...American Government 4/24/2013 “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” The bill of rights was submitted to the states for ratification on September 25, 1789 and adopted on December 15, 1791. The first amendment was one of those amendments within the bill of rights to be adopted by the American culture. The first amendment was made as an act to guarantee our civil liberties rights. What people don’t really know is that the 1st amendment had to undergo many changes to be really effective. In the beginning the 1st amendment wasn’t as powerful it is now. Many cases had to happen for the first amendment to be really effective. Before these cases, people still weren’t really able to express themselves freely without any repercussions. For example, people weren’t able to freely write they wanted in the paper; as in talk bad about the government. The state government was no longer able to impose censorship and restrict speech, which is guaranteed by the First amendment. In 1798, the Sedition Act violated the first amendment by making it a crime to speak or write maliciously of the president or of Congress. President John Adams justified it by defining it as “intent to defame” or to bring either “into contempt or disrepute.” This act restricted...
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...STUDENT POS 1041 28 April 2014 Final Exam Paris Hilton at President… This could be troublesome Usually Paris Hilton is known for only movies and modeling, well in this case she is now the new President of the United States. Who would of guessed that in a million years that our president would be a rich blonde that knows nothing about the government! Ms. Hilton is in luck though, I, the student is going to help her succeed in all ways possible to become not only a great president, but the greatest president this nation has ever seen! President Hilton’s first order of business, she wants to pass this special Domestic Legislation to the congress. She wants to pass a law that allows everyone to carry a pet, doesn’t matter the animal, anywhere the person goes. It’s so typical of Ms. Hilton to want to pass a law like this. What she doesn’t know though its not that easy. She will be going through a lot of trouble to pass this law, but she is in good hands with me to help her! What Mrs. Hilton doesn’t know is that with all the Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances in this Government the president cannot achieve everything they want. As a president she will face numerous of difficulties with the Congress, the bureaucracy and the courts to get her bill passed! With help of myself and the media as well as her political party and interest groups, Ms. Hilton will achieve all that she wants. Throughout her process to passing her law she will face numerous challenges. President...
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...apposes the new proposed ban on the sale of Assault weapons • NRA apposes the Pump action Ban- This is a ban of any weapon the is a Pump Action • NRA opposes the No lead Ban- This is a ban to stop all hunters from using lead Ammo. Actions of the NRA • NRA initiated a lawsuit vs. the City of New Orleans. NRA stated that N.O. violated the Second Amendment by illegally confiscating lawfully owed firearms during Hurricane Katrina. NRA won the Lawsuit • NRA proposed the Worker Protection Bill- This allows all law-abiding employees, invitees and customers to keep firearms locked in their vehicles while parked in public accessible parking lots. Except where State or Federal Law already prohibits such. Gov. Jindal signed the Bill into Law in 2008 Politics • In 2006, NRA was involved in 276 campaigns for the U.S. House and Senate, winning in 236 of those races (85%). • NRA endorsed thousands of candidates running in state legislative races and achieved an 81% success rate in those elections. • The Institute receives some funding from NRA member dues, but its main source of revenue is derived from member contributions designated for legislative activity. • NRA supports the Republican Party Article headlines that support this theory Change . . . For The Worse For eight long years, Bill Clinton, Al Gore and Janet Reno mocked and attacked gun owners’ rights. Now,...
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...After reading the article Political Lies About Police Brutality by the New York Times Editorial Board, I noticed that the article was heavily biased for African Americans and tries to make the point that police officers in the United States, in their quests to promote justice and fulfill their duties, are more likely to bring harm upon black citizens than white citizens. The author attempts to persuade readers in numerous ways that police are more likely to trouble black citizens than white citizens. One way the article accomplishes this is by stating that Gov. Chris Christie, a “desperate presidential candidate who is going nowhere fast”, believes that President Obama is promoting “lawlessness” and brutality against the police by advocating...
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...elected representatives in parliament * Mounted attacks on use of patronage and bribes by king’s ministers * Symptoms of wider moral failure in society - “corruption” * Dukes and princes = unknown in colonies * Property ownership and political participations were relatively widespread * Murices unmolested by remote officials in London * Distance weakens authority * Mercantilism and Colonial Grievances * British authority embraced theory - MERCANTILISM * Justified their control over colonies * Mercantilists believed that wealth = power and country’s economic wealth could be measured by amount of gold or silver, a country needed to export more than it imported * London gov. looked on murican colonists as tenants * Expected to furnish products needed in mother country (tobacco, sugar, ships’ masts) to refrain from making for export certain products (woolen cloth or beaver hats) to buy imported manufactured goods from Britain * Parliament passed laws to regulate mercantilism system * NAVIGATION LAW OF 1650 - aimed...
