Influence on America America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was officially established through the National Security Act of 1947‚ but the concept of intelligence gathering had existed since the days of the Revolutionary War. The CIA is the successor to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)‚ which was created in 1942 to help organize espionage activities during World War II. The mission of the CIA is to collect bits of strategic information in order to protect the United States of America from foreign
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CW History Mr. Rioux 06.05.11 Was it right to drop two atomic bombs? “If you have to deal with a beast you have to treat him as a beast”1‚ said President Harry Truman to justify the use of the atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But isn’t this the exact opposite of what is preached in the bible? “If someone slaps you on one cheek‚ offer the other also” (Luke 6:29)‚ it does not say that we should slap back to even the score. So was dropping the bombs the wrong decision‚ or was it the only
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Therefore‚ racial profiling violates the 14th amendment‚ which grants all American citizens‚ the right to Due Process and Equal Protection under the law. Research shows that people of color or minorities experience racial profiling more than whites in America. Police departments have
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Being a survivor of a hurricane must be one of the most emotionally and physically tasking situations. Many individuals lose countless belonging‚ but also family members and friends. Depending on the damage that occurred and various other factors‚ everyone that was affected by the hurricane is going to react differently. Some individuals might not have a strong reaction‚ while others may have a severe reaction to the situation. Individuals may even develop a psychological disorder after experiencing
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Hurricane Matthew has claimed at least 478 deaths in Haiti‚ and left over 300‚000 people in need of disaster relief. An estimated 61‚000 people have sought shelter in the impoverished country. Heavy winds sustaining speeds of up to 140 mph accompanied by torrential rain caused massive flooding in Haiti and left a trail of destruction wherever the storm passed. Rescue workers are trying to assess the extent of damage‚ which was not immediately known because the hurricane had hampered communication
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Doberge Cake after Katrina Amy Cryrex Sins‚ in Doberge Cake after Katrina‚ communicates apropos the recipes lost during the horrific Hurricane Katrina. Sins writes about her dreadful experience‚ as she watched “in horror” as the levee on the 17th Street Canal broke‚ “sending tons of water and debris down [her] street” (Sins 45). Although she had not lost any people to the flooding‚ she had lost much of her collection of recipes that she had been gathering since her move to New Orleans. Sins discusses
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How Hurricanes Form Hurricanes can be very powerful and violent storms. Hurricanes get their energy when the sun heats up the ocean water. When the wind blows across the warm ocean‚ the water evaporates and gets carried upward. As the wind continues‚ the storm starts to spin and move across the ocean. If the water stays warm there are no mountains or obstacles‚ the storm can grow. Once it hits land‚ it no longer has moisture or heat so it starts to weaken. The wind speed tells you how strong a
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When Americans went dry during the 1920s‚ they didn’t know how history would be changed. America then changed its mind about Prohibition due to a rise in crime‚ a lack of law enforcement‚ and a loss of potential tax revenue. The first reason is due to a rise in crime. According to a graph published in a report in the US Census and FBI Uniform Crime from 2008‚the homicide rate was 7 per 100‚000 in 1919. This number increased to 9.8 by 1933‚ then decrease to 6 per 100‚000 after the Great Depression
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Jennifer Bradley Research Paper Hurricane Ike Hurricane Ike Hurricane Ike hit the Texas Gulf coast on September 13‚ 2008 near Galveston‚ Texas. When Hurricane Ike hit it registered as a category 2 hurricane; however‚ before it hit land the storm went as high as a category 5 hurricane. Even though this hurricane was only a category 2 it still caused major damage. Hurricane Ike came ashore in Texas at 2:10 a.m. CDT‚ Sept. 13‚ and brought a wall of water over 13 feet high‚ sweeping through Galveston
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Imagine finding out that there is a hurricane that is a category five hurricane is about to hit your home town and you hear that you must leave the area. In a situation like this most individual use both the avoidance and the loss reduction techniques for risk management to protect their self from the hurricane. When using the avoidance techniques when a hurricane is come most individual who are in a flooded area would leave their homes and go to a shelter or another town that is not in the area
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