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    Passive vs. Active Voice Voice is the form of a verb that shows whether the subject is performing the action. In English‚ there are two voices: active and passive. Only action verbs indicate the active voice; linking verbs cannot. If the subject of a verb performs the action‚ the voice is active. The captain telephoned the crew. Telegraph messages gathered on the desk. If the subject receives the action‚ the voice is passive. The crew was telephoned by the captain. The telegraph

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    Abstract The purpose of this paper is to give a brief overview on history of terrorism and how it impacts the United States. Additionally‚ this paper will provide some insight on the previous and current presidential administration’s attempts to protect this great nation from terrorist acts Introduction Ever since the Al Qaeda’s attack of September 11‚ 2012‚ against the United States‚ our nation has implemented counterterrorism policies to combat jihadist terrorism. Sadly terrorism is not

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    Negative and anti-Muslim views are often based on appearance and other observations‚ assumption‚ and stereotypes. Negative & anti-Muslim views are often based on appearance and other observations.According to the article titled "Ethnic and Religious Profiling Violates Civil Liberties‚" “Azhar Usman‚ a burly American-born Muslim with a heavy black beard‚ says that he elicits an almost universal reaction when he boards an airplane at any United States airport: conversations stop in mid-sentence and

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    In total 168 people were killed when a bomb planted by anti-government zealot Timothy McVeigh. The cases are very similar in that each situation was handled in the U.S court system. It’s important to understand that in both cases only two persons were responsible for the act. If the U.S decided to adopt the strategy that terrorism is an

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    Death Penalty

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    many years. The following essay will not solve the issue either; I will only try to persuade the reader to understand my point of view. The death penalty has both supporters and non-supporters. The death penalty is justified in certain cases such as Mcveigh Vs State of Indiana; however it is unjustified when in other cases‚ including Bloodsworth Vs State of Maryland. The death penalty is a must‚ especially in today ’s society. With the increase in vicious crimes today‚ the government must act just as

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    Before the introduction of our modern technological devices we’ve come to know and depend on‚ we were living in a predominantly paper centered world where “little thought was given to the electronic future where technology would have proved new tools not simply to process data but rather to collect information in unforeseen ways or to mine previously undetermined knowledge from data repositories” (Strickland and Hunt 1). Paper is not at the center of world anymore‚ now we are living in a digital

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    Chan Kim Professor Seiling HIST 170 22 May 2013 Debate between John Brown and Irrational Terrorist Opposition to slavery issue was a major problem in the seventeenth and eighteenth century in the United States. Most of the opposition came from the religious leaders‚ especially Christian (Purtian) leaders. Such as Samuel Sewall‚ John Woolman and Anthony Bezezet published pamphlets that urge people to abolish slavery system. John Brown was also the abolitionist who believed that armed insurrection

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    ’’I support the death penalty because I believe‚ if administered swiftly and justly‚ capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.’’ Those were words of the 43rd President of the United States‚ George Walker Bush. Capital Punishment is a controvercial issue in the present-day world. This turbulent dispute whether the punishment should be retained or not has been going on for years. Since the begining of the human history‚ at first‚ people have been

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    He committed the crime alone nobody questioned his people. When Adam Lanza shot a classroom full of 1st graders nobody asked him to leave the country. When Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people in Oklahoma nobody called this a crime against every American. We don’t label all white men based on the sins of a few - do the KKK or IRA represent Christianity Or are the murders of Rohingya based on Buddhist philosophy? Obviously

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    Patricia Cornwell once said “First of all‚ it does not deter crime‚ the death penalty.” So why was it made in the first place? Well‚ many believe that with this system we can eliminate atrocious criminals such as Timothy McVeigh‚ a young man who bombed Oklahoma City taking the lives of 168 people‚ who was later executed. This definitely helps in removing that one criminal‚ but what about the other thousands? If the death penalty were enforced in Canada then it not only do so but also increase our

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