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The frontier into the certain attributes of american identity. Its been the ability and the luxury to use expansion which was built into well before the frontier when it became the symbol of expansion it was foundational to the u. S. Identity and no other nation has been so able to organize its domestic politics through both the expansion and increasingly the mythology of expansion being able to point to the frontier and say respond to social problems and social demands with a promise of limitless for endless growth and these were some of the foundational premises of the Founding Fathers from the beginning. Thomas jefferson and the very First Political track three years before the declaration of independence and the right to move into the right to migrate west wasnt just a natural right that the condition of all natural rights that allowed the ancestors to escape germany as it was comfortabl consular datio the British Isles to the atlantic to of course the new world and it was the abil
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Their coronavirus cases to basically zero, south korea has decided that its time to play ball responsibly. Reporter baseball season is under way in south korea, but no fans are there to see it. Reporter posters posing as fans filled the seats for yesterdays opening game of the kbo league. They may not see anything more bizarre though than this thats a 9yearold inside a big baseball bubble. He walked himself from the Pitchers Mound to home plate to create a socially distant first pitch. Trevor yes, south korea has found a way to bring back sports in the age of coronavirus, and this looks really safe dont get me wrong, i mean, people are still going to die of boredom it is baseball, after all but, thankfully, theyre safe from corona. I have one question why are the fake people Wearing Masks . It just seems unnecessary. America has already shown that if youre a person made out of cardboard, you dont need to wear a mask. Also, i hope they told the announcer that those fans are made out of