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    The difference between two political parties of the Democratic and Republican are having major issues. This two parties dominated Americans political area, but there are some differences in their ideas of social issues. There is many social difference between the two political parties, but the main difference of this three social issues are making this two political parties oppose. First, let's see that the most republican heat that “gay marriage”. As a Republican Party badly follow

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    Society was affected by religion in a negative way the majority of the time, but most specifically to another specific group of people. For example, a Christian group would most likely make sure to change the perspective of a different individual who has a different belief. The new religion would force him to see the benefits of Christianity and how the individual has to convert their religion

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    expected to attend religious ceremonies throughout each day. The amount of effort placed into their particular religion reflects the importance it held over the colonists and their societies. Although many factors affected British North America, religion impacted the colonies through its initial formation and political elements. As religion proved indispensable throughout history, it was especially decisive in the initial development of the British colonies. Religious groups, such as the Pilgrims

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    by prosperity, leisure, technological advances, consumerism and major shifts toward modern values. The decade witnessed a titanic struggle between an old and a new America. Things such as immigration, race, alcohol, evolution, gender politics, and sexual morality all became major cultural battlefields during the 1920s. Wets battled drys, religious modernists battled religious fundamentalists, and urban ethnics battled the Ku Klux Klan. The contrast between the new and changing attitudes and traditional

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    continent torn by civil and religious conflicts, Cameroon is one of the very few African countries that enjoy ethnic and religious harmony, since its independence in 1960. Although surrounded by many armed conflicts in neighboring Nigeria, Chad and Central African Republic, Cameroonians have not experienced any civil war, major ethnic or religious clashes, nor any rebellion since their independence. The Cameroonian population consists of more than 200 distinct ethnic groups, many different religions

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    In the reading from Terror in the Mind of God, the author Mark Juergensmeyer aims to explain to the reader what religious terrorism is and dig deeper into why violence and religion seem to be tied, searching for “how terror could be convinced in the mind of God”. The chapters we read for class had a main focus of what terrorism is, what it is not, who is committing these acts of terrorism, and what is they are trying to achieve through the acts of violence. In the last chapter of our reading, Juergensmeyer

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    discrimination before achieving integration and dynamically constructed group identities while integrating. Before uncovering group identities, though, we must define so-called social construction. Upon arrival, native-born Americans, especially an intolerant group that calls itself nativist, characterize immigrants as admirable or inferior based on observed national, physiognomic, economic, religious, and linguistic traits. In response, groups selectively curated cultural practices within the prevalent socio-historical

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    Indeed, the conviction of religion gives humans the ability to stand against anyone and anything thus making religious groups a force to reckon. Religion is a symbol that acts to “establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivation in men formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality

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    The 1980’s are typically viewed as being a great decade for the United States; the Cold War came to an end, the economy experienced major growths under President Reagan, and the United States was starting to emerge as the sole world power whose actions with regards to foreign policy, economics, and social culture would influence how the rest of the world would react in the decades that followed. However, the 1980’s also consisted of the AIDS epidemic. The AIDS epidemic was first identified in the

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    Humans are living longer. The average life expectancy in the world is now 70 years old and it is growing (Roser 2016). Human life extension is the addition of life with medical technologies like artificial life, gene therapy, and medication. Now humans are studying how to drastically extend human life 120 years and farther. Radical life extension has been occurring throughout history without people knowing. This has happened through the advancement in the study of medicine. With these advancements

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