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The Future Of The GOP
Number of Words: 1115 / Number of Pages: 5
... U.S. Census Bureau, our national debt has now reached over $5.5 trillion, is increasing at a rate of nearly a billion dollars a day, and has gone up over 1.5 trillion just since Clinton took office. This works out to each citizen owing nearly $25,000 a piece! Where is all of this money going to? Well, that’s the next attraction on our trip…
Welcome to the deep and dreadful maze of unnecessary government spending. Here we find such things as money wasted on everything from almost $1.5 billion given to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration to nearly $20 billion spent on compensati ...
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Number of Words: 1408 / Number of Pages: 6
... access to power. She was the first woman to speak in front of a national convention, to write a syndicated column, to earn money as a lecturer, to be a radio commentator and to hold regular press conferences. The path to this unique position of power had not been easy. The only daughter of an alcoholic father and a beautiful but aloof mother who was openly disappointed by Eleanor's lack of a pretty face, Eleanor was plagued by insecurity and shyness. An early marriage to her handsome fifth cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, increased her insecurity and took away her one source of confidence: her work in a N ...
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Marijuana
Number of Words: 749 / Number of Pages: 3
... effectiveness of as a treatment for cancer: “Over 74 percent of the cancer patients treated in the program have reported that is more effective in relieving their nausea and vomiting than any other drug they have tried.”(Zeese 1990). Chemotherapy for cancer patients often produces nausea and vomiting. has been proven to relieve these symptoms and there have been no known side effects recorded (Ad Hoc Group of Experts part 4). The people who would benefit the most from the legalization of are the terminally ill. These people are not criminals at heart, because they only require as a way to bring ...
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American Violence
Number of Words: 1907 / Number of Pages: 7
... in 1971. Two years later, in the landmark decision Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court reaffirmed this situation by asserting that the right to privacy guaranteed in the Constitution includes a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. Many groups that disagree with the Roe vs. Wade decision have attempted to reverse it or have turned to more violent actions (protests and other criminal outbursts, including murder). The changes in views and interpretations of laws have made America appear violent or peaceful.
Morality and crime, what is the true difference? Every crime is legally a wrong, but not eve ...
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Ruling Ideologies
Number of Words: 513 / Number of Pages: 2
... mothers and children even poorer, leading them to depend on welfare. According to a New York Times article dated 2/29/92, there are fewer children receiving assistance from welfare and are not just being lazy but and collecting checks, but actually getting off welfare. This ruling ideology that most of the American society supports leads to the lack of wide political support and budget-cutting of means-tested programs. These mean-tested programs are available only to those people who can prove that they are poor. Only Social Security and Medicare, both Universal programs, have largely survived cutba ...
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Gender
Number of Words: 662 / Number of Pages: 3
... decided to join the work force they had few careers to choose from. It was not until the late 1980’s that woman were accepted in to higher paying careers by the men that were already dominating the workforce. Even today when they are accepted into the workforce they are still not paid as much as men for doing the same work. A 1998 study shows that a woman in the same job as a man with the same expectations and responsibilities, the woman is paid ten to fifteen percent less then the man. The media or television programs are also to blame for the image that is given to woman. Women play passive roles ...
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What Is America?
Number of Words: 872 / Number of Pages: 4
... finally, it led to a civil war within the less than united States. In 1861, the southern states seceded, and a war was fought between the rebels and the Union for four long, bloody years. However this battle did not end without a gain, for in 1863 President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves.
Even after slavery was lifted from America’s moral back, the movement to reform America continued. Soon after the Civil War, women began to fight for equal rights, and in particular, for enfranchisement. After battling “old guard” politicians as well as common prejudices for man ...
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The Red Scare
Number of Words: 1699 / Number of Pages: 7
... during the red scare.
The early 1950's was a time of emotional stress for much of the
United States. With the USSR and the USA emerging from the second World War
as major world powers, neither wished to give up their newly acquired land.
Both countries following imperialist ideas attempted to spread their
government across the world. America, insecure about its power to uphold a
democratic government in foreign nations feared a communist invasion from
their Cold War foe, Russia. A hysteria swept across the United States as
American paranoia of a loss of personal rights increased. Pre ...
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Violence
Number of Words: 1595 / Number of Pages: 6
... movies. . The danger was fake, but Hinson described that it played with his senses in such a way that he almost instantly fell in love. Hinson feels that most movie lovers were incited by the same hooks as himself. Movies were thrilling, dangerous, and mesmerizing (Hinson 581-2). Hinson says that as a culture, we like violent art. Yet this is not something that is new to today's culture. The ancient Greeks perfected the genre of tragedy with a use of . According to Hinson, they believed that "while in life is destructive, in art need not be; that art provides a healthy channel for the natural aggres ...
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