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...differences in culture and work ethic between Americans and Japanese. It shows how each group handles conflict in the work place, as well as at home. The main characters and leaders are faced with dilemmas and have to figure out how to work as a team to keep the automobile manufacturing plant up and running smoothly. According to Western Washington University (2011), there are many different sociological differences between the Japanese and Americans. Most importantly, the views of conflict and conflict resolution differ greatly. In the United States, conflict is seen as something that is inevitable, or bound to happen, whereas in Japan, conflict is considered dangerous to all relationships and should be diffused before it begins or avoided at all costs (Western Washington University, 2011). This fact along plays a major roll in the struggles between the Americans and the Japanese at the automobile manufacturing plant in Gung Ho. The American workers almost seemed as though they were looking for conflict to solve, but the Japanese executives were quick to avoid it at any cost possible. Culture also plays a major roll in determining how the characters approached and completed tasks presented to them. In the movie, a few of the American and Japanese main characters argue about their differences in spending time with family. The Japanese say that their job is their life; it is most important so they can provide for their families. For the Americans, they preferred to spend as much time...
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...(High-Context & Low-Context Culture Styles. (n.d.)). According to Edward Hall, these cultures prefer group harmony and consensus to individual achievement. They focus more on a speaker’s tone of voice, facial expression, gestures, posture, etc. than the actual words said. Travel effect stated four reasons why American workers chose not to use their vacation time. The first reason was the dread of returning from a vacation to piles of work, followed by the belief that no one will be able to step in and do their job for them while they're gone, not being able to afford going on vacation and lastly the fear of being seen as replaceable. “Indians are more efficient. Americans believe in more action and fewer words.” (SocialPC. (n.d.)). As previously stated, there are many differences between American and Indian work culture. Americans tend to be more relaxed work wise, while Indians tend to be extremely hard working. Due to their hard work, Indians quickly learned to adapt to new cultures and are very successful in other countries. Many of the differences between American and Indian culture arise from the fact that Indian cultures are based around their religions. Americans tend to be more individualistic and live life at their own will while Indians tend to rely more on the values of religion and family. Reference Chapter 1 Lecture: High-Context & Low-Context Culture Styles. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.marin.edu/buscom/index_files/Page605.htm Goudreau, J. (2013)...
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...Throughout the history of the United States, equality was slowly developed as a result of people’s effort. Starting in the 1950s, series of events raised Americans’ attention to the problem of race relation, these events finally led to achievements of the Civil Rights Movement. The Civil Rights Movement was a series of political movements to pursue equal rights and opportunity for the U.S. citizens. Civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks had contributed to the Civil Right Movement. In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American woman, was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white man. Black leaders in Montgomery organized the Montgomery Improvement Association and selected Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to be the leader. In 1955, Martin Luther King led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, African-Americans stopped riding the buses, and the bus company started losing money. During the 381 days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed. On June 4th 1956, the court invalidated the Montgomery bus segregation law in the case Browder v. Gayle (1956). Although the state appealed the decision, the Supreme Court upheld the ruling of the district court on November 13, 1956. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a significant milestone of the Civil Rights Movements, which ended the racial segregation laws for buses. In the case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), the establishment of separate public schools for black and white students became unconstitutional...
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...A Prevalent Social Problem In the USA Abuse of illicit drugs causes many social problems including crime. Up to 60% of adults in Federal prisons are there for drug related crimes. Crime and violence destroys families and peoples lives. 31% of American homelessness people suffer from drug abuse or alcoholism. These are just a couple of social implications drugs can have on society. Illicit drugs that have high incidence of abuse are: Narcotics, hallucinogenics, stimulants, depressants, bath salts or designer cathinones, DXM and salvia divinorum. In order to research one of the causes of illicit drug abuse I referred to a study conducted in 2012 that presented a lot of useful demographical information. According to the National Institute on Drug abuse, who conduct annual surveys, in 2012 an estimated 23.9 million Americans aged 12 or older had used or abused and illicit or psychotherapeutic drug. Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug. Some states permit medical marijuana. Twenty-one states currently have laws legalizing it in some form, whether for medical or recreational purposes. Marijuana is currently legal in Colorado and Washington for recreational use. Research has shown that more than half of new illicit drug users begin with marijuana. The next most common are prescription pain medications. Table1 represents the age and percentage of drug use in the past month. This graph is obtained from data collected during the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and...
