Are You proud of your country? I am very proud of my country. I am very lucky to be living in these United States. We have many rights and freedoms. We are all equal here. We are all lucky to have all the privileges and rights that we do have. We have freedom of speech. This means we can say and act however we feel whenever we want. In some countries‚ you are not allowed to. We also have freedom of the press. Our printing press can inform us in all the news that’s going on around the world
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Brief: Positive Resolved: Should welfare recipients receive drug testing? Since welfare programs started in the 60s‚ a reoccurring pattern has been seen in more cases than one. Fraudulent activity and taking advantage of the system has been happening for way too long in our society. A simple drug test should be administered to welfare recipients if they expect to receive the benefits that are offered to them. If other citizens such as the ones in the working class are held accountable to be administered
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Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978: A Proposal for Change The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 was to reduce the number of Native American children entering foster care and strengthen the families of Native American people. The three major goals of ICWA are to: 1) eliminate the need to remove Indian children from their families‚ both nuclear and extended‚ because of cultural bias and ignorance; 2) to assure that Indian children who need to be removed for their own protection be placed in
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14 more barangays benefit from 4Ps by Erika P. Castillejo Qualified poor households from 14 barangays attended the second phase of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development at the Engineer’s Hill covered court last Jan. 12 with the theme “Kaya ng Pinoy tumawid sa kaunlaran.” The first phase was done last year benefiting 10 barangays in the city. DSWD director Porfiria Bernardez gave an opening message before the actual processing of
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States of matter are the distinct forms that different phases of matter take on. Historically‚ the distinction is made based on qualitative differences in bulk properties. Solid is the state in which matter maintains a fixed volume and shape; liquid is the state in which matter maintains a fixed volume but adapts to the shape of its container; and gas is the state in which matter expands to occupy whatever volume is available. This diagram shows the nomenclature for the different phase transitions
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Equations of State (EoS) Equations of State • From molecular considerations‚ identify which intermolecular interactions are significant (including estimating relative strengths of dipole moments‚ polarizability‚ etc.) • Apply simple rules for calculating P‚ v‚ or T ◦ Calculate P‚ v‚ or T from non-ideal equations of state (cubic equations‚ the virial equation‚ compressibility charts‚ and ThermoSolver) ◦ Apply the Rackett equation‚ the thermal expansion coefficient‚ and the isothermal compressibility
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Garden State by ’Pipsorcle’ Andrew Largeman’s (Zack Braff) journey throughout "Garden State" seems to be a testament on the meaning of liberation. Going from his struggling acting life in Los Angeles to his hometown in New Jersey‚ where he witnesses his mother’s funeral‚ Andrew is in the mist of confronting difficult issues. One of the biggest issues is coming to terms with his psychologist father (Ian Holm)‚ whom he has distanced himself from for many years because he has put him on powerful
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Science 083S Investigation of Failed States & Democratic Intervention Failed states have been an issue in human society for many years. Today there are a total of 177 failed states‚ which is an all-time high. (Haken) Failed states are not only a terrible situation for the country itself‚ but for its neighboring countries as well. Some situations are worse than others‚ but for the most part they all share several factors that classify them as failed states. These factors include a severe economic
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Can a state survive without nationalism? This paper will respond to the argument that a state cannot survive without nationalism. For the purpose of this essay‚ two elements of nationalism are used. The first element states that nationalism maintains the similarity of culture as the basic social bond in the members of the nation1. The second element states that the state has legitimate rights to sovereign rule of a nation. The factors that result from the three elements of nationalism that contributes
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Nation-State A state is a territorial political community for which there is an independent organized Government. A nation state is a state whose primary loyalty is to a cultural self-identity‚ which we call a nation or nationality‚ and is now the predominant form of state organization. Nation states possess sovereignty and legitimacy. The significance of the nation state is that‚ once consolidated around a particular nationality‚ it is a stable form of state organization. Event history analysis
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