A Guide to the Barbary Pirates

A Guide to the Barbary Pirates The Barbary privateers (or, all the more precisely, Barbary privateers) worked out of four North African basesAlgiers, Tunis, Tripoli and different ports in Moroccobetween the sixteenth and nineteenth hundreds of years. They threatened nautical merchants in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, here and there, in the expressions of John Biddulphs 1907 history of theft, wandering into the mouth of the [English} channel to make a catch. The privateers worked for North African Muslim deys, or rulers, themselves subjects of the Ottoman Empire, which energized privateering as long as the domain got a lot of tributes. Privateering had two points: to oppress prisoners, who were generally Christian, and to emancipate prisoners for tribute. The Barbary privateers assumed a noteworthy job in characterizing the international strategy of the United States in its most punctual days. The privateers incited the United States first wars in the Middle East, constrained the United States to construct a Navy, and set a few trends, including prisoner emergencies including the delivering of American hostages and military American military intercessions in the Middle East that have been generally successive and grisly since. The Barbary wars with the United States finished in 1815 after a maritime undertaking requested to North Africas shores by President Madison crushed the Barbary powers and shut down three many years of American tribute installments. Somewhere in the range of 700 Americans had been held prisoner through the span of those three decades. Which means of Barbary The term Barbary was an injurious, European and American portrayal of North African forces. The term is gotten from the word brutes, an impression of how Western forces, themselves frequently slave-exchanging or slave-holding social orders at that point, saw Muslim and Mediterranean locales. Otherwise called: Barbary corsairs, Ottoman corsairs, Barbary privateers, Mohammetan privateers

Enterpreneurship Education

College OF PETROLEUM and ENERGY STUDIES DEHRADUN BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING ASSIGNMENT ON RE-ENGINEERING ENTERPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN INDIA SUBMITTED BY SUBMITTED TO LOVENEET VIRK DR. NEERAJ ANAND MBA(LSCM) SEM-3 ROLL NO-24 TABLE OF CONTENTS Particulars Page No.Concept of Entrepreneurship Education†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.. 3 Contribution to National Economic Growth†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦4 Entrepreneurship Education in India †¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.. 5-13 Support of business enterprise teaching†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦. 6 Recent improvement for MSMP in India†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦7 Disseminators†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.. 8-9 Focus†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦10 Challenges in planning an EEP†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦. 11-12 Factor in achievement of EEP†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚ ¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.. 3 Re-building Process†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦14 Recommendations†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦15 Bibliography†¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦Ã¢â‚¬ ¦.. Re-building Enterpreneurship Education In India The Concept of Entrepreneurship Education Entrepreneurship instruction is an instructive program that gives the understudies the information, aptitudes and inspiration expected to fire up a little scope business. As it were, it advances advancement or rath er presents new items or administrations and market methodologies to the understudies to become exceptional entrepreneurs.Kenton and Ervin (2000) characterize business training as an instructive order that plans individuals, particularly youth to be dependable, ambitious people who become business people or innovative scholars that add to monetary turn of events and economical networks. As it were, enterprise training is a program that gives control to a person to accept the accountability and the hazard for a business activity with the desire for making a benefit. On the off chance that this succeeds the business visionary procures benefits; and on the off chance that it falls flat, he takes the loss.Hisrich (2002) in Kurya (2006) characterizes enterprise as the way toward making something else with esteem by committing the important time and endeavors, guaranteeing the going with money related, mental and social dangers, and getting the subsequent compensations of financial and in dividual fulfillment. Another meaning of business enterprise that is deserving of note is Miami University of Ohio (2003) cited in Kurya (2006) which expresses that Entrepreneurship is a procedure of distinguishing, creating and carries a dream to life.The vision might be an inventive thought, a chance or basically a superior method to accomplish something. The final product of this procedure is the making of another endeavor, shaped under states of hazard and extensive vulnerability. Additionally as indicated by Kuryi (2006), business enterprise is a procedure through which people and gatherings seek after circumstance, influence assets and activity change to make esteem. In this way, considering all the works refered to, business enterprise