tax paying residents of D.C. do not have a voice in congress. Do you think that’s fair? Having no vote on federal decisions that impact your life? According to mayor Muriel Bowser‚ “D.C. residents pays billions of dollars each and every year [...] yet we have no vote in the house.” There is a reason why D.C.’s license plates says “taxation without representation.” Residents are forced to shell out for federal taxes but yet have no member of congress there to fight on their behalf. People living in D
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question one‚ a current affairs issue in the United States that is important to me is equal representation of races and gender within the sector of the media. Despite the United States being a nation that is becoming increasingly diverse‚ what is shown on screen and behind the scenes does not reflect our nation’s changing demographic. This is an important issue to me as a woman of color whose goal is to become a documentary filmmaker. Equal representation in the media is necessary because the media helps
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and the Judicial branch. The Legislative Branch is led by congress. The main job of this branch is to make the laws. There are four parts to the Legislative branch. Those four parts are the House of Representatives‚ the Senate‚ Making Laws and The Veto. The first important part of this branch is the House of Representatives who represent the state based on population. States that have a bigger population have more representatives and states with fewer population have less representatives. The second
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President and Congress has been the subject of much talk and debate over the years. This relationship is affected by many things‚ what party is in the White House and the Congress and if they are opposition parties. Their relationship is affected by the personalities and agendas of both the President and the Leadership of the Congress and how willing they are to work together to get legislation passed. This relationship is one of constant change and controversy throughout American history. So‚ how does
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Compromise of 1877 The compromise of 1877 was a few promises that were made by the Republics to the Democrats. Among these promises were to remove military from South‚ Appoint a Democrat to cabinet ‚ and Federal money for railroad construction and levees on Mississippi river. But the promise that affected the Environment and Geography was the promise for federal money for construction of a railroad and levees on the Mississippi river. That promise would require a lot of steel which would contribute
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The United States: A Work In Progress On November 5‚ 1768‚ George Washington sent a letter to James Madison‚ which addresses the need for a stronger government. In that period of time‚ citizens of the United States felt a sense of insecurity about what their country was turning into. As Washington says in his letter‚ “We are fast verging to anarchy and confusion... ‘Leave them to themselves‚ and their government will soon dissolve’‚ Will not the wise and good strive to avert this problem?” George
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Never had the flaws of capitalism been so evident or as devastating as during the decade that followed the outbreak of the Great Depression in 1929. All across the Euro-American heartland of capitalist world‚ this vaunted economy system seemed to unravel. For the rich it meant contracting stock prices that wiped out paper fortunes almost overnight. On that day that the American stock market initially crashed (October 24‚ 1929)‚ eleven Wall Street finances committed suicide‚ some by jumping out of
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The Compromise of 1850 Chris Owens 13404 The Compromise of 1850 is one of the most important compromises in this history of the United States‚ maybe even the world. The Compromise of 1850 is made up of five bills passed in the United States of America in September 1850‚ and it terminated a four-year confrontation between the slave states of the south and the free states of the north concerning the position of territories gained during the time of the Mexican-American war
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IN THE SUMMER of 1964 student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) went to Gadsden County‚ Florida in an effort to convert the old plantation county in the heart of the Florida panhandle into a bastion of CORE’s Southern civil rights crusade.(1) Before the summer ended‚ the students would be bombed‚ beaten‚ and arrested by white authorities and vigilantes. Despite these obstacles‚ CORE activists helped over 3‚500 local residents register to vote and take part in the 1964 presidential
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Sectional Compromises in the 19th Century There are two mind paths to choose when considering the statement that the compromises of the 1800s were not really compromises‚ but sectional sellouts by the North‚ that continually gave in to the South’s wishes. The first is that the compromises really were compromises‚ and the second is that the compromises were modes of the North selling out. Really‚ there is only one correct mind path of these two‚ and that is that the North sold out during
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