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    passion for societal justice to fulfill their duty to protect society. Their ability to carry lethal weapons and use them to their discretion enables officers to protect civilians to the best of their ability‚ because non-lethal weapons such as taser guns and

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    this topic is far too complex. Infact‚ many studies either hold inconclusive or contradictory results. However‚ as we move further into 21st century changing‚ there has been a shift in findings. Many studies now refute the idea that videogames cause violence or‚ if the results support it‚ they are still weary to confirm them as 100% accurate. There are many other studies that have been conducted concerning the possible benefits of gaming. These studies have found that due to

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    down‚ by 1933 over 4‚000 banks closed. At this time they had President Franklin Roosevelt‚ who served four terms during the Great Depression‚ to look up to. Roosevelt took action to try to turn the country around and make it better for the citizens. What Roosevelt thought the Great Depression revealed was deep deficits among the society. He declared a bank holiday on March 6‚7‚8‚ and 9th of 1933‚ so the government could access the banks and declare which were worth saving. In 1933 the FDIC was created

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    The main reason‚ most Americans moved to the west was to gain wealth‚ freedom‚ and to worship what they believed (Schultz‚ 2013). There were two periods of Americans moving west the first period transpired from 1820 and 1844 and took place regardless of the governments consent. At the beginning of the settling of the west Mountain Men were responsible for the exploration and finding the safest trails and paths to traverse. These Mountain Men paved the way for the new settlers into the western region

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    campuses. The guns provide the protection that may be necessary in certain situations. Like the Virginia Tech Shooting‚ many people could have been saved if only one person had a gun. Having a gun gives a sense of safety to many people on the campus‚ especially for women with a greater risk of intruders and rapists. For these women‚ knowing that they have a way to defend themselves can set their minds to ease. Though some believe that the allowance of guns would increase violence on campus‚ no

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    U.S planes and ships. Pearl Harbor will always be remembered. Pearl Harbor was a devastating attack which showed how tactical and dangerous Japan can be.. Japan spent lots of time practicing the attack at a island like Hawaii so that they knew what weapons to use and how to attack in the most effective way. “Japanese planes came in two waves. They first bombed battleships in the harbor. Then the supporting cruisers and destroyers were bombed. Finally‚ the military airfields near the shore were

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    The Cold War was a time of political and military tension between United States and the Soviet Union. The cold war wasn’t any normal war‚ there was no mass killings‚ no tanks or fighter jets‚ there wasn’t even any ground units. What there was though was a lot of nuclear weapons and money being spent on propaganda such as; newspapers‚ magazines and radio. They were spending money as if an actual war was going on. And even though there wasn’t any real physical war going on there were two great superpowers

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    During the following period protests by colonists also known as Patriots continued to increase rapidly. With the Boston Tea Party in 1773 Patriots demolished a load of taxed tea from the East India Company. The British returned what they believed to be the belligerence of the colonists by decreeing laws known as The Coercive Acts on Massachusetts in 1774 until the tea had been paid for. In 1774 the Patriots set up their own form of government to better their independence effort

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    Gun Control Guns kill; not people. Many would argue the opposite and say that it is down to the individual to control himself or herself. The facts state the obvious and I will prove to you that gun control can save lives. Since the tragic school shooting in Newton Connecticut‚ gun control has taken center stage around the country and with our politicians. Here are some facts from the FBI Crime Reports; of the 452 people murdered in Illinois in 2011 83% were killed with guns... the highest percentage

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    Great Depression The early 1920’s was first known as the roaring twenties. Everything in America seemed to be going great. There was new inventions‚ more factories and industrialization! People were using credit‚ stock prices were rising it seemed as if nothing could go wrong. That was until the late 1920’s and everything started to slowly fall apart and then the economy all fell all at once. Americans all had smiles on their faces except for farmers. Farmers had purchased land when the war was

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