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    prostitution has created many controversial debates on how this act can affect the society globally and locally. Prostitution is the act of exchanging sexual acts for some form of payment and income. Prostitution does not only effect the women and men participating in these sexual acts. It also effects the friends and family of each partner. It is legal in some countries‚ such as Columbia and Chile‚ but it is illegal in every state in the United States‚ except some parts of Nevada. Legalizing prostitution

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    Drug Legalization in the United States Kristie Hurley Ashford University Abstract This paper will explore four websites and one online newspaper addressing the subject of drug trafficking in the United States and why legalization is a profitable alternative. The various ways drugs are bought into the country‚ information on how and why drug trafficking has increased in the United States‚ statistics on the number of people that are addicts‚ and the problems related to foreign countries on this

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    Mariam's Taboos

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    own‚ that she had the ultimate power to choose the course of her own life. One could attest that fact to the inability of Mariam to be independent as a child or to the limited control she had over her own life because of her father. Yet as well‚ one could attest that her inability to believe she had control over her own life came from the Afghan culture she lived in‚ and the oppression that women faced due to cultural norms and government control. “A culture prohibiting women to appear in public

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    How To Prevent Apollo 13

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    land on the moon‚ but instead of awaiting its arrival‚ Apollo oxygen tank exploded causing an emergency evacuation. This essay will inform you on a problem from the launch of Apollo 13‚ what they did to resolve the issue‚ and how what I would have did to prevent the problem and how I would have approached the solution to the problem. April 11‚ 1970 is the date when Apollo 13 was cleared to launch from Houston’s Mission Control Center. Apollo seemed to be in great condition until after their third day

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    past. I have a dream that Nigeria will be a country where the government will recognise the value and importance of individuals ‚ which was what Henry David Thoreau called really free and enlightened state. he pinpointed that there will never be a really free and enlightened state until the state come to recognise the individual as a higer and independent power from which all its own power and authority derived and treats him accordingly. I have a dream …………………. to be

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    History September 20‚ 2012 Reconstruction At the end of the civil war in 1865‚ the government of the United States had to solve some delicate problems. How should the former confederate states be treated after their defeat? What should happen with the freedmen‚ the former slaves that were supposed to live as citizens now? Should the southern states be punished‚ should they reenter the Union and which conditions would they have to fulfill therefore? The way to manage these

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    contracted by fleas that have jumped from rats that carried the black death bacteria. If a person gets the disease black welts will bloom all over his or her body as the bacteria spreads to your lymph glands The black death is so deadly because of how fast it can spread‚ and the lack of medical technology to “currently” help stop it It is extremely deadly and aggressive as eight out of ten people who contract the disease die of the it It can be prevented‚ just do simple things. For example keep clean

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    During World War II‚ citizens of the United States created a strong sense of national identity through military service‚ military supply manufacturing‚ and other contributions to the war effort. In the decade following the war‚ the United States shifted its gaze and group concern from threats of fascism in Europe to threats of spreading Communism emanating from the Soviet Union. Different from the national identity fostered during WWII‚ the post-war national identity Mark Hamilton Lytle calls “Cold

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    Week 6 1. James A. Tyner‚ “The Geopolitics of Eugenics and the Exclusion of Philippine Immigrants from the United States‚” The Geographical Review‚ 89‚ no. 1 (1999)‚ 54-73. In this article‚ Tyner explains the pseudoscience and logic behind the discrimination against Filipino immigrants during the early 1900’s. Using eugenics as justification‚ the government made it clear that America was to remain a white-dominated country with little tolerance for immigrants. A prime example of this anti-immigration

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    Legalization of Marijuana in the United States Author: Heidi Heffron-Clark ENGL112ON_AC: Composition Professor: Julie Joki  Talk about a hot topic! Marijuana and the discussion surrounding full legalization of the substance in the United States‚ has been creating a stir for many years now. Some people feel that there is no need to legalize another drug and take the risk of allowing it to get into the hands of children or people that may not be exposed to it if were not legal. Others say

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