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    1900's had engines that used both gasoline and ethyl. The United States of America has been using gasoline for over 100 years and has now as a country we need to change to a new source, sooner or later. Every single day we drive our cars to work, turn on the lights, and use our computers. All of these things use oil; the gas to drive, plastic in the cars and computers. Almost everything we use has something to do with oil. “The United states uses nearly 400 million gallons of oil every day moving people

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    Income inequality has been a progressively growing issue in the United States, even today. The problem dates back all the way to the Great Depression, although some researchers tend to think that it is older than that. The difference between the wealth of higher-income families and lower-income families has become a great issue. Many people, including our government, think that they know how they can fix it. They have tried time and time again to come up with solutions, yet we are still facing the

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    In the cartoon above the United States Department of Justice did a thorough investigation on FIFA corruption accusations. Normally, the United States does not pay much attention to the game of soccer but in this particular instance the U.S. decided to take an interest in FIFA. Most Americans prefer sports such as; football, basketball, and baseball as opposed to the seldom amount of soccer fan in the United States, and although the United States likes to stick to their individual tasks they usually

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    Racism in the United States Whites seemingly have always thought they were somehow superior to colored people. Whites in England conquered half the world just to show how powerful they were. Spaniards used Native Americans as slaves to mine gold in the early days of Mexico. America relied on slaves to farm for them or perform household chores. After slavery was abolished in most countries, racism prevailed. In the United States whites established the “Separate but Equal” idea. For example, whites

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    Continuing the Admission of Syrian refugees in the United States Why should Syrian refugees be allowed to continue coming into the United States? Well, this problem was started in Syria, where it only began with anti-government outcry, where the Syrians were against president Bashar al-Assad. Soon, the protests were turned into a civil war. The United States has been trying to bring in Syrian refugees, away from the battle. Unfortunately, though some people are against admitting more Syrian refugees

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    singular executive has centralized powers, has accountability, has unity and brings energy. Hamilton had proposed the Annapolis Convention which fell short of successful. He proposed the convention to discuss the trade barriers that the states had but only five states sent representatives out of thirteen, which was not enough to make important decisions. Hamilton, the Secretary of Treasury, had many thoughts on what would be

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    that murder, rape, grand theft auto, and other crime activities are of much importance. Although other crimes are of much important in the United States, one crime that is overlooked, especially when dealing with child welfare, is human trafficking. One thing that people overlook is that people of youth are the most vulnerable population in the United states that are risk to becoming victims of sex trafficking (Kotrla, 2010, pp. 27-42). Another issue that is overlooked is the fact that a majority

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    The United States have been in many wars over 100 years. It has changed our country in many different ways. The United States have been successful in all the wars we have been in. I’m gone talk about my favorite wars. The first war I’m gone discuss is the Civil War. This was as they call it the bloodiest clash. The civil War began April 12, 1861 and lasted up until May 9, 1865. It was located in the Southern, Northern and the Western part of the United States. Seven southern laves states declared

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    Over the course of many years the United States has done a very good job of creating and supplying jobs for the citizens. This could be an effect of our economic standings or is there a reason other countries do better than others? There are many countries that are doing better than the United States in the aspect of unemployment, but the US currently has a very low rate of 4.8% (List of Countries). The country that is currently doing the best is Qatar with a rate of 0.4%. This could be for many

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    The merger which is proposed by the United State (US) and European Union (EU) in 2000 would have joined together two of the three greatest railroads in the West and made the greatest railroad in the country. According to Kwoka and White,2 the joined together railroad would have 35,000 miles of track and $9.5 billion in earnings. United State (US) urged the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) – which transformed into the Surface Transportation Board (STB) in 2003 – to support the merger, declaring

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