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...Final Research Paper The Civil Rights Era, which took place during the years of 1955 till 1968, was indeed the movement that gave African Americans the push to achieve their first major accomplishments of the decade. The Civil Rights Movements goals were to break down the walls of legal segregation in public places, achieve equality and justice for African Americans, and to help make African Americans become more self-conscious when standing for all their interest. This movement not only benefited men, but it also benefited women. African American women played a large role in the history of the civil rights era. According to Lee Sartain, “Female activists were integral to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and often in the front lines of the civil rights struggle. Commentators on the period, however, have generally ignored the role of these activists mainly, because women were not prominent in media reporting on the early struggles for civil rights (Sartain).”Even as of today most NAACP members and most local branch presidents are women. Vivian Malone Jones defied segregationist Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace to enroll in the University of Alabama in 1963 and later worked in the civil rights division of the U.S. Justice Department. The African American women of the Civil Rights Era were often overlooked, because of the race and their gender. Not only was racism an issue, but also sexism. No one took a woman serious during those times; they...
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...segregation • Little Rock Nine-Eisenhower hand to order troops in-LBJ helped it pass, but it was weaker • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee • Freedom Riders- rode buses in the south to protest-were beaten by Whites and KKK • Kennedy used civil rights to win election-promised support • James Meredith-applied to college, but was denied even with a court order • Kennedy assassinated, but Lyndon Johnson carries on his support of African Americans • Civil Rights Act of 1964- Gave power to made segregation illegal, gave power to federal gov. to prevent discrimination • Selma March-many were beaten in front of cameras-shocked nation • Voting Rights Act of 1965-allowed for many African Americans to vote-no more literacy tests • Even though discrimination was ending, it didn’t change people’s attitudes • Watts riot- African American neighborhood-had to send in National Guard • Kerner Commission- studied why the riots were happening • Chicago movement- march through white neighborhoods to show poverty of African Americans • Richard J. Daley- ordered police to protect Chicago movement • Black power- meant that blacks should control the social, political, and economic direction of their struggle • Malcolm X-joined Black Muslims-believed that blacks should separate themselves-advocated self defense • Black Panthers-...
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...try to (and probably will) persuade you to revise your thoughts. The Declaration is more than just words on paper. It has actual meaning, and soul behind its lines. This would have been especially true for those listening to Jefferson read it live.”We hold these truths to be self-evident:”(prg. 3) The former president read this to soldiers before going to war, just imagine the power coming from his words, and going into the men’s hearts. Now, that hopefully, is enough to be categorized as compelling. In short, there is not much left to be said. You know what they say… the sequel is never as good as the original. But if your mind is still not changed then I guess there is no changing it. I will just have to continue to use right as an American woman to say just how wrong you...
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...Jefferson played an integral role in the creation and signing of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolution in 1783. Some of his beliefs rubbed off on his protégé, James Madison, who wrote the Constitution. Thomas Jefferson, the third U.S. president and the writer of the Declaration of Independence, was born on in 1743, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Jefferson was born into a very distinguished family of Virginia's planter elite. Jefferson was a proponent of the idea that westward expansion should benefit settlers rather than speculators. He suggested that there would be no indefinite colonies in the expanding American republic. Furthermore, he dictated that all hereditary titles and privileges would be renounced and that the practice...
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...and heavy penalties to the writer. Therefore, CONTENT is very important if you want to rise through the ranks and get to the top as fast as possible. Illustration Question: ‘write a 10 page paper on the United States The above instructions can run a spasm of fear across the spine of a newbie for lack of comprehensive content. Therefore, to make it easier, one needs to develop the table of contents (outline) on the same. PLEASE DON’T BE SUBJECTIVE IN REASONING. BE OBJECTIVE AND AVOID MASS FALLACY. Most newbies will be like, “the united states is a very good country with a lot of opportunities. The country is big and has everything that an individual needs to survive. The current president is Obama. His father is Kenyan and the mother is American. Kenyans want to associate themselves with him although he does not want them. America is all over in the mainstream media because...” Such content is very shallow, incoherent, absurd and subjective. You should think critically outside the box and instantly create an outline that uses topical organization rather than ©Developed...
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...years apologies and financial compensation has been given to a wide range of groups, including survivors of the Jewish holocaust (as well as descendants of the victims), Japanese-Americans who were imprisoned during the Second World War and native Americans who had their land illegally seized in the USA. • African Americans have been demanding compensation for slavery since the end of the American Civil War. Immediately after the abolition of slavery, the demand was for 40 acres and a mule to ensure they would not be dependent on their former slave-owners. Then, between 1890 and 1917, there was a movement to lobby the government for pensions to compensate for their unpaid labour under slavery. Since 1989, Congressman John Conyers Jnr (Michigan) has introduced a bill every year to study the case for reparations. Each of these initiatives has been largely ignored by the political establishment. • Reparations would ensure full recognition of the scale of the Maafa and, at the same time, undermine those who claim that there is no further need for Affirmative Action. They would also compensate for slavery, provide psychological relief for black anger and white guilt resulting from centuries of racial oppression and, as a result, build a more united nation based on a common understanding of American history. • To those who argued that it would be impossible to determine who...
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