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    or sexual orientation. These crimes known as "hate crimes" can be prevented. Solving this problem is not impossible‚ but something that can unite us as a country. The dictionary defines a hate crime as "any of various crimes... when motivated by hostility to the victim as a member of a group (as one based on color‚ creed‚ gender‚ or sexual orientation)." It can be difficult to distinguish a hate crime from other crimes. Usually‚ a hate crime is detected by a background investigation of the accused

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    Motives For Imperialism

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    decided to move on and expand their territories by using Imperialism. Imperialism by definition is to expand a country’s power by gaining control over other areas of the world. World powers benefited greatly from this policy. They justified their motives for Imperialism as humanitarian efforts‚ nationalist views‚ superior and highly racist outlooks‚ and economics needs. But the greater purpose for Imperialism was economic. The world powers went into countries with resources with the thought to create

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    always a motive

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    1‚ In the short story "Always a Motive"‚ Dan Ross depicts Joe Manetti‚ the protagonist‚ as an isolated‚ and heartbroken young man. 2. Joe Manetti‚ a confused young man‚ has lost his son in a tragic accident and is dealing with the loss of his wife who has left him. Joe Manetti has experienced a great depth of emotional suffering and severe anguish‚ which has become unbearable. Joe is no longer a father or a husband. The only peace that Joe seems to find is when he is out driving. After Joe is arrested

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    Brutus' Motives

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    Caesar less‚ but that I loved Rome more.” With this‚ he was saying that although Caesar and he were good friends‚ it was to the best of Rome’s interest that Caesar was killed. Brutus was a man of reason. He would not do anything harmful without a good motive. What he did was pure and incorruptible by looking out for the people he cared for. He had no other way to protect Rome than killing Caesar. He believed‚ "Think him as a serpent’s egg‚ which‚ hatched‚ would‚ as

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    Riche 1 Carlyle S. Riche Jr. English 102.036 Professor Dubose March 10th 2010 The Observation of Global Deception: A Persuasive Essay on Lauryn Hill’s “Motives and Thoughts” Edward George Bulwer-Lytton once said‚ “When the world has got hold of a lie‚ it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You can beat it over the head‚ till it seems to have given up the ghost and behold! The next day it is as healthy as ever” (53). Lauryn Hill‚ an astounding singer‚ actress‚ musician and above all artist

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    Motives of Traveling

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    “the imagination could provide a more-than-adequate substitute for the vulgar reality of actual experience” . So the question is: why do people travel‚ despite all inconveniences‚ which they have to fight with? The aim of this report is to depict motives and reasons of why people travel on the basis of two references: “The Art of Travel” by Alain de Botton and “Homo Turisticus” by Anders Steene and to reveal how people collect information about their destinations. First of all the‚ the main reason

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    Final Study Guide: American History 1st Topic: European Exploration and Colonization of North America. Mayflower Compact * Was an agreement signed by all of the pilgrim men which said that they would remain loyal to the king and. * They would have just and equal laws * It provides the foundation for American democratic government Jamestown (Important to Know England sent a crew to establish a colony in America; they settled near the Chesapeake Bay and named it Jamestown after

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    Group Speech AIDS in America Micaiah Bradford‚ Noah Fryer‚ Qiang Pan‚ William Best Attention Getter Introduction Attention Getter: Today we are going to talk about a disease‚ it started in 1959‚ and from Global Health Observatory data‚ more than 70 million people have been infected with this disease‚ 35 million people have died because of it. Over 1.1 million people died worldwide in 2015‚ and yet there is no cure for this disease. You might have already guessed what we are going to talk about today

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    The "discovery" of the New World by Christopher Columbus led to a new chapter in history that no one at the time could have anticipated. For many Europeans‚ it offered a better life than the one they were living‚ which led to the colonization of the Americas. Motives that fueled European colonization were that the New World offered religious freedom‚ a fresh start for those who were impoverished and in debt‚ and better opportunities to acquire large amounts of land and wealth. The Protestant Reformation

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    Pressure Groups Pressure groups can influence political decisions in many ways. Pressure groups represent a particular issue/issues and tries to put pressure on the government to change laws concerning their specific interest. This can take place in several different ways but methods used by insider pressure groups are different to the ones used by outsider pressure groups. Outsider pressure groups keep their independence from the government. Because of this these pressure groups are not bound

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