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    How Grace White became a Partisan Grace White is a 20 year old woman who lives in poland and is hiding from the nazis and jews.Ever since she a little girl she wanted to be a partisan because of her father.He was a partisan himself and he would always tell her stories about the missions he would go on and how you would get to travel lots of places, but he also had told her the bad part of being a partisan and that it was very bloody and a dangerous place to be working but she didn't let that change

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    to this, I will only cover the specifically Jewish Partisan fighters. The movements are divided into two groups of Eastern and Western Fighters. Partisans fought in almost every European country including but not limited to Belgium, Poland, Russia, France, Italy, Greece, and Lithuania. “A partisan is a member of an organized body of fighters who attack or harass an enemy, especially within occupied territory; a guerrilla.” The Jewish partisans were mostly teenagers, both male and female, of which

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    Partisan Elections      In the following essay I will be talking about the disadvantages and advantages of partisan elections for state politics. I will also examine the last couple year’s election results and costs. Finally, I will discuss if partisanship made a difference in the vote, as well as if a judge should be decided by partisan vote. In the next couple paragraphs I will talk more specifically about these topics.      First, let’s talk

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    Partisan Elections In the following essay I will be talking about the disadvantages and advantages of partisan elections for state politics. I will also examine the last couple year's election results and costs. Finally, I will discuss if partisanship made a difference in the vote, as well as if a judge should be decided by partisan vote. In the next couple paragraphs I will talk more specifically about these topics. First, let's talk about the advantages of partisan elections compared to

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    there were organized movements of resistance which took place in the ghettos and in the forests outside of the cities. Thousands of Jews came together in what were known as partisan groups to sabotage German military operations and help other Jews to escape from the ghettos. Harold Werner was a member of one of these partisan groups who wrote a memoir entitled Fighting Back: a Memoir of Jewish Resistance in WWII. He decided to write this memoir in part as a response to his children’s questions about

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    one could ask how exactly does partisanship affect politics today. Jim Douglas does an excellent job of showing how partisanship is affecting our government and why it is important to stop it. He does this in his speech, "Beyond Partisanship." "Partisan rhetoric is abundant, while solutions are scarce. The result is a Washington [or political system] that is broken"(Douglas 104). Here, Douglas tells his audience that instead of looking for compromises or achieving results in politics partisanship

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    into the nearby woods and began to organize into partisan groups. On August 6, 1942, the Germans began the final liquidation of Zhetel. Sam, Sonias husband, was rounded up in a mass sweep of the town and locked together with hundreds of other Jews in the town's synagogue. In the middle of all the confusion, he and a few others hid for about two days and nights. Once it was quiet, they escaped into the woods and joined up with the Jewish Partisans. Meanwhile Sonia hid with her two children in a hiding

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    categorized into three different spots. The categories are Satirical news, clickbait, and Partisan bias articles. Satirical news or satire is a type of parody presented in a format typical of mainstream journalism. According to merriam-webster clickbait is “something (such as a headline) designed to make readers want to click on a hyperlink especially when the link leads to content of dubious value or interest”. Partisan bias articles are articles made by an adherent or supporter of a person, group, and

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    Partisan Policing

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    functioned through the entire country. All these Issues were noticed and changes within police departments began to take place. Before any changes were implemented American Police Departments fell directly under the influence of each state specific partisan government. Fortunately, America was able to stray away from the corruptions of how police officers were selected into their position because of their political preferences and also, how departments functioned, and other exploitations from law enforcement

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    Partisan Stratification

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    Partisan identification refers to the political party with which an individual identifies and political socialization can be defined as the process by which people form their ideas about politics (Hershey 2016, pg. 127). Both of these terms are important for understanding how individuals identify with the parties they do and how in doing so can affect both the perception of the candidate and the level of participation. Political socialization often times begins during childhood; most parents do

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