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    Trump is the exact opposite of what this country needs and what the majority wants. As previously noted, Friedman used logos, or claims of fact, to support and further his argument. He factually summarized the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the North American security envelope, and events of 9/11. He detailed Trump’s actions, which have been reported repeatedly by various news sources. For example, various media outlets reported that Trump made disparaging remarks about Judge Robart, calling him a “so-called

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    Tiu 1 Garrett Tiu Business Law 2A Ms. Mellegard September 10, 2015 The Ethical, the Unethical, and the Law Bungie, Inc. is a videogame industry company that creates virtual reality worlds through multiple platforms. The company was founded in 1991 by Alex Seropian when his father encouraged him to find a job shortly after he graduated which is then used to sell a game called “Operation Desert Storm” in the Macintosh platforms. The game had sold 2500 copies and after that success Seropian wanted

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    “30 Little Turtles” an article by Thomas L. Friedman. Is about the positive encounter Friedman experiences. In receiving a standing ovation “from a roomful of indian 20 year olds”(Friedman) by simply reading “ a paragraph”. During a proper canadian pronunciation teaching, in helping minimize and mask indian accents; In future call center operators. Friedman's article remains optimistic in its entirety. Believing there are many benefits to outsourcing, for it creates prosperity. However, in Stephanie

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    Tuesday’s with Morrie, by Mitch Albom, taught me many valuable lessons. I read it as a part of my summer reading for sophomore year. This book taught me that forgiveness is a good quality to have. It discussed the idea of arbitrating your own rules instead of adhering to those that society fabricates. A third lesson from this book is that while money is valuable, it cannot truly buy happiness. Thanks to Mitch Albom, the concept of forgiving someone instead of holding a grudge has been

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    In 1963, she did a project called“American rites, manners, and customs” she did this using the technique of square formating. This project was a collection of photos she took on the streets of New York after she quit the commercial photography business. This project gained Arbus a Guggenheim

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    Congress, and the general public of the United States; which will be further elaborated later in the paper. By the time the Holocaust had come into play America was already filled with people who had a prejudice against the Jewish, believing that all Jews were greedy and dishonest, found in the article The Us and the Holocaust Project Group: Antisemitism. Although full of antisemitism, the U.S. also had a Jewish supportive community. Those who supported the Jewish believed

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    a Jewish poet Emma Lazarus, a decedent of the first Jews to arrive in the North American colonies in the 1650s. For centuries Jewish people have lived in a great deal of places far from their ancestral home in the Middle East, always searching for a home. Like a lot of religious minorities, Jews saw America as a special place where they could be a part of creating something new and embraced the opportunity. Today there are around 6 million Jews living in the United States, but three centuries ago

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    approximately 9 million Jewish adults in America. Of those, 5.3 million are Jewish because they practice the Jewish religion or who have a Jewish parent and consider themselves Jewish. Non-hispanic blacks make up 2% of that population. (A Portrait of Jewish Americans) Blacks constitute such a small percentage of the Jewish population that they are often considered to be obviously “not Jewish”. This was the experience of Rabbi Shlomo ben Levy.In an article entitled, “Who are we? Where did we come from? How many

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    explain the impact of the Jewish community on the American culture at the turn of the 20th century. The author introduced the current behavior of the Jews in the United States. She also outlined the influence of the Jewish community on the culture, on the society, on the politics and on the finance of America and she described the social factors and character traits that facilitated the achievement of such a huge success which was assigned to the Jews in the every sphere of life. With this diploma

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    Amongst these reside approximately 5.4 million Jews, accounting for about 1.4% of the American population. However, are these figures and statistics enough to accurately depict what it means to be Jewish in America? By religious belief, Jewish people trace their origin all the way back to Abraham, who spread the message of the Oneness of God. However, the documented origin of Judaism started with the conquest of Joshua in 1250 B.C. The presence of Jews in

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