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    The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is a country brimming with violence, rape, and abuse. Living in such a fragile country is difficult, and as a result, the Congolese struggle to be happy. In the play Ruined by Lynn Nottage, Mama Nadi is a business woman who runs a brothel in the midst of a brutal civil war. Her business provides men with alcohol, music, and beautiful women to have sex with. The play uncovers the struggle of Mama Nadi, the working women, their loved ones, and the Congolese. It

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    With the first two presidents, George Washington (1789-1797) and John Adams (1797-1801), the government set the tone of the Federalists, whose works were drafted and adopted the Constitution. Now in front of them had to develop the details of government. Gathered in the spring of 1789, Congress enacted the first customs duties on imported goods, and then proceeded to create and populate the various positions in the executive and the judiciary. The War Department was transferred unchanged from the

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    Alcohol abuse was a serious problem facing the United States in the early 1800s, and the Temperance Movement resulted in a decrease of alcohol consumption. “In the 1870s, liquor was a rapidly growing $95-million industry with more than 200,000 retail outlets serving the United States. From 1866 to 1873, per capita consumption of beer increased from 4.4 to 7 U.S. gallons and production almost doubled, and distilled spirits were consumed at a rate of over 2 U.S. gallons per person” (Kyvig and Stecker

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    Sin Tax in the Philippines

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    SIN TAX (HOUSE BILL 5727) SHOULD BE LAGALIZED IN THE REPUBLIC OF PHILIPPINES (+) In partial fulfillment of the requirements Of the subject PHIN11A Submitted by: Ceejay Martinez Abby Padua Merene, Myka Kim Villareal, Peter James On October 3, 2012 To: Ms. Violeta Tabin PREMISES 1. Smoking cigars and drinking liquors are bad to health. 2. Number of accidents will be lessen. 3. Lessen the number of users. 4. It may cause air pollution. 5. It may stop the production of cigars and liquors

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    Risks are the number of negative life events or experiences in a person’s lifetime, which is a means of recognizing clients as high or low risk. Risk is a factor that influences or increases the probability of the onset of stress or negative results following adverse events. In this case study, the client grew up with socioeconomic disadvantages. That affected the time that they were able to devote to Manny when they first moved to this country. They were living in an overcrowded apartment and were

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    The Ku Klux Klan, an anti-radical and anti-immigrant organization, was founded in 1866 by ex-Confederate soldiers of the civil war. At that time the Republic party was working on creating political equality for the blacks. Since the organization was against the policies of the Republic Party, the Klan dissolved during the years of Reconstruction, but it became prominent again in the 1920s. From there on the Klan did not only target blacks, but they also widen their denouncement towards Catholics

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    Roman eggs were commonly eaten, but were much smaller than modern eggs, and were brought in large amounts. For a beverage, he brought a clay cask of must, a juice made from fresh grapes stored in such a way as to become alcoholic quickly, but maintain a low alcoholic content. http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq6.html#ancientrome http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/233472.html Darius I brought fare attributed to several social classes/levels of ancient Egypt, consisting of baked

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    holding any form of power in society. Thus, the Irish immigrants were mainly targeted because of their religion. Discrimination of the Irish based on religion demonstrates that British prejudices about the Irish and Catholics carried over into the New Republic. In the United States, like most immigrants, the Irish were doing all the low pay, manual, and unprofessional jobs. The nativists were worried that the Irish immigrants were tarnishing the image of urbanized country America was establishing at the

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    They have to produce less than six million barrels to be considered a craft brewery. Also from a financial point there is a difference to a mass producing beer brewery, an alcoholic industry can only have a maximum of 25% of the brewery. If they own more than this they are considered mass producing brewery because the alcoholic industry is considered to own the craft brewery. Furthermore it has to have “at least 50% of its volume in either all malt beers or in beers which use adjuncts to enhance

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    the mountain road in a Jeep (303). However, Trujillo ended up making these women martyrs, helping bring about his eventual downfall. In their death, the Mirabal sisters helped bring an end to the dictatorship in what is now known as the Dominican Republic, and also proved that it is the women, albeit behind the scenes, that are infinitely more

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