training commonly gives imaginative aptitudes and information expected to begin and grow a business.In different words, it plans people to make and effectively work a business venture. Business instruction is professional training program that gives aptitudes and fitness to business, office occupation and for independence. On the side of this definition, the National Board for Technical Education (1987) states that business instruction spins around work abilities, employability and self-reliance. The Contributions of Entrepreneurship Education to National Economic Growth and Development.Entrepreneurship instruction, in mix with business training program in Indian colleges will add to the nation’s monetary development and improvement in the accompanying manners:- 1. It will assist with finding gifted, serious, inventive and exceptionally handy people that are the nation’s imaginative resources. 2. It will plan people to be capable and innovatively cognizant to contribute essentially to financial development and advancement. 3. It will fabricate an interfacing join that makes profitable and extremely attentive residents that can add to nearby, local and national seriousness. . Business enterprise training move s and rouses understudies to accomplish while in school and utilize their insight in a true setting. 5. It will energize the business training graduates to set up little scope organizations and support them. These independent ventures structure the foundation of future monetary development, work creation and riches age. ENTERPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN India has a spearheading status among creating nations for its promising start on an assortment of business enterprise instruction programs.For the most part, business enterprise training in post-autonomy India has been centered around measures intended to empower independent work and establishing of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The Industrial Policy Resolution of 1956 has, for example, an extremely solid accentuation on the SME area. As the economy changed from being basically agrarian into one that has critical commitment from different divisions, it was felt that the most squeezing necessity was instruction that would empower need-based business people to make raids into these rising sectors.Consequently, during the 1960s and 70s, enterprise instruction was solely conveyed through preparing programs, offered by establishments under the aegis of State and Central Governments, and by budgetary foundations accepting help from the Government. A portion of the establishments conveying such projects were: * Industrial homes and in like manner administration offices (like instrument rooms) * Training and directing foundations (NISIET, SISI, TCOs, EDI) * Financial organizations like SBI, IDBI, TDICI, RCTC, and so forth * Development sheets (STEPs, EDCs, TBIs)The table beneath shows the improvement of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) during the initial hardly any post-freedom decades. During the 80s, business instruction kept on concentrating essentially on business person preparing planned for making independent work adventures. Like during the 70s, such projects were for the most part under the umbrel la of Entrepreneurship Education Programs (EEPs) offered by Government organizations, money related establishments and banks. In any case, acknowledgment of the necessity for a progressively all encompassing business enterprise training, which incorporated the biological system accomplices, was starting to grow.The 80s additionally observed the section of business instruction into innovation and the board foundations. At the IIM Ahmedabad, for instance, employees began offering Achievement Motivation Training. Other administration establishments additionally started offering comparable courses, driven for the most part by personnel intrigue. Be that as it may, none of these establishments took on a spearheading job to develop as an idea chief. Legislative exertion regulated the establishing of an activity to set up Science and Technology Parks (STEPs) and brooding focuses at a couple of presumed specialized institutions.With the appearance of progression during the 90s, the nation s aw the capability of enterprise as a section level business generator, yet in addition as a methods for riches creation. Examples of overcoming adversity, particularly in the IT segment, were seen by business people as good examples. Backing for business showing The most recent studies of the patterns of enterprise training in India demonstrate that 44,500 understudies are as of now took on enterprise programs the nation over. This number is relied upon to develop at a CAGR of 20. % to arrive at 54,700 by 2012. The progression of the Indian economy during the 1990s has energized enterprise in the nation by encouraging the lessening of boundaries of passage to begin organizations, making financing all the more effectively accessible and the setting up of establishments for the improvement of pioneering ability. Incomes from Entrepreneurship Education Programs came to INR7. 9 billion out of 2010 and are assessed to develop at a CAGR of 13. 7% to INR10. 7 billion by 2012 Recent Develop ments for MSMP in IndiaDISSEMINATOTRS Based on the sort of association, disseminators of business enterprise instruction in India can be ordered as follows: * Government establishments * Academic and preparing organizations * Banks and monetary foundations *

