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              The Central Inteligence Agency      The CIA is one of the U.S. foreign inteligency agencies, responsible for getting and analyzing information about foreign government, corporations, individuals, and reporting such information to the various branches of the U.S. government. The State Department's Bureau or inteligence and reserch and theDefense Department'sdefense inteligence agency comprise the other two. Its headquarters

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    community they served. The detectives investigated illegal gambling operations and corruption. Looking into modern policing dangers in the job is a primary concern and how to improve measures for the safety of the officers. The Taser is a less than lethal weapon used to stop individuals without fatally wounding them. The use of modern technology in today’s policing has become widespread in securing Americas borders and every day policing duties. In policing there are applications

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    Ypres, Vimy Ridge, Marne, Cambria, Somme, Verdun, and Gallipoli. The combination of machine guns and barbed wire was responsible for the largest number of casualties during the First World War. Machine guns The machine gun is perhaps the signature weapon of trench warfare, with the image of ranks of advancing infantry being scythed down by the withering hail of bullets. The Germans embraced the machine gun from the outset - in 1904, every regiment was equipped with one machine gun - and the machine

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    Rochina. This is the name of Rio de Janeiro’s most infamous favela, where you have to “pay the cops to arrest criminals.” Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the second most populous city in Brazil and the sixth largest city in America; the city is known for holding hundreds of favelas where low-income residents reside. According to the findings of a 2010 census, about 22% of 6 million residents live in the favelas of Brazil (Hurrell).These favelas are known for their brutality and crime rate among

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    An ongoing and highly debated social problem that continues to grow in our society today is the gun control epidemic. Gun violence in the United States is a national epidemic. Many people take advantage of guns using and manipulating the tool with hardly any thought. Countless lives have been lost due to fact that people have been able to obtain firearms legally or illegally and have taken the notion to be judge, jury and executioner in holding ones live in their hands. This is a common issue that

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    In its modern form, the police department was put into place in response to the increase in crime in order to protect the citizens of the United States of America safe and maintain order. However, nowadays we see a police force that is continually in conflict with the people they are meant to protect and serve. Violence is escalating all over the country and police officers are the crossfire of it all, but unlike the citizens involved, the cops seem to escaping the situation free of penalty[POLICE

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    female and 84% were committed against a boyfriend or girlfriend. The victims were usually White (74%) and between the ages of 25 and 54 (65.7%). (Bureau of Justice, 2005) The violence is usually committed by using a weapon or a body part as a weapon, whereas firearms are the most lethal. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reported 80% of all referrals for firearm-related domestic violence were male (96%), under the age of 40 (67%), and White (72%) or non-Hispanic (95%) (Bureau

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    nationalism is good for a nation because it shows loyalty and unity of the citizens to one’s nation, but nationalism also has its negative effects to the citizens because sometime some people would be so proud of their country that they would think less of the other countries, and with this mentality of superiority to others often cause conflicts between nation. Nationalism is truly a belief to look out for because of its volatile nature, from being good for a nation

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    Why would you have the right to own something which is lethal and used to kill human beings? I am not sure whether America's government cares about their citizen’s protection. They created seatbelt laws to protect their lives. The Environmental protection agency (EPA) laws purpose is to protect their citizen's

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    Clostridium Botulism

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    All around us are microorganisms that are too small to be seen with the human eye. These organisms are also found on the skin and in the internal organs of humans. There are microbes that help with the digestion of food and protect us and other organisms from harm. Others, however, are very deadly. One such organism is botulism. This deadly assassin waits hiding until conditions are optimal to appear, with symptoms that may be misdiagnosed as other medical disorders. It all started with a sausage

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