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    history of the United States, the right to vote is one of the most important privileges and rights Americans have. Voting has always been very significant in America because many people were not able to vote in the past. With movements, bills, and protests more and more people earned the right to vote. America has come a long way in this democratic process. However, voting in the 21st century is not as important to people as it was in the past. Low voter turnout in the United States is due to poor

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    Alcoholism and Resources. Alcoholism is a growing problem in the United states. About eighteen million people in the U.S. have this disorder. Alcoholism is a serious problem that can be helped if a person receives treatment. Throughout the United States there are many resources like the Farley center whose goal is to help Alcoholics recover and get back into society. Places like the Farley center offer different treatment plans depending on the severity of a given person’s situation, for instance

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    Immigrants. what is considered to be an immigrant to the united states? It 's a person that crosses the border illegally and that isn 't allowed to be part of the unites states unless they have permission to be here with a Visa. Society has given these people so many racial labels that 's beyond hurtful names they 're referred as wetbacks, Alien, and illegally immigrant, but what 's the right way to call these people without referring to them with all these racial characteristic and names that society

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    the others in the society, receive unequal treatment and regard themselves as objects of collective discrimination (Akhtar, 2014). Even though the United States is multiethnic country and the number of minorities is growing, the treatment of minorities is still discriminatory. The unequal treatments is traumatic to the minorities in the United States as well as anywhere else. The research proves, that the power relations in the society may encourage the members of minorities to engage in everyday

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    Reflective The government of the United States of America is founded upon the United States Constitution. This document was written by our forefathers in order to create a working democracy with hopes of being a nation in developing lives unable to convert into sovereignty. Basic rights established for people where powers are given to them. This power to the people is their voice. The electoral system, as we know it today, is called the right to vote. The people of this country fought for and

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    that it will help get a fresh start to pay their debts or by creating a repayment plan. Bankruptcy laws also protect financially troubled businesses. “The history of bankruptcy law in the United States traces back to 1800, after its reception from English law. As the legal regime for bankruptcy in the United States developed, it moved from a system which viewed bankruptcy as a quasi-criminal act, to one focused on solving and repaying debts for people and businesses suffering heavy losses.” Why is

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    United States of America United States is one of the countries with the greatest diversity in the world, from its geography to the demographic composition; It is impossible to speak of a unique feature in this scenario geographic, racial, ethnic and cultural wealth. The influx of immigrants, who come from the most remote regions of the planet or the neighboring nations has been continuous and constant for 150 years . For example, in 2013 they lived around 41.3 million immigrants in the United States

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    September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda launched a terrorist attack on the United States of America. The attack provoked the United States in retaliation. The U.S. was after al-Qaeda’s leader Osama bin Laden. The Iraq and Afghanistan war became the longest war in United States history. Music was being pumped out left and right from artist to pay their respects to the soldiers, and men and women who lost their lives through the war. The music was made special because no matter what genre of music was produced

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    Nicolina Cassisi February 12th, 2015 Ms. Grene AP Language and Composition, Set 5 The United States and the Philippines. Syria, Iraq, Iran, China, Korea, Russia, Mexico and last but not least, Liberia are places that the United States of America finds itself involved in. Globalization is the process in which societies and cultures integrate, appropriate, and learn from others. It is a natural process and occurs every time in history when one culture tries to dominate another one. In some contexts

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    Founding Fathers wrote the US Constitution implementing each of the Amendments, it was in hopes of truly making the United States “the land of the free and home of the brave”. This was for everyone including minorities. At the time of making the laws of America, the founding fathers never knew that the overwhelming issues of slavery and unequal rights would have overtaken the United States of America, even so much that it still exists today. Even leaders who also had hopes of seeing equality in America

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