are two terms to be recognized: “safe state” and “swing state”. In a “safe state” the presidential candidate of a particular party has the vast majority of support of that state ’s voters‚ regularly‚ so that he/she can safely assume the favorable outcome of the state ’s electoral college votes. Some well-known safe states are California for democrats‚ and Texas for republicans. On the contrary‚ there are states that are not like safe states and no single candidate or party has overwhelming
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What Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me are Saying Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me show the dark side of the fast food industry. The book Fast Food Nation focuses on the beginning and growth of the fast food industry and how it affects the world. The documentary Super Size Me focuses on how that industry has changed the way people eat and how healthy they are. Both agree that fast food is unhealthy‚ but they are different in what they say is unhealthy. In Fast Food Nation‚ Eric Schlosser
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Assignment 1 Nature’s Nation is a compilation of unpublished essays by Perry Miller‚ which propose his “central ideas and his scholarly principles” (xi). This collection ranges from epitomizing the key motifs of the American wilderness through leaders of the Romanticism period such as Thoreau‚ Emerson and Melville‚ to what Richard B. Morris describes as “bringing out the inherent individualism of American Puritanism” through an “analysis of the Puritan mind” (1). The foundations of Miller’s
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The modes of transportation and the shelters of a First Nation is really important as it is an essential for their survival.Their most fundamental mode of transportation was walking‚ a lot of their traveling was done on foot. In the winter they would wear snowshoes to make walking easier and would have sleds or toboggans to carry loads‚ which were carried by themselves or dogs‚ however not all bands had dogs. There were two types of snowshoes‚ bear paw snowshoe was made to carry for weight and narrow
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A secular State means in essence that the State will not make any discrimination whatsoever on the ground of religion or community against any person professing any particular form of religious faith. No particular religion in the State will be identified as State religion nor will it receive any State patronage or preferential status. The State will not establish any State religion; nor will the State accord any preferential treatment to any citizen or discriminate against him simply on the ground
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O’odham Nation (a Native American Tribe here in Southern Arizona); this community struggles with multiple issues from Diabetes to domestic violence. This community and the issues they struggle with are important to me because I do not feel that they are properly represented by the larger Southwestern community‚ nor do I feel that their struggles are adequately addressed. Currently‚ there is only one non-tribal agency on the Nation that can provide services to members still living on the Nation. Other
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ideas. All of the First Nation groups hunted‚ this was the men’s responsibilities and was done in the summer time and occasionally in the winter. Small game(animal hunted for food)‚ such as birds or small animals like rabbits would be caught in traps or snares and bigger game‚ like deer and bears‚ would be hunted using various different weapons like spears and bow and arrows. Some groups had special/important animals that they would hunt‚ for example‚ the Woodland First Nations’ most important game
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(HASAN‚ MEHDI‚ 04 Feb. 2013). The article is wrote about the author who married an American girl so he need go to America frequently. There are a lot of troubles when he gets in America. Although coming to the United States he had a lot of troubles‚ he still cannot hate the United States. That is because just like he said in the article‚ he loved one person from the United Stated. This article’s type is personal views. This is a good article for me. As I am a foreign students from China‚ I will also
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historical films about slavery‚ overall the plots have become very repetitive in the recent remaking of the historical struggle for African Americans. The new film‚ The Birth of a Nation‚ depicts African Americans resisting the oppression that they have been pushed into for hundreds of years. Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation is a retelling of the rebellion in 1831. Nat Turner was a preacher that led a rebellion that resulted in the deaths of many whites and African American slaves in the 1800’s. Turner’s
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It is without a question that the Birth of a Nation perpetuates an unfair bias against African Americans. Whether we should ban the viewing of this show from the public‚ however‚ would not be a solution to this answer. Although we do regret our past we should not shut the door on it. There are an incredible amount of valuable lessons we can learn from the mistakes of our ancestors. Without proper education and prevention‚ history is bound to repeat itself. Banning this film would be a short term
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