security Administration reported over 6.4 billion dollars in unclaimed social security taxes in 2002, according to a recent New York Times article (porter, 2005). ... In a CNN Money article entitled "Illegal Workers: Good for US Eonomy" (Isidore, 2006), Sum was quoted saying that 85.5 out of 100 low skilled workers are foreign born and that this number is a good indicator of how immigrants are displacing native American low skill workers from domestic jobs. ...

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For example, we might turn around to be just as wrong as the article of the Nacirema. ... They attend school and experience taxes, jail, and even subordination. ... According to the New York Times article, the !...

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By studying the progresses of the times, it is easy to track and gauge the fashions and people's interests in clothing. ... Because of this new development, workers could begin in a factory job immediately so as to maintain the economy. ... By watching the entertainers and their studio audiences, TV viewers could get ideas for new fashions of the times. ... Christian Dior became a worldwide success from his stunning appearance of the New Look in 1947. ... Dior presented new styles often and had a skill for presenting dramatic styles. ...

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As stated by Mike Davis, in his article called, "Sand, Fear, and Money in Dubai " he says, "Dubai is a prototype of the new post-global city, which creates appetites rather than solves problems. " In addition he mentions "Dubai has become the new global icon of ˜imagineered urbanism' an emerging dream world of conspicuous consumption and what the locals boast as ˜supreme lifestyles " (Davis). ... According to the Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai is projected to rival some of the world's rival international economic centres in, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, N...

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Chinese Economic Reform Two years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the Great Leap ...

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Two years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution which had had as their bases ...

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Napoleon Bonaparte: The Legacy of the French Revolution The debate over Napoleon's role in the French Revolution is an incredibly fierce one. On one side you have people who claim he was a tyrannical despot who destroyed civil liberties. These people argue that he crow...

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