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Iran Iraq War
Number of Words: 2143 / Number of Pages: 8
... Gulf Islands. Saddam Hussein took over the presidency in 1979. When the Iranian monarchy was overthrown, Iraq denounced the Algiers Treaty and demanded restoration of the eastern bank of the Shatt al Arab as the border. After a period of mutual sporadic border violations and skirmishes, Iraq attacked its neighbor in the summer of 1980. Iran appeared weak and disorganized and the Iraqi president thought he could easily win. The Ronald W Reagan administration took office in 1981 when the war between Iran and Iraq was only a few months old and it built on the Carter Doctrine. Regan indicated his r ...
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The Clinton Sex Scandal
Number of Words: 4720 / Number of Pages: 18
... The Presidents' inability to control the press exposes
their vulnerability and tends to question the actual power they can
actually exert. All presidents, at some time or another, became frustrated
at what they perceived as unfair treatment by the press, even while
acknowledging its vital function in a free society, and many presidents
have been a part of a scandal.
The current Presidential scandal with Monica Lewinsky had swept the Nation
overnight. It seems quite impossible to know just how it will all turn out,
and unfair to even speculate, but the media certainly seems to think they
possess that ...
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The Hippie Movement That Arose From Vast Political Changes
Number of Words: 3209 / Number of Pages: 12
... Years" of the fifties, the changing
economical state from the fifties to the sixties, the Black Panther Party, women
moving into the work force, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and
John F. Kennedy Jr., the war in Vietnam, the Kent State protest, and finally the
Woodstock festival.
The electric subcurrent of the fifties was, above all, rock'n'roll, the live
wire that linked bedazzled teenagers around the nation, and quickly around the
world, into the common enterprise of being young. Rock was rough, raw, insistent,
especially by comparison with the music it replaced; it whooped and groane ...
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The US Constitution
Number of Words: 231 / Number of Pages: 1
... into
Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution
in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
This is the elastic clause. It gives congress the right to do anything
for the betterment of the American people. It makes the constitution flexible
and keeps it with the times.
The amendment process is how changes can be made to the constitution to
keep it with the times. For example, Amendment 19 states that the right of
citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any State on a ...
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The Line Item Veto Act Of 1995
Number of Words: 815 / Number of Pages: 3
... bills do and
don't get passed. Lots of Americans today believe that we have a "do
nothing" congress that refuses to address the nations major problems. The
Congress has a hard time getting bills passed through the President unless
he agrees with every line of the bill. If we passed the line-item-veto
bill this would save a lot of time and money. We would see many more bills
getting passed instead of a government caught up in gridlock.
In the government today, getting re-elected is the main concern of
our Congressmen. Therefore, their first priority is not always what is
best for the coun ...
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Propaganda In Elections
Number of Words: 548 / Number of Pages: 2
... Appeal. By playing on the public's deep-seated fears,
practitioners of this technique hopes to redirect the merits of a proposal and
towards steps that can be taken to reduce the fear.
Propaganda has had a tremendously powerful role in the history of the
world and in our own development. It has stirred both men and women to
unprecedented feats and ruined reputations.
What comes to mind when you think of a racist person? I imagine an angry
white male with a Ku Kux Klan costume. I rarely think of the other racists, the
African-Americans, the Latino-Americans, the Asian-Americans and the rest of
who ...
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Women And The Canadian Welfare State: The Decline Of Social Welfare And Its Effects On Women
Number of Words: 3118 / Number of Pages: 12
... has huge implications on the lives of many women, and not only those who are dependent on welfare for their livelihood. Welfare, especially women's welfare, encompasses a very broad category; at present all safeguards given by women by various government agencies according to their sphere of responsibility and the concept of equality of the sexes can be considered women's welfare measures. The Canadian welfare state, until recently, appeared to have some measure of stability; the Canadian government had a role in helping to alleviate some of the worst effects of economic crises, as well as acting as a ...
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Loophole Or A Conspiracy?
Number of Words: 425 / Number of Pages: 2
... reported that the software security breaches has been verified. This means that if one hacker has the knowledge of hacking through this loophole, then we are in great danger because everything you can imagine is stored in the computers and large databases. This article just proves my point on Microsoft's power to influence and danger our personal everyday lives. Did you know that there is a secret imbedded program called " The Hall Of Tortured Souls"? Yes, there is that secret program imbedded in the Microsoft's Excel 95. This program was written and implemented by the programmers of Microsoft. ...
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Should The President Be Impeached?
Number of Words: 1731 / Number of Pages: 7
... and convicted?
The impeachment process is part of the checks and balances of our
government. The power of impeachment allows congress to remove the
president out of office. In this particular case if Bill Clinton is
convicted, he is thrown out of office, and Vice President Al Gore replaces
him as President. The U.S. constitution explains impeachment as the removal
from office for , and conviction of treason , or bribery , or other high
crimes and misdemeanors (Gerberg ,28 ). Impeachment protects the
citizens of the nations from a chief executive that is involved in criminal
act ...
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Crime
Number of Words: 391 / Number of Pages: 2
... because people in this country deserve to feel safe. Some countries have had their rates lowered due to the abolishing of the death penalty, but we live in the U.S.A., country of lawyers, where money talks and you can't trust anyone. The death penalty is good because most people are afraid of death. Even though the death penalty is gruesome to some, it is good for our nation because of the thing we have running around in our streets. This is why the death penalty is good.
To put it plain and simple the death penalty is an efficient way to lower in this country. Lawyers and money absolutely aren ...
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