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    have rights and privilege, which protect us from the government. For that reason, American citizens have the responsibilities of respect and exercise our civil rights. Our Nation and the WA State both have laws that protect our rights further our state constitution supports freedom and rights. On account of, I will talk over the specific similarities and differences between rights and responsibilities as a citizen of WA State and the United States of America. For instance, the specific rights and

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    Civil Liberties vs. Civil Rights The two sequences are very similar in which they both deal with the freedom that comes with being an American Citizen. Civil liberties concern the rights that we have. They tell us what we are at liberty to do and what specific rights we have. Civil rights concern discrimination in place such as school, work and access to public places. Both are important to know and understand because though the government has control, we still have many rights that a lot of people don’t

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    The worst part about a new semester is purchasing new textbooks. And most of the time, the “required” textbook does not even get opened. Growing up from the beginning of our education, we were taught that all the information that one needs to know about a certain subject is in the textbook. However, a textbook is written by an author, who can give a very different interpretation on history. Since the textbook is under their publishment, they have the right to include or exclude certain things. Referring

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    Voting Rights

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    four weeks and you're released, no big deal. But then November rolls around, it's time to elect a new president and the poll workers inform you that you can't participate because you've served jail time. Is this fair? There are many sides to the argument, whether a convicted felon should have the right to vote after they have served time. After serving their time, prisoners should not have their right to vote taken away from them because that is dehumanizing, harmful to society, and cuts out the political

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    Lane The New Jim Crow 11/3/17 Please answer each essay in approximately 450 to 500 words. 1. The Old Jim Crow was color-minded. The New Jim Crow claims itself as colorblinded. Show how the New Jim Crow is color-minded and leads to greater unjust consequences. Include in your answer how the New Jim Crow is more dangerous than the Old Jim Crow. In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, author Michelle Alexander claims that the new racial caste system (New Jim Crow)

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    Throughout America’s history people have fought for more rights and freedoms. Civil rights and civil liberties have been at the center of these arguments. Whether the argument was to have more rights or have our freedoms enforced people have been using civil rights and civil liberties as their rationale. American history has been defined by the many rights and freedoms the people have been granted. Civil liberties are defined as rights given to individuals that cannot be taken away because they

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    had been constantly ignoring their rights and forcing taxes upon the colonies. This set an outroar in the colonies, especially in Massachusetts. Parliament had created new laws that limited the Massachusetts-bay in shipping and landing goods and also an act that for a better regulation government in this providence. All of the colonists deemed this as “Impolitic, unjust, and cruel, as well as unconstitutional, and most dangerous and destructive of American rights”(Declaration and Resolves, para. 3)

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    collaboration, and media fluencies. Once the citizen is provided with these fluencies, he/ she will have digital access. Factors of digital citizenship are, digital literacy, digital communication, digital commerce, digital etiquette, digital law, digital rights and responsibilities, digital security and finally, digital health and wellness. In order to have digital access, one must have digital literacy. Digital access is the “full electronic participation in society”.

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    The Second Red Scare Essay

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    The McCarthy era, which generally spanned from 1947 to 1957, brought to the forefront of American politics the question of civil rights. At issue were controversies about both First Amendment rights to assembly and free speech and Fifth Amendment rights to due process and freedom from self-incrimination. Anti-Communist actions often involved restrictions on these rights, and heading the anti-Communist movement was the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC). This committee, which consisted

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    Feminist and contemporary liberal critics of marriage and family life appeal to individual rights, liberty, consent, equality, and love as they seek to dismantle and undermine commitment to marriage and family life. However, some scholars would propose that the actions and words of America’s Founders show how to reconcile marriage and family life with the same modern ideas of equality, individual rights, and

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