... that in this day and age of high technology and mass production, the gap between the rich and the poor has grown ever more wide. In the 1920's there is one rich person for every 3 poor people but now the ratio has alarmingly increased: 1 rich person for every 72 poor.[1] Yet global spending would make war and war-related expenses as the number one item ... steel industry control 50 percent of the whole business. • Third world debt amounts to 1.8 trillion dollars. • Only 358 billionaires have a total income of 760 billion dollars which is equivalent to the total income of 2.5 billion ...

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... that in this day and age of high technology and mass production, the gap between the rich and the poor has grown ever more wide. In the 1920's there is one rich person for every 3 poor people but now the ratio has alarmingly increased: 1 rich person for every 72 poor.[1] Yet global spending would make war and war-related expenses as the number one ... and steel industry control 50 percent of the whole business. - Third world debt amounts to 1.8 trillion dollars. - Only 358 billionaires have a total income of 760 billion dollars which is equivalent to the total income of 2.5 billion peopl...

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The Notre Dame campus is still in shock over the sudden death of Declan Sullivan, a junior studying film marketing and television and theater (Gay). Sullivan was filming a football practice atop a scissor lift, a portable hydraulic lift that allows people to videotape team drills from as high as 40 feet above practice field, when the lift collapsed from high winds (Auman). The afternoon that Sullivan died winds reached up to 51 mph in South Bend, according to the National Weather Service. Students even struggled to walk to class (Hall). Hours before his death, Sullivan tweeted about his predic...

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... 't sourced, but it peaks your interest, and you'd like to know more, find your own sources for the information. Learn to paraphrase. One professor at Middlebury College in Vermont had several papers turned in to him with the exact same phrase in them. All of the papers listed Wikipedia as the source. If 100 people in class are writing on the same subject, and they all use Wikipedia, this is ... bound to happen. If you want a failing grade on your essay ... , this is a good way to get it. While Wikipedia can be a great ... ...

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... was abducted at a government checkpoint and held for days while officials bound, beat, poured alcohol in her eyes, and gang raped her repeatedly. The accused men plan to sue her, according to government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim (The Huffington Post). Al-Obeidy fled from Libya into Tunisia aided by a defecting military officer and his family. Apparently, she left in a military car ... was awaiting resettlement as a refugee, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees was busily preparing papers for her departure. During this time, Qatari authorities took her and her parents fro...

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... the very fabric of our nation. At the Battle of Gettysburg alone, more than 51,000 were killed. After the battle, the wounded and dying were everywhere, crowded into any building that would hold them. The fallen were buried in makeshift graves, with no headstones to even identify them. It would take over a year to finally enterr all the bodies that fell there that day. Gettysburg stands as the ... bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Only 272 ... words long, the Gettysburg Address was carefully crafted by Lincoln. The first draft was written in Washington, and revised in Gettysburg the n...

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... would be the equivalent of almost 11,000 gallons per acre of land. "Green crude" makes sense ecologically as well. While the algal fuels refined from it emit as much carbon dioxide as conventional fuels, the company says the emissions are offset by the photosynthetic process that uses sunlight, water and C02 to create algal crude. The burning of the algae formed fuel doesn't contribute to climate change, ... because the algae produced fuel doesn't contain the sulfur, nitrogen, and benzene which contaminate regular crude oil. In simple terms, gasoline ... be made from algae, but also hig...

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... progression, and prevent deaths from liver cancer." 2000 to 4000 deaths each year are caused by hepatitis B. The testing recommendations are what the CDC says is needed to prevent this by detecting the symptoms early. 1.4 million Americans with chronic hepatitis B have no symptoms and do not even know that they have it. To detect it early is the equivalent to preventing the spread. If more people know that they have ... it, they can keep from giving it to others and get the treatment they need ... for a longer life. With the new medicines that have come out in just the last five years,...

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The Occupy movement that began months ago in New York and has since grasped hold of the rest of the country turned violent for the first time on November 2nd in Oakland when a small group of protestors smashed the windows of a Wells Fargo bank branch during a protest of wealth inequalities. The Occupy Oakland movement scheduled a noon rally in front of City Hall and then a free lunch afterward. The day's events were planned to wrap up with a "general strike mass convergence, rally, and labor cookout." Each of these were intended to be peaceful protests, but a small faction began passing out fl...

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... on their packages. According to the EPA, the first step in a CFL breakage cleanup is evacuating and airing out the room. Have everyone leave the area, then open all doors and windows to the outside of the room while closing doors to the rest of the house. Leave the area yourself. Air out the room for 15 minutes before the cleanup begins. After the room has been aired and the mercury dissipated, carefully sweep ... up the glass shards and place in a box or sealed ... or, if your locale requires recycling of broken CFL's, take to your nearest Home Depot. If you are concerned about the to...

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... Medicaid, or low-income, patients because the reimbursement fees are extremely low. In 2014, the new health law will allow even more people to become eligible for the program, which will only add to the existing problem (Pear). In Massachusetts, there is a severe problem regarding access to healthcare. In fact, the Massachusetts Medical Society discovered that 53 percent of family physicians and 51 percent of internal medicine physicians did ... not accept patients at all, and those that do typically had a long wait - averaging 36 days for family doctors and 48 days for internists. The ...

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To add to the growing tension between Iran and the United States, members of the Iranian Parliament's human rights committee have taken a strong, public stand against the planned execution of a woman in Virginia. According to a British newspaper, "the parliamentary human rights committee said her case reflected ...

