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    America as the New Rome In World Cultures my freshman year, we learned about the zeitgeist theory. This theory says that as a culture passes from the dominant world culture to a subsidiary culture, they pass on their knowledge and glory to their successor. Zeitgeist is actually a German term, meaning “time ghost,” signifying that the ghost, or soul, of a culture is passed through time. Currently, America is the dominant culture in the world, and more and more we are noticing the soul of

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    Native-American Racism in America When European exploration erupted the Spanish and the French were the first to come to the Americas. The French landed in the north, whist the Spanish landed in what is now Mexico. The French were not interested in the search for gold after realizing that where they were at it in the north it didn’t have any. Whereas in the south with the Spanish the Spaniards were interested in gold. Due to the fact that both nations were interested in two different things this

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    The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s paved a way towards a more racially harmonious America. Two famous men during this movement for the black community were Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Two very different men with two very different ideologies and two very different strategies towards equality. One was credited as the “Father of the Civil Rights Movement” while another one was a “hostile extremist” who encouraged violence only for self-defense. Both men made an impact on civil

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    The novel of Anzia Yezierska Bread Givers talks about a Jewish family who immigrated to America and lived in Hester Street in the lower east side of New York. The Smolinsky family lived in starvation, the ones who financially support the family were the daughters rather than the father. As a Jewish father, Reb Smolinsky, does not work because he is focuses all his time on reading his holy books and demanding his daughter’s wages. Shaena Smolinsky is the mother who is always stressed about the poverty

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    talking about Andrew Jackson, the seventh president, presidency and how it compares to current president Donald Trump. I believe we can assess a president through both their policies and actions. The policies will let people know or understand what the president believes in. Their actions let us know their personality and how they carry themselves. You can tell a lot by a person’s actions. Anyone can say they’re going to do something, but someone that does what they say shows honesty. Andrew Jackson

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    The Irish people left Ireland and immigrated to America to enjoy a better life, get away from the poverty and starvation that they were faced with in Ireland due to the potato famine. They face all kinds of discrimination and were forced to take the worst types of jobs, but they never gave up and kept fighting for their freedom. The Irish were brave, courageous, and hardworking and made it possible for all Irish to live happy and free lives in America. The Irish immigrated to the United States

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    35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy gave his inaugural speech on January 20th, 1961. In this speech, Mr. Kennedy addresses all the people in America in an emotional and logical sense in an attempt to provide hope and give a good impression of what his presidency wishes to bring during the next four years. To maintain a conversational tone and convey his message, while at the same time giving the American people a sense of hopefulness, Mr. Kennedy uses various rhetorical devices that

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    Jefferson was elected to president. There was a tie between Jefferson and Burr with 73 electoral votes a piece and the committee chose Jefferson to be the next president and Burr would be the vice president. The Republicans and Jefferson thought that America was going back to the ways of Britain. Citizens was working for the government and not the government working for the citizens.

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    One of the most death-defying acts that occur across the whole globe are gangs. These gangs travel coast to coast trying to kidnap, rob, murder, deal drugs, and even cause atrocities. One of the biggest problems plaguing South America are these gang related issues. Nobody is attempting to stop these gangs due to their vast amount of power. In fact, Donald Trump, and the United States are making an effort to deport all of the MS-13 members and get them out of the country. Otherwise, nobody is trying

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    Growing up everyone is told that drugs are bad for you time and time again. Now being a child you don't really understand why, but you respect the authority regardless.  Many remember being told this relentlessly through their childhood as well as their journey through the educational system.  But as people got older they realize that people will still use drugs even though it's illegal.  Who could ever  understand why a person would go against the law and jeopardize their life to abuse a drug?  The

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