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Militia Essays and Term Papers
Cuban Missile Crisis#1
A) Regarding the various “roles” the president plays as detailed in your book in Chapter 13:
John F. Kennedy’s role during the Cuban Missile Crisis was to obtain his position as Commander in Chief. A Commander in Chief is an officer in charge of a major subdivision of a country's armed ...
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Comparing the M-16 and AK-47The great military debate that has existed for decades attributes to which firearm has the better rifle platform, Eugene Stoner’s M-16 or Mikhail Kalishnikov’s AK-47? Both are used extensively by police and military forces around the world. These two weapons platforms have been going head to head ...
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Michael Moore's Bowling for ColumbineThe United States of America is notorious for gun violence and has quite the reputation for unnecessary bloodshed. Filmmaker Michael Moore decided to take this theme and create a documentary titled “Bowling for Columbine”. This documentary is primarily based on the 1999 Columbine high school ...
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Gun Control In America“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights which protects the citizens rights to bear ...
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Criminal Justice SystemThe Criminal Justice system is intimidating, but that doesn't mean that a criminal defendant doesn't have rights. During each stage of the Criminal Justice system, there are important rights that the government must uphold. The United States Constitution is the most important document concerning ...
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Battle Of Freemans FarmFirst of two battles that led to the British surrender at Saratoga (American War of Independence). Having reached the Hudson on his march from Canada, General Burgoyne now found himself facing a strong American army dug in on Bemis Heights on the west side of the Hudson River. Burgoyne had crossed ...
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Expanding West- Key NotesI. The Great American Desert
a. Used to describe the Great Plains East of the Rocky Mountains.
i. The term desert describes treeless and uninhabited land, not necessarily arid.
II. Frontier
a. A term referring to areas near or beyond a border.
i. In these terms, the American Frontier, land ...
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Gun ControlPhil Hogan
Mr. Tatum
Comp I
Persuasive Essay
Summer Online
Gun Control
Composition I
Summer Online
On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred during a midnight screening of the film "The Dark Knight Rises," at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Twelve people's lives were ...
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Bill of RightsTrisha Huyler
Period 1
September 14, 2012
Bill of Rights
This topic was interesting to take a look at and write about, so let's take a look at the first ten Amendments in the Bill of Rights and see which aspects are being pushed on or threatened. The point here is not the degree of each ...
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Foreign and Domestic Policies Under George Washington and Thomas JeffersonForeign Policy Under George Washington
George Washington, America's first president, practiced a pragmatically cautious yet successful foreign policy.
Neutrality: As well as being the "father of the country," Washington was also the father of early US neutrality. He understood that the United ...
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Philip Gourevitchs' Travels To Rwanda SummaryThis is a summary of Philip Gourevitchs' travels, a reporter for the New Yorker, to Rwanda shortly after the atrocity of the genocide between the Hutus and Tutsi stopped. Gourevitch collected first-hand accounts of those who actually lived through the genocide. The book goes on reporting to ...
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The Controversy over Drug Testing in SportsThe Controversy over Drug Testing in Sports
Oluwapelumi Isaac Olaniyan
Devry University
The Controversy over Drug Testing in Sports
Athletes nowadays have more training facilities than ever before to improve their skills, but ...
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Schools Don't EducateSchools in America have many flaws, but it’s unclear what some of those are. American schools rank at the bottom of nineteen nations in reading, writing and arithmetic. Our teenage suicide rate is the highest in the world. Something is wrong and it just may be school. The truth is that schools ...
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Ultranationalism in Post-Communist RussiaUltranationalism in Post-Communist Russia
The social-political status of contemporary Russia is quite the mixed bag. While you have Vladimir Putin and his United Russia party with a vast majority of the vote in nearly every election, there is a large variety of groups who speak out against him. ...
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GenocideGenocide is the systematic extermination of one ethnic group by another. Even though the definition of Genocide is highly debatable, most scholars do agree that Genocide as having two phases: destruction of the national pattern of the oppressed group; and the other the imposition of the national ...
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The PetrodollarThe Petrodollar
What is the Petrodollar? David Spiro implies in his book: The hidden hand of American hegemony: petrodollar recycling and international markets that it is a United States dollar earned by a country through the sale of its petroleum to another country (xiv). In 1945, the Bretton ...
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Vargas of Brazil and Peron of ArgentinaUnit 12 Vargas of Brazil and Perón of Argentina
Unit Overview:
This unit begins with a general overview of the politics of Latin America in the first half of the 20th century and then focuses on Brazil under the presidency of Getúlio Vargas and Argentina under the presidency of Juan ...
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American History 1800 OutlineOutline
I The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism (1812-1824)
A On to Canada over Land and Lakes
a On the eve of the war of 1812, the regular army was ill-trained, ill-disciplined, and widely scattered
b The militia was even more poorly trained
c The offensive ...
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Revolutionary WarKelsey Murray
2018-01-11T00:10:45
After the Revolutionary War, the newly formed United States still had a major task ahead of them. They had to form a new government that would satisfy the demands of the people and ensure the success of their nation. The Articles of Confederation was the first ...
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Is Thoreau Anti-Social?Right at the beginning of his essay On The Duty of Civil Disobedience, Thoreau explicitly claimed his viewpoint towards the government: “That government is best which governs not at all.” From various works of Thoreau, it seems apparent that Thoreau held a pessimistic opinion towards the ...
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