... , a local New Mexico rancher, Mac Brazel, while riding out in the morning to check his sheep after a night of intense thunderstorms, discovered a considerable amount of unusual debris. It had created a shallow gouge several hundred feet long and was scattered over a large area nearly a mile long. Reportedly, some of the debris had strange physical properties. After taking a few pieces to show ... his neighbors, Floyd and Loretta Proctor, Brazel drove into Roswell and contacted the sheriff, George Wilcox (Sobel, 92). Sheriff Wilcox notified authorities at ... other UFO sightings. This cr...

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... individuals driven by thirst for knowledge and truth, who will journey upwards toward the light and ultimately are able to see the true forms of things. The allegory reinforces the argument that although we see the images the shadows cast on the wall, we do not actually see them. Plato draws from this, that our senses(sight) can not be trusted in observation and concludes that reason is ... way to achieve knowledge is through reflection of the forms, not by observations and experience. Aristotle's move away from the eternal forms and towards the observation and experiences of the senses...

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... Peace prize along with Edward Snowden . This shows whistleblowers benefit americans and everyone worldwide, along with proving that americans appreciate when someone leaks secret government documents . Many people argue wikileaks is harmful to the United States . They claim these government documents are private for a reason . Simply because other countries don't need to know what we are doing. When reporters ... from executing their unlawful ways. Most people would want to know what their government is trying to keep secret from them . Thus spawning the reason for sites such as wikile...

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... be charged with a misdemeanor crime. Instead they were charged under the USA Patriot Act of felonies carrying multi-year prison terms on conviction. The bail commissioner accused the protesters of "serious crimes, given the times we live in." Several hundred, and perhaps more, people have been secretly detained by the government since September 11th 2001. This raises questions about depriving people ... of fundamental civil liberties including imprisonment without probable cause, interference with the right to counsel and threats of ... after proving in open court that there was probabl...

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... a similar number of people were wounded. That night, the Japanese emperor, Hirohito, said "The time has come, when we must bear the unbearable- (Harris-Adler 430). That was the successful result of the secret government installation called the Manhattan Project. The American victory over Japan in World War II was a direct result of the government's excellent tactics in keeping the installation a secret, working through and conducting espionage against other countries, and ... named Oak Ridge(Cohen 63). Moreover, they Kalala 3 built a third secret city in Washington, called Hanford, to h...

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... public meetings, and roughly 40 percent less engaged in political parties" (Democratic Debate, 73). Since a strong civil society means that more people are actively involved in their communities and have the chance to discuss politics more often than not, a decrease in this strength results in less people identifying with their communities and taking less of an interest in outside matters, such ... because more voices will be expressed and heard in fuller democratic debate which results in stronger policies. It is no secret that our low voter turnout stems mainly from the fact that low-...

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... Osama Bin Laden. This situation is often referred to as "the War on Terror." It is no secret that the U.S. has had a habit of going to war in the past and when analyzing these past wars it is important to look at the effects during and after the wars. The results of both World Wars show that not only did America ... , "Built in 1985, it was formerly the headquarters of the junk-bond firm Drexel Burnham Lambert, which contributed to the Savings and Loans collapse, prompting the $500-billion taxpayer-underwritten bailout of the latter 1980s. At the time of its destruction, it exclusively h...

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... military age were also drafted into service. Tens of thousands wore the uniform of the Turkish armed forces. But when the war went badly, the Turkish high command turned its ire upon the Armenian men in arms. For the purpose of the undeclared and secret war against the Armenians, the men in uniform were selected as the first group from the Armenian population for extermination. Their disposal was critical in assuring that ... requires more than administrators. It needs implementers. And a plan for genocide requires contingents which will carry out the aims of the program for exterminati...

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... - between two kinds of evil, between "excess- and "insufficiency-, Aristotle points out in "Nichomach's Ethics-. That's the mean, as soon as vice transgresses the border of due in both its actions and senses, as regards both "excess- and "shortage-. Virtue always finds and chooses the mean, evading anything "that's too much - From this standpoint, Aristotle examines virtues, opposing them to vices. For instance, ... he contrasts the virtue of magnanimity to vanity as "excess-, on the one hand side and to cowardice as ... "shortage- on the other. He considers courage as ... ...

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... City with hopes of talking to the Mexican congress directly. They arrived in Mexico City on March 11th 2001 with several hundred thousand supporters and the EZLN was granted a meeting with the Mexican congress. During that meeting, Congress reformed the San Andres Accords and passed the "Indigenous Rights Bill."" However the Zapatistas rejected this version of the accords since it still left the government in control of most of ... Chiapas. Since this meeting with the Mexican congress, talks between the government and the EZLN have all but ... ...

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... , and one must follow is that members of society can not infringe on the rights of others. They give confidence to holding individual rights as absolutes, and freedoms as absolutes. Capitalism played important roles as to how the American economy was a century ago. At the turn of the century a hundred years ago, the whole concept of producing goods changed. Now that machinery could be made to ... serve the role of humans, skilled labor wasn't needed greatly. From this, hundreds of thousands of people flocked to ... steel plants. By 1899, when he consolidated his interests in the Carnegi...

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... government forced Verizon and other giant telecommunication companies to spy on their customers. The NSA, on a request from the FBI, indiscriminately collected the telephone records of millions of US Verizon customers – regardless of whether they were suspected of wrongdoing -- under atop secret court order granted by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The order allowed the collection of massive amounts of "metadata" or transactional information ... -- the numbers of both parties on a call, location data, unique identifiers, and the time and duration of all calls, but not th...

