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portion at almost 10% of the budget is allotted to Criminal Justice. In the state of Georgia we have 159 state funded prisons that house over 57,000 inmates (Ga Prison Fact Sheet). This also includes over 13,000 state employees that run these facilities (AJC Prison). Each inmate takes approximately $51 a day. This includes housing, meals and general day to day activities (Ga Prison Fact Sheet). Forth largest in the Georgia budget is for Debt Services. Debt services include the payments of the principal

For over a year now, I have heard the same slogan over and over, “Let’s Make America Great Again”. This has been the ongoing slogan for Trump throughout his campaign for president but I haven’t really seen anything that has been made great. Have you ever just stopped and looked around, and seen everything around you? Seeing people holding up signs at intersections, grocery stores, asking for help with food, gas or shelter. Have you seen the news lately talking about the weather, particularly the

Senate bill 88 states the Narcotic Treatment Programs Enforcement Act. The act has been effective since May 4, 2017. The purpose of this bill is to mandate the department of community health to implement quality and services for narcotic treatment programs. The bill set standards for narcotic treatment programs and prioritizes treatment of drug dependence pregnant women. The votes for this bill were fifty yes, two no, and three others. Each program that is trying to be implemented should consist

Heroism doesn’t include fame, it includes selflessness. “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr. People don’t have anything to gain from being a hero from others, that's what being a hero is, stepping up and giving others help with nothing to gain. An act of selflessness. Heroism is a big part of America, it’s the most famous thing that America is about, freedom, and selflessness. People fighting for

Indian Removal Act was the removal of tribes Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole nations because it was thought that Indian tribes were standing in the way of white progress, and their dream of manifest destiny. After a lot of debates in Senate on April 24, 1830, Senate vote 28 to 19 to pass the Act and later on House of Representatives voted 102 to 97 then, president, Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act because the land west of the Mississippi was unsuitable for farming and white

After the southern state stated that they wanted both political and military action on removing Native American Indians off the southern states, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian removal act of 1830. They were forced to move and concede to U.S. law or leave their homelands, which led to the Trail of Tears. When the Indians left their homeland, they suffered a long and painful journey that they had to endure in order to be able to reach their new home in the west which is now known as, Oklahoma

context of the war between Georgia and Abkhazia for Abkhazian separation. The Estonian Ivo helps Ahmed and Nika set aside their ethnic differences to realize that they are both human beings. This film shows the Soviet Legacies on ethnic conflict within the current Post-Soviet space. Tangerines opens on Ivo, an Estonian living in Abkhazia is one of two men left in his village. Most Estonians returned to Estonia after the war in Abkhazia broke out. Abkhazia is a region in Georgia that wanted to rejoin

How do you think the Native Americans were affected as colonies expanded into different parts of the nowadays known United States? The Native Americans were very much affected as colonies started to expand into the U.S. Many of the natives were tortured, killed, imprisoned, and much more. This essay will provide many unique and different times in history when Native Americans were being affected by expanding colonies. Let’s start off early with Christopher Columbus One of the first effects felt

the Cherokees were educated because they were able to write their own newspapers and elected leaders to a representative government. Since the state of Georgia did not recognize their government structure, they forwarded their complaint to the federal government. Around 1830’s the Cherokee won their case, which is Treaty of New Echota, but Georgia still did not want to accept the decision, even though, they won their case at the Supreme Court, there was no support from the President {US HISTORY}.

Throughout all of early American history, there has been a constant battle between Native Americans and the earliest European settlers. There were many diverse, and complex views when approaching this subject matter; however, in 1830 President Andrew Jackson passed the Indian Removal Act, which forced Indians to relocate from their homelands in south east to land west of the Mississippi river. This granted the U.S. a large portion of new rich land, unfortunately it was at the expense of the Native