... benefit from offshore drilling are the oil companies and their stock holders, including those in Washington whose vested interest in big oil has been ubiquitously and extensively lobbied for. In the meantime, oil companies continue to receive government subsidies, and their profits continue to grow to record highs as does the price of gas for the average consumer. Perhaps having faith in the politicians who rally for more drilling, when not long ... ago they were promising action against "America's addiction to oil," is like putting a drug addict in charge of a rehab center. The prevail...

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... not provide strong arguments and because Hawthorne's writing is too sophisticated to be thrown aside as "dirty". The complaints filed against this book as part of the school curriculum did not start for nearly a century after it was released. This provided time for the book to become so strongly ingrained in our society that it became a part of American history, custom, and tradition. It gave an image of ... colonial America that truly exposed the hardships that the colonists faced. The arguments for the banning of the book were never strong enough to be supported anyway. I found it int...

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... that were used in the play, I did get to see a reconstructed version of the Salem Village Meeting House, the building inside of which all the witch trials took place. Another direct connection between the town of today and The Crucible was the Salem Witch Trials Memorial because the memorial had stone benches that had the names of victims to the trials carved into them. A few of the characters from the play that were easily ... recognizable were John Proctor, Rebecca Nurse and Sarah Good. The Spirit of America gave me the opportunity to learn about exactly what says. America. Throughout...

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... . No one will ever forget that day. It was a day of horrifying events. September 11 is when terrorists hijacked an airplane and flew the airplane into the two twin towers. That was a terrorist attack that effected every person in our country. We have seen a lot of people working together to try to prevent terrorism happening again but we need to work harder and ... will go towards hiring new people to work as security. They can also get more security devices to help protect the people that are at this event. (Borenstein, page 1). This will reduce any more terrorism that could happen in t...

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... alcohol as a psychoactive drug will be interesting to monitor over the next quarter century. While an all-too-brief glimpse of modern psychoactive drug use in the United States, this author hopes to illustrate the popularity and pervasiveness of the aforementioned drugs. Touching upon the two most common psychoactive drugs in the nation at present, this essay barely scratches the surface of America's cursory "drug problem." Though some statistics ... indicate a supposed decline in use, drugs play much too large a role and hold much ... ...

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... , but it had become more widespread as the deterioration continued throughout early Europe. European countries throughout these periods had begun to see social and economic calamity, and the political state of their countries in mayhem. The countries imports and exports from the new world in America soon became less abundant, which resulted in an economic recession. The population was rapidly expanding and it had grown ... by almost twenty five million, which was the first major recovery of the population since the Black Death. Before long however, by about ... . This turned it into a he...

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... able to prevent natural disasters. One such example is the Irish Potato Famine of 1847. The famine was the result of the failure of a crop upon which the majority of Irish were dependant, the potato. The potato blight, was a brand new disease. The blight, Phytphthora infestans in scientific terms, is a fungal infestation that thrives in mild damp conditions. This disease first infects the leaves and stalks of a plant, and then ... -knowing, he would have detected the disease in the crop and been able to prevent the spread of this disease. Poverty and disease ran rampant during this time....

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... Inequality Increasing in America? As long as the capitalist economy dominates throughout the world, the debate on socioeconomic inequality will always be a heated one. Economist Krugman in his debate says that organized labor and the greed of corporations, especially CEO's lead to a large inequality in America. Krugman points to Palo Alto, California where a strict contrast in socioeconomic conditions exists. On the other side of the debate is ... non-employment activities such as leisure and family activities. As a whole, our nation has obviously increased its wealth dramatically over...

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... a dream of their own, individual needs. Anger and violence are two more themes that run throughout the story. All of the characters are angry in at least one part in the book. They all deal with their anger in their own ways. Many resort to violence. Every single character in the book experiences loneliness. All of the characters travel alone, except George and Lennie, because they have each other. Loneliness was an important ... theme in the time of America's depression. Jobs where hard to find, so people kept themselves to themselves and travelled America to find work, wherever they c...

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The Alcoholic Republic In the book "The Alcoholic Republic", written by W. J. Rorabaugh, expresses the impact of alcoholism on the first 50 years of American History. . From judges, doctors, women, and children, they all had a taste of the blissful intoxication that America binged on from 1790 to 1840. Young America was addicted to ... hard pure spirits, whiskey, rum, gin, and brandy, which to those who know alcohol where 45% alcohol, and in the ... the British and the tyranny they enforced. So, in a keen sense the "good creature" sprouted the idea of revolution and independence. A thing such...

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... from parents trying to protect their kids from what they had gone through as children. Also more mothers are working today than ever before. That leaves more children in daycare centers and off the streets. To say that children today are overprotected is an overstatement. I do believe that they are more protected today, but as we go on each generation will be ... have four to five assistant teachers surrounding it. All daycare centers have shaded windows, with some kind of screening outside of them. They have keypads to get in the door, and the combination is changed every month. The fa...

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... had at least taken one puff of a cigarette in their entire lives. Smoking is killing a lot of people. In Asia about 50,000 teenagers start smoking every day. About two-thirds of the people who are under twenty-five will start smoking in China. More than half of the children who are seven to seven-teen smoke in the Philippines. They say that there needs to be ... better control of the tobacco. Everywhere except a few countries in Asia have some of the world's weakest tobacco control laws. Many different things affect ... the rate of smoking in teens. Certain anti-smoking ads have more ....

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... The courts usually ruled on the side of the Mexican, but they dragged the trial on until the Mexican was penniless and forced to sell the land or give up the fight. There were other barriers placed to keep the Mexican man down. Hispanics were paid less the whites doing the same work. In the gold rush, Anglos operated the machines while the Mexican man did dangerous manual work in the mines. The life ... of a White man versus that of a Mexican man was much higher. Mexicans were also subjected to the foreign Miners ... Tax, dwindling their already lowered wages. Some Hispanics avoided th...

