08 February 2013 Response: Art Crime: Graffiti Wars Matthew Newton began his article‚ Art Crime: Graffiti Wars‚ by explaining a man whom the police identified as the most wanted graffiti artist in Pittsburgh. After bringing the man to court‚ police had come to realize that he was wanted for crimes that resulted in $212‚000 in damages. The case of this man illustrates what people believe as an increasing crackdown on graffiti across the country. Newton addresses the argument of what graffiti art
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Republic Politics‚ governance and leadership‚ play an enormous role in the day to day living of all societies‚ and communities all over the globe‚ from back in historic times to the modern world. In the book “Mayflower: a story of Courage‚ Community and War”‚ by Nathaniel Philbrick; there is a detailed account of how political events and complications contributed to the relationship between the Wampanoag people and the pilgrim settlers from Europe. The two communities engaged in both mutually beneficial
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Fighting A War Within America "The beauty is we don’t need to be 100% of the way there. If we get 20% of the way there‚ we will change the health status of our kids for a generation.” These were Michelle Obama’s words assuring Americans that with government involvement‚ change is possible. According to the National Institute of Health‚ obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Currently‚ nearly two-thirds of Americans are overweight and 34% of those are obese
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Mark Juergensmeyer’s “The New Cold War”: Smith mentioned Juergensmeyer‚ who in “The New Cold War: Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State” (Juergensmeyer 1993) attempted to deal with the question of religious nationalism and the expected conflict between it and the secular society. While Juergensmeyer does deal with a nationalism that is religious‚ his definition seems to be influenced by secularization theory‚ presenting religion opposed to the secular society with no chance for the two
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Americans have a tradition of fighting that goes long past the formation of the United States and before the official creation of its Army. John Grenier argues in his book‚ The First Way of War‚ that this long history created by early Americans “created a military tradition that accepted‚ legitimized‚ and encouraged attacks upon and the destruction of noncombatants‚ villages‚ and agricultural resources” (pg. 10). His purpose of the book is to offer a differing perspective from the common belief that
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America’s War on Sex is based upon the central point to which everyone who is a citizen in America‚ has the right to entitle their own opinion. Part of being free is entitling your opinion and having a say on your rights as a citizen. This book defines and looks at the many violations of civil liberties in reference to sexual freedom. You will find policies that could create social problems and increase personal anxiety. In America’s War on Sex by Dr. Marty Klein there is a group of people who are
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The War On Drugs In the article written by Julian Critchley‚ he urges us to see through the tabloids’ fantasist dictation of drugs and instead focus on the facts; the legalization of drugs would have an overall positive effect on society. He shared his experiences and gathered knowledge over his time spent at the forefront of the war on drugs and takes a controversial step against the current government policy to make radical changes to our country’s draconian drug laws. His argument is
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According to this article‚ James Clear gives us the definition about what motivation is and how it works along with how to get motivated and take action and how to stay motivated for the long-run. He paraphrased a line from a book‚ The War of Art‚ which he thought is the center point of motivation: “At some point‚ the pain of not doing it becomes greater than the pain of doing it.” This is accurate because everyone somehow find it easier to just not do something than to find the motivated about doing
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Hawaii was established with Sanford B. Dole as president. Following annexation (1898)‚ Hawaii became a U.S. territory in 1900. The Japanese attack on the naval base at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7‚ 1941‚ was directly responsible for U.S. entry into World War II. Hawaii‚ 2‚397 mi west-southwest
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In her book Vanada Shiva points out a growing concern many people do not pay attention do in their everyday lives. We take water for granted‚ and find hard to imagine a day when the tap runs dry. In Water Wars the author does an excellent job of analyzing the privatization‚ pollution‚ and profit of water in the International arena. She takes a scientific approach and explains the means and methods of water processing and extraction. In offering several tragic examples of where the water tables have
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