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... ; and Yahoo. Having accessed ISP's databases and mainframe systems the NSA can know you better than the closest members of your family. The NSA can infiltrate any secure network by creating backdoor encryption algorithms. In other words the government has the ability and legal right to weaken any secure private network by installing a secret pathway into a private system and accessing that system with its ... own password. All of this can be done unknown to the developer and user of the program. In addition ... to the thirty million surveillance cameras; the NSA can activate any camera ...

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... person. This is why technology is mainly involved so that it is easy to access information to find out who you are. Many people in the world use technology and people can strain information out of a person through social media. There are also services given to dox one another's life ... not. There are positive and negative outcomes of being able to wiretap into societies personal and most private lives. Many people in the United States may disagree that allowing the government to look into peoples lives may be beneficial. Even though this sounds crazy, this may be able to protect an ind...

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... to a location (e.g. a certain phone line). (American Civil Liberties Union: Section 215 FAQ) However, under the Act, law enforcement officials are now increasing the use of roving wiretaps. This type of wiretap applies to the person and allows officials to survey any phone or computer that the suspect is likely to use. Under FISA, a secret court in Washington authorizes intelligence on suspected foreign agents. Prior to ... the USA Patriot Act and recent legislation, prosecutors had assumed that much of the information gathered from FISA was off limits for criminal prosecution ... ...

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... it can lead individuals to unite. Arendt claims, "The workers today are no longer outside of society; they are its members, and they are jobholders like everybody else. The political significance of the labor movement is now the same as that of any other pressure group; the time is past when, as for nearly a hundred years, it could represent the people as a whole- if we understand by ... le peuple the actual political body, distinguished as such from the population as well as from society" (p.219). The power stands with the masses, if you can ... stand strong and vigilant as unified gr...

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... 's lack of regard for an animal's life combined with a lucrative market for the rhino horn makes it difficult to stop the activity (Raloff 346). The Black Rhino is critically endangered. For most of the 20th century the Black Rhino had a population of several hundred thousand. The decline of the Black Rhino has alarmed many conservationists, but there isn't much known about what type of law enforcement or what ... kind of economic incentives there are for illegal exploitation. Studies show that a penalty which varies with the output of a poacher is, in theory, a more ... ...

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... and in some way they still are, but that does not give us the right to discriminate whites just because they discriminated minorities before. Focusing on African Americans, they were discriminated through slavery. Slavery did not end till the end of the Civil War. Many people ignore the fact that "for several hundred years, Negroes have been discriminated against not as individuals, but rather solely ... because of the color of their skins." Government must find a way to stop discrimination from happening. The University of California formally adopted race and ethnicity as factors in .....

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... capital punishment came into occurrence it would deter criminals from doing many crimes for a short period of time. But just like a fashion, the reaction from the criminals will eventually die down. We have to agree that headlines in all newspapers on atrocious crimes encourage criminals to commit to crimes as ... sentenced wrongly to death because of public opinion. Mistakes such as these incur large amounts of protest as they say the system is flawed. A study in the USA in 1987 reported three hundred and fifty people were guilty of capital crimes yet they were innocent - twenty-three of...

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... road accidents and poisoning (Siegel 144). Although these is the case, there has been an increase of mass shooting tragedies. Especially, there has been shooting in schools and streets where thousands of innocent Americans have died; the cases include children. For instance, in 2007 and 2008 more than one hundred students died during the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University shooting incidents. In 2013 ... , there was the Nevada School shooting tragedy where two students were seriously injured, and their teacher was killed (Watts, Wolf ... ...

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The first amendment has survived more than two-hundred years, without being modified. The finite history of the first amendment proves its significance and role in America. It prohibits the establishment of a nation-wide religion, and guarantees freedom of worship, speech, press and to peaceable assembly. Without this Amendment, a religious minority could be mistreated, the government would ... set up a religion; protesters could be harmed or jailed and the ... at all, and all without government control. The pilgrims were named Separatists back in England because they sought independence from...

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... seven articles. The first 3 articles talk about separation of powers. The separation of powers is where the federal government has 3 divisions: the legislative which has the congress, executive, the President and the judiciary, consists of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. The Constitution has been amended 27 times since its ratification. The first 10 amendments are called the Bill of Rights. The first amendment has survived more than two-hundred years, without ... being modified. The finite history of the first amendment ... ...

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... identity tag with a number on it at all times. The tags were used from the 1940's up until the late 1970's when it was decided the Inuit people could finally be acknowledged by their names. Both the Métis and Inuit were given very few rights from the Government and were treated poorly. Over the last hundred years the aboriginal community in Canada has gone through an endless amount ... of difficulties caused mostly be our Government, the same Government ... that is supposed to help the citizens of Canada not treat them like animals. ... ...

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... courts only if necessary, would first hear most cases. The three Circuit Courts, which were also trial courts under the original legislation, were to convene only twice per year in each state. They would be liable for hearing issues of greatest contention between the Federalists and anti-Federalists, such as large debts over five hundred dollars. As well as, disputes between citizens of ... different states and major criminal trials. The Circuit Courts would each seat two Supreme Court justices and a District judge to ensure only judges with ... substantial legal knowledge would conside...

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... an opening door, signed Launay and dated "the Bastille, five o"clock in the afternoon, July 14, 1789." It stated that he agreed to surrender on condition that nobody inside the fortress is killed. This does not happen of course, as the three hundred soldiers deserted, and the people free the seven prisoners. The drawbridges lower and the crowd spread in growing numbers. Launay is massacred ... , along with his troops. The Bastille falls, and the symbol of intolerable regime falls with it. With that, the French Revolution was sparked, and so ... a new age of order was to come.1 "The road ...

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