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    reasons. Before the United States government officials and many other well-known countries banned its use in the year 1923, smoking marijuana has been a well-known recreational and medical normalcy for the last thousands of years and has slowly become legal in 25 of the 50 states. Since the U.S. legislators revoked the recreational and medical use, sale, and growth of marijuana, many people have organized groups and protests to fight for it to become legal again in all 50 states. Most importantly, Utah

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    recognition of this that led Ronald Reagan to launch his “War on Drugs(2011) Since the beginning of the “War on Drugs” negative coverage of marijuana has only increased. For example, in 1996, Bob Dole claimed that Bill Clinton, his opponent in the U.S. presidential election, condoned the use of marijuana, and, conversely, media coverage positively depicting the marijuana use increased the following year when the federal government announced it would find a study to explore using marijuana for medical

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    Regulations (40 C.F.R.). The C.F.R. defines natural resources as encompassing land, fish, wildlife, plants, air, water, and other such resources belonging to, managed by, held in trust by, appertaining to, or otherwise controlled by the United States, any State or local government, or any foreign government. Natural Resource laws protect such areas as national parks and

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    the people that belong to America's television. The people of America's television are noncommercial, educational licensees that operate in 350 member stations and serve all 50 states (2016). PBS does not only provide broadcasting to the fifty states in the United States, but they also inform the people of Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa (2016). One item that differentiates PBS from other media channels is their strong

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    Donald Trump focused more on the United States health when answering question 13. He said the U.S. has to be healthy in order to help others around the world. He said that the United States has to focus more on tax reform, trade reform, immigration reform, and energy independence, before helping the others around the world. This differs from our powerpoint in two

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    “many teachers have told us that when we put a Carson Scholar in their classroom, the GPA of the whole classroom goes up”(Carson). He wasn’t afraid to speak on the success. Lastly when Carson compared the United States to Ancient Rome showed his outspoken mind. He basically is saying that the U.S see themselves as too supreme and later says: “They destroyed themselves from within”(Carson). He insisting that that will soon happen to

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    Stalking: A Case Study

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    Like domestic violence or theft, stalking is a crime punishable by law. Charges vary state to state, but often include aggravated stalking, trespassing, and/or a temporary restraining order (NO Bullying, 2015). Charges also may include that of domestic violence and/or sexual assault. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the intransitive verb ‘stalk’ as walk[ing] swiftly or haughtily”. The word as a transitive verb is defines as “to purse obsessively and to the point of harassment” (Merriam-Webster

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    Sprint Company History

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    is located in almost all fifty states. While its headquarters are located in Overland Park, Kansas, (“Corporate Office Data”) some of the other major locations include 177 stores in California, 93 stores in Florida, 65 stores in Illinois, 56 stores in New York, and 136 stores in Texas (“Sprint Store Locator”). According to the 2017 income statement, Sprint makes $33.35 billion in net sales/revenue (“Sprint Income-Statement 2017”). It is also ranked # 4 in the top U.S. carriers in the first quarter

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    It is Time to Expand Medicaid Coverage in South Carolina When it validated the constitutionality of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2012, the United States Supreme Court also ruled that states could decide for themselves whether or not to expand their Medicaid programs (Sonfield, 2012). Predictably, South Carolina said no. The Palmetto State’s decision not to expand Medicaid in concert with the Affordable Care Act was wrong, and it is time to correct that mistake. The leadership’s

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    criticized by a group of US, charities, because the United States had enough resources to resettle 100.000 Syrian refugees (Hein & Nazi, 2016). “In the US, the governors of 31 of 50 states issued orders to prevent the resettlement of Syrian refugees and by a vote of 289 to 137 the US House of Representatives approved legislation to ban the admissions of all Syrian and Iraqi refugees” (Hein & Nazi, 2016). Kansas is among those 31 states that do not welcome Syrian refugees (Hein & Niazi, 2016). On

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