Social Inequality and Minorities in the United States In this course I have learned about many different kinds of social problems in societies around the world and in the United States‚ such as poverty‚ social inequality‚ race and cultural discrimination‚ gender stratification‚ environmental damage‚ population growth‚ and urbanization. I chose my final essay to be on Social Inequality and Minorities in the United States. For me this subject raises many points of our daily life and brings us to
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Legalizing Gambling Gambling is legal in many places‚ it’s not either a criminal or dangerous activity provided it is done responsibly‚ and in accordance with the law. Have you ever wagered on a game? If so you were gambling and should have been fined. Lawmakers have decided that it is evil to gamble‚ they have justified it as a means to scam billions from citizens in order to compensate for their mismanagement of tax revenue. They pass laws that could put a taxpayer in jail for placing a single
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I chose to do my final for the Criminal Justice academy on the United States Coast Guard. The reason I chose that topic is because it has always interested me and I plan to hopefully pursue a career in that field. My opinion on the Coast Guard is that it is the best branch of the military and there is no other like them and without the Coast Guard‚ the United States would not be the way it is today. To support my statement I’m going to talk about what they are‚ when they got started‚ what their purpose
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Genocide is the killing of a group of people for power‚ race‚ land‚ political or religious reasons. It is the extermination of large groups of people. Genocide includes the murder of men‚ women and children. In 1944 a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin defined this senseless killing of people‚ genocide. Lempkin along with the United Nations helped to establish that genocide was an international crime. The United Nations (UN)‚ The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights established
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pipe. For centuries‚ marijuana has been used by different nationalities for religious‚ recreational‚ and medical use. While it is currently illegal in the United States‚ marijuana is legal in European countries such as Holland and Belgium‚ and Amsterdam. Marijuana‚ in its natural form‚ is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. It can be safely used within a supervised routine of medical care. For marijuana to be illegal in the United States when alcohol poisoning is a major
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Gay Marriage in the United States By Teresenia Soto 2/14/2014 Mr.Cosma JE Young Will Rogers once said‚ “We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others”. But‚ many will argue that this should not apply to all liberties of the American people; in fact they will differ with anyone who threatens their idea of right and immoral. For most‚ this argument begins with Gay Marriage. As of 2014 there are now 17 states in union under same-sex
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Education in the United States Introduction The United States of America is one of‚ if not the most powerful country on this planet. Built over two-hundred years ago‚ with a foundation of liberty and justice‚ an influential democratic government‚ and a forceful military with the world’s largest Air Force‚ the United States truly is a force to be reckoned with. However‚ The US is deprived of the greatest we have in this world; education. In the world we live in‚ education is everything‚ success is
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In the United States over 1.2 million students drop out of high school (US Census Bureau).That’s about a student every 26 seconds/7‚000 a day. About 6‚000 people that don’t get to graduate end up obtaining a minimum wage job for the rest of their life. They struggle‚ and many Americans question why the number one industrialized country suffers an extremely high percentage of poverty and what triggers it? People know that not graduating from high school is the number one factor that causes poverty
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“We will not trade our liberty for security. Not now‚ not ever”! (dilemmas p. 2) Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky stated in a security speech to the CPAC. There are two conflicting views emerging in today’s American society. Supporters of each of these perspectives are strengthened as they fight for their opinions to be the ideal enforced by laws. The conflict is over‚ which is more important to the American people; national security‚ through which the government strives to protect its people‚ or the
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Crime in the United States is a fascinating phenomenon. It has changed throughout time and history. It evolved and progressed. There are visible waves in crime rates in the American history; this is often caused by changes in the economy‚ political situation as well as unemployment rate. Crime rates can also depend on the demographics of the area being studied. These are the several variables which can alter the outcome of crime rate measurement. The crime statistics in the United States‚ as well as
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