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The Assassination of Robert F Kennedy by Sirhan Sirhan

Who was Robert F Kennedy? Robert F Kennedy (RFK) was a prominent American politician, adored and endeared member of the US Democratic party and a champion of modern liberalism. Robert F Kennedy was also notably from the Kennedy family which has a long line of historical political figures and which is famous for its fortune, […]

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Martin Luther King Jr, His Work, Assassination and Achievements

Who was Martin Luther King Junior? Martin Luther King Junior was an African American, Baptist minister and civil rights activist born in January 15, 1929 to Martin Luther King Senior and Alberta Williams King in Atlanta (Marshall, 2002). King initially felt resentment against the whites due to the racial humiliation he and other African Americans

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Platoon (1986) – Movie Review

Platoon (1986) movie portrays the realities that ordinary soldiers are bound to encounter in the battlefield. It particularly focuses on the Vietnam War (1962-1975) and narrates the accounts of individual members of one of the platoons of soldiers that are sent to secure the American Battlefront in the war. Chris Tylor, the narrator of the

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Influence of Populism on Australian Asylum Policy

Australia has traditionally relied upon expressly crafted asylum policy in a bid to control numbers of individuals seeking to be acknowledged as legitimate refugees. One of the most prominent aspects of the current immigration policy involves only accepting eligible candidates into the country while holding illegal aliens in immigration detention. This has proved beneficial to

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Immigration Detention in Australia

Legal Status of Immigration Detention in Australia The Australian government has a clear policy of immigration detention for non-citizens without a valid visa, those suspected of having entered the country illegally, persons awaiting deportation, and in cases of visa violations. Immigration detention policy is implemented based on a sophisticated system of indefinite, unreviewable, non-transparent or

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Drug Trafficking Organization in America

The aim of this paper is to explore the history of drug trafficking organization in America, the evolution of drug sale and distribution syndicates and the major driving forces behind this evolution. This paper will also attempt to provide a description of the major socio-economic and legislative impacts of past drug syndicate activities in the

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Overview of Medical Experiments on Prisoners

Research showed that medical experiment on prisoners started several decades ago and many prisoners have participated in medical research without their consent. For example, in 1946 the Guatemalan prison inmates were used in medical experiment where most of them were deliberately infected with syphilis. Studies showed that male prisoners were directly infected with the disease

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The Giver Film and the Novel – Compare Contrast Essay

Most well-written novels such as The Giver by Lowry are adapted into a film, despite the differences found between the movie and book, the central theme of showing humanity and society and the idea of the right of an individual to feel, think, and remember what makes us human are the same. The Giver portrays

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