... economy of the United States, to the average consumer, and even to national security. While on first glance, it appears that the White House plan to bail out automakers is dimwitted and a ploy to make rich men richer, the facts run contrary to that opinion. Automakers ... employ or cause employments for workers of every description. In addition to manufacturing new cars, the auto manufacturers, directly or indirectly create jobs for dealers, salesmen, secretaries, parts manufacturing, service personnel, tire ... sales people and more. It's more than a business. It's a system of interrel...

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... United States economy break free from the grips of recession. In many ways, Obama's transition into the White House will be unlike any other presidential changeover. First, this is the first time the country has been in a war situation during a presidential election since the 60s ... , during the Johnson-Nixon changeover. That will unquestionably affect the decisions Obama makes during his adjustment period. President-elect Obama will have to make important - and difficult - decisions about the wars in ... be done within 16 months of his taking office. Obama will also have to address the ...

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... Laden. After the Taliban regrouped from the initial attack just weeks after the September 11 tragedy, they fought back against the government, U.S. troops, and other Western allies in Afghanistan. After the recent capture of bin Laden, Karzai began pushing peace talks, although his efforts had not yet allowed the government and insurgents to meet, but representatives ... yet based on a certain agenda or physical meetings, there are contacts established" (Graham-Harrison). At first, U.S. officials were hesitant to acknowledge the negotiations. Caitlin Hayden, the White House National Secu...

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Following a series of political assassinations of Afghanistan's political leaders, the United States' military officers have seen dramatic improvement in securing the country. Following the assassination of Osama bin Laden, President Obama announced the hasty drawdown of the extra "surge" troops he ordered to finish off the al-Qaeda regime. However, there have been several recent acts of violence that have some officials worried. Following the assassination of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president's half-brother, a suicide car bomber attacked a police headquarters, killing twelve policemen and a ch...

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... openings nationwide and weakened his job approval standing with the public. Obama vowed to begin a $500 million initiative which will use technological innovations to create jobs and spur growth in clean energy and advanced manufacturing. To reach these goals, the government will join teams with universities and corporations to jumpstart the manufacturing sector, specifically targeting cutting-edge research and ... During his visit, Obama was inspired by mini-robots that explored water and sewer pipes (Kuhnhnen). Pittsburgh is an important city for Obama's plan to build up the middle cla...

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... too fast. On the other hand, they have also criticized Republicans for contradicting the conservative principles that the party was founded on by spending too much money when they were in power also (Spillius). At Tea Party gatherings, many advocate doing away with the Federal Reserve, the federal income tax, countless agencies, bailouts, and stimulus packages. Some even call for the ... , and Medicaid. They remedy the problems caused by the recession with secession, tax boycotts, states nullifying federal laws, and citizen militias. Although many of the Tea Party groups differ slightly ...

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... launched a campaign to free al-Sharif, collecting more than 100,000 signatures and calling on 156 countries for support. A few Saudi women even committed the crime themselves, turning the key in the ignition to begin a motorized protest (Dougherty). The Saudi Women for Driving, a coalition for women's rights activists, bloggers, and academics campaigning for the right to drive, expressed their ... disappointment by Clinton's public silence. Previously, Clinton announced women's rights a top issue for American diplomacy (Dougherty). "Quiet diplomacy is not what we need right now," the gr...

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... of the al-Hashid tribe whose forces oppose the government. The previous day security forces set fire to tents and tore through demonstrators' camps in Freedom Square in Taiz with bulldozers (Sudam). A government spokesman, Abdu Ganadi, said protestors' tents were burned by people attacked by the protestors, and ... be deterred (Jamjoom). "Our revolution will not stop even if hundreds are killed every day," claimed Sameer Al-Samaee, a leading youth activist in Taiz. "Killing innocent civilians always leads to war crime charges and that is what we are seeking for Saleh" (Jamjoom). The day...

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... Congress under the Commerce Clause," the panel concluded after a 2-1 majority rejected the challenge by the conservative Thomas More Law Center (Levey). Judge Martin, who took the lead on the decision in Thomas More Law Center v. Obama said, "The minimum coverage provision regulates activity that is decidedly economic. Consumption of health care falls squarely within (Supreme Court precedent's) definition of economics, ... near, the 6th Circuit's opinion marks a small victory for Obama's bill as many officials declared that Congress does indeed have the authority to require Americans to...

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... have come to the United States to do their training. What draws them away from their home countries to train in a place that is foreign to them? The answer can be found in general expertise, the desire to train with the best in a particular sport, and even an attempt to escape persecution. A Matter Of Expertise Many foreign athletes flock to the U.S. to train ... Olympics and supporting its athletes draws foreign athletes who wish to learn from this tradition and benefit from this support. In many cases, the facilities for training in the U.S. have more funding than in certain less affl...

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... " (pg. 57-58). This quote shows that Jordan lies about important things to be able to stay bathing in wealth, which shows that people will do anything to obtain/maintain the American Dream. Another motif used was cars. In Chapter 4, Gatsby drives over to Nick's house to take him out for lunch, and Nick encounters Gatsby's car: "It was a rich cream colour, bright ... seem to look down upon the West Egg. The two eggs represent the people of New York that have achieved the American Dream. In Chapter 1, Nick goes over to his cousin's house, Daisy, and her husband Tom, who lives in East Egg....

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... communist party or anything else that seemed suspicious (D1). His main reason for doing this was to keep communism out of the government. Congress also launched a new program called the House of Un-American Activities Committee. This committee was supposed to prevent and stop communist acts and acts against Americans. But this committee thought it had free range to do as ... Truman's administrations had been infested with communists. The Cold War also frightened Americans to the point that they changed their way of life. As the threat of a nuclear war was in place, some built bomb shelt...

