In 2004 Obama said: "The war on drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our marijuana laws… we need to rethink how we operate the drug wars." according to the website http://www.commondreams.org. When the war on drugs was declared everyone thought it would be a could idea. Not knowing that in 1971 when President Richard Nixon declared the war on drug‚ his plan would only result in trillions of dollars wasted on an endless battle that couldn’t be won. President Nixon
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Drones at War The drone budget for the U.S military is 5 billion dollars? In reality‚ that is not very much money. Drones are used in many ways that are helpful to our country. They can spy‚ drop bombs‚ shoot things and take down terrorists. Drones can do these things very well and they are really cheap. They can save lives with their precise shots with nobody having to be in the vehicle to do these things. If we used drones in war we could save money‚ save lives‚ and the U.S would have another
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In today’s society‚ few have been informed with the ongoing drug war. The drug abuse that this nation has been through has grown exponential in the past decade. The nation is going down a never-ending hill. The outcome of this war could not be stopped. As few have accepted‚ the drug abuse cannot be contained. Just as Gary Mendell said “There is no single way to end the addiction crisis that has ravaged so many communities”‚ there is no containing the drug abuse to single town or community.(Katel)
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partnered with British Pathè to create an online video series titled‚ The Great War. British Pathè is a curator of newsreel footage from around the world and contains over 85‚000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance. British Pathè provides a variety of archival footage from the First World War to be used in the production of the video series. “The Great War shows you the history of the First World War in the four years from 1914 to 1918‚ exactly 100 years ago. Our host Indy
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keep growing‚ so does the threat of an extinction level event . The global impact that a nuclear war would bring comes with many consequences. T Nuclear bombs must be banned and stockpiles removed to ensure that the human population does not annihilate both itself and its mother- Earth. United States of America dropped a nuclear weapon on Hiroshima civilian populations to hasten the end of World War two. On August 6th‚ an Atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima‚ Japan. When the uranium gun type atomic
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a new war in Iraq. The deployment of 250‚000 troops‚ fighter jets‚ aircraft carriers and heavy weaponry in the Persian Gulf shows we are on the eve of war‚ which most commentators say will soon happen. The United States decided to present their own intelligence report before the Security Council‚ in order to convince the public opinion in America and worldwide that the war is now inevitable‚ but there are a lot of reasons that explain why the United States should not invade the Iraq. The war we are
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World War II and the Cold War The world was left unhappy after World War I and another war broke out‚ World War II. This was followed by yet another war‚ the Cold War. The aggression of European and Asian dictators led to war. These dictators were totalitarian dictators. Totalitarianism is a political system in which the government exercises complete control over its citizens’ lives. One of the most infamous dictators of all time‚ Adolf Hitler‚ was the despot of Germany. Hitler created Nazism
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The Coldest of Wars The exact definition of a cold war is a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats‚ propaganda and other measures short of open warfare‚ in particular. Many historians believe that the Cold War officially started at the end of World War 2 but others will argue that it began with the October Revolution in Russia in 1917.With many primary sources like‚ The Marshall Plan‚ The George Kennan’s famous long telegram‚ the Nonproliferation Treaty‚ the Cuban
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The War on Drugs is such a huge issue in today’s society. What is the war on drugs? It refers to the governmental programs intended to suppress the consumption of certain recreational drugs. There are many other drugs that are more harmful to your body then marijuana. Alcohol and tobacco‚ which are legal “drugs”‚ are two of them. There are many reasons to why the government should legalize marijuana and there are also many reasons to why the government should not legalize marijuana. Today I
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WAS THE KOREAN WAR AN EPISODE OF THE COLD WAR? The Korean war that was fought between the Northerners and Southerners of Korean with the support of the USSR and the United states of America; in the name of United Nations was one of the major events of the cold which increased the tension and contributed so much to the development of the cold war. The involvement of the super powers triggered the extent to which the Korean War can be referred to as one of the episodes of the cold war. In addition
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