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    The Role of Religion in Government Laws and Decisions The role of religion in the government is very important. At least that was the case many years ago. But now however, it pains me to say this, it is can be considered unconstitutional due to America being one big melting pot. To make laws perfect in the eyes of one religion, also possesses the ability to make the same exact law biased to one religion because it contradicts another. People immigrated to the United States to further better…

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    Prerogative In America

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    Prerogative in America What is prerogative? The dictionary definition of prerogative is “an exclusive privilege or right exercised by a person or group of people holding a particular office or hereditary rank”. The author of Two Treatises of Government [Book II], John Locke, uses the power of prerogative, as a right the executive branch has to change and/or make laws to benefit the country. Prerogative is used in America today (but not always noticed), and for the most part has the same meaning…

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    Rhetorical Analysis Of Obama's Inaugural Speech

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    In the beginning of the speech President Obama said, “My fellow citizens” (Jan, 2009). An emotional image was drawn in the citizen mind that the president has goals and aims in common. Goals and aims that helping to solve the current problems that most of the citizens had. Also, the president used through his speech we to connect himself the public and he stands as citizen like them. Moreover, President Obama proved how American citizens able to change and he provided an example of himself when…

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    Terrorism By CNN Isis

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    way. On November Friday the 13th, 2015, Paris was attacked by Isis and took the lives of more than 120 people. Isis shot in buildings and bombed the streets of Paris. Suicide bombers took their own lives in order to strike fear people on who wage war against Muslims. After the Isis attack a huge hunt began to pursue the ring leader of this massacre. After hunting for a few days CNN reports that French authorities found the ring leader and terminated him in hopes that doing so will save more…

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    event that I put a lot of political interest into are the wars. By having my uncle being deployed in during the first gulf war and then again decide to go back in during the current wars, along with knowing people who are involved in active duty service. I do not think being in the Afghan and Iraqi war has helped the United States in any way. I could see at the beginning due to the terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001; but for the war to continue on for at least another decade. I know it is…

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    Tell or Not to Tell a War Story Phil Klay and Tim O’Brien are two very distinct war authors. Klay was a marine during the Iraq war, and O’Brien was an infantryman in the Vietnam War. Although the wars they were in are vastly different, they each have a story that focuses on the act of telling war stories. O’Brien’s story is “How to Tell a True War Story” from The Things They Carried, and Klay’s story is “War Stories” from Redeployment. However, the significance of telling war stories for each…

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    this issue will not be politically feasible during President Obama’s last year. It is going to take much longer than a year for Congress to agree on tactics that lead to a war in the Middle East. Yes, this issue is financially feasible but think of all of the spending you are going to have to cut for other important issues. War is expensive and I believe that there are many more important issues to be focusing…

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    There is a lot going on in the world today. The rise of terrorist groups, such as Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda, has successfully struck fear into the very souls of Americans. Through social media, these groups have been able to protrude their evil ideals and values into the minds of our more innovative youth. Democrats and Republicans are at constant odds about the issue over in Washington D.C., and President Obama, as many believe, is focusing on the wrong issues.…

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    Barack Obama Speech Essay

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    President in Address to the Nation Syria” and Vladimir Putin’s op-ed, “A Plea for Caution From Russia”, in September of 2011 address the issue of chemical weapon usage in Syria. Obama’s speech looks at alternative solutions rather than slipping into a War; while Putin’s op-ed was made in reply to Obama’s, he requests a need for complete caution on any decision made. “Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation Syria” is more likely to address a country and the world in a more inviting way…

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    Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Organizing For Action). Before obtaining a political career, Barack Obama was a teacher and a civil-rights lawyer. In 1996, Barack Obama was elected into the Illinois State Senate and served for seven years, from 1997 to 2004. In 2008, Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States of America. Obama made history, as he was the first African American president to be elected. In 2012, President Obama beat his…

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