Drug Trafficking in the United States Alexis Tyse Eng 122 Prof. Jessica Ruddick 5/12/2012 Drug Trafficking in the United States The scope and nature of the problem for this research paper is Drug Trafficking in the United States. The specific claim is that is the U.S. were able to drastically reduce the amount of drug trafficking‚ then the amount of people using drugs would have no choice but to decrease because the drugs would be harder to get. Also‚ if the U.S. were to legalize certain
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Child Poverty in the United States Kimberly Coppola June 23 2011 Soc/120 Mary Wyllie The purpose of this essay is to discuss the effects of child poverty in the United States. The government has set a certain income bracket and if a person or family falls under that bracket they are considered in the poverty level. Poverty has two sections that it is broken down into‚ which is relative and absolute. The relative poverty type is when you have some things‚ whereas absolute
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government of North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The Northern army was supported by Soviet Union‚ China‚ and other communist countries. The Southern army was supported by the United States of America‚ Australia‚ Thailand‚ and other anti-communist countries. During this time‚ the Cold War was also going on between the United States and the Soviet Union and just added on the intensity of the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War‚ the French colonies got involved and fought their own segment against their
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Racism Today in the United States After living in a place like Bend Oregon for 18 years I haven’t ever noticed a difference between blacks and whites. Bend has been said to be “one of the whitest places to live”‚ yet I never viewed a city by its race. Being racist to me meant that it was the whites who had a problem with the blacks and whites didn’t want anything to do with blacks. I hadn’t actually seen racism in action from anyone here. Now‚ after watching the film Crash and reading the essays
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as well as watched and read what feels like thousands of news reports that address conflicts and disasters outside and inside of the United States. As I got older I realized that living in this country has presented me with a considerate amount of opportunities to better my life and to accomplish my goals‚ but unfortunately not everyone can live in the United States. There are people inside and outside this country that are suffering hardships I can’t begin to comprehend; meanwhile I don’t have to
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November 2012 High School Drop Out Rates in America You were in high school once. I mean everyone was in high school. High School is a time in our lives where were learning how to mature and get prepared for the real world. And of course you have your occasional high school teenager drama that goes one every day. In high school we are faced with new struggles and challenges each and every day. Some challenges and struggles makes some of us not like high school at all. High school can push you
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Cause of increasing crime rate in Cambodia: -Poverty: because most of the poor don’t have enough money to get education and food‚ so they will do whatever for getting food without thinking well like rob or steal someone. -Imbalance between rich and poor: As we can see in our social‚ there are a lot of poor people and the gap between rich and poor is very far. The rich have many cars in their house but the poor don’t have any cars even food to eat. Thus they will think it is not fair and try to
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role than democracy in explaining why two democracies will not go to war with each other. This can be seen by examining the importance of foreign investment‚ market welfare‚ and economic prosperity. Foreign investment is important to many states. There are trillions of dollars that are invested internationally every year. In 2016 it is estimated that $1.85 trillion were invested globally. With that much money invested in other states‚ the last thing on the states minds will be war. Many companies
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The Hypocrisy of the United States Government Chen Weihua’s December 14‚ 2010 article‚ “WikiLeaks’ ordeal tests Internet Freedom”‚ which deals with the globally controversial website‚ WikiLeaks‚ provided many excellent arguments against the widespread dislike of the web site’s founder‚ Julian Assange. The majority of the points in this article challenge government officials and journalists who believe that WikiLeaks is a threat to the United States of America and other countries. He explains some
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The United States of America and Mexico compare and contrast their differences when it comes to education‚ homeless rates‚ and their overall standard of living. The U.S and Mexico compare when it comes to homeless rates seeing as the numbers are increasing each year. As for education‚ Mexico lacks standard education‚ where as the United States has a higher standard for education. The overall standard of living in both countries is probably the biggest difference the two countries have. Mexico has
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