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... growing larger every day. The impact of cell phones on society has become huge. One reason that the cell phone has made such an impact on society today is because of the advances they have made with them through modern technology. When the cell phone first debuted, its only function was to make calls. That is not the case today. Now you can hook up to the Internet via your ... cell phone, and stay up to date on the latest news, banking, entertainment and fashion. You can check your ... email and chat to friends. Cell phones of today also have the technology built in to watch live ... ...

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... should not go together" (Schneiderman). Emanuel also targeted the city's community college and job training programs and encouraged them to train workers to succeed in today's modern jobs but also in the jobs of tomorrow. Notoriously known for his aggressive brand of politics, Emanuel promised to create the conditions needed to foster investment, but said the real responsibility lies with the corporations to do their part and actually create jobs (Schneiderman ... ). "I will make the tough decisions that are necessary," he said. "I will ... ...

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A landlord of a Philadelphian apartment discovered four mentally handicapped people chained in the basement when he went to investigate a short circuit on October 15th. Turgut Gozleveli discovered dogs locked inside of the boiler room and four adults hiding underneath a blanket. They were hunched together in a space not tall enough for an adult to stand, surrounded in human waste with only a jug of orange juice (Hoye). He unchained them while asking questions about their identity, but he didn't receive any answers. Believing them to be illegal immigrants, Gosleveli called in the police who qui...

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... reason or another. When I was in high school, I was able to choose a career to study for a day. This involved going to work with a person in that field of work. I chose to go to work with my grandma. It was more about seeing why she keeps going to work every day more than it was the career I wanted to study. On that day, I learned why grandma got out of bed and went ... her face. Nursing was not just a job. It was a career that allowed her to meet patients that needed her. It was a career that allowed her to meet with families and offer them hope. As I followed my grandma through the da...

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... focus during the holiday season, when the pressure to spend is at its highest. This year, predictions for holiday spending were very low, but analysts were surprised: Spending was actually even lower than expected. A division of MasterCard showed holiday spending this year was down by as much as 4% over the same period last year, making this year the worst holiday season for them in modern times ... . Even retail behemoths such as Gap experienced a drop in sales by close to 20 percent. Best Buy and other electronics and appliance stores experienced even more significant drops than that ....

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... . In bedroom communities of larger cities, entire economies were built on the bed of sand that was the housing construction industry. Small town budgets collapsed with the housing boom. In some small towns, such as North Port, Florida, a bedroom community of Sarasota, the unemployment rate went up to 25% at one point. The only thing that brought it back down was that most of those ... our economy is based on consumer purchases, almost every sector of the economy is effected. From large companies like Home Depot and Lowe's, to mom and pop restaurants who fed the construction workers, no on...

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Believing himself to be a victim of a smear campaign, presidential candidate Herman Cain suddenly recalled the financial settlement he was a part of years before. In the late 1990's, as the head of the National Restaurant Association, Cain battled two sexual harassment claims involving two different women, although he later remembered the first accusation and denies remembering the second accusation altogether (Oliphant). "My general counsel said this started out ... ," Cain told Fox News (Grinberg). Cain told Politico that he did not recall such an instance, but when pressed later by radio ho...

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... history-making moments. Voting turnouts broke some records, and with the election of Senator Barack Obama, the United States allowed a new era of American politics to be ushered in. And the way it all happened was revolutionary, too. The Internet has, it seems, forever changed the way Americans experience their political lives. The Internet has infiltrated our everyday lives in countless ways: We ... online, and we form social relationships online. And, in the presidential race of 2008, Americans got political online. The Internet gave voters a new, direct link to their candidates. News g...

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The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women recently awarded $10 million in grants to 13 initiatives in 18 countries. The UN Trust Fund, which is managed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, or UNIFEM, was established in 1996 by the United Nations, and still remains the only multilateral grant-making mechanism solely devoted to supporting local and national efforts to end violence against women and girls. Its recent grant completed the UN Trust Fund's 14th grant-making cycle of 2009, which awarded a total of $20.5 million to 26 projects ...

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... and call it transportation in a world full of cars and freeways, you do him no favors. This is the sort of thinking that is killing analog television. The effects of the full switchover to digital television broadcasts are likely to be as catastrophic as the Y2K phenomenon proved to be - it's a lot of hoopla over a bang that will likely be less than a fizzle. That's likely what lawmakers ... had in mind when they enacted the law that requires television stations to make the switch which has been rescheduled for June 12, 2009. While certainly 6.5 million households that now receive signa...

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... that athletes come to benefit from the advanced training and expertise. For example, U.S. divers have won almost half of all the medals given out in the modern Olympics games. If you want to learn how to win, you go to the people who have done it before. This legacy of tremendous success in aquatic sports draws foreign athletes to the U.S. to seek the edge that training in the U.S. can provide. A Reason To Escape Some athletes ... travel, in part, to escape persecution. One example is the number of Iraqi wrestlers who ... ...

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... he determined as untrue had been "in the context of alarmism and exaggeration," according to The Times Online Edition of October 11, 2007. However, a look at recent news seems to show that Mr. Gore's critics are and will continue to be proven wrong at calling him an "alarmist." The following evidence is likely just the "tip of the iceberg." The Associated Press reported on August 27 of this ... gave his opinion, "We're moving beyond a point of no return." And these are just a few of the observable and measurable events taking place on our planet quite recently. Damage to coastal areas is...

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During the day of September 21st, life went on as normal for troops in Iraq, or at least normal for the area. One thing that was a little different was a visit by Brig. General Peter J. Talleri to Camp Taji. Talleri is the commander of the Defense Distribution Center and is stationed in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. While in the area, he also visited the Iraqi Army's General Truck Regiment. He met ... wanted individual and three others were also captured in another operation targeting al Qaeda courier networks near Tarmiyah in the Belt region. The terrorist captured is believed to be involved...

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