Half Harvard, Half MIT

Half Harvard, Half MIT I have an interesting relationship with Harvard. Coming from MIT I have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I have an older sister who is a pretty cool human bean while simultaneously being Harv 08, and Ive gotten to know some of her similarly cool friends like Sam, who does a beautiful Flight of the Conchords impression, or Nick, who was recently sued by Apple for defending free speech on the internets. Im also cross-registering there and taking two Harvard classes this term with my friend Nina 10, so while my collar isnt physically popped, its been feeling pretty starchy as of late. Going to Harvard as a MIT student can sometimes make you feel like the only boy at Wellesley. You can easily pick me out of a crowd, rocking ratty untied Chuck Taylors and an MIT Orientation Leader 2006 shirt, wondering where the heck the building numbers are and why my recitation (scuse me, section) is in a place called Malinckrodt. (I wasnt an Orientation Leader in 2006, obviously, because I was getting oriented. The t-shirts were free in a box outside 7-103.) Amongst a sea of generally well-dressed, well-groomed and well-mannered Ivy Leaguers, my knotted, unwashed mane that serves as home to many a transgenic fruit fly and is slightly remniscent of Amy Winehouse sticks out like Im wearing a Tim the Beaver suit. Nina, on the other hand, fits right in with her peacoat and colorful scarves. The people sitting in her suite kitchen with me right now have recently come to the consensus that Nina is one of the best-dressed people on our floor, and effortlessly so. And yet she still manages to be an excellent pset buddy and lab partner, so you can see why Im taking Harvard classes basically, Im hoping that in time her intrinsic fashion sense may somehow rub off on me. Like in those chick flicks where the girl becomes hot, but still learns that its whats on the inside that counts. Or not, like in Grease. Or she becomes an ogre, like in Shrek. Nina also was the one to convince me of how easy it was to cross-register, since she had a pretty good experience taking Chemistry 17 last term. In fact, its pretty much just like registering for normal MIT classes you have a separate form that needs to be signed by the Harvard professor, your advisor, and the director of the HASS (Humanities, Arts and Social Science) office, which then gets turned in to both the MIT HASS office and the Harvard registrar. No more than half of your classes can be Harvard classes, and you must be a full-time MIT student to cross-register (paying full MIT tuition, which you kind of have to do anyway if youre taking MIT classes). So about four times a week now, I take the T or the 1 Bus to Harv, which means I have to factor at least 10-15 minutes travel time into my morning routine of sprinting out the door with a Go-Gurt (portable breakfast food FTW). As easy as it was to register and as easy as it is to get there, though, at times it can feel like Im studying abroad. There are cross-cultural differences aplenty and a definite language barrier 5.13 becomes Chem 27 and Course 5 itself is now Chemistry and Chemical Biology; teaching aides are no longer TAs but TFs (teaching fellows); and of course theres the whole dressing up for class thing. (I guess over there they just call it getting dressed.) Dont get me wrong Im definitely glad to be taking advantage of this opportunity, and I enjoy the mixed experience. But I can honestly say, and I think Nina will agree with me on this one, that there is no greater feeling than getting off the bus at the end of the day and stepping back onto MIT ground. Theres nothing better than knowing that youve returned somewhere where you can punt your 7.03 p-set all day to code a wiki for Burton 1, and you can tell someone that, and they will know exactly what you mean. Basically theres no place like home, like in The Wizard of Oz. (Or not, like in Poltergeist.) My schedule, if youre wondering, consists of: Stat 100, a Harvard class that fulfills a Course 9 requirement (in place of 9.07, Statistics for Brain and Cognitive Science). Its probably one of the easier classes on the Harvard spectrum, seeing as every exam is open notes/open book. When I heard that my jaw just about unhinged and crawled away. Nina was like, Welcome to Harv. Chem 27, my other Harvard class, is sort of a weird amalgamation of 5.13, 7.05, and 5.310 (or I guess 5.36, since the lab is a little more geared towards organic reactions). Thats Organic Chemistry II, Biochemestry, and a chem lab; so there isnt really any class like this offered at MIT (of couse, Harvard doesnt really offer 5.13 or 5.310 either, and so because MIT splits them into two classes theyre taught really differently). Twice a week we have an hour and a half of lecture; once a week we have one section (recitation), and one five-hour lab (most MIT lab classes meet twice a week for five hours, and once for a one-hour lecture). This also means I am blessed with the glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a five hour lab, hightail it back to MIT for my attendance-mandatory Japanese class, sit through another hour and a half lecture of 9.00, then bus BACK over to Harvard for Chem 27 section. By Tuesday night I can usually be found limping, battered an d bruised, back to Burton-Conner, sometimes with bits of an unknown organic acid in my hair. Chem 27, if youre wondering, is definitely one of the harder classes on the Harvard spectrum. Exams are pretty close to what Im used to at MIT, and lectures contain all sorts of gems like the glucosidase inhibitor deoxynojirimycin. (I remain unconvinced that deoxynojirimycin is an actual word. Im still waiting for the professor to announce, By the way, you remember that glucosidase inhibitor I told you about the other day? Deoxynojirimycin? I actually just fell asleep on my keyboard when I was writing the lecture slides, so uh, thats not real. Hahaha.) 21F.502, or Japanese 2. A lot harder than Japanese 1. One similarity between MIT and Harvard languages in college are definitely not like languages in high school. Yeah, they start you off with domo arigatou and all the basics, but its a lot faster paced, and from day one they speak rapid Japanese at you (same as when I took French for one week, and Chinese for one week). Weve all sort of gotten used to it now, but on the first day everyone was like, er, this is Japanese 1, right? 9.00, or Introduction to Psychology. Professor Gabrieli is not only one of the more interesting lecturers Ive had, but I also just started working in his lab this IAP. Rather than your average introduction psych course that sticks mostly to Freud and thinking really hard about your feelings, 9.00 has more of neuroanatomical applications i.e. in yesterdays lecture, where we discussed the limitations of the lateral geniculate nucleus in visual processing. He also starts every class with a song from his iTunes playlist; todays gem was Youve Got My Attention by Copeland. And, theres also my UROP, which Im doing for credit (as opposed to for pay, or volunteer). I get to write programs for people to look at while theyre in the MRI, and sometimes in lecture Professor Gabrieli talks about what Im working on and I get all excited and My Friend Matt Cohen is all like, nobody thinks thats cool but you. Here is something cool, though the girl who works next to me is Nupur Lala, the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion and star of the documentary Spellbound. The thing is, they probably should have never told me that she was the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion. Because now anytime she does anything, like ask for programming help, I think to myself, The 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion just asked for programming help. Or, The 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion just got up to refill the toner in the printer. Or, The 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion is TAKING A NAP AT HER COMPUTER. Not only is it a pretty big line to get in your head, a lot of the times I also forget to add in that she was the star of the documentary Spellbound. I mean, the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee Champion and star of the documentary Spellbound is TAKING A NAP AT HER COMPUTER!! Nupur is my hero.

The Effects Of Parental Rights On Children - 3262 Words

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America And Free Speech Go Together Like Burger King

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