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    in “Hoovervilles” . The soup kitchens and the help efforts that were in place during the depression were named after the president of the time. The struggles did not get any better until the start of the CCC, The Civilian Conservation Corp. The CCC or otherwise known as the Civilian Conservation Corp was a group, in the beginning there were about 250,000 young men that joined but towards the end of the program there was a total of 3 million enrollees! The young men were paid and well feed to work

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    Training is an art that requires not the ability to perform tasks, but the capacity to explain how and why things are done. For this reason, many police forces employ civilian trainers or develop internal training departments. According to international policing standards, instructors must be familiar with current training strategies and able to use them to enhance learning. Instruction is deemed so crucial that levels of certification should be established for instructors, valid for a set period

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    The New Deal policies were created by Franklin D. Roosevelt and his people who are known as the “New Dealers”. They were created in hopes that they would bring relief, recovery, and reform to America and help bring America out of the depression. This flawed plan that many historians believe was largely a success brought America another rescission and caused the unemployment rate to rise. To believe that the New Deal was largely a success is to overlook its many failures and negative impact on America

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    The United States keeps no comprehensive database of civilians killed by law enforcement and has no law requiring them to report excessive or deadly force. Without a way of knowing how many people the police kill every day, the corruption and the death count will continue to rise, and seems it has been for quite some time. It is a very difficult challenge to document and prove police brutality given current laws and lack there of. The only number that is kept by any United States agency is the F

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    In the argument “Clash of Civilians” written by Samuel Huntington, he states that Western conflicts arose between nation states and ideologies. During the cold war the First, Second, and Third Worlds were divided by their status. Post Cold War it no longer mattered. International policies shift from Western being the main focus to focusing on the West and non-Western civilizations. The differences in civilization when it comes to their culture, customs, religion, ethnicity, have been there for centuries

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    The stock market crash of 1929 marked the start of the Great Depression. President Hoover thought the problem would blow over by itself. In the process of not doing anything to help, the situation slowly became more severe, and soon, about 25% of the workforce was unemployed. In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected into the presidency, promising to end the Great Depression. To do so, he implemented many different bills that were turned into laws, and were eventually put into effect. He passed

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    When President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected in 1932, he took office in one of the worst economic crises in American history. The preceding three years were three years of significant hardship that took a toll on the nation’s morale. He won the presidency in a landslide vote over the fairly conservative incumbent Herbert Hoover showing the American people were desperate for changes that could restore the nation to economic prosperity seen in the 1920’s. Once he was inaugurated, he quickly jumped

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    Causes Of The New Deal

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    which included many Federal Agencies, otherwise known as Alphabet Soup, that focused on addressing the roots of the Great Depression and ways to fix them. The main agencies of the New Deal were the: Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), National Recovery Administration (NRA), Social Security Administration (SSA), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and Works Progress Administration (WPA). The New Deal was a successful plan, which included many federal agencies;

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    regulations placed upon them by the Germans. The greatest risk faced by Polish civilians was death, be it in a death camp or in the cities and towns, where German forces managed to kill thousands of innocent, unlucky Poles. Documenting these events were writers William L. Shirer, an American journalist, in his Berlin Diary and Lucyna B. Radlo, a teenage girl from Poland, in her novel Between Two Evils. The experiences of Polish civilians during the German occupation and the Poles’ transition from near-normalcy

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    without sufficient supervision and control. Recognizing the demand for a military but the undoubted need for control so as not to allow for it to become too powerful, the Founders responded with the creation and notion of political civilian control of the military. Civilian control leaves strategic decision making in the hands of political leadership as opposed to military officers maintaining balance. As in todays era we find President Barack Obama, a political figurehead, and his orders for military

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