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Justice
Number of Words: 840 / Number of Pages: 4
... it does not grow on trees. Men can make money
by their physical or mental labor. Do I not, then, have full claim to my
earnings?
If A discovers a cure for AIDS; it surely was not solely a product of A.
Society's framework made the discovery possible: A had to build on previous
knowledge; she had to use a laboratory she probably did not own. All of these
factors make society a partner in the discovery. Therefore, she does not have
the right to all of the benefits of her discovery; she must give up some of her
benefits to society at large.
It is true that A did not personally create every piece of ...
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Ucr Vs. Ncvs
Number of Words: 942 / Number of Pages: 4
... are more complete than the other twenty-one types of crimes. They are generally less serious, and would never come to the attention of the police unless an arrest was made. Some important factors used when collecting data are age, race, sex, geographic locations, etc.
The Uniform Crime Reports have both positive and negative aspects. The Uniformed Crime Reports are crucial to the determination of the amounts of crimes solved. This is important because it can help determine social tendencies pertaining to crime. These crime tendencies can lead to theories about crimes that are on the rise, or ...
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Gender Projects
Number of Words: 945 / Number of Pages: 4
... there is minimal transformation. She suggests that the criteria for choosing the sex is based on the “way her/his genitals look or could be made to look”. (13) Both of these grounds show how society wants to define these intersexed children as either male or female. This strict societal definition is why Kessler claims that gender is culturally constructed.
Kessler also grounds her argument by the fact that doctors tell the parents not to disclose a gender for their newborn. She claims that this will keep the doors open for the decision of the new gender of the baby. If society knows the gend ...
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Hemp Around The World
Number of Words: 1171 / Number of Pages: 5
... introduced by the ruling Liberal Party to lift the ban on industrial hemp, so that farmers throughout Canada can be licensed to grow it. Plans are being developed to establish hemp-processing plants for the anticipated crops.
CHILE
Chile has had a long history with hemp since its colonization by Spain and is presently growing hemp for seed oil. The seeds are crushed and the oil is exported in refrigerated containers to the USA. The hemp oil is then processed by US entrepeneurs into cosmetics, massage oils and salad oils.
CHINA
China has been growing hemp (ma) for at least 6,000 years, and is c ...
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Fantasy Or Reality
Number of Words: 461 / Number of Pages: 2
... play from pieces of paper. Someone
assumes the role of one of the charictors on the paper and trys to talk and declare what it is
his charictor would be doing in certain situations. In most of these game people are the
heroes of the world they play in saving people for hidious monsters and slaying dragons
and vanquishing evil. Some people prefer to play evil charictors. This is alright and there
choice and most of the time other players kill them. (not in real life).
There have been times in the past when people have gotten drunk and killed others
imitatiing the game that they play, but ...
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Reforestation
Number of Words: 801 / Number of Pages: 3
... overlooked from all of this. The older,
larger trees can store much, much more carbon dioxide than a new tree
could. By cutting and burning these magnificent seasoned trees, the CO2
is being released back into the atmosphere. These releases of carbon
dioxide add up in our surroundings, only to intensify Global Warming.
Although this shows what happens when one burns and cuts down old forests,
one must still plant new trees for long term plans, not letting them grow
for a few years, to then cut them down.
There are many methods for planning a forest. The simplest method of
replanting a forest ...
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1980’s Sports
Number of Words: 679 / Number of Pages: 3
... first man to win five individual gold medals in one Olympics.
The men’s US hockey team also won an unexpected gold medal by defeating the Soviet Union. In 1984 Los Angeles there was yet another boycott starting with the Soviet Union, but only thirteen other countries joined in which was the cause of the loss of some Olympic sports. China competed in the Olympics for the first time in over thirty years and took home their share of medals.
In 1988 the summer games Ben Johnson of Canada defeated Carl Lewis in the 100-meter dash and set a world record. Three days later the IOC announced that Johnson h ...
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Snowboards
Number of Words: 4559 / Number of Pages: 17
... with new improvements such as a string
at the tip for balance and a more stable base, it was dubbed the "Snurfer",
a mix with snow and surfer, because of its no-binding surf style of riding.
Another pioneer was Dimitrije Milovich, a surfer from the east coast. He
made his invention because of the lack of warm water in the winter. This
board also had no bindings, to stick with the surf philosophy, but it
included iron edges. In the early seventies Milovich began limited
production of these custom boards. Also in 1972, Bob Webber received a
patent for his "SkiBoard," another board directly from the ...
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The American Education System; Cause For Rebellion
Number of Words: 1414 / Number of Pages: 6
... Our Nation's thirty-sixth
president, Lyndon B. Johnson, also believed that there is no institution more
fundamental to American society and democracy than its public schools.”(36)
Public schools are the cornerstone of America's future. The development
of youth's knowledge, skills and social dispositions has always been critical to
the country's success. In the next century, America's youth will play an
increasingly important role in the country's survival and well-being. By the
year 2025, one out of five Americans will be 65 or older, and by the year 2040,
one out of four Americans will be 6 ...
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Materialist Theory
Number of Words: 1234 / Number of Pages: 5
... thesis states that human beings possess no special power which regular physical systems and objects normally lack. Our concept of free choice or free will is a mental concept, and since no physical system is free, there is no free will. The human soul can not exist because the soul is something mental and when the body dies, the brain fails to survive as well and the concept of soul exists no longer.
Materialism never states that the mind depends on the body or vice versa, they are identical. One just is the other. Materialists can claim four main virtues for their doctrine. Economy or simpl ...
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