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Assault weapon control is becoming an unavoidable topic in the United States. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation more than nine hundred people have died from mass shootings in the past seven years and an assault rifle was used in twelve of the forty-three mass shootings in the past four years. The U.S. Department of Defense has long defined assault rifles as fully automatic rifles used for military purposes. The National Firearm Act of 1934 prohibited fully automatic weapons in the

A quote from Peggy McIntosh’s article titled, “White Privilege: Unpacking The Invisible Knapsack” refers to the subconscious making of stereotypes. The author states, “I was taught to see racism as individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group” (McIntosh, Peggy). In McIntosh’s article she dissects what it means to have white privilege. To unpack the invisible knapsack is to take apart and look at the upper-hand a white person is given. White privilege is

Annandale High Unit 1 Article USVA Government, W2 Adreana Hailu 10/1/2015   College Tuition Over the past few years there have been noticeable effects of raised tuition on college students throughout U.S. According to a recent College Board report, tuition and fees at four-year public institutions have increased by 31 percent (democrats.edworkforce.house.gov, Committee of education and the work force democrats). It’s not uncommon that students take out loans to afford college and later find

Government intervention takes place when there is necessity to support the economic fabric of the nation. For example, when the US government provided bailout packages to investment banks the objective was to rescue the banking system of the United States. The fiscal intervention has the objectives of reducing unemployment, ensuring growth, and controlling inflation. An example is a fiscal stimulus package that reduces unemployment. The direct goal of taxation is to finance government

March Madness and the College Football National Championship arise. Even though the NCAA considers themselves to be a non profit organization, March Madness is such a huge event that in 2011 the NCAA made an agreement with CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting System to let them broadcast the games until 2024 for $10.8 billion, but during March Madness they make almost $800 million every year from jersey, ticket, and product sales ("Revenue"). Depending on how far some of the colleges go these universities

satire. Although the seemingly most popular article of the class, I argue that its popularity strives from a detachment of more traditional television sources, providing a new form of cultural engagement and citizenship. As trust in clear-leaing broadcasting systems fades, satire and parody emerges as substitute, filling in the spaces of discontent and misrepresentation felt by audiences. Shows like the Daily Show “defamiliarize” norms embedded into our social-political behavior, allowing a ‘step back’

If someone puts in 40+ hours of weekly practice time and receives no money for the hard work they have done, are they being cheated? The amount of work that college athletes dedicate to their athletic programs is equivalent to working a full time job, the difference is that the athletes are being left without a paycheck. Student-athletes who are on full athletic scholarships are still left with approximately $3000 in out of pocket expenses (NCPA). How are they supposed to pay for these funds when

BUSINESS CASE ASSIGNMENT 1 Jie Tian Zhaopeng Li A. As part of strategic planning exercise, describe and analyze the vision and mission statements of Time Warner Inc. There is no explicit vision or mission statements on Time Warner’s website. But according to the description of vision and mission statements on class the “ABOUT US” statement on the company’s website resembles the mission statement and the “OUR VALUES” statement fits the definition of vision statement. The “ABOUT US” statement

Comparative Essay on JD Rockefeller and Ted Turner “Yet among men there are some endowed with vision, an insight more penetrating and more sustained. To their liberated spirit the world unfolds a farther prospect.” These words were spoken by Carleton Noyes to his class as they were analyzing The Harvard Classics (collection of poetry). This phrase means to reflect the driving genius behind such philanthropist entrepreneurs as John D. Rockefeller and Ted Turner. Both of these ‘supermen’ have displayed

Turner, 1990a, 1990b, 1992a, 1992b; Michaels, 1986, 1994). James Weiner (1997: 197) has noted that indigenous peoples ‘have utilized visual self-representation as a mode of empowerment, political assertion, and cultural revival in the face of Western cultural