Alan Rumsey ASSIGNMENT TITLE: Minority Group: The Uyghur people of Xinjiang China. WORD COUNT: 2049 (Not including Bibliography) Even since China’s rapid development of the 1990’s‚ to this day there is still a large degree of unrest encompassing all it’s minority groups. One such group is the Uyghur people‚ of whom reside in China’s northwest region of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region‚ more commonly referred to as the Xinjiang province. This minority group face a definite number of cultural
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Divorce in the United States Divorce involves the recognition that a marriage has hopelessly failed and that at least one of the partners has no desire to continue the marital relationship. Divorce legally dissolves a marriage‚ and permits the partners to remarry if they choose. Divorce differs from an annulment‚ which declares a marriage invalid because of some flaw in the contract. The early American settlers brought with them three different views on divorce: 1) the Roman Catholic view
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system of owning slaves”. Slavery‚ in the United States‚ is discussed in elementary school‚ read about in high school‚ and dismissed in adulthood. This is‚ mainly‚ due to the fact that slavery is obsolete in the eyes of those born and raised in the United States. This is subsequently understandable‚ as slavery has been abolished for more than 150 years. The history of the slavery is important to the history of the United States‚ as it is the truth of what has happened. Slavery was‚ and is‚ a cruel and
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Poverty in the United States is getting in inferior quality every day and nothing is being done about it. Many people who want to help the poor‚ but no one knows exactly how to help them. A primary reason for people not taking action is because of lack of information that is provided about issues on poverty. Poverty is defined as the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. According to the U.S. Census Bureau data released Tuesday September 13th
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Such categories can help to explain how ethnicity‚ nationalism‚ religion‚ and ideology factor into the levels of political violence within a given state. Ethnicity and ethnic conflict within a state can cause inequality in a state. Ethnic conflict can be created by various factors‚ including political factors (O’Neil‚ Patrick‚ Fields‚ Share). A multi-ethnic society does not always result in political violence. Political violence emerges when one ethnic group is dominant over the other and controls
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Cyberbullying is widely recognized as a major issue in the United States and‚ when applied to teens and adolescents‚ is often credited as a major factor of Internet-related suicides. Although cyberbullying is the broader term applied to suicides caused by cruel comments online‚ the more specific term would more often than not be suicide baiting‚ which is exactly what it sounds like: taunting and coercing and pushing someone into suicide. In her article “Twitter Trolls and the Refusal to Be Silenced
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The Space Race Have you ever wondered what it’s like being in space. You would probably have fun maybe you also want to land on the moon too. Well in 1958 the NASA (space program) was created. The U.S.A against the U.S.S.R (soviet union) for the space race or technical advance was created. This space race was created in the Cold War in about 1957 and the Cold War was started in 1947 and lasted o 1991. Who could get to the moon fastest? Who could build better materials than the other team?
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Immigration in the United States Immigration has always been in existence in the United States since the beginning of American History. At the turn of the 20th century immigration has been an issue for the people in this country. There are many problems that the United States faces and the one that is causing several debates is illegal immigration. Thousands and thousands of illegal immigrants have come from many different places. All of them have different desires. America is supposed to be
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Terrorism in the United States. Terrorism is violence-or rather a threat of violence‚ used to achieve a political goal. It differs from war‚ which is a military action formally undertaken by the government. Terrorism maybe carried out as individuals or in a group that operates stealth rather than by open assault. Government also practices terrorism by sponsoring attacks against foreign states or individuals who are seen as enemies. Terrorism in the United states has become less frequent since
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Legitimacy enables a state to depend not on shear force or coercion‚ rather the idea of consent of the governed. Consent of the governed is a principle that goes back to the English philosopher John Locke‚ stating that a government’s legitimacy and moral right to use state power is justified and legal when it is consented by the people or society that the power is being exercised over. Consequently‚ this makes legitimacy an integral component of any successful modern state. Various forms of political
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