America was founded on diversity, such as ethnicity and lifestyle, as it was founded by immigrants. ... And the fact that "minority individuals are more likely to live in extended family homes than Whites and in many ways more likely to help out their aging parents, grandparents, adult children, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, and other kin"(Gerstel and Sarkisian 48) contradicts the "Myth of the Model Family," as it shuns these minority family styles and favors nuclear families. ... Hezel, a Jesuit priest, summarizes that "the old formula 'education eq...

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Because this country was founded in large part by those who fled various kinds of political and religious persecution, it has become America's historical responsibility to serve as an advocate of liberty, freedom and human rights. ... In fact, the United States is a nation founded on immigrants. ... Entertainers from the Marx Brothers to Desi Arnaz, Elizabeth Taylor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson, came from around the world to be part of the entertainment industry in United States. ... The United States was founded o...

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(Sales 2) This freshman pledge merely wanted to be accepted by his older brothers in a struggle to prove that he could drink as much as them. ... In few circumstances, including "lesson learning", has this found to be true. ...

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"With so many of their brothers, sons and fathers away from war, black women increasingly found work outside the laundry and domestic service which had previously had been their lot."6 Black men and women are not only increased in numbers via employment, but union membership increased as well. ...

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"With so many of their brothers, sons and fathers away from war, black women increasingly found work outside the laundry and domestic service which had previously had been their lot."6 Black men and women are not only increased in numbers via employment, but union membership increased as well. ...

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(Curriculum) This means that from the time capitol punishment has been reinstated for every seven people executed there has been one person found innocent. ... A recent study by Columbia University Law School found that two thirds of all capitol crime contained serious errors. ...

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The final protection of personal privacy is implied in the First Amendment that calls for the "freedom of association courts have found that this implies the right to keep one's associations private" (Gottfried 10). ... One such Supreme Court ruling found that "the police may legally search, without a warrant, trash or garbage that individuals leave out for collection" ("Privacy of Garbage"). ...

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America is the most well armed nation in the world, with "American citizens owning about 270 million of the world's 875 million firearms" (MacInnis). Indeed, this is more than a quarter of the world's registered firearms. The reason why Americans own so many guns is because of the Second Amendment, ...

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Ignatiev Book Review I found Noel Ignatiev's book, How the Irish became white, confusing in the way information was presented, it seemed as if it was not interwoven tightly enough with each sub-thesis presented for the individual chapters. ... Many Irish were in support of the blacks gaining freedom in American, they considered them to be their brothers in a fight from oppression. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate