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Pro Choice Among Women
Number of Words: 1602 / Number of Pages: 6
... an advocate of women’s right’s to Pro choice, I am extending my viewpoints to you in this proposition. Many people have their opinions on abortion, usually being one extreme or the other. Advocates or Pro choice often finds themselves swaying their opinions of when abortion is morally ethical dependent upon the controlling factors. Advocates of Pro Life are consistently perusing abortion, stating that it is morally wrong, and unethical in all matters, even if the pregnancy is inadvertent. There are factors remaining in today’s society that are very forthcoming and are unanticipated by women in the ...
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Gambling Addiction
Number of Words: 897 / Number of Pages: 4
... for entertainment. Habitual gambling, or , is a danger to the public. Gambling is defined as any behavior that involves the risking of money or valuables on the outcome of a game, contest, or other event that is partially or totally dependant on chance. Gambling has been going on in America for hundreds of years. In historical America, lotteries were used for liquidating property, and poker and other card games were played as an after-dinner activity. In 1991 gross gambling profits were at an estimated 100 billion dollars. One year later in 1992 the figures jumped to an estimated 300 billion dol ...
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The Government Should Make Use Of Revenue Sharing
Number of Words: 620 / Number of Pages: 3
... bureaucracies. The state which has
an effective grant-writing bureaucracy and maintains relations with federal
bureaucrats and leaders is often able to get more money.
Federal bureaucracies are often very regionalized. They are staffed by people
from a certain region, and they primarily deal with people from that region.
They give more federal assistance to these regions too. The overall trend in
federal spending in a state may be different from a particular agency's
pattern of spending. Some states may get very little overall federal funding,
but may get much more than the average amount of mone ...
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Insights On De Tocqueville's Democracy In America
Number of Words: 699 / Number of Pages: 3
... most
intractable problem for the U.S.
One of Tocqueville's observations about the United States is that he
thought there is no country in the civilized world that is less attention paid
philosophy than the United States. This is applicable to American life in 1997
because the whole world is practically joined to the United States. Just about
every country in the world trades with, tours in, and watches for the United
States. What I mean by watches is that they practically always know what's going
on (except for the top-secret things) in the United States, whether it be by
television, computer ...
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Marijuana
Number of Words: 568 / Number of Pages: 3
... can help reduce the intraocular pressure and horrible pain the body experiences. For multiple sclerosis, it helps reduce tremors, stops muscle spasms, and restores bladder control, speech and eyesight, and balance (Medicinal 1). These facts show that is very useful in the medical field and should be legalized for medical and health purposes only.
For some purposes, is not so bad of a drug as some people claim to think. All drugs, from prescription to over the counter, carry different amounts of risks to the person taking them. The active ingredient in Tylenol, Acetaminophen, must be filtered out ...
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Martin Luther King Jr. Vs Malc
Number of Words: 2211 / Number of Pages: 9
... racism. Both men ultimately became towering icons of contemporary African-American culture and had a great influence on black Americans. However, King had a more positive attitude than Malcolm X, believing that through peaceful demonstrations and arguments, blacks will be able to someday achieve full equality with whites. Malcolm X’s despair about life was reflected in his angry, pessimistic belief that equality is impossible because whites have no moral conscience. King basically adopted on an integrationalist philosophy, whereby he felt that blacks and whites should be united and live together in pea ...
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The Effects Of Progressivism In Government
Number of Words: 715 / Number of Pages: 3
... the political
bosses and powerful industrialists to the people; to curb the power of big
businessmen, in order to give greater economic opportunities to small
business and labor; and to eliminate the social ills of society through
needed reforms. Although the aims of Progressivism were shared by all
Progressivists, support came from many different groups.
Progressives came from both major parties, as well as from minor or
third parties. Important political leaders in the movement included
Presidents Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson all three of these presidents
fought for the common good of the pe ...
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Hip-Hop Nation Report
Number of Words: 1013 / Number of Pages: 4
... for example record companies have been cashing in on its popularity for some time now. The writer of the Feature Article Hip Hop Nation Christopher John Farley is not a Rapper himself, rather an open minded person who has written a article to increase awareness to the masses of the culture of this phenomenon. PARA1 Hip-Hop is not about living on the range where the buffalo roam; it is not about meeting the perfect girl. It's about the good times and the bad; it's about winning and loosing, it is real. Rap songs are about what people see in their lives and there are no lies. This music is about l ...
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Effects Of Poverty
Number of Words: 1549 / Number of Pages: 6
... an improvement in living standards such that a person has enough food, water, and clothing, a stable social environment, freedom, and basic rights to have a fair chance for a decent life. Is this actually progress? On the other hand, are we fooled into believing that it is? The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services placed the poverty level for a family of four at $16,450 in 1998, and the poverty rate in 1996, according to the HHS, was 13.7 percent, or 36.5 million Americans. (Egendorf: 1999, 12). Is there really a way to measure poverty, and to decide exactly what poverty is? Hunger, income l ...
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Porography
Number of Words: 4665 / Number of Pages: 17
... as the key to unlocking the evil in unstable minds? According to Edward Donnerstein,a leading researcher in the pornography feild,"The relationship between sexually violent images in the media and subsequent aggression and ...callous attitudes towards women is much stronger statistically than the relationship beetween smoking and cancer"(Itzin 22).After considering the increase in rape and molestation,sexual harasement,and other sex crimes over the last few decades,and also the corresponding increase of buisness in the pornography needs considerable study and examination.Once the evidence you will ...
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