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The Legalization Of Marijuana
595 Words - 3 Pages.... would increase our countrys revenue. Also pot would be produced by the same companies that produce medications so it would ensure the safety and quality of the drug. there are also many benefits that can be uncovered to help people if legalization of pot is given a chance.
Legalizing pot would increase our countrys revenue. During prohibition alcohol use was still sold and bought, but people where doing it illegally. The 21st amendmnet repealed prohibition and alcohol taxes were increased. The same thing should happen with pot. Pot should be heavily taxed to increase this countrys revenue. The same countrys that make medications would also make pot, so the quality would be a ....
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Lusitania
955 Words - 4 Pages.... and Cunard. On May 12, 1913
she was put in drydock to be double plated and hydraulically riveted, as well as
modified for the application of guns. War was declared on August 4, 1914, and
the ship was sent again into drydock. There she was armed with 12 six-inch
guns(Simpson 60).
Britain wanted to ship war materials over the Atlantic, but there was an
embargo of shipping munitions on passenger ships. America also tended to publish
the cargo manifests so that the Allies as well as the Germans would know what is
being shipped. Britain found a loophole in this. New cargo added at the last
minute did not go on the original manifest, thus a supplementary manifest would ....
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Underground Railroad
1491 Words - 6 Pages.... in America thrived and continued to grow because there was a scarcity of labor. Cultivation of crops on plantations could be supervised while slaves used simple routines to harvest them, the low price at which slaves could be bought, and earning profits as a bonus for not having to pay hired work.
Slaves turned to freedom for more than one reason. Some were obsessed with being free and living a life where they were not told how to live. Others ran due to fear of being separted or sold from friends and family. Then there were some who were treated so cruely, that it forced them to run just to stay alive. Since coming to America as slaves even back as far back as when the fi ....
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Declaration Of Independence -
453 Words - 2 Pages.... the 16th century, the surfs gained liberty from the vassals, and they were no longer under their control. Similarly, in America after the signing of the Declaration and the Revolutionary War, the colonies were no longer under the control of the king. Jefferson established that the right to liberty was given to them by God (Creator). This outweighed the commonly held idea that a king was chosen by God to rule.
Another definition of liberty is that one does not conform to what is commonly accepted by others. For instance, if one would wear a polka-dot sport coat with clown shoes every day, it could be said of that person that they take great liberty in what they wear. L ....
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The White Man's Abuse On The Lands
1034 Words - 4 Pages.... pieces, the first two take
place in the 1850's to 1870's. The passage of The Land of the Spotted Eagle
takes place at a later time in the 1930's. There is also agreement of the
three in the spiritual sense of the land.
In Chief Seattle's speech, he talks in more of the spiritual sense
of the land. But it is in direct relationship to the abuse that the White
Man exerts on the land. He makes many references towards the Indian
Spiritual being, that he is very different from that of the White Man. He
makes many analogies towards that of the spiritual importance of the burial
grounds and the worshipping grounds towards the after life. "To us the
ashes of our ancestors are sac ....
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Democracy
697 Words - 3 Pages.... was the basis for freedom of religion. These, however, were not the first step towards . The Virginia House of Burgesses, the Mayflower Compact, New England town meetings, and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were all early stepping-stones toward a truly democratic government. The early governing bodies in the colonies such as the House of Burgesses were all based on a written constitution. The Virginia House of Burgesses, established in 1619, was the first representative assembly in Colonial America, and was established with permission from the Virginia Company. The Mayflower Compact was the constitution for the Massachusetts Bay colony. It was written in 1620 while st ....
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Jay's Treaty
691 Words - 3 Pages.... not like these
terms, Washington supported them to prevent us from going to war. Washington
made his first move by sending a delegate to England, and furthermore by
standing up to congress to get this treaty ratified. He demonstrates again his
great moral coura ge for the welfare of his country.
Although Washington himself did not write the treaty he deserves all the
credit for initiating it in the first place. The times had become rough with
the British, and according to Hamilton the British were a vital part of our
economy. He said " …the tax on imports furnished much of the money for paying
off our foreign, domestic, and state debts." 2 Along with the British's
imp ....
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Female Slaves And Their Famili
725 Words - 3 Pages.... these domestic duties tended to add more work to the slave woman's day, the domestic work was a way for women to rebel against the master to a degree. Women did this work to keep themselves and their families healthy, and would on occassion help a runaway slave by providing for him or her. These responsibilities were in some ways a joy to slave women, since they "offered a degree of personal fulfillment." One slave woman, Mary Colquitt, remarked that her grandmother and mother had often stayed up late sewing clothes for the children, saying, "Dey done it 'cause dey wanted to. Dey wuz workin' for deyselves den." (Jones, 29) Ironically, this work caring for themselves and th ....
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