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Turn of the Century Music During the turn of the last century, many types of music flourished. This is when people first starting having phonographs and gramophones to use in their homes. Now they could listen to the music that they wanted, when they wanted to. Sound engineers first used something called the "acoustical process" for sound recording. During this process, a singer, or whoever was being ... recorded would stand about 4 inches from the horn, and they would step back when they hit ... high notes. In 1925, they started using electric equipment to record music. In about 1900 - 1910...

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... my own two cents (ok, perhaps it'll be more like a cent and a half, but hey...). I am firmly of the opinion that the legalization of drugs would cure a lot of America's social ills. To some conservative people, this seems counter-intuitive, but in reality, it's really quite simple. This simple fact makes it all seem clear (to me, at least): prohibition doesn't work ... that prohibition didn't work with alchohol. We've never even bothered to try prohibiting the drugs nicotine or caffeine, probably because they've never been seen as "moral threats". We accept these drugs in society, with ...

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... . These patterns exist in all literary forms. I will attempt in this summary to propose the suggestion that American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald 91896-1940) projected the American dream in his novels THE GREAT GATSBT and TENDER IS THE NIGHT. We could better understand his writings if we place it in the context of the events that took place in America then, what is called the jazz age, the generation in flames or the lost generation, Fitzgerald ... became the spokesman of all this, jazz being the lively music coming from the west, the pursuit of pleasure, excessive drinking ... ...

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... can face kidney stones too. On top of the high intake of proteins this diet adds the omission of carbohydrates/starchy foods which naturally results in more frequent urination. Now you are losing function of kidneys, possibly have kidney stones, and dehydrated. This is not something I agree with. There are many other health risks I could go into. So the health risks plus the inability for people to be ... able to mold their lives around this strict diet plan makes me really dislike the Paleo Diet. However there ... is one plus to the way the Paleo diet works in my opinion. Unlike most ...

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... Chicago will be theirs. So yes, at the end Jurgis did get what he wanted and he had to work very hard for it, as well. Upton Sinclair's objective was to show the real working situation in Chicago during that period of time. Sinclair shows the failure of capitalism throughout the whole book, the author showed what happened to Jurgis as well ... as his whole family because of the poor working conditions (capitalism) in factories such as the meat packing industry. The author, was successful at portraying the ... idea of capitalism, he not only showed the hazard of factory work on the main...

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... time. The former mayor of New York, Rudolph Giuliani, shared our grief but he also helped to unify New York with his strong will and concern. President George W. Bush has proven himself to be a very capable and courageous leader at both a national and international level. . His calm and confident demeanor provides a pillar of strength for all the people of America. He speaks in the venacular ... , which is the language of the common man so that others can relate to what he is saying. He is clear and direct when he describes his courses of action. During ... life would go on. His retalia...

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... 's individuals have been processed and judged by other members of that society, therefore classifying them. Everyone has been taught to classify and judge people based solely on appearance, despite the phrase, "can't judge a book by its cover." These classifications often include, "what's normal" and "what's socially acceptable." There are no guidelines to what is normal or acceptable. There would be less social ... their seizures, which today, are very treatable and often a common occurrence for some individuals. These people that are so "crazy" are actually just as sane as the people t...

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... for these people. The passage was over crowed, bodies lay side by side, in layers like a pack of cookies. Some of the people were so crowed that they where dieing from hyperventilation. To prepare for the supply shortage that was to come, the old and priceless looking people where chained together and thrown overboard with a large net of stones, like trash. The women where raped and fondled. The ... crewmen would toss the indentured servitude around like a ... groups of people traveled the same way. Crowed in the bottom of the ship like sardines. They both drank and ate the same food. Th...

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... see from Paul's concern and desire to ease the pain of the Frenchman's family that he is feeling the pain of war. Paul is also seeing the future pain of the French man's family as he saw in Kemmerich's mother when he lied to her about how Kemmerich had died. The war destroys to these young men's lives. The characters are being affected because they are seeing death and ... 's only life and family that they know now is war, their comrades, and how to survive and avoid death by chance. The plot of the book helps to visualize in the beginning, their killing the enemy, not people or individu...

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... not at all. If someone is attacking you and you can't call the cops, you should able to fight for yourself (Martin S. etc.). Most people would call the police but the time in between from when you call the police and the time they actually get to you can be long or short. You protect ... yourself as much as you need to until the cops get there. That is ... why Stand Your Ground laws should exist because cops aren't always around to protect you and for ... abuse their power. Yes, trained cops should protect citizens because that is what they are there for, but many cases have happened ...

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... ). Our country is a large melting pot consisting of many different cultures, religions, and ethnicities. Buddhism, becoming popular in the 1950's has been increasing its numbers and presence in America. "By 1997 more than a thousand Buddhist meditation and practice centers were listed in the new edition of The Complete Guide to Buddhist America" (Eck 149). Los Angeles holds many Buddhists, but Buddhism is spread across America ... also centers in Elk Rapids, Michigan, and Omaha, Nebraska. No part of the United States today is untouched bye the presence of this form of Buddhism based in me...

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... is made manifest by the use of the quasi-religious term of "desecration" in legislative attempts to protect the flag. You cannot realistically desecrate a purely secular and neutral object. On the other hand are those who, although perhaps appalled by the burning of an American flag, nevertheless regard such acts as forms of expression and speech - thus, protected by the First Amendment. For this reason they ... actual guarantees of free speech, what is lost from sight is the fact that neither of them are ultimately the real issue. As the 1960s counter-culture slogan went, "The issue is...

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