01.02 What Is Citizenship?: U.S. Citizens Who Is a U.S. Citizen? The first part of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution defines citizens as people either "born or naturalized in the United States." It then describes that citizens are due certain protections and privileges under the law that no state government may take away. A person can be a U.S. citizen at the time of birth through two main ways. The Latin term Jus soli (pronounced YOO SO-LEE) means "law of the soil." People born in
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Hayley Kaplan Professor: Rhonda Lee-Ernst Comp & Lit 2 October 7‚ 2013 Ethnic Cleansing Throughout History While some countries like America embrace the idea of a melting pot society‚ many regimes and dictators fear those who are different. Throughout history there have been many countries and governments who have attempted to clear out their country of those who are unlike them religiously‚ socially‚ and politically. In history this concept has taken the form of what is now known as ethnic
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Imagine waking up everyday in fear that you might be stolen away from your home; away from the people you loved‚ away from the only scarce bit of hope you held on to. That’s how the residents in the Warsaw ghetto lived. Always in fear‚ always fighting for freedom‚ but never giving up. Their homes became rooms packed with other Jewish families. Three course meals got reduced to mere bread crumbs a day. Clothes were tarnished‚ living conditions were harsh‚ and yet the Warsaw residents never gave up
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enough. Every survivor’s history has elements of unexpected acts of kindness and favorable circumstances. Two such survival stories are in the films The Pianist and Europa Europa. The Pianist is a film about how Wladysaw Szpilman survived the German deportations of Jews to the extermination camps and how he lived in hiding outside the ghetto‚ in a predominantly German area. Europa Europa is a film about how Solomon Perel escaped the Holocaust by disguising himself as a non-Jew and as an Aryan German. All
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On September 1‚ 2004‚ the world was shocked and horrified by the terrorist attack of Chechen rebels on a Middle school in the Russian town of Beslan. Nearly 1‚200 children‚ teachers‚ and parents were taken hostage on the first day of school‚ and held captive for 53 hours. In the aftermath of the explosions and gunfire‚ over 360 people were killed‚ and hundreds more were left injured (Kaplan‚ 2004). The siege of the school was the latest of a dozen bloody attacks on targets such as airliners‚ trains
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Immigration to the United States is a very big debate in everyday life because there are two sides to this situation. There is the side that thinks immigration is horrible and they think everyone should go back to where they come from. Then there is the side that is completely ok with immigration and thinks they are just trying to come to america to get a better life and job so they can survive. They are completely different thoughts and ideas but i agree with the people who think they just want
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war‚ however‚ when Germany was close to defeat‚ the Romanian government found more value in living Jews who could be held for ransom or used as leverage with the West. Bulgaria permitted the deportation of Jews from neighbouring Thrace and Macedonia‚ but government leaders faced stiff opposition to the deportation of native Bulgarian
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September 5‚ 2017--Attorney General Jeff Sessions formally announced Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program‚ known as DACA. This program protects nearly 800‚000 young undocumented immigrants brought to the United States illegally as children. The Department of Homeland Security has stopped the process of any new application for the program as of Tuesday (Kopan‚ 2017‚ p. 1). Congress‚ given a six month period‚ must find a permanent legislative solution to preserve
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Life was hard for the poor in Russia during the revolution they worked very hard for very little pay. The Russian revolution involved the collapse of an empire under tsar Nicholas II the rise of Maxian Socialisim under Lenin and his Bolsheviks. Lenin promised everyone in Russia peace‚ land‚ and bread. A little while the Bolsheviks seized power and took Lenin’s position. Stalin helped hide Lenin while the Bolshevik troops were trying to find him. Trotsky organized the red guards during the Russian
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Bohemia-Moravia‚ and the annexed territory of western Poland were using badges as a key element for the Nazis’ larger plan‚ ‘not only to stigmatize and humiliate Jews but also to segregate them‚ to watch and control their movements‚ and to prepare for deportation (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum‚ n.d.). In late August 1941‚ the establishment of the Drancy camp in France was enforced by the German authorities. The main idea was to create
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