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    World War I significantly influenced the modern world in which all humanity subsists. The United States of America was altered internally and externally by the Great War. Shadowing World War I America was distinguished as a supreme nation holding great power; subsequently the nation would be redefined politically, economically, and socially. Preceding America’s entry into World War I, the country claimed autonomy wanting no affiliations with the European war; conversely, America was supplying war

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    Teenagers have an unhealthy and dangerous obsession with automobiles which, has increased and in some cases even become deadly, which can be accredited to the production of movies featuring teenagers and their cars. The teenagers of America look up to the actors in these movies as role models, so when they see characters in movies running away into an unrealistic happy ending and stunts that are done by professional stunt doubles, they want to do the same. These movies promote reckless behavior in

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    Black Panthers were villanized by our government. Unlike the SLNC the Panthers wanted nothing to do with finding a nonviolent solution. Unlike the SLNC they felt you fight violence with violence. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, headed by J. Edgar Hoover made it a priority to disband the Panthers. Yet the Johnson administration allowed the harassment of the Panthers; but, the Klu Klux were allowed to flourish, march in protest—proclaiming White Supremacy and all the while committing hate crimes

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    Director Stanley Nelson’s The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution attempts to document the history of the notorious Black Panthers from the mid 1960s to about the mid 1970s. The documentary admirably tries to showcase the pros and cons of the bigger than life movement. I think Nelson is largely able to accomplish this with his use of first hand footage. The way the footage was woven into the narrative made statistics and facts more real for me, because I see the children being feed, the illustrations

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    The UCR ( Uniform Crime Reports) is a collection of data initiated in 1924 by the director of the Bureau of Investigations (Today known as the FBI) J. Edgar Hoover on crimes known to police departments.Currently approximately 17,000 city, county and state law enforcement agencies which cover 95% of the total population of the United States, voluntarily contribute information on crimes referenced by the reports. The agencies represent over 254 million U.S.inhabitants, with a higher representation

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    In 1964, Dr. Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King, Junior. Of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) accepts his Nobel Peace Prize. Four black miss walking down stairs in the Brummagem, Alabama 16th Street Baptist Church service are killed by a bomb calorimeter set by the Ku Klux Klan. Annie Henry Robert Edward Lee ward Cooper attempts to registry to right to vote in Selma, Alabama but is prevented by the White River registrar. King meets with Chairwoman Lyndon B. Lyndon Baines Andrew

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    The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords detailed the dynamic history of African-American media in the United States. Newspapers created community amongst Black Americans by connecting stories of Black life across the country, and allowed Black people the freedom to express themselves politically and socially through their own words, as opposed to White people telling them how they should feel. The story of the Black press as newspaper print faded before the end of the century, but Black press as

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    It has been more than seventy years since the release of George Orwell’s 1984, a novel that imparts a lesson on the consequences of government overreach. However, today that novel reads like an exposé of government surveillance. Privacy and national security are two ideas competing for value on a balance; if one is more highly valued, the other carries less weight. Government desire to bolster national security by spying on its own citizens-- even the law abiding ones-- is what leads to the inverse

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    The Death Penalty in America Essay

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    The Death Penalty in America      The law of God is, "Thou Shalt Not Kill" (Bible 79 ), and every system of ethics and rules of our society echoes that law. For decades, state and federal leaders have struggled with opposing views of the death penalty. Many minds have endured this difficult question-Who says it is right to take another human's life because of an act that he/she committed?     The death penalty is the most severe sentence that can be administered to a criminal (Capital

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    To summarize, David Corn is a firm believer in the lone assassin—Oswald—conspiracy and has the belief structure that Oswald's motive for killing Kennedy was because of Kennedy's plot to kill Cuban's prime minister Fidel Castro—someone Oswald followed and supported. Correspondingly, Max Holland also believes Oswald was the lone assassin but his motive for Kennedy's assassination differed from David Corn's conclusion. The conspiracy that Oswald was the lone shooter is amongst many historians. Like

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