Case Study: The USA PATRIOT Act One of the most controversial policies to pass legislation within the United States congress with the approval of our president at the time‚ George W. Bush‚ was the USA PATRIOT Act. The USA PATRIOT Act is actually a acronym for the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act. This Act reduced the restrictions‚ which now allowed the law the power to search various electronic communications records
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The Patriot Act was enacted in October 2001 shortly after attacks from terrorists on the United States on September 11‚ 2001. The act gives Federal officials and state agencies greater authority and tools to investigate and track suspected terrorists with the goal of bringing them to trial. The attacks on the United Stated on September 11‚ 2001 were planned and carried out by 19 people affiliated with the al-Qaeda network. This group hijacked four commercial airlines with the intent to crash
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The Patriot “If you mean by patriot‚ am I angry about taxation without representation‚ well‚ yes I am. Should the American colonies govern themselves independently? I believe that they can‚ and they should. But if you are asking me‚ am I willing to go to war with England? Well‚ then the answer is most definitely NO!” – The Patriot The Patriot was directed and produced by Roland Emmerich in 2000 and filmed in Charleston‚ South Carolina where parts of the movie were actually based. The movie stars
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games in all of sports. This past February‚ 111 million people worldwide watched the Patriots defeat the Falcons in overtime. In past ten championship games‚ the Patriots have appeared four times and won two. Out of every team in the National Football League (NFL)‚ the Patriots have played in the big game nine times and won five. In contrast‚ the Browns have never won or been to a Super Bowl. While the Patriots became champions once again this past football season‚ the Cleveland Browns had the
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and seeing two American airlines being flown into the World Trade Center in New York City and one into the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Over 3‚000 people died in the catastrophic. The 9/11 disaster left the nation to mourn and grief‚ but the unity and patriotism got stronger. To prevent further terrorist attacks from happening on the U.S. again‚ President George Bush pushed Congress to pass the Patriot Act. The USA Patriot Act stands for (U)niting and (S)trengthening (A)merica by (P)roviding (A)ppropriate
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The Patriot The film The Patriot directed by Roland Emmerich follows Benjamin Martin‚ a hero of the French and Indian War‚ and his service in the American Revolution fighting against the British. The Patriot is a film that romanticizes the fact that freedom is not free. The intended purpose of the film is to make Americans and those who fought for freedom to feel good about their country. In fact‚ freedom is a continuous theme in the movie from start to finish. This can be seen at the start of
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"The American people are beginning to realize that this piece of legislation poses a threat to our God-given freedoms protected by the U.S. Constitution." In the following viewpoint‚ John F. McManus claims that the USA Patriot Act‚ which was passed in response to the September 11‚ 2001‚ attacks on the United States‚ gives the president authority and powers that are not limited to the pursuit of terrorists. McManus warns that the act licenses snooping on U.S. citizens‚ including the seizure of business
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of the great sacrifice and bloodshed from common men and families that paid the price for independence. Several men and their families were captured‚ tortured or killed as traitors. Many lost their lives or sons’ lives in fighting the war. The Patriot is a well acted and gripping revisitation of the Revolutionary War with painfully realistic‚ bloody battle reenactments that compromise dramatic integrity. It has captured the brutal
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What It Means To Be a Patriot (1)Honor.There is a little bit of it in each of us‚ some more than others‚ but because they earned it. But what exactly is honor? When people think of honor there are a multiple things that come to mind that would define it. (2)People are often mistaken for what honor really is and who is deserving of it. Most people would think giving it to the patriots of their country would be suitable‚ which sounds understandable. But what is a patriot? (3)(T) In order for someone
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learn and become a collective dependant I would earn a stable lively-hood in one of the New World colonies. I suffered losses of loved who fell sick and died with only a few remaining that were as impoverished as myself. I feared there would be no prospect of a better life in Scotland and contracted myself as an indentured servant for passage to the New World colonies. Along with many others I boarded a New World merchant ship that specialized in the trade of textiles and clothing. In exchange
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