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    prominent difference is that people have become more knowledgeable of it through the rising amount of news coverage on the topic, social media, and the many video recordings taken by citizens or police cameras that have arisen from the advancement of cell phones with videoing capabilities. Attention to the violence against African-Americans by the police was really started after the beating of Rodney King in 1991 and only continued to grow into and during, this, the twenty-first century (Dreier). Due to

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    THE EFFECTS OF WORLD WAR I ON POLITICAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES As you read in Chapter 21 “An Emerging World Power,” the government clamped down hard on those who dissented from the war and on those who held radical or unpopular opinions. In this assignment you will explore how political and ethnic minorities were treated during and after World War I. Definition: A “minority” is anyone who is not like or does not agree with the majority. It does not have to mean an ethnic or racial minority

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    according to the law, any e-mail that is sent using the company equipment, the company has the right to read and inspect its content, thus these email are not private (Doak, 2013). Technology has made it easier for companies to track employee emails, phone calls and movements. An article by “The Week,” states that a survey done by the American Management Association, “66 percent of U.S. companies monitor their employees’ internet use, 45 percent log keystrokes, and 43 percent tract employee emails.”

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    if the victim is not physically assaulted. Definition Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place over digital devices like cell phones, computers, and tablets. Social media is a form of electronic communication through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other contents. Anti-bullying is unwanted negative behavior, verbal

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    My parents gave me a choice, I could be free to experience and explore the internet, or I would be monitored and protected from everything I saw. As in my parents see what I see, and I see what they want me to see. Instinctively I took this as an insult, did they not trust me, was my mother trying to smother me? Truthfully, they were just trying to look out for me and try helicopter parenting, opposing from their usually lenient style of parenting. As we had a discussion on my presence on the internet

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    strings of whip instead of one. Sometimes it will have razor sharp objects embedded in its strings for maximum effect to rip flesh from bone(Corrections in America,page 8). Flogging went out of style when the 8th Amendment went in the Constitution banning cruel

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    Bans on Smoking in Public Areas

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    Imagine all of the people that die in accidents such as car crashes, fires, falls, and poisoning each year. If you add all of these together and then multiply that number by four, you get the number of people that die because of smoking each year! Smoking is the leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. Each year more than 480,000 people die because of smoking. This is just one of the many reasons why I believe that cigarette smoking should be banned in public areas. I will argue this point

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    important issues. But, technology also accounts for brain and mental health damage, weight gain, and a negative impact on school grades. Is there a way to truly know the impact of technology and is it Whether it’s social media, television shows, or cell phones there, is a significant chance that a teenager has access to it. Believe or not, technology has a tremendous influence on the mental state of young adults. Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh conducted a study to examine the true effects

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    A highly controversial topic today is gun control. Should there be more regulations or are there already enough? Throughout our history we have used guns for sport, survival, general fun, as well as, to protect us from harm. Guns can be unsafe if used improperly, but that shouldn’t take away our right to own a gun. We live in America where we have the second amendment which states we have the right to bear arms. It is a basic human right in the United States of America to be able to go and buy a

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    surprisingly enough, Republican rhetoric has been quite different, emphasizing a potential national security risk from refugees. President and businessman Donald Trump said Syrian refugees could be “the greatest Trojan horse of all time,” and he urges banning them all. Jeb Bush, former Florida governor being a bit less obnoxious says, “We all have sympathies for people who have been uprooted. But we have a duty to protect our country as well.” Many people including Republican Ethan Newlin say things like

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