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    Based on the reading, the Bill of Rights play a pivotal role in the succesfullnes of the Constitution. The Bill of Rights allows citizens to practice their freedom of religion, speech, and freedom of the press. Consequently, these freedoms guaranteed to us under the Constitution, has had both positive and negative effects on the country. The unalienable rights given to us has aided in formulating the opinion of America being seen as the land of promises and opportunities.Therefore, while that

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    backgrounds, ethnicities, and cultures, they merged together like a raging tsunami. They screamed at the top of our lungs, not to draw attention but to be heard. In front of Capitol, she realized they were all pushing for the same rights, for the right to health care and bodily rights. Coming from a household of extreme conservatives, Planned Parenthood was ingrained into her head as an abortion factory. Her brain was drilled with homophobic, racist, and discriminatory messages as far back as she remembered

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    In Marie Sarita Gaytan’s “From Sombreros to Sincronizadas,” she argues that the authenticity of Mexican restaurants has become a social construct. Different types of Mexican restaurants are considered more authentic because of a stereotype we created in the early 1970’s. After its creation, people refused to accept anything but the “ideal” Mexican restaurant and would raise their noses to anything different from their ideas of authentic Mexican food. She states that to have any type of real Mexican

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    In America, we have many rights, including the rights to free speech, peaceful protest, voting, and to bear arms. Although they are important, I believe that there is one right that is more important than any of these. That is our right to religious freedom. It is the first right guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, and the First Amendment. It gives us the right to practice any religion we choose, or, if we would like, to practice no religion at all. This is a gift, which we are all stewards of, and

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    are estimated to be around 30 thousand police surfing the web, covering up websites the government does not want you looking up. Things such as just searching up “human rights” will bring you to a page that says you cannot access, and this is mainly the cause of communism. Explaining my topic: Today most people have the right to read whatever they want and also to write whatever they want, all with little to no law enforcement. So why should the Internet be anything other? The Internet should

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    Animal Rights A highly popularized and debated topic in our modern society is the promotion of animal equality or animal rights. Many people, philosophers included, have a wide range of opinions on this topic. Two of the philosophers studied in class who discussed animal rights were Peter Singer and Carl Cohen. Singer, who has the more extreme view on animal rights, believes that all animals are equal and that the limit of sentience is the only defensible boundary of concern for the interest

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    Voting Rights In America

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    In my opinion, each citizen has a civic and moral duty to vote. It is also a requirement, a responsibility, an obligation. It’s part of a bigger picture. I may speak passionately about voting rights, that’s only because as a naturalized citizen, I believe that I have been given this privilege. For me, it is certainly an honor to be able to exercise my free will to vote in this country. Conversely, being able to vote reminds me of how privileged I am in comparison to other countries, whose citizens

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    America's gifts to my generation are our freedom, our soldiers, and the promise of our security. Without these, America would be nothing like it is today. However, perhaps the biggest gift we have received is that of pride for our land of liberty and its people. Two of the defining offerings of America are freedom and our soldiers. Without liberty and democracy, America would have nothing for which to stand. Without soldiers fighting to uphold that liberty, we could not stand. The United States

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    Civil rights play a vital role in every society. The rights protect citizens from violation by the regime, social organizations as well as the private individuals. They allow individuals to take part in the civil and political life of a society without being discriminated or left out. The citizens are also assured of their freedom of religion, assembly, speech, thought, and movement. However, some states tend to deny its citizens these freedoms by use of either force of arms or by frequent vilification

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    Why Do We Lose Our Way

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    founding of this nation, we have been blessed with freedom, with protection and with privileges. In establishing this country, our Founding Fathers purposely set in place laws and dictations, granting us both as a nation and as individuals, liberty and rights to defend our independence. They were created with untainted intent as to their purpose and usage. But this nation, its people, have come to the point where we have lost virtually all respect, and take most everything for granted. I believe, we’ve

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