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The HOPE Bill
Number of Words: 1117 / Number of Pages: 5
... kids a
feeling of self-confidence, and they become more tolerant of others and their
views. The program places all kids in situations to learn of other cultures and
to gain a caring and understanding in all situations, people caring for the
plight of others. In the fourth through the sixth grade, all kids are required
to complete at least 5 hours of community service each week; in high school,
they are required to complete ten hours a week. This
program has caused the world to gain a more caring, empathetic attitude towards
the well-being of others. "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of ...
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Sesxism
Number of Words: 2045 / Number of Pages: 8
... in particular the searing effect on me, who once intended to be a psychologist, of a story in McCall's in December 1949 called "A Weekend with Daddy." A little girl who lives a lonely life with her mother, divorced, an intellectual know-it-all psychologist, goes to the country to spend a weekend with her father and his new wife, who is wholesome, happy, and a good cook and gardener. And there is love and laughter and growing flowers and hot clams and a gourmet cheese omelet and square dancing, and she doesn't want to go home. But, pitying her poor mother typing away all by herself in the lonesome a ...
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Talk Shows In Society
Number of Words: 892 / Number of Pages: 4
... workplace, everyday life and sometimes have interviews with respectable celebrities. You can catch shows with titles such as “Teaching Your Children Responsibly”, or “How to Manage Your Work Week”. These shows actually educate people and teach the child right from wrong. They also have shows exposing things such as child or spousal abuse and make people aware of these dangers. People even feel a special attachment to their favorite talk show hosts and talk about them as if they know them.
Even the so - called “trash talk shows” such as the Jerry Springer Show, have their upsides. Jerry once did a show ...
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Hate In Our Society
Number of Words: 843 / Number of Pages: 4
... occurs. "I am still drawn, again and again, to the flash of ignition, the moment when fear and loathing became hate, the instant of transformation."(1) He states that there is no way to define hate or how it originated. Hate will always be in America, "a free country will always mean a hateful country," and we will have to learn to live with it or "co-exist despite it" (8).
Both authors agree that hate derives from hate. Cullen stated that investigator found out that Harris and Klebold were often called names in school and that they were even outcast from the so-called Trench Coat Mafia. People tried ...
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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 3972 / Number of Pages: 15
... there is a great deal of controversy surrounding the death penalty. Capital cases are long and expensive, and there is no proof as to whether deters crime. For these reasons total abolition may be the best way to resolve the controversy. If the laws concerning were modified, however, could become much cheaper, and possibly a lot more effective. – Steve Brinker : Give It A Chance Since the beginning of man, people have been put to death. has been used all over the world as a means of punishing people for their crimes. Here in America, people are usually given a trial for their crime, judged upo ...
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Aids--Cause And Effect
Number of Words: 752 / Number of Pages: 3
... illness that may involve several phases. It is caused by a virus that can be passed from person to person. This virus is called HIV, or Human Immuno-deficiency Virus. In order for HIV to become full-blown AIDS, your T-cell count (number of a special type of white-blood cells that fight off diseases) has to drop below 200, or you have to get one of the symptoms of an AIDS-induced infection. Most people recently infected by the AIDS virus look and feel healthy. They may not show symptoms for several years, but the condition is eventually fatal. Even though one might not know that they have this death ...
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Censorship Of The Internet And The Tyranny Of Our Government
Number of Words: 1254 / Number of Pages: 5
... Internet a virtually futile task. Unlike television or
radio, the Internet consists of thousands of individual computers and networks,
with thousands of speakers, information providers and information users, and no
centralized distribution point (ACLU vs. Reno Brief 1). No guards watch to see
who goes where and if that place is appropriate. The Internet has grown to be a
global network. Just because one country deems something inappropriate does not
mean that another will comply with the decision and follow the ruling. If
posting pictures of bestiality was banned in China, for example, someone in ...
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Compare And Contrast
Number of Words: 973 / Number of Pages: 4
... generation and generation, one facet has remained a controversial topic, sex. The invention of the birth control pill allowed women in the ‘60s to feel a sense of sexual freedom and allowed them the opportunity to be with anyone they pleased. With this new found freedom, women and men were able to enjoy each others company and not have to worry about the risks of child birth as well as the spread of diseases. This helped the ‘60s to become known as the sexual revolution. In those times it was the thing to do, and with the newly added birth control pill, there was hardly any worry of the spread of s ...
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America's Network Of Representative Governments
Number of Words: 423 / Number of Pages: 2
... America. One could view the first democratic group responsible for today's freedom. This was the assembly formed by George Yeardly (p.13). Perhaps, if the Virginia Company had not instructed the governor to establish an assembly, the idea of democracy might not have instilled into the minds of the colonists. Surely, without this first appearance, it is questionable that an idea suppressed for centuries under the English monarchy would surface anywhere else. Moreover, it led the way for other settlements to adopt a similar code.
Another way the representative body shaped America was slavery. Most repre ...
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TLO Vs. New Jersey: When Is The Constitution Invalid?
Number of Words: 497 / Number of Pages: 2
... so the search was truly
reasonable. And there is the fact that the teacher caught her smoking.
Obviously it is the teacher's responsibility to take the student to the
principal for suspension or other means of punishment. When TLO was asked
whether or not she had been smoking, she said no.
The school officials then had a reasonable doubt, and they now had by
all legal means the right to search TLO for evidence that she had been smoking.
The search of her purse, if she had been innocent, would have proved her
innocent, or guilty if she actually was guilty. The search was conducted
privately, and ...
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