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    once said, “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” If we are to learn about historical lessons from California and south Texas, then it is advisable to understand that the anti-immigrant nativist movement continues on its track, then there will be a national backlash by Latinos who feel threatened by the harshness of the debate. Already in California and New Mexico Latinos have become a majority of the population and there are sizeable minorities is numerous other states.

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    established is created in order to ensure that all systems have a say in what policies are created to manage universities, with a Board of Regents directing over the state’s higher education. Both California and Louisiana’s systems operate differently, but have some similarities as well. California According to Kleiman and Gittell, political culture is “a combination of history and social factors,” and it has an impact on “state policies, including higher education” (in Brown et al., 2010, pp

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    They changed the United States politics when it came to the creation of the Know-Nothing Party, Tammany Hall, and the passing of Anti-immigrant laws. An anti- immigrant political party emerged called the Know-Nothing Party in 1855. It was composed of mainly poor American born citizens who feared the immigrants because they challenged them for jobs. The Know-Nothing party guaranteed that they would be able to “purify” American politics. The oath that they took stated that they could

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    government and decided to use his platform to expose this and make positive change occur. Lincoln hailed from a wealthy family and became immersed in radical politics. He attended the university of California and then went to study with “ Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig and with Jean-Martin Charcot in Paris” () This is where he developed his love for radical politics and exposing the truth about corruption. He took up journalism in 1892, and began working in New York City,

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    The goals of Common Cause affect the concept of equality by their numerous actions to the people. Equality is a huge factor in our nation and we wish to keep that name strong and powerful. Equality comes from the thought of moral equality, that everyone should be treated equally. Equal life changes there should be no differences based on peoples actions. Having equal concerns for peoples needs, helping one another when in need. But unfortunately there is a lot of inequality developing in countries

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    organizations representing the interests of workers all over the US. The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor was an improvement of the earlier Los Angeles Council of Labor and the formation enabled involvement in regional and national politics after the emergence of politics as an important influence of labor movements(Dean et al., 2009). Initially, in the late 19th century, labor organizations were not as organized as they are today. In Los Angeles, there was a federation of labor parties that was officially

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    post-secondary education in hopes to continues those course at a college level. After doing research on many different colleges based on their psychology and criminology courses I have chosen Stanford, Florida state University, or University of California. Psychology is the study of behavior and mind and cognitive processes. Criminology is an area of psychology that focuses on the study of crimes and their causes, effects, and social impact. After doing my research on I found that Stanford University’s

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    The Millennial Marijuana Movement When Millennials Rule: The Reshaping of America, is a book by David and Jack Cahn that goes in depth on pressing issues in America such as gun control, abortion, and even marijuana. They touch on college debt as well as environmental protection and equality. They are brilliant young men that do a great job of pointing out the millennial standpoint on these various views and do well describing what millennials can do about these issues. A key point in this book is

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    Richard Nixon and the Election of 1969      Richard Nixon, was born on January 9th, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California. Fifty-six years after he was born he became the 37th president of the United States. In the election Nixon only defeated the democratic candidate, Hubert Humphrey, by about 500,000 in the popular vote. Nixon is considered one of the most controversial politicians of the twentieth century. He used his political experience, his background, the communist scare of the late forties

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    What can the government do to get more people involved in politics; why not end the electoral colleges? In America during election mouth, many U.S citizens state that their votes do not matter; consequently, half the population that is able to vote do not show up to vote. According to Gregory Wallace, CNN Politics Video Producer explain that during 2016, “Voter turnout this year dipped to nearly its lowest point in two decades.” What Wallace mean by this is that “126 million votes already counted

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