...The first three words of the US Constitution are “We the People”. How well does the American Government of today reflect the will of the American people In the spring and summer of 1776, Americans, angry and frustrated with an existing government, wrote these words. "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." Our government is only as good or evil as "We the People" allow it to be. It is a good concept and I do believe that was why the states elected politicians...to take the views that the people of that state, wanted to relay to the federal government..so each state could choose laws and run their states according to the will of the people...I was raised with the idea that the federal government was in place to take care of the road system and our army to protect us...the people of the USA against other countries...and everyone who became a Legal American citizen, agreed to follow the Constitution of the USA....I guess I have it all wrong...now if you say something "wrong" by other's view...you can go to jail for longer time than some people get hurting and killing someone......It is okay to kill an unborn...
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...We Are Endangered People of a Single Story: A Personal Abstract Kim Nguyen Psychology 424, Section 401 Dr. P. Guerin September 16, 2012 We Are Endangered People of a Single Story: A Personal Abstract Chimamanda Adichie, is a Nigerian novelist who spoke about how she found her authentic cultural voice from her story called, “ The Danger of a Single Story.” How can a single story be dangerous? In Chimamanda story she enlightens us with our vulnerability of negative impression dating back to our childhood years from stories in which we face ( TEDTalkDirector, 2009, 1:47-52). I strongly believe that Adichie story is a gateway to help us avoid racial stereotyping. She gave examples of some single story negativities she encountered attending school. One example Adichie mentioned is having a roommate who was astonished of her well-spoken English. The single story here, is her roommate did not know there can be any type of similarity with American vs. African ( TEDTalkDirector, 2009, 4:25-5:15). We as a whole have one story to identify a person or group because of the media, making us endangered people. Ramirez Boscan, an indigenous individual, states, “Most of the reporting from mainstream media on indigenous peoples is either inaccurate or biased as they do not understand our culture and traditions.” As a whole, we are endangered because we allow the media to control our mind (attitudes and behaviors) to believing and concluding the negatives aspect of...
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...We Stand With The People, We Stand For The People Long Live France! There was recently an editorial in The Holy Roman Empire Times in which described Emperor Leopold ll support for our Royals. Here is an excerpt from their editorial in The Holy Roman Empire: “We stand by our family and friends as we support Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette who are currently imprisoned in the Tuileries. Our beloved friends are caught in an indescribable revolution in their country and are being treated like prisoners. We will not be pushed around or swayed to believe that our dear friends deserve this treacherous occurrence in their kingdom. The harmless king and queen were simply trying to do what is best for their country and it seems that some terrible people took the law into their own hands and used violence to share their disagreements they had with the monarchs....
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...WRTG 101S Definition Essay We Are Our Own People I grew up in an urban city in Southern California where Caucasians were the minorities and a person who did not speak Spanish was often made fun of. The barrios, or neighborhoods, were home to thousands of Mexican immigrants who’d come to the United Sates in hopes of better lives for their children. The chavalitos, or children, of these people were first generation American and were Chicanos, that is, American children born of full-blooded Mexican parents. I always considered myself a Chicana; I never called myself Mexican or American. To me, this was normal because I had never been around people who were different. When I left my hometown, I realized that most people outside of the Mexican-American community did not fully understand what it meant to be a Chicano or had no idea what the word meant. The word Chicano traces back to the pre-Columbian era, when Mexico was still Meshico. It stems from Meshicano, an ancient Nahuatl word used by the Aztecs meaning “native.” The natives referred to themselves as Meshicanos, and even Shicanos, thus giving birth to the term “Chicano”. The term made its appearance in America, and was used to identify children born on American soil of Mexican descent. Our forefathers came to America seeking better lives and new opportunities for their children. With them, they brought their culture: music, food, customs and traditions. The combination of this with mainstream...
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...“You know you want to!” Cece begged. She was in Tahoma’s rigorous We the People class and was constantly urging me to join. I had been hesitant for weeks about joining the class and senior registration was due in a week. Since taking AP United States History, I had developed an interest in politics, but I was hesitant. The workload in We the People was notoriously heavy. I needed a second opinion, so during a Speech and Debate practice I asked my friend Jayaram about the class. “It’s life changing!” he told me. His eyes lit up as he talked about the class. After a few more days, I finally made the decision - I was going to sign up for We the People. Now towards the end of my senior year, the We the People program has ignited the love for politics sparked by my history class. By preparing to compete with the class at Districts, State, and now Nationals, I have developed an obsession with politics. From reading an 800 page book about Lincoln, to closely following the 2016 presidential election, I cannot see myself doing anything else. Through this once in a lifetime experience, I have transformed my passion for politics into a path for my future. Tahoma’s education helped me better myself. Two years ago, I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. Now, I am registered to major in Political Science...
