Tag: writing
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Introduction to the Prison Industrial Complex
“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting ‘prison-industrial complex’—the business interests that capitalize on prison construction—made imprisonment so profitable that millions of dollars were spent lobbying state legislators to keep expanding the use of incarceration to respond to just about any problem.…
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Please Stop Starting Your Sentences with “However” (except in certain cases)
“In the 1960s, the California State Water Project, conceived and built during the administration of Governor Edmund G. ‘Pat’ Brown, was designed to guarantee adequate water for the rapidly growing Southland well into the twenty-first century. However, since the California Aqueduct carried more water than Los Angeles Metropolitan Water District (Met) customers could use in…
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Why does America feel it needs to be so involved in the affairs of foreign nations?
A preliminary update on my work regarding the impact American Liberalism had on the US’ ascent to, and current fall from, global power