... development. In the early 1900's Pennsylvania provided 60% of the United States steel, by 1960 Pennsylvania only provided 24%. The Great Depression in the 1930's had the states unemployment rate at 37%. During the 1940's federal aid and the need for munitions manufacturing helped revitalize Pennsylvania in some areas. Manufacturing accounted for one million jobs in the 1990's, making it ... the second largest employer in Pennsylvania. Throughout the Untied States history Pennsylvania has been one of the main producers of ships, iron, chemicals, lumber, oil, textiles ... , glass, coal and...

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... the Freedom of Religion, opening the colony to all the world's religions. In fact, William Penn, in the Frame of 1682 of Pennsylvania, wrote that all believers in God, "shall in no ways be molested or prejudiced for their religious Persuasion or Practice in Matters of Faith and Worship." Moreover, he granted the colonists an enlightened penal system, which was ... or the other frames are present in the Bill of Rights. Freedom of religion and liberty of conscience is granted in its First Amendment. The right for a trial by jury granted in the colony of Pennsylvania is also present in the...

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... issues. With little to no government assistance, some families are financially incapable of sending their children to school, and debt for graduating students continues to increase each year. In today's society jobs are increasingly requiring a college degree; because of the importance of a degree, tuition prices are rising. Going to college ... on students and their families to fund most of the costs of their Penn State education" (Armario). People living in the state of Pennsylvania are just one example of the 40 percent of states that have had their higher education budget cut. A cut...

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Millions of hotels across the United States nonchalantly discard their visitors' once-used bars of soap every day. In fact, hundreds of millions of soap bars are discarded each year in North American alone. As relatively wealthy Americans, no has thought anything of it - until Derreck Kayongo launched the Global Soap Project (Ruffins). The project began in the early 1990s after Kayongo's first hotel stay in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Ugandan native panicked when he noticed his bathroom soap was being replenished every day despite the fact that he only got one or two uses out of the bars (...

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... was ratified on July 1st, 1971 (Mount, 2003). For years now, people have been coming up with valid reasons for this Amendment to be changed. One valid reason to change the voting age from eighteen to sixteen would be the financial responsibilities of young teenagers. In the US, you can get a job once ... were political science classes that would teach these teenagers about the different candidates and what their views are, I think more people would be intrigued to get out and vote. I also believe that the earlier you start a person with something, the easier it becomes for them over time...

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... class and lower classes are unable to buy the products these companies produce. The lower classes do not have enough money to consume many products because the jobs available do not provide enough income for spending outside the basis of living. Due to the quick fix of outsourcing, we are making the rich richer and the poor poorer. Our middle class is ... be 100 % of these companies' faults. Due to the lack of engineers and technologically skilled people, many higher qualified jobs have to be outsourced to people from other countries because of their qualifications. Because of the lack ...

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... to be an expansion of NAFTA, people should educate themselves on the world after NAFTA. Since corporations now are able to "move high-paying jobs to countries with lower wages and bust unionization drives with threats to transfer production abroad" ("Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the FTAA", p.1), "the ... labor job is only seventy cents an hour. The average of 8-to 1 is the number of workers for a Mexican wage to the United States minimum wage. Over the past two years, over 280,000 jobs have left Mexico, with the closing of over 350 maqualidoras ("Top Ten Reasons to Oppose the FTAA, ... keep...

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... can affect many of a nation's industries, particularly those related to tourism and travel. Particularly affected are developing and third-world countries whose national economies are frequently reliant on tourism for national income. Kenya, Yemen, Egypt, and other African nations are particularly hard-hit by terrorism-induced industrial issues. However, statistics also show evidence that such problems are temporary at ... Kenya serves as an excellent example of an underdeveloped country very hard hit by terrorism's" effect. Tourism is 12% of the GNP in Kenya and accounts for over $500 ...

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... , it ambiguously allows for governments to "take into account evolving economic conditions," which could allow Greece more flexibility to create its own plan. It also calls for reeling in banking systems and a "more integrated financial architecture, encompassing banking supervision, resolution and recapitalization, and deposit insurance" (Castillo). "We are united in our resolve to promote growth and jobs," said the draft, ... citing a future Los Cabos Growth and Jobs Action Plan that will provide more details. "Strong sustainable ... Barack Obama did not take a significant stand at th...

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... suburban America from "lawless criminals"? Even though racially subliminal tones no longer shape the overall objectives, shallow legalese surrounding the prohibition of cannabis remains. The rationale used for cannabis prohibition applies to all the drugs listed under the Controlled Substances Act. The Drug Enforcement Administration provides a comprehensive resource guide to the drugs they prohibit in their 2011 edition ... same category as alcoholism, sex addiction, binge eating disorders, and so on. Cannabis prohibition lacks moral weight. On top of this, it also fails to give a pragma...

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... People see education from different aspects, but one thing about education that everyone agrees on is that it has done so much, socially and politically, for us. Considering all the improvements and differences that education has made, we are unable to see what it has done to us. Today we see ... missed all the other things in their lives that they shouldn't have. According to Richard Rodriguez in the article, "The Achievement of Desire,"" "A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn't forget that schooling was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed ...

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... increased manufacturing output. "From 1923-1929 output per worker increases 32%."(Fremon 18) However during that same time "average wages for manufacturing jobs increased only 8%"( Fremon 23). As a result, production cost rose quickly and wages rose slowly causing much of the benefit to go towards ... corporate profits. This large gap between the rich and the middle class/poor made the country's economy very unstable. In order for the nation's economy ... products fell about 40%"(Fremon 44). The greatly hurt banks involved with the agricultural economy because the farmers crop prices w...

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... this struggle is known today as The Gay Rights Movement. Similarly to the Civil Rights Movement, the Gay Rights Movement is currently striving for equal protection under the law, and fair treatment within various institutions such as the institution of marriage, or within the work place. ... facilities that did not allow blacks, and many jobs that would not employ blacks as skilled labor positions, but rather as domestic positions, and the same is today for LGBTQ community. In 29 states it is still legal to fire someone for being lesbian, gay, or bisexual, and ... Ironically, the gay an...

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... the West called the National Reclamation Act. He broke-up a coal strike by threatening to have the Army called in. He was responsible for having Congress enact laws to control food inspection. He took control of the Railroads via the Interstate Commerce Commission. His "Square Deal& ... great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children." He created 150 National Forests, 5 National Parks, 18 National Monuments, 4 National Game Preserves, 21 Reclamation Projects ...

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... of a blue discharge. The blue discharge was discontinued in 1947, replaced by two new classifications of discharge: general and undesirable. Consider the following, service members discharged before 1993 for homosexuality are still fighting for discharge upgrades. Before the implementation of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell", service members who were found to have engaged in homosexual conduct were likely to receive discharges ... the Veteran's Administration and the Department of Defense. It would have a negative impact on the ability of an individual to obtain future employment, and may act as...

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... the tensions between executive and legislative branches over the president's ability to wage war without Congress' express approval (Steinhauer). Some leaders are concerned that Congress could vote against American support for the operations in Libya. "It sends an unhelpful message of disunity and uncertainty to our troops, our allies, and most importantly, the Qaddafi regime," said Pentagon press secretary ... Geoff Morrell (Steinhauer). He "believes that for the United States, once committed to a NATO operation, to unilaterally abandon that mission would have enormous and dangerous lon...

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... Education. The Court ruled that the concept of "separate, but equal facilities established on the basis of race" be deemed unconstitutional. Since racism and indifference had restricted rights for blacks, executive orders issued by presidents in the 1950s and 1960s established the concept of anti-discrimination measures to guarantee fair treatment of blacks by government contractors. Under President John ... have the civil service workforce match the overall labor force in 10 years. From the time period of 1987-1988, the state of California issued a 10 percent hiring goal for people with...

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... Tutsis. In the education sector the Hutus were not enrolled in schools any more. By assuring a Tutsi monopoly of power, the Belgians set the stage for future conflict in Rwanda. Such was not their intent. They were not implementing a "divide and rule" strategy so much as they were just putting ... base in Uganda. This move however failed. The Rwandan president got aid from man Francois Mitterrand, who supplied arms and equipment . The war went on for two years until a cease fire agreement was signed and the RPF backed out. The cease fire accord took was signed in July 1992, and a ... exi...

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... comes in. The men of Thull all practice Islam (women cannot enter the mosques). The degree to witch each practices and how they use Islamic beliefs for their own purposes is a different story though! As stated in the book, Keiser encountered many men in Thull who were considered teachers in Islam. Others ... peaceful and forgiving religion, how can one man just kill another (and how it is justified?). Maybe Koshistanis" think of it as a holy war? Koshistanis for some reason try to tie mar dushmani with iman (Islamic faith). Mr. Keiser even had problems finding the similarities. Last, I ...

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... be compensated."" They warned against the development of "democratic nationalism and delegated republicanism. In a nutshell the Anti-Federalist believed that a stronger regional and local governments where far superior for the administration of laws and the safeguarding of personal liberties than a large consolidated republic. The argued that by keeping the majority of the legal power in the hands of the ... Federalist did not want to give up their State sovereignty to a new set of rulers. They felt that by establishing a strong national government, whose members where elected indirectly...

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... . Everyone wants acceptance from others, and that need can become so strong that it overrides all other concerns including health. This craving for acceptance can sometimes lead to the development of anorexia because girls do not have the confidence or self esteem how they feel about themselves ... "Depression is a mental state in which a person feels unusually sad and gloomy," this is one common symptom of anorexia. "Whatever the reasons for depression, sufferers often turn to food, hoping it will make them feel better." In addtion to their low self-image, this depression sometimes is ....

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... taxpayer. Since 1980, the inmate population has multiplied sevenfold. As a result, California has built twenty-one new prisons and only one university. The cost for these new prisons was $5.3 Billion dollars. In the United States it costs about $20,000 per year to imprison an inmate. Multiply this number by ... (Linton 2008). Also inmates are able to gain a wider sense of direction and greater knowledge to help them change their perception on life. For a majority of people that is their goal in life, to be successful and be able to contribute to society, so therefore inmates should have ...

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... "in the wrong place, at the wrong time." The following will attempt to justify the perspective that torture, when used exclusively for information gathering purposes vital to the well-being of a large citizenry, is justifiable, even if its moral and ethical justification isn't nearly as ... to have knowledge that individuals may perish but do nothing about it then it is morally reprehensible to enact pain on another individual for vital information? Is "do nothing" passivity that leads to violence less ethically questionable than active aggression that directly leads to ... Reports ind...

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... rich men who were widowers would demand the supply of rejuvenation. They had no clue what the research consisted of; they were just anxious for the pay in return. The government allowed these harmful acts to pursue. I am very sorry that this didn't dawn on them soon before ... lot of times it's not done that way. "Scores of desperate, mostly uneducated African-American prisoners offered themselves up as human guinea pigs for a dollar a day in experiments ranging from relatively innocuous studies of deodorants and detergents to dangerous work on dioxin and chemical warfare."(Hornblum) ......

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... . The role of George Washington as commander-in-chief was an important factor in the success of the Continental Army and the final reason for American success lies in the support it received from other nations and in particular from France. The American Revolution divided the American people in three ... come down. They had to hack their way through forest and trails. It was an excruciating experience. The lack of knowledge of, and disregard for, the terrain in America seriously hampered the British Army. Washington took over the Continental Army in July 1775 at its siege of Boston, Mass...

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