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Marijuana can affect so many people in different ways, positively and negatively. Although everyone knows the drug is fairly unhealthy and could even cause death ( If abused ), there are several medical aspects with it as well. Because of these pros and cons, the United States has a hard time deciding to legalize marijuana…

In the post-Civil War era, published news was accessible to the citizens of the United States more than it had ever been before, allowing stories to travel across the nation at a rapid pace. In the South during this time period, the Ku Klux Klan was committing horrid acts of violence against Republicans and African…

According to pew research center’s most recent estimate based on the 2011 American community survey, there was 1.89 million Cubans and 1.95 million Salvadorans living in the U.S. statistically speaking those two estimates are indistinguishable from each other and it’s been that way since 2008. However, most Salvadorian moved here because of civil war. Like…

Imagine that you were just leaving work after a long, tiresome day. You board the city bus that you ride every day and you take a seat in the first row of the section labeled “colored passengers”. African Americans were assigned to sit in the back of the bus while whites sat in the front….

You are crouching in a corner, holding your breath, waiting for it to pass with your flashlight ready. You are waiting for the chance to continue your journey to get out of there. All of a sudden it stops. Your pulse quickens as it turns to face your little dark corner. With a flash, it…

A Sweatshop is a place where people work either in poor conditions, difficulty and dangerous conditions, lack of benefits for workers, child labor or a person being paid less than the work they’ve done. Sweatshops are all over the world and they were very popular during past times. Most people believe that sweatshops should not…

            One of the things that it is easy and at the same time difficult to do is being familiar with oneself. There is an impression that the person you are mostly likely to know better is yourself because you are simply dealing with your own self. Who else would be aware of how you…

Colorism is a dark side to the internal prejudice acts or attitudes against our own brothers and sisters. Colorism is a seed of deceit, a silent hatred that divides us as a nation, race and as a people. We were given equality by our four founding fathers declaration through our constitution. We have a right…

A passive solar house uses nature to power itself, and by its ability to take maximum advantage of the suns’ energy and power, it minimizes the use of mechanical and electrical energy, and produces free energy. Getting free energy is important because “The variety of fuels used to generate electricity all have some impact on…

“What makes someone American isn’t just blood or birth but allegiance to our founding principles and faith in the idea that anyone-from anywhere- can write the next chapter of our story.”- Barack Obama. What Obama is saying that if you grew up in America and followed all the rules like pay taxes then why wouldn’t…