network allows the latest global events to be aired worldwide and beamed directly to your living room. Examples (from top-left‚ clockwise) include September 11th attack‚ 2004 Tsunami in Indonesia‚ 2008 H1N1 outbreak and 2011 earthquake in Japan. Pros of watching television The positive aspects of watching television include that you have something to talk to friends and relatives about. There are certain programs which are more popular than others and if you watch them you feel included and
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history; specifically‚ in the relationship between the president and the public. The Constitution is vague when it describes communication of the president: a president must say why they veto a bill‚ and they must inform the public on the state of the union (Ellis 82). President George Washington had the task of establishing how the president would interact with the public. During the early days of the presidency the President communicated seldomly with the public; this is because the president was supposed
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Welfare Welfare‚ money given to families in need‚ is not free money. It benefits many people who have a low income or no means of income at all. The benefits available are based on the level of money earned for different sized families and in different states. Welfare is also not to be provided in a biased manner to anyone who applies for it. A lot of people in today’s society depend on welfare. Welfare in the United States Governments serve the financially challenged through about 60 public assistance
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Daniela Ochoa Professor Klein English 111 29 March 2015 Immigration: The good‚ the bad and the ugly. Immigration is very important to me because it hits so close to home. Till this day I can remember the first time I found out how my dad came into America. I was an adult when he told me his whole illegal journey. I was so surprised‚ actually very proud of my dad and everything he went through to get here. See‚ the whole concept behind immigration‚ they make it seem so bad but in actuality these
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Amending the constitution is one process that takes time. It’s a process that starts off with amendment proposals. In the U.S. Congress‚ both the House of Representatives and the Senate approve by a 2/3 supermajority vote. Amendments that are approved do not require the signature of the President and are sent directly to the states for ratification. There are two methods in ratifying amendments to the constitution. One is ¾ of the state legislatures must approve of the amendment proposed by congress
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Zheng He sailed the oceans for the Chinese Empire during the early fifteenth century. (Zheng) He took seven voyages during his tenure‚ as admiral of the Chinese naval power. Suddenly‚ in the year of 1433‚ all expeditions came to a halt and the ships were burnt until they no longer existed along with most documentation of these voyages. Although some historians‚ like Needham‚ argue that the new outbreak of Confucianism among the common people changed the thought process of the Chinese and their opinion
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does the American government control its population? The way it still is – divide and conquer. It pits one group against the other and lets them fight. Native-Americans against whites. Blacks against whites. Red states against blue states. Pro-choice against pro-life. Women against men. Liberals against conservatives. Straight against gay. The fighting is endorsed and encouraged by the power elite because it distracts their unjust or illegal methods of control‚ that if carefully examined and brought
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I believe that the International Astronomical union is wrong to believe that Pluto no longer deserves the designation of a planet. I even disagree with the definition of what a planet should be‚ and after doing a little bit of research‚ I have found that only four percent of IAU members were actually present for the vote. They chose to vote on the day that most of the members were catching a flight home. Kind of fishy if you ask me. After over 80 years of being a planet‚ and in just one night it
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The Necessity of ObamaCare in the United States The United States is heavily watched around the world in terms of politics or any other action as it is one of the leading countries of the world. Recently‚ the United States caught the eye of the world in its recent debate of the health care reform. Most commonly referred to as “ObamaCare” the official name is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or for short‚ the Affordable Care Act (ACA). President Barack Obama on March 23‚ 2010
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Two recent actions by the Barack Obama administration—Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA)—will incentivize more unauthorized immigrants to come to the United States‚ despite a recent rejection of such an argument by a Texas judge. The evidence of such incentivization is the quadrupling of unauthorized immigrants since the 1986 immigration reform and the recent surge in unaccompanied minors crossing the border without legal permission.
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