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President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in March 2010. This law made many contraceptive methods affordable to many women in the U.S. This was the first law to be enacted that set requirements for preventative health care across all the markets (L. Sobel, A. Salganicoff, I. Gomez; Mar. 29,2018, Women’s Health policy)….

From a shoemaker’s apprentice to a highly respected and important figure of the American Revolution, the life of George Robert Twelves Hewes in The Shoemaker and the Tea Party is thoroughly chronicled. Fundamentally divided into two parts, this book by Historian Alfred F. Young described Hewes’ experiences during his participation in perhaps the most important…

In the introduction he introduces the concept of politics and nature conservation converges. He argues that there exist landscapes where politics and conservation connect and emphasizes that the focus on landscape and how it developed from the New Deal era. This era was the most transformative to the public in regards to the federal government…

There are many issues we must face when discussing inmates with mental health disorders, there are many barriers which stand between our current application of Corrections within the United States, and a future of improving our society to provide proper medical and mental health care. Yet, understanding where we are at with treatment of inmates…

In 1877, the reconstruction the United States admitted change to our constitution the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, and pledged their loyalty to the a truly United States government. Reconstruction also settled the states’ rights vs. federalism debate that split this union. However, Reconstruction failed by most other measures: Radical Republican legislation ultimately failed under…

It is a well-established fact that the reason Americans today are able to express their views, opinions, pride, and joy is through the brave and significant pilgrims, that so desperately fled England due to religious persecution, and the ability to earn an easier and better living (McKenzie, 2013). But, it is what we did with…

The United Nations stated that ‘everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expressions; without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.’ In Isabel Parkers ‘We the People’ she shares actual examples that provide concrete, tangible evidence to how censorship in school’s harms students…

The debate over whether or not gun control should be enforced has been a part of America’s history since before it was even a country. There has always been “Gun Grabbers” who think that there is no need for regular civilians to have weapons in their possession, as has there been “Gun Nuts” who believe…

Freedom is the power to act, speak, or think as one desires without any curbs. In 1776 the Declaration of Independence was written to declare to Great Britain that the colonies wanted to be an autonomous nation that was completely free from British rule. In 1789 Olaudah Equiano published his autobiography titled “The Interesting Narrative…

The American Prison system is economically, mentally, and socially detrimental to African Americans and other minority communities. These targeted behavior of discrimination against minorities within the system leaves long term effects like poverty, and mental instability on those that have been convicted to the system and their families. Not to mention the long lasting effect…