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...The Most Merciful Assignment No 5: Write a position paper on "We do not admire a person who makes us understand" Or "We admire a person who makes us more confused" Your paper should have at least 1000 words and you should use at least 20 citations from the available academic literature. It may be an essay, an anecdote, an article or some other form of writing. Try to write in simple legible and correct English language. Position Paper: Also called an argument essay. The purpose of a position paper or argument essay is to explain both sides of a controversy and then argue for one side over the other. A position paper or argument essay explains both sides and discusses why one is stronger or better than the other. Answer: TOPIC: We Admire Those People Who Makes Us More Confused “Confusing movies are an integral part of the movie-going experience in general. Without them, everything would make sense and be predictable, and what fun would that be?” 1Malcolm Mathews, 2007.Some of us being human used to admire those people more who make us understand, but what if everything is clear in your mind and no fun to find out new things beyond your boundaries and what if everything is known and process of learning which gives self-confidence and self-aspiration lacks. So, for exploration of new things, ongoing process of learning and development, gaining sense of pride after goal accomplishment, so people who makes us confused is more admirable to a man for developing and...
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...a poor girl on his way to work, like to fix a door or tidy the garden up a bit, because she had no one else to help her. Tom Robinson was a black man who had the same rights as anyone else in the world, but Maycomb thought differently. One day as tom Robinson was on his way to work he went and helped “Mayella” to fix a door, but Mayella jumped on tom and started to kiss him, and then Tom frightenly panicked and ran away and bob Ewell a “poor white man” made threats to Mayella. Tom Robinson was very upset over what maylla had done to him, but then he soon finds out that mayella had sued him for rape. In my eyes this wasn’t right but it should still be a fair case and tom will win easily. My father was the lawyer for tom Robinson, we got heavily abused and bullied for our father being the lawyer of a black man. On the day of the trail I was seated on the top balcony with all the blacks. the Ewells testified then tom Robinson, everyone who was there all new that tom Robinson was innocent as there was more than enough of evidence to back him up. But when the jury pleaded tom Robinson for being guilty I dint no what to do, as everyone knew he was innocent but just because his race he has to suffer life in prison. Tom...
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...“We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print…We lived in the gaps between the stories.” Discuss the writers’ exploration of female passivity. William Shakespeare, Margaret Atwood and Alfred Tennyson all present female passivity as a deep-rooted, normalised concept that is engrained into the framework of relationships, society and government. Whilst this is seen to remain from the 1600s all the way to the 1980s, there are subtle differences in the portrayal of, attempted reasoning behind and methods used to enforce this passivity, highlighted through analysis of language, structure and context. The writers symbolically use setting to explore links between different aspects of female passivity. Tennyson links public and private spaces and their promotion of female passivity to illustrate societal as well as psychological and domestic examples of passivity. In Mariana, the “rusted” and “crusted” atmosphere of decay is representative of Mariana’s psychological deterioration and the stagnant “blacken’d waters” and “moated grange” act as an obstruction to her integration with the outside patriarchal world. This reflects the wider Victorian attitude regarding the home as “the centre of virtue and the proper life for women” and brings to light the impact that passivity in the greater context of society has on the role she plays in her private relationship. This idea of external influences is echoed much less figuratively...
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...old, but looks a bit old. We seldom talked with him because he rarely laughed and we gave him a nickname "what things" (a homonym of his name in Chinese). Because I worked on the same floor with him, I met him often. He always looked lonely and unhappy. Maybe because he was lonely, he often worked overtime. He never went out with us or walked with any colleagues. We thought he deserves the loneliness because he left his hometown and came to work in China. But one day, there was an incident that changed my view on "what things". It was at noon, I was going out to eat with colleagues and we met him in the elevator. Because it was lunch time, the elevator was overcrowded as usual. When the elevator stopped at the main floor, there were a lot of people waiting outside to go up. As we hurried out of the door, I saw “what things” was standing by the door with his finger pressing on the button. When all the people went out, he still remained the same posture. I thought he was going to the garage downstairs but then I discovered that the elevator was ready to rise. I was so curious that I looked what in the end he wanted to do. “Does he forget something; ready to return to the office? What an idiot.” I talked to myself. I saw that he waited until the last person went into the elevator. Then, "what things" loosed his finger and dragged out of the elevator with his tired and motionless face. Suddenly, my colleagues and I looked at each other. Since then we call him...
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...Everything around us makes us the way we are. The tiniest thing can affect our personalities. Generally speaking, we are like clay figures that can be easily shaped by the lightest touch. However, there are millions of factors that made me the person I am today. Some losses, coupled with wins, taught me that life needs to go down so it can go up one day. While there are many things that made me the way I am today, my parents, love and loss are the biggest factors that influenced me. My parents weren’t tough on me, even though back then I didn’t think so. Now, when I look back, I see how much they trusted me and prayed for me to make the right decisions. Despite their worries, I proved myself as a responsible person. Because my parents were easy on me I developed a good judgement regarding issues that appeared in my way. I came from a small country in Eastern Europe, Latvia. Latvians are not the most warmed hearted people on this planet, we differ a lot from the American culture. There were never a lot of emotions involved in my family, in fact I don’t remember using “I love you” that much, but I never doubted my parents love for me. Today I’m still very reserved with saying out loud my feelings, but I really want to change myself for my own children one day. I am getting better and since I am so far from my parents, we actually have started to say that to each other more. Few years before I left to the United States two close people to me died, my father and grandmother. Both...
