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Alcohol Research Paper
Number of Words: 1234 / Number of Pages: 5
... consequently wrecking the lives of loved ones and their own as well. While the lasting negative effects of alcohol use are spewed daily through the media, the problems will not stop until society completely understands how alcohol can indeed pose a serious threat to the nations social welfare.
Alcohol has an adverse effect on the economy. The consequences of alcohol abuse and dependence cost the nation an estimated $99 billion each year (Gordis, 209). It is tax money that pays for alcoholics who both live on the street and are barely getting by or who are in government-funded hospital ...
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Should The U.S. Accuse Middle Eastern Countries For Supporting Terrorism?
Number of Words: 1435 / Number of Pages: 6
... a recent article,
Time's Patrick Cole claims that before McVeigh was sought out as being the
one responsible for the bombing the United States blamed a foreign, and
more precisely, a Middle Eastern terrorist organization for the activity
(26). However, the recently arrested terrorist, known as Theodore
Kaczynski, is also an American citizen who executed his evil plots on
Americans, from American soil. Moreover, Bruce Hoffman states in his book
Inside Terrorism that various other Americans who act as terrorists, live
and work on American soil (83). Americans such as Lee Harvey Oswald have
committed ...
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Drug Education
Number of Words: 1097 / Number of Pages: 4
... program, a studied showed that most of the students who took the 17 week DARE program ended up using drugs and alcohol at the same rate as children who learned about them in a normal health class. Many people think that DARE is the magic bullet to solve the drug and alcohol problems in the nation. Another study conducted in Illinois on about 1800 students, showed that DARE students used the same amount of drugs who did not take the program, and another study concluded that DARE students were more likely to use drugs than students without the education.
Many tax payers demand to see what impact thei ...
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Anti-Semitism In The United St
Number of Words: 392 / Number of Pages: 2
... to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Those of Arab descent also dislike Jews because of religious reasons and because of the founding of the state of Israel. It would be reasonable to say that Anti-Semitism is passed down from parents to their children. Although, parents may not teach the hatred of Jews, there is certainly some dislike of Jews expressed to their children. Just a few words like " I hate those greedy Jews" may not seem too significant, but to an impressionable child it can have a crude effect. Every once and a while you hear news of a hate crime that was committed somewhere in this co ...
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The Political Parties In The United States
Number of Words: 450 / Number of Pages: 2
... however. These two parties are the real ancestors of the parties that are existing today. The Republican party was the party of the anti-slavery North and the Midwest and the Democrat party was the party of the South and of the ethnical minorities.
Democrats
Nowadays, we can summarize the difference between the two parties as the distinction between the rich and the poor. Generally, those with low revenues, the working class or the lower strata of the middle class have a tendency to vote for the democratic party. Globally, Democrats tend to defend a little more the underprivileged citizens.
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Compare And Contrast The United States Bill Of Rights And The Texas Bill Of Rights
Number of Words: 508 / Number of Pages: 2
... England and Texas was hurt from the break up of the confederation. Their mind set was the same, in that they wanted to be different. But in a sense they wanted the best for the people.
When the founders of the constitution and the writers of the state constitution wrote this document, there were a lot of similarities. Since the idea and direction was the same for both, some of the rights stated in the Texas Bill of Rights were the same. For example freedom of worship and speech are clearly outlined in both the Texas and United States Constitutions. The right of a fair trial and double jeopardy are ...
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Animal Experimentation
Number of Words: 657 / Number of Pages: 3
... may show. They do not receive anesthesia during the tests. After placing the irritants into the rabbits' eyes, scientists record the damage to the eye tissue at specific intervals over a period of seventy-two hours. The tests sometimes can last anywhere from seven, up to eighteen days. Side effects from these experiments include swollen eyelids, ulceration, bleeding, swollen irises, massive deterioration, and blindness. During the tests, rabbits' eyelids are usually held open with clips. Many animals break their necks while restrained, attempting to escape.
Toxicity tests, otherwise known as lethal d ...
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Locke Government Theory
Number of Words: 1116 / Number of Pages: 5
... in the politics of the seventeenth century. Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, written in 1690, dealt with the subject of human philosophy, and was written with consistency to the theories of Newton. Locke's views that experience produces ideas led him to believe that people are not aware of physical objects, but rather that they are aware of symbols for those objects, a believe shared by others such as Galileo and Descartes before him.
John Locke became convinced that true knowledge cannot be attained in natural science, but only through concrete mathematics. This theory was later ...
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Ban Smoking In Public Places
Number of Words: 576 / Number of Pages: 3
... now be heard loud and clear. The government has an ongoing campaign to make mothers aware of the damage-smoking can do to the defenceless unborn child. If a woman smokes during pregnancy the she delivers nicotine and carbon monoxide into her babies blood stream. The baby is more likely to be born small and be more prone to illness in the first months of it s life than the child of non-smokers. Doctors have also said that it has been linked to cot deaths. Statistics show that the risk of a stillborn baby or one, who dies in the first week of birth, increases with every cigarette smoked.
People have a ...
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Legality Of Abortion
Number of Words: 2757 / Number of Pages: 11
... an informative Texas state web-page, states that some time after 1750, a new procedure was introduced to abortion. The new procedure consisted of probing objects through the cervix and into the uterus of the women to accomplish the abortion (4 Gilbert). Laurence Tribe, author of Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes, states that the court case Roe v. Wade revolutionized the . The case set boundaries and regulations illustrating how much power the mother and state possess in deciding whether to abort a pregnancy (12 Tribe). During the past twenty-five years abortion has become one of the most debated controv ...
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