Often times our leaders will attempt to hide information in order to prevent hysteria among the people creating a mask over what is truly happening. ... However, in his speech, Obama addressed the fourth standard by taking away the blame from Muslims when he said, "Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic'. ... This quote by Huxley is very similar to when Obama said ISIS is a "Jayvee team" (which means a team that isn't very good) and that he believed there was a clear "distinction between the capacity and reach of a Bin Laden network that ...

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Another was mutual aid, working together to make the society as a whole greater. ... So then what was a social Darwinist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century? ... Spencer did make an impact in the United States though, as evident through the writings of the Social Science Review a periodical with editors that were mainly Spencerians. ... Sumner's essay on the concentration of wealth shows his political economist side with a few technical terms of Darwin thrown in the mix. The essay would have enraged the working masses as it gave millionaire business owners an air of omnip...

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The purpose of this essay is to show the evolution of restrictive policies on immigration during the first decades of the 20th century and the social and cultural context in which they developed. ... For the first time, Federal law proscribed entry of an ethnic working group on the premise that it endangered the good order of certain localities. ... The vast majority who come to our shores come on their own initiative and have some understanding as to what they want and a definite object in view.... Gezea Kende told Wilson that many Hungarians considered him an enemy, referring to passages ...

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"7 This is because he mentions the importance of freedom, something I will draw back to the constitution and explain the relevance of in this essay. ... For Americans what claims their pride is the declaration of the independence. ... "17 Interestingly however, in Mila Versteeg and Emily Zakin's essay they dispute whether the constitution really is exceptional after all. ... "18 However what is important for this essay is the proof that both this inflated sense of uniqueness (which leads to exceptionalism) exists and also that it extends from the constitution. ... How Exc...

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The following essay will start by presenting how a failed state should be defined. ... The final part is a conclusion of the themes discussed throughout this essay. ... Statehood can also be defined as a human community that can manage to legitimately use its physical force within a given territory (Coase 1960; North 1990), while Olson (2000) argues that the concept of the state is more focused on the relationship between the state and its citizen, namely the "social contract ", in which individuals would surrender some of their personal freedom to make a social contract with a sovereign gove...

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Cultivated for at least 5,000 years and serving as one of the oldest crops not grown for food, the marijuana plant began its life in China where the tissues of the hemp stalk were used to weave clothing, rope, and paper; seeds were pressed to make oil for paints and varnish; and dried seeds were used as food for canaries and other songbirds. ... Pilgrims used the plant's fibers to make clothing and rope as well, and the cultivation of the crop helped to boost the local shipbuilding industry. ... This plant was also widely used to make sails and rigging for ships. ... What few people fail ...

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What is in debate however and the question I will address in the essay is its origins and the extent to which certain historical events influenced the rise of capitalism. ... In this essay, I will examine the actions of both the European nations and later on the newly independent United States to distinguish if the transatlantic slave trade was the main contributor to the development of a capitalist modernity by looking at four major developments in the social and economic structure of the world from 1440-1870. ... "12 Nicknamed the "Pearl of the Antilles" due to it being the richest...

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There are many valid arguments for those on both sides of the issue as to what legal age is most appropriate to encourage the safe consumption of alcohol. ... While lowering traffic fatalities is a good thing, a lowered drinking age would not and should not soften drunk driving penalties. ... If the argument that drinking at 18 is dangerous, then what about the argument that war is also too dangerous for an 18 year old? ... It seems reasonable that if at 18 one is mature enough to exercise the right to vote one can also should good judgment when consuming alcohol. ... This fact makes it feel...

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In this essay, I will examine the various ways in which terrorism has taken hold in the United States, and how the word has been used in a way that has changed our society. ... And I'm not supporting or rejecting the idea that more gun-control laws are needed; what's more important here is the desire to make changes to long-established practices in the name of terrorism. ... It makes absolutely no sense to allow Iran even to be a member of the U.N., let alone to make a decision on gun rules. ... " Doesn't that about fall into the category of what happened during Hiroshima?...

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This extended research essay will look at the countering arguments over whether the ban on performance-enhancing drugs should remain in place or whether it would be a benefit to the sporting community as a whole if this prohibition were lifted in sporting associations. ... They question the right of others to interfere with their decision to achieve their goals because what they are engaging in is a potential health risk. ... The WADA (2003) in their official report state, "Anti-doping programs seek to preserve what is intrinsically valuable about sport.... Allison states that in sports such...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Executive Summary This essay consists of a comparative study between two leaders. ... Introduction Good leaders are those who build teams and get results across a variety of situations (Hughes, Ginnett and Curphy, 2011). ... Based on the above comparison, we may perceive that Steve Jobs and Barack Obama are automatically great leaders, however, based on the interactional framework for analysis proposed by Hughes; Ginnett & Curphy (2012), You cannot make an intelligent decision about the leader's actions by looking at the behavior itself. ...

• Word Count: 2576
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• Grade Level: High School

In order to create the safest, healthiest environment for its citizens, the federal and state governments, health professionals and local communities need to participate in a reform that will help protect people from violent crimes, make mental health services more accessible and reduce stigma surround mental illness. ... These sources answer the question "what should be done?... In Johnson's article he quotes North Carolina Representative Virginia Foxx saying "New laws will do us no good if they burden responsible gun owners and small businesses but fail to stop sick people before ...

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The fact that terror is now anchored in religion makes it necessary for nations to develop policies so as to advance the state of security across the world and also ensure that terrorists are dealt with even when they cross international borders (Vidino, 2008). ... This essay discusses the threat of radical Islam in the Middle East and why the US should worry over the ability of domestic terrorists to collaborate with terrorists from the Middle East. ... On African soil, the humiliation of families by the Boko Haram after parading hundreds of kidnapped school girls in Nigeria continues to le...

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This essay will give a brief insight into cross-cultural marketing and attempt to examine four cross-cultural issues that concern international marketing research: Measurement Unreliability; Equivalence; EMIC versus ETIC; and Ethnocentricity. ... However, this is by no means to suggest that all marketers should focus on cultural differences only to adjust marketing programs to make them accepted by the consumers in various markets. ... These factors may or may not exist in the targeted markets; a successful marketer is able to make use of those already existent factors while creat...

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Therefore the victim are being imprisoned and ends up doing more work while enslaved than what was put toward the original sum of money borrowed. ... Most children are not as lucky, like Chaga's friend Bokhari who died from what is probably a mixture of dehydration, malnutrition, and exhaustion, while in captivity. ... There are a number of common deceptions for luring these victims into sex trafficking, including: a promise of a good job in another country, a false marriage proposal turned into a bondage situation, being sold into the sex trade by parents, husbands, boyfriends and being ...

• Word Count: 5222
• Approx Pages: 21
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• Grade Level: High School

Previous regional independence movements such as the Greek revolt in the Ottoman Empire, division, and division in the Latin American political map, and the British-French Crimean triumph leading to an interest in redrawing Europe along cultural differences, all conspired to make for a time of upheaval and uncertainty about the basis of the nation-state. ...

• Word Count: 7511
• Approx Pages: 30
• Grade Level: High School