On August 26th‚ 2016 a well-known American football quarterback decided to begin his season in an act of protest. Colin Kapernick talked about in the Huffington post article; Why Colin Kapernick decided not to stand for the national anthem‚ article. Post-game he said “I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color.” Racism and Black lives matter has become an increasingly important issue now days that challenges our citizens and our
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America is the most diverse country in the world and people come here to live the “American Dream”. Paine’s assertion is still true today that America is a diverse nation‚ however‚ the “the taxes are few” and there being “nothing to engender riots and tumults” is in fact not true today. America is known as the world’s “melting pot” for a reason. People want to come to the greatest nation on Earth. Throughout the history of America people have immigrated from a wide variety of war-torn‚ famine‚ poverty-stricken
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On August 16‚ 2017 my principal‚ Mrs. Suzanna Davis‚ selected four seniors‚ including me‚ to hold the responsibility of being the Hawks’ Nest’s leaders. Out of a senior class of 642 students‚ she only picked four. The Hawks’ Nest is the name of our student section and student run spirit crew. Mrs. Davis loves school spirit so having leaders she can have confidence in is of great importance to her. As the leaders‚ our main job is to promote school spirit. We are in charge of notifying the student
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Arizona‚ the biggest gateway into the U.S. for illegal immigration‚ faced bankruptcy from the increased health care‚ education‚ welfare costs moreover‚ their citizens faced terrorism murder by illegal aliens. Before reading the bill‚ Barack Obama slammed the Arizona law abusive divisive‚ when the federal government’s arrogant lack enforcement of immigration law was abusive‚ divisive‚ and illegal. Diversity equality was the important aspect of our lives because we lived in a diverse society needed
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College debt is a nation-wide phenomenon that many Americans face. Unfortunately‚ this country is facing over 1 trillion in student loans from dropout students or graduated students who owe money from their years of education. The financial crisis has caught many Americans by surprise and this problem will only get worse if this trend continues. Despite the fact that college debt is increasing‚ fortunately there are several solution to this problem. As proven above‚ college debt is an issue that
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Many people believe that DNA profiling is not a credible source. Although 99.9 percent of human DNA is the same in everyone‚ the remaining 0.1 percent which consists of about 3 million base pairs of amino acids is unique to that individual (Ballaro and Walter). Without the help of scientists and their technology many criminals would get away with their crimes. Deoxyribonucleic acid‚ or DNA‚ is a component of every cell in the human body. DNA can be found in any organic source for example saliva
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E-REPORT #:22441 READS: "INCIDENT DATE: Several incidents since Deborah Barrett kidnapped a child from AL‚ she is still available as a foster parent which is ridiculous. AL attorneys will not be accepting payments for these children for our legal services. She is on drugs‚ abusive. There is a sex offender in the home‚ though she will hide them. There is mentally ill family members. How this county still trusts this woman and family will continue to be question in a court of law. CONCERNS: TAKE THESE
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Argument Analysis Essay of Saint Joan George Bernard’s play Saint Joan was written about the life of a French woman in the late 1420’s who was on trial for spreading heresy. The Inquisitor presented a case against Joan to the juries of the church court. His argument opened with an appeal to ethos. Throughout the rest of his speech he would keep up this type of appeal‚ preferring the approach of ethical appeals to that of logic. Due to his lack of logical appeals‚ he seemed to revert to logical
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The Foster Care Did you know that 60% of kids are stripped away from their families because of drugs? Ponyboy would be better off in the system because him and Darry keep on fighting with each other. Ponyboy in the system ‚with Soda‚ would be great. Ponyboy really likes Soda and he barely likes Darry. Other people say that Ponyboy should be in the system. Others say that he should be with Darry. Ponyboy should be in the system because he would obtain a better family and he will be very healthy
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Brantley Foster (Michael J. Fox) is a a recent graduate of Kansas State University who moves to New York City where he has landed a job as a financier. Upon arriving‚ he discovers that the company for which he’s supposed to work has been taken over by a rival corporation. As a result‚ Brantley is laid off before he even starts working. After several unsuccessful attempts to get another job (mostly because he’s overqualified)‚ Brantley ends up working in the mailroom of Pemrose Incorporated‚ which
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