|
|
|
» Browse Politics Term Papers
Media Violence
Number of Words: 760 / Number of Pages: 3
... has reached the end of her employment - she shoots out too many intensely violent acts in a surprisingly perfunctory way. Leonard Eron, PhD at the University of Illinois, conducted a close study of television viewing from age 5 to age 30. The results hurt our television-loving brains: the more hours of television violence viewed, the more the tendency for aggressive behavior in teenage years becomes as does the likelihood of criminal acts and arrest in later years. Brandon Centerwell, professor at the University of Washington, depicted the doubling of the homicide rate after the introduction of ...
|
|
Date Rape Drugs
Number of Words: 1846 / Number of Pages: 7
... date rape, my research will focus on the two main drugs associated with this topic, GHB and Rohypnol. In recent years, GHB (Gamma Hydroxybutyrate) has become a popular recreational drug found mostly at raves and night clubs. For this reason, young people go to these places are the most vulnerable group and are most likely to benefit from a program of this type. GHB is a central nervous system depressant available in both liquid and powder forms which is used as an anaesthetic in some countries. However, it is illegal in Canada and smuggled into the country where it is sold for approximately ten dol ...
|
|
Hidden Politics
Number of Words: 1484 / Number of Pages: 6
... occurred at the Dedalus' Christmas dinner, in an argument involving Dante Rioridan, Stephen's great-aunt, and Mr. Casey, a friend of the family.
---And can we not love our country then? asked Mr. Casey. Are we not to follow the man [Parnell] who was born to lead us?
---A traitor to his country! replied Dante…The priests were right to abandon him. The priests were always the true friends of Ireland. (201)
As seen, Mr. Casey first links national fervor to politics with the rationale that in order to love their country, the Irish must also follo ...
|
|
The Right Of Autonomy
Number of Words: 501 / Number of Pages: 2
... Some
philosophers believe that a solution to this problem is the concept of
democracy.
This argument says that if men rule themselves then they would be both
the law givers and followers, combining autonomy with authority. “His
obligation to submit to the laws stems not from the divine right of the monarch,
nor from the hereditary authority of a noble class, but from the fact that he
himself is the source of the laws which govern him.”
Wolf doesn't think that it fully solves the problem between authority
and autonomy. A unanimous direct democracy is the closest to resolving the
conflict, ye ...
|
|
Prison Alternative
Number of Words: 1013 / Number of Pages: 4
... current prison population. "Building more prisons to address crime is like building more graveyards to address a fatal disease." (Robert Gangi, Executive Director, Correctional Association of New York) Ervin 2 Prisons take the nonviolent offender and make him live in the same conditions that a hardened killer would have. The very nature of prison, no matter how humane society attempts to make it, produces an environment that is inevitably harmful to its residents. Even by delaying release by longer sentences, residents will eventually return to damage the community. Society is paying the bill for this ...
|
|
Essay On The F.B.I.
Number of Words: 1090 / Number of Pages: 4
... World War One, the Bureau was given the responsibility of investigating espionage, sabotage, sedition (resistance against lawful authority), and draft violations. The passage of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act in 1919 further broadened the Bureau's jurisdiction.
After the passage of Prohibition in 1920, the gangster era began, bringing about a whole new type of crime. Criminals engaged in kidnapping and bank robbery, which were not federal crimes at that time. This changed in 1932 with the passage of a federal kidnapping statute. In 1934, many other federal criminal statutes were passed, and Con ...
|
|
Is The Unites States Political
Number of Words: 1320 / Number of Pages: 5
... doing if legitimacy is to occur.
The U.S. government may be considered legitimate in some aspects, and illegitimate in others. Because voting is class-biased, it may not be classified as a completely legitimate process. Although in theory the American system calls for one vote per person, the low rate of turnout results in the upper and middle classes ultimately choosing candidates for the entire nation. Class is determined by income and education, and differing levels of these two factors can help explain why class bias occurs. For example, because educated people tend to understand politics more, th ...
|
|
The Electoral College
Number of Words: 945 / Number of Pages: 4
... the demands of federalists as well as antifederalists
but as history has evinced, it didn't. With the Electoral College in
effect, the fate of the presidency still lied in the hands of elite America.
Each state appointed a number of electors equal to the number seats that
state carried in the house and senate. In other words, when a citizen cast
a vote, he/she is not directly voting the president in, rather that party's
board of electors. Considering there are 538 members of the Electoral
College, a vote of one more than half, 270, are needed to vote in a
president. This very concept has sparke ...
|
|
Should A Moment Of Silence Be
Number of Words: 409 / Number of Pages: 2
... no law respecting an establishment of religion." In response to the Engel v.Vitale case some schools adopted a "moment of silence."
In 1963, another case was brought before the court dealing with school prayer, Abington School District v. Schempp. The Schempp family challenged a law in Pennsylvania requiring the students to say ten verses of the Bible before school. These readings from the Bible were declared unconstitutional. Members of the board felt reading the Bible would give the children more moral values. The Schempp family strongly disagreed. Members of Congress attempted to find a compromise ...
|
|
The Downfall Of Communism In Eastern And Central Europe
Number of Words: 1738 / Number of Pages: 7
... and economic policy development. The problem inherent in this
type of monumental change is that, according to Ulrich K. Preuss, "In
almost all the East and Central European countries, the collapse of
authoritarian communist rule has released national, ethnic, religious and
cultural conflicts which can not be solved by purely economic policies"
(47). While tremendous changes are evident in both the governmental and
economic arenas in Europe, these changes cannot be assumed to always be
"mutually reinforcing" (Preuss 47). Generally it has been theorized that
the most successful manner of ...
|
|
|
