REASONS SOME PEOPLE DON’T VOTE In most elections there is a greater amount of non-voters than voters. People who don’t vote are often apathetic‚ too lazy‚ thoughtless‚ or they belong to a religious organization or other organization that tells them or brainwashes them into not voting. The Apathetic Non-voter People who are apathetic feel that there is no reason to vote. The country is
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We aren’t racists‚ yet we buttress a system that acts in racist ways.” stated Nicholas Kristof in part 3 of his series “When Whites Just Don’t Get It”. This series involves five different articles in which Kristoff explains that even though we have come a long way from racism in the past‚ it is still very much alive. A black household has on average about 6 percent as much wealth as a white household‚ black students are less likely to attend schools that offer advanced math and science courses‚ and
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Guns don’t kill people – people kill people. I know some of you are shaking your heads and thinking how ridiculous that statement is. But‚ to say that guns kill people is to say that the car killed the family of four‚ instead of the drunk driver killed the family of four. Watch almost any nightly news and you will see a story about someone in the community who gets butchered by a drunk driver. The Center for Disease Control reported that in 2013 there were 10‚076 Americans killed in alcohol-impaired
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matter truth it or not” John Pilger’s documentary movie you can’t see because of war he showed in it. It is not a new report about war cruel or lies in mass-media‚ it is a scream in a silent society about extent of our information blindness. It is a movie you can’t see‚ you don’t want to see‚ but you must see. “The war you don’t see” shows us a huge difference between what we expect from mass-media and what we really get. And we always get a lie. How big and how powerful this lie depends on the situation
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The book "You Don’t Know Me" is not your average book. It has many twists and turns in it. It has to do with a teenager who finds himself in a lot of crazy situations. The main characters are John‚ Gloria‚ Violet Hayes‚ Mr. Steenwilly‚ the man who is not John’s father (that’s what John calls him)‚ and his mother (she is not names either). You Don’t Know Me is about John and his confusing life. If you don’t read it‚ you should since it’s an amazing book. John is a fourteen year old boy who lives
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and compression. The Importance of Trusses Before the industrial revolution almost all trusses in use were made of stone. But stone wasn’t as good as wood and iron when resisting tension and compression. Countries like the United States had much wood so they made many wooden truss bridges. Throughout the 19th centenary many types of trusses where patented from wood to iron but these wrought iron truss bridges where all slowly replaced with steel bridges in the late 19th centenary. Advantages and
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Truss bridges are recognizable because of their numerous‚ relatively small interconnected triangles. This framework of triangles is used for is strength to withstand tension and compression forces. They are considered a light-weight yet a very stiff form of construction. At first they were built of wood‚ then with the discovery of welding they began to build then using iron‚ then steel. Occasionally‚ a combination of the materials may be used. There are actually 30 different kinds of truss bridges
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for an American pilot Francis Gary Power and also an American economic college student named Frederic Pryor; and the second one was his negotiation with Fidel Castro‚ Cuban Premier‚ for releasing American imprisoned in Bay of Pigs invasion‚ 1961. Bridge of Spies is a product of one of the most famous director of all time‚ Steve Spielberg. The movie was told that based on the truth story about the 1960 U-2 incident‚ but as in this kind of movie‚ there were contents that were dramatized and surely
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In William Deresiewhich‚ Diane Ravitch and Carmen Lugo Lugo all their essay have one main objective they want to pin point. The objective is that education is taking a turn rather than following the true intentions education was envisioned. Initially‚ Horace Mann creator of the education system in America vision to raise individuals to be good citizen’s‚ to have knowledge in democracy and follow democracy. Sadly‚ as Deresiewich states “we have tried aristocracy‚ meritocracy and it is now time to
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Within paragraph eight of William F. Buckley Jr essay "Why Don’t We Complain?" Buckley portrays the idea of "passive compliance" and "heedless endurance."His thought expresses that there are things he brought into what should be known and how much exertion it take for the strength it takes to get a point over. I am for Buckley’s circumstance. Compliance benefits the order of what ought to have been done on the train when it was the dead of winter and eight five degrees on the coach car. He states
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