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... U.S. Congress and almost all the state legislatures are bicameral, meaning that there are two houses through which legislative initiatives must pass. At the federal level, these houses are the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. This system was set up for two reasons: It was a compromise between those who thought that democratic representation should be based on population (the ... House) and those who thought that the states should be represented equally (the Senate). The founding fathers thought that having two houses would limit the number of irrational proposals passe...

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... we have been viewing C-SPAN on the U.S. House of Representatives. The people in the House of Representatives represent either republican, democrat, or independent. The presiding officer is Michael K. Simpson, and his title was Pro Tem. The meetings start ... Then the pledge of allegiance is said. And then the reading cleric says a list of resolutions and then the debating starts. There were a handful of issues discussed in the debate. Some of those issues are as follows: fiscal year budget, homeland security bill, tax cuts, environmental issues, war, missing children, and prescription dr...

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... we have been viewing C-SPAN on the U.S. House of Representatives. The people in the House of Representatives represent either republican, democrat, or independent. The presiding officer is Michael K. Simpson, and his title was Pro Tem. The meetings start ... Then the pledge of allegiance is said. And then the reading cleric says a list of resolutions and then the debating starts. There were a handful of issues discussed in the debate. Some of those issues are as follows: fiscal year budget, homeland security bill, tax cuts, environmental issues, war, missing children, and prescription dr...

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... control and gun rights. The positive thing is that the people are starting to feel that there is a concern in this topic and is forcing the House and Senate to do something about it since there is a lot of shooting going on in the United States. The lack of progress on immigration reforms has received not attention from the government. The Senate has ... passed the immigration bill, but the House has refused to do anything on this issue. This issue has been pushed aside many of times, which is causing a weary feeling for some immigrants status in the country. Even though this has been a...

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... began. He also said the city will focus on filling existing positions to really bring down the unemployment rate (Schneiderman). "There are 120,000 job openings in Chicago," said Emanuel, who served as the former White House senior staffer. "Yet we have 9 percent unemployment. Those two facts 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 ... ...

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... Hastert came from a small town in Illinois. He was born in Auora, and was raised in Oswego. He earned degrees from Wheaton College and Northern Illinois University. He taught and coached wrestling for sixteen years at Yorkville High School. He served in the Illinois House of Representatives for six years before he was selected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1986. In 1999, he was selected to be ... the Speaker of the House. Dennis Hastert turned 61 on January 2, 2003. He is now serving his third term as the Speaker ... and his ninth term as the Republican Congressman. Dennis Ha...

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... points out that the "Hull-House was soberly opened on the theory that the dependence of classes on each other is reciprocal; and that as the social relation is essentially a reciprocal relation, it gives a form of expression that has peculiar value." A central idea in this chapter is the expression of moral values like feeding the poor, or caring for the ... comes with Business's. The competition that follows business is what drives the human race apart not together, Jane says this about it in 'Poverty at Hull House' "Yet this dream that men shall cease to waste strength in competi...

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... economies as thousands of workers are taken from the workforce.. So is there a way to combat this rising problem across the nation? The answer is house arrest. House arrest is when a criminal is sentenced to stay in their home at all times except when working or preforming essential tasks such as grocery shopping and is only offered to those who have been convicted ... are forced to pay fees to help compensate for the costs of maintaining their house arrest. With about sixty-one percent of current inmates qualifying for house arrest in accordance with the law before the change in the se...

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... Congress each new term. It is a lot easier to kill a bill than to get it passed. Around 90% of them are killed one way or another in fact. This is because there are so many different opportunities for it to happen. All of the opportunities fall under three categories, which are: amending, pigeonholing, and ... defeating. If a bill is considered by a house committee or subcommittee to be unwise or unnecessary, they can pigeonhole it. Pigeonholing refers to the killing of a bill by a Congressional committee when it refuses to ... then this tactic is the way to have it done. The person ca...

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... ever two years. To become a representative, one must have been a citizen of the United States for at least seven years. In the case of the Senate, one must have been a citizen for nine years. In the Senate, one must be at least thirty years old, while in the House it is twenty five years old. A similarity is that both senators and representatives must live ... Chappaqua, NY only a month or two before the election. Therefore, she was eligible to run in New York. Senator Clinton also took the liberty of suddenly becoming a Yankee fan, showing up at games cheering when she had only lived i...

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Jay Gatsby, the main character of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby symbolizes the American dream. In the 1920's, the American Dream was something that everyone struggled to have. A spouse, children, money, a big house and a car meant that someone had succeeded in life. A very important belief was that money could buy you anything. One look at Gatsby's past and it could be seen that he ... was destined to get ahead in life. Gatsby's determination to gain a large amount of wealth is a huge part of ... money is the answer to anything he encounters. He has the best of everything. The nices...

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... will be anymore. That is why they are considered non-renewable resources. Fossil Fuels are going to run out soon; for example global reserves of oil will be economically depleted in about 40-80 years. This depends on how fast we use up our resources. The depletion of oil will make the price of it rise. On the other hand, oil ... some disadvantages to all of the optional resources, the research and development of renewable energy will help us to find a combination of resources that best fit the world we live in. ...

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... ever two years. To become a representative, one must have been a citizen of the United States for at least seven years. In the case of the Senate, one must have been a citizen for nine years. In the Senate, one must be at least thirty years old, while in the House it is twenty five years old. A similarity is that both senators and representatives must live ... Chappaqua, NY only a month or two before the election. Therefore, she was eligible to run in New York. Senator Clinton also took the liberty of suddenly becoming a Yankee fan, showing up at games cheering when she had only lived i...

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