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...Question: We have a strange situation in Australia. At a time when people seem to be more worried by crime, the research evidence suggests crime rates are not increasing. How can we explain this apparent contradiction? Word Count: 1973 We have a strange situation in Australia. At a time when people seem to be more worried by crime, the research evidence suggests crime rates are not increasing. How can we explain this apparent contradiction? Current crime rates in Australia do not reflect the public’s perception, as criminal activity is steadily decreasing year after year. However, the public’s view is that crime is on the rise. Due to this unwavering perception of increased crime rates, some people have developed a fear of becoming a victim and apprehensive of crime and all of its components. Influences that can create or enhance these emotions can be born from a number of areas for each individual. Some of these can be due to personal experiences, the media, as well as a person’s geographical location. All of these factors can impact a person’s viewpoint of crime. This essay will examine the perception and how this fear has come to be, despite statistics proving that crime is in fact not increasing. The definition of ‘perception’ as per the Oxford dictionary is “the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses” - essentially what people see and hear will mould their opinions and emotions as to what is happening in the world around them...
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...We have a strange situation in Australia. At a time when people seem to be more worried by crime, the research evidence suggests crime rates are not increasing. How can we explain this apparent contradiction? In a democratic society such as Australia, crime trends largely influence parliaments and ministries in crime policy management. If the media are found to be reporting an upward trend in crime figures, enough to unease the public, policy makers are put under pressure to increase punishment and change rules relating to procedures of criminal prosecution. Judicial decisions are intended to reflect public opinion; therefore a judge would then feel obliged to hand down harsher sentences (Pfeiffer, Windzio & Kleinmann, 2005). This, in turn, confirms it is imperative to address the substantial difference between the public’s perception of crime rates, and accurate crime statistics. As previous Australian and international research has indicated, a large majority of the public perceives crime rates to be increasing; they also have inaccurate views on the severity of sentencing. “The Australian Public overestimates the proportion of crime that involves violence and underestimates the proportion of charged persons who go on to be convicted and imprisoned” (Roberts & Indermaur, 2009). To help explain this contradiction in Australia, crime statistics have been analyzed and factors that could influence these inaccurate perceptions have been discovered. Two significant factors...
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...Some sociologists would agree with the view that the content of the mass media does not lead people to become violent, but rather leads them to believe that we live in a society which is violent. This could be due to the fact that many people watch the News on a regular basis, often the News shows many stories which portray society in a negative way, making it seem more violent than it really is. This could be due to ‘News Values’ which Spencer-Thomas identified; he claimed that News Values are general guidelines and criteria which must be met in order to make a News story seem interesting. One particular News Value is ‘negativity’; this states that News must be negative, as bad news is often seen as more exciting than good news. Due to this, much of the News is very negative and may show society to be much more violent than it really; this is done in order to sell Newspapers and could therefore lead people into thinking that society is violent. Marxist sociologists argue that the mass media, which is controlled by the Bourgeoisie (upper class), intentionally shows negative portrayals of society which make it seem much more violent than it really is. According to Marcuse, this is done in order to distract the audience from the real problems in society, such as inequality and capitalism. This has therefore resulted in media owners and journalists in presenting stories which portray society in a negative light, showing them to be more violent that they really are. Another idea...
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...their distinct backgrounds. In some areas, some people think that modern technology has made our lives complex, whereas in other fields, others believe that modern technology has made our lives simple and convenient. However, I give my vote to the latter opinion. Nowadays, with modern technology such as cars, it is quite common to see these cars in the roads: most families own a car. That results in complex traffic problems, air pollution and noise. Therefore, some people claim that modern technology seriously influences our life and causes a confused environment. In the other hand, if it won’t for modern technology in our lives, we would live as simply as ancient peoples did, with a comfortable environment. But actually, we can move quickly to another place with a car, which bring more convenience to life. More and more people think that we cannot imagine our lives without modern technology such as computers, smart phones and so on. We use computers to do business with programs like Microsoft Word and also to communication with email or Skype. No doubt we save time, paper and shorten distance because of computers. For one recent example, people were amazed to know that smart phones can change our life style. For instance, we just started to use smart phones which can take pictures, surf the internet, play games, set an alarm and take notes on the phone. There is a variety of function in one smart phone. Thus, most of people think that modern technology has made our lives...
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