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    "Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes it’s laws" -Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild. Rothschild makes a great point; the people of the United States have zero effect on their own currency. Not even the government has control over the production and distribution of its own currency. That control was given to banks and a private corporation named the Federal Reserve . These private institutions have created a cycle that enriches them and indebts the public. This vicious cycle

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    has offered up 50 different gender identities including male‚ female‚ genderfluid‚ bigender‚ agender‚and many others (NY Times). Transgendered individuals include many different gender subsets including some of the aforementioned examples like genderfluid‚

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    to the election process. Some people even sum up the election process as a way of oligarchy government would do it. This isn’t the way our government worked before and it shouldn’t work like that ever. We have been bought up from our forefathers as a country where everyone’s voices should be heard but apparently it isn’t how we imagined it to be today. We all remember In the year 2000‚ where George .W.Bush won the presidential election despite the majority of the americans voting for Al Gore. In

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    for the United State to turn into an Imperialistic country. For example‚ there was lot and lots of economic‚ political‚ and strategic things that were happening throughout America and the rest of the world during this time period. Various industries such as investors including bankers and the new wealthy class were scared that the United States would soon produce more than it could ever use up and wanted to find new source of raw materials and markets for their products in new states. Besides

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    different races or cultures) in a group or organization. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) The United States gotten increasingly diverse over the past 50 years. In 1965 the American population was 84% white‚ and only 3% of congress was made up people of color. Today the American population is 62% white‚ and 17% of congress is made up of people of color. Although there is still a long way to go before the United States embraces all of it’s people‚ this is a drastic improvement. But racial diversity isn’t

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    the United States cross to the U.S to have a better economic status and a better state of life is to sustain their self or to support their families in their home countries because in their countries there is no work and the economic level is not as high than the United States. Immigration is a result of a number of factors‚ including economic and/or political reasons‚ family reunification natural disasters or the wish to change one’s surroundings voluntarity. Immigration to the United States has

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    members worldwide‚ mostly in the United States and other English-speaking countries. With adherents in almost every nation where Freemasonry is not officially banned‚ it forms the largest secret society in the world. There is no central Masonic authority; jurisdiction is divided among autonomous national authorities‚ called grand lodges‚ and many concordant organizations of higher-degree Masons. In the United States and Canada the highest authority rests with state and provincial grand lodges. Custom

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    Influence of Conformity and Obedience Kimberly McCullough PSYCH/555 Social Psychology March 18‚ 2013 Diana Dobier‚ PsyD Influence of Conformity There are three types of influence on a person. These three are conformity‚ obedience and compliance. Conformity and Obedience are very different in many ways. The first purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast conformity and obedience. There has been many studies on the role of social groups in ones decisions. This paper will review

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    just about anywhere you find people‚ though it is true that it will affect some areas‚ and subsequently‚ the people in those areas‚ more strongly. This is the most terrible way of thinking‚ and many people are affected by it. Ethnocentrism is prevalent in today’s world‚ even in the diverse environment of the United States. However‚ this diversity may actually cause ethnocentrism as new immigrants enter the country while still holding on to the nationalism

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    Many Americans live a life that is ruled by bills and family matters and have almost no time to worry about what goes on outside of their lives. However‚ while many Americans live the “American dream‚” the officials they elected have been corrupted by the power and the wealth. Decisions made by many of these officials haven’t been based on the interests of Americans‚ but on the interests of big corporations and billionaires around the world. The U.S. government has been corrupted through bribery

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