last 1. What are the author’s major claims? Bilger claims that Americans’ love for their pets is out of control because they spend forty-seven billion dollars on them. 2. Which claim is the strongest?
Illegal Aliens are harming our economy and are taking American jobs contrary to what you are led to believe. "Over the past 10 years, more than 2 million low-skilled American workers have been displaced from their jobs and each 10 percent increase in the immigrant workforce decreases U.S. wages by 3.5 percent" writes CNN financial analyst Lou Dobbs (Grigg 1). Current president George W. Bush and his political allies assure the public that illegal immigrants are doing jobs that nobody else wants. However, Steve Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, points out "what they really mean is that they are doing the jobs that they as middle- and upper-class people don't want" (Grigg 1). Agriculture has many other instances of employers switching to immigrant workers whether they are legal or not to increase their profits.
The documentary ends with President Clinton in office for 1992, which caused the shift of balance of power in favor of the Democrats. However, the Republicans turned to a majority position in both houses of Congress in the Election of 1994. Ken Burns' "The Congress" is a wonderful history of an essential but underrated American institution. In only one hundred minutes, Burns captures the strengths and weaknesses of our legislative branch like few documentarians could. Congress, often accused of gridlock and pork barreling, actually exemplifies the American
The people of Tatooine always had one big speculating question about their terrible economic depression that had taken place 20 years ago. How could their council have chosen such a fool, Hubba the Tent, as their leader who had started this problem in the first place? Why had they chosen this warmonger, a-good-for-nothing, corrupted warmonger as the Chancellor of Tatooine? Why had they not chosen his much more intelligent twin brother and also an adopted human son of Jabba the Hut, Bubba the Yurt, who would have steered the nation to prosperity? Pushing aside the games in the realm of politics, these questions can be answered by the birth defects in one of the twins and their summoning to the Royal Consulate of Tatooine.
There is a law limiting the amount that a single group can give, but that’s not effective because a big company can make a bunch of little PAC’s and suddenly $5,000 becomes $200,000 or more. It’s a huge flaw in the system, and it cannot be allowed to be abused anymore before congress is in complete gridlock because they can’t endanger their interest. These interest groups aren’t just targeting politicians they are also buying votes; one example the article gives is The National Automobile Dealers Association getting a bill that would require them to inform buyers about defects in the car shot down. Along with the United Auto Workers paying $1 million to raise support for “domestic content”. It is so evident of a problem in our political process.
The novels Jurassic Park and The Killer Angels gave me a whole new insight on modern age technology, and almost completely changed my view on it. One of the prevalent themes in the novel Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton is the potential danger of technology. In his novel, a man named John Hammond invests millions of dollars in a project to clone dinosaurs and creates Jurassic Park. However, Hammond wants to run the park with minimal staff to save money
His arguments are for survival because every year his country is losing people. He says, “Every year our Fatherland loses the capacity of approximately 200,000 Germans. The greatest amount of this capacity flows directly into the camp of our economic competitors and increases the strength of our rivals.” Carl Peters is proposing colonization and imperialism to keep his country alive and to make sure that they stay in power and not fall to their competitors. Germany was losing money and Peters saw imperialism as a way back to economic supremacy. To achieve his ends Cecil Rhodes proposed a secret society with the only goal being to increase the prestige of the British Empire.
To go along with the 4,400 Americans that wont be coming home to their families, there were over 32,000 Americans wounded in this war. So was this $4 trillion dollar war really wort our time and the lives it cost us? I say no, I feel we spent far too long helping a country that wanted nothing but for us to leave their country for years. We have cost too many lives, and have changed too many lives with injuries to justify a war where we simply just pull out. The results did not justify the losses America took, including how negative our image has become over the years, the financial hole we dug ourselves into, and the way we've affected Americans for the
His son Kim Jong-un succeeded and has been running a strict dictatorship much like his father. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea also known as North Korea has been under much criticism for being one of the worse nations in the world when it comes to human rights. North Korea has been testing nuclear missiles for over a decade now. The United Nations have sent out stern warnings from all five vetoing countries but it does not seem to phase or even scare the Korean nation. “North Korea also conducted rocket launches in 2006 and 2009.
A recent study published in the journal. Science has found that the hype is based on nothing better than smoke and mirrors. They found that somewhere between one and two percent of the population has already had the H5N1 strain of influenza—the dreaded bird flu.” (Fear Mongering on Bird Flu: Deaths Overstated More than 119,433 Times the Reality). In the election of 2008, Hillary Clinton used fear mongering in the campaign. She one time stated that President Obama is similar to former President, Bush because he does not know a lot about foreign policy.