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    The Drug War Of America

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    The drug war in America has shaped our society into what we know it as today, the war has so far been a failure where hundreds of millions of dollars, workforce, and policies have only served to maintain the same rates of usage as those in the 1970’s. When the drugs hit America, they hit hard. Overwhelmed by drugs showing up in almost every town, America decided to declare war. Drugs first surfaced in the late 1880’s with Opium. Opium at the time was the most in demand drug choice. Opium comes from

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    President Richard Nixon officially created the Environmental Protection Agency, otherwise noted as the EPA, in the spring of 1970. However, concern for the environment and its protection began long before the government regulatory body. In years prior, environmentalism had planted its roots as a growing focus of many American citizens. Before the focus on the environment as we know it, there were multiple individuals who stressed the importance of nature and brought attention to the degradation of

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    Bristol, and Atlanta, Dale won his first Winston Cup points Championship. Dale was the first and only driver in all of Nascar Winston Cup to follow a Rookie of the Year title with a Nascar Winston Cup Championship the next year. In 1981, Dale left for Richard Childress Racing, after Osterland sold his team to J.d. Stacy, and Dale finished the season

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    The Life and Career of Ronald Reagan Colorado State University – Global Campus HST 300 Jared Faurschou Introduction Ronald Wilson Reagan, elected as the 40th President of the United States of America in 1980. Became one of the most beloved and revered President in modern times. He’s most known for bringing the end to the Cold War and helping bring an end to major communist activities in the world. There were several of Reagan’s policies that had an impact on ending the Cold War. In order

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    Carpenters are the second largest group with more than 1.3 million carpenters in the workforce in the United States. (Carpenters 481). Carpentry has had a great impact on the construction industry, such as using hand and power tools to cut, shape, and combine wood, metal, and plastics. Carpentry is the technique of working various different types of woods, metals, and plastics, shaping those products into works art. A carpenter constructs and repairs building frameworks and structures. Carpenters

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    may disagree with. There are three topics that will be discussed by them including religion, luck, and belief itself, and I have a counter argument that describes why it is necessary to have strange beliefs such as religion. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins provides an argument against strange beliefs, and he uses many books to prove each point that he makes. He tells his view saying he is an agnostic of any God, but only because he cannot disprove what does not exist. He gives credit to religious

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    Wagner, The Art Of Life

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    Mark Duley Instructor Jones Music 150 12 November 2015 Wagner, the Art of Life May 22, 1813, Leipzig, Modern-Day Germany; a boy is born to a baker’s daughter and clerk. Unbeknownst to them, this boy would go on to challenge the very idea of musical, its relation to life, and its role as an art. Wagner will come into his age and our modern age defined as many things; racist, genius, poet, philosopher, politician, and musician. So what is Wagner, why should we care and how can someone who died before

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    Under the Reagan Doctrine, the CIA trained and helped the Contras, an anti-communist guerrilla force in Nicaragua, who were battling against the Sandinistas. The Boland Amendment was passed in which the Department of Defense and the CIA were restricted from operating in Nicaragua. . McFarlane believed the sale of arms would enhance relations between the U.S. and Iran, and increase the influence of the U.S. in the Middle East, in especial Lebanon. Reagan was driven by seven Americans who were being

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    . Broadway which was the king of entertainment for such along time became replaced by the musical once the country became settled and well appointed after the war. Musicals became part of the American culture and also increased its boundary lines past the Theatre District. Technology also had a major impact on the musical, because it made it easier for folks to see their favorite Broadway performers right from their own living rooms. One of the reasons why I think the musical replaced Broadway is

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    ADX Supermax, which is located in Florence, Colorado .Americas highest security prison. The prison holds about 450 men from across the country in solitary confinement units. But also holds some of the world’s most dangerous terrorists .They include Richard Reid, the attempted shoe bomber; Zacarias Moussaoui, the 20th, 9/11 hijacker; and al-Qaeda terrorists behind the bombing of the World Trade Centre in 1993 and the bombing of the US embassies in Africa. But they all pose a threat, But to consider that

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