In the article “The Transformation of the ‘American Dream’” Robert J. Shiller introduces how the American Dream is about owning a home,this is an example of materialism. The idea about owning a home was growing because of Donald Trump and Ben Carson, but this is not the first time the idea of the American Dream has been about owning houses. In the 1950’s after World War 2 many Americans moved from urban home to suburban homes because G.I Bill that gave loans and had low morgigas for the soldiers
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questions, I wanted to touch on a few issues that seem to be asked by many people. I would like to deal with one question tonight in some detail. The issue is experience. Several people ask what they should tell their friends when people say “I like Carson but he has no political experience”. You are absolutely right — I have no political experience. The current Members of Congress have a combined 8,700 years of political experience. Are we sure political experience is what we need. Every signer
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Gun control. A big topic in politics. People put down guns all the time all others totally uplift it. Is it tremendously bad, is it totally good, does it need balance? The Second Amendment says, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” As the law says, we must have a well regulated militia to defend our freedoms. I believe a fair system of owning guns should be implemented, through fair regulations
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comfortable with, as we grew up together, even though I am 7 years older. The main topic we discussed was his opinion on the Federal Government Affordable Care aka "Obamacare", our conversation was in response to a comment we heard on YouTube made by Dr. Ben Carson. The second conversation took place at my house with my son's father who I have known 22 years, but I am not comfortable with him at all. The conversation lasted 25 minutes ,the main topic was his assisting financially with our son's last year of
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Augustine of Hippo, around 410 AD, created a work to explain to us why earth will never be able to live up to the heavens. He sets up two cities, an earthly city, modeled after Rome, and a heavenly city. In the earthly city, the people are always uneasy even though they have achieved much. “The rich man is anxious with fears, pining with discontent, burning with covetousness, never secure, always, panting from the perpetual strife of his enemies, adding to his patrimony indeed by these miseries to
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He can read about it if he wants to. I think he’s an intelligent man and will make the correct decision after getting the real facts,” said Dr. Carson. While I did not always agree with Dr. Carson, I did concur with him on this issue. I happened to be familiar with the literature, not only because of my profession as a neuroscientist, but also because I’m the parent of two young children, who at the time were two and
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Shaun O’Malley 5/9/13 Social Problems 1969 is the year in which most attribute to the beginning of the gay rights movement in America. Before 1969 there was a real disconnect between this population and the political process, but when the NYPD raided a gay bar in Greenwich Village and started arresting people, the community had finally had enough. The following three days riots ensued, finally they had enough and no longer would they remain silent. The following year the first gay pride
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Ben Carson once stated, “Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say (or do) things really quite innocently.” The United States of America was founded upon certain unalienable rights that cannot be confined by any political movement or ideology which attempts to abolish them. One
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It shows no racial profiling and promotes equality. The meaning of equality state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities. No ones better than the other and everyone's the same. Presidential candidate Ben Carson complained that the group was confused on the wrong target. Presidential candidate Rand Paul also said, “I think they should change their name to some easier to relate to like maybe if they were “All Lives Matter or Innocent Lives Matter” (Marino
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was the forty-fifth inauguration in American history. Many people didn’t want it to happen, but obviously it did because a lot more people want Donald Trump as President than the others presidential candidates like Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Ben Carson, etc, etc. The Inauguration began when Donald Trump and his wife Melania attend service at St. John’s Church at 8:30 am. An hour and ten minutes later Barack Obama and his wife Michelle welcome the Trumps to the White House. Five minutes later
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