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HOPE Foundation
Number of Words: 621 / Number of Pages: 3
... books, and fees to any technical institute in the state of Georgia. That sounds like a whole lot of incentive for young adults to make a 'B' average in school. I just don't understand why North Carolina does not have the same incentive for our children. To keep the college student a good student, you must also keep a 'B' average in college to keep your scholarship. Georgia has given more than 1 billion dollars toward college bound students since 1993 (HOPE scholarship 1). North Carolina has no programs of this sort. Two years after starting college, HOPE recipients have a higher G.P.A. (grade point ave ...
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Gun Control
Number of Words: 526 / Number of Pages: 2
... preventing criminal use of handguns. It is also argued that by making it difficult for guns to be bought and registered for the American public there is a threat to the personal safety of American families everywhere. However controlling the sale and distribution of firearms is necessary because of the homicide rate involving guns. In 1988 there were 9000 handgun related murders in America. Metropolitan centers and some suburban communities of America are setting new records for homicides by handguns. Larger Metropolitan centers have ten times the murder rate of all Western Europe. For example in Wa ...
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A True Revolution?
Number of Words: 559 / Number of Pages: 3
... into a financial crisis.
Many revolutions happen after rulers begin to lose confidence in
themselves and give in to the demands of others or their rivals. The
French Revolution began after the rulers agreed to the people's demands for
representative assemblies. And after all, common citizens do start
revolutions, as was done with the French Revolution.
Revolution is a term that usually refers to a change of a nations
government. One of the main reasons for the French Revolution was to solve
the political problems that existed in France during this time. This ment
getting rid of the monar ...
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Abortion
Number of Words: 1809 / Number of Pages: 7
... to preserve it and that is tantamount to murder (Kolner 5). Pro-choice activists on the other hand, also carry very strong points. They believe that the child inside the women is her own property and the state has no right to interfere. In 1973, the United States Supreme Court decided that as long as the baby lived inside the womb, he or she would be the property of the mother, because of this decision almost every third baby conceived in America is killed by , over one half million babies a year (Willke 7). is the choice of a woman whether or not she want’s to receive one. Under the 14th Amend ...
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Getting Out Of Reach
Number of Words: 815 / Number of Pages: 3
... up. Most Americans do not feel the increase in drug prices directly because they purchase prescription medicines through their employee health plans or their HMOs, where they do not pay the full price, often making only a $10 or $20 co-payments. The rise in drug prices does hit this group indirectly. Many health insures have blamed higher drug cost as the reason behind hikes in medical premiums or restriction of benefits. One reason why retail prices are going up is hat the new generation of drugs is expensive to produce. The cost of research and developments are high. Creating a complex, genetica ...
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Imperialism: And The Way It Took Away Tranquillity
Number of Words: 1635 / Number of Pages: 6
... in case of conflict it believed in the man before the
dollar. This is the proper relation which should exist between the two. Man,
the handiwork of God, comes first; money, the handiwork of man, is of
inferior importance. Man is the master, money the servant, but upon all
important questions of the nineteenth century European countries tended to
make money the master and man the servant.
There are many arguments to support Imperialism, like education,
industrialization, medicine, employment, agriculture, natural resources et
cetera. The list goes on forever. Some say that imperialism is an ever
g ...
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The Canadian Government
Number of Words: 3804 / Number of Pages: 14
... over 18, and not disqualified by law.
The House only has to meet once a year, but usually there's so much to do
they have to put in many months of work. Any MP can try to introduce a
bill, but the Cabinet usually controls the number of bills introduced. Most
bills come from the Cabinet, but the ideas can come from things like: A
senator, public servant, the media, party platform etc.
The PM chooses The Cabinet from fellow party members who have been
elected to the House of Commons. When choosing Cabinet members, the PM
must choose representatives of all regions and cultural groups of Canada
who ...
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Teaching Creationism In School
Number of Words: 1386 / Number of Pages: 6
... educators, and civil liberties organizations (Grunes 466).
The majority of those people who desire for creationism to be taught in the public schools cite that it is scientific. They push for the teaching of creation science which is defined as "scientific evidence for creation and the inferences from that evidence" (Tatina 275). The inferences from that evidence are "sudden creation of the universe from nothing, recent formulation of the earth, creation of man and other biological kinds, a worldwide flood", and "the insufficiency of mutation and natural selection in bringing about development of li ...
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Constitutionalism
Number of Words: 357 / Number of Pages: 2
... Commision. They would not place the army under Charles I because they didn’t trust him. So, he recruited his own army of nobles and rural countrymen. He then invaded Parliament and captures five members. Parliament recruited their own army of townspeople and middle class people.
Although they made much progress, a complete English democracy did not prevail from the English Civil war. When King James II had a son, England began to fear a Catholic dynasty. They chased James II and his family out of England to France. They offered the throne to James’s Protestant daughter, Mary, and her Dutch hus ...
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Anti Death Penalty
Number of Words: 1708 / Number of Pages: 7
... we all should be aware of this information…the correct information, and not just what crime the “Dead Man Walking” committed. III. Myself, Chandra, Steve, and Geoff have done extensive research on the subject of corporal punishment and will discuss those findings with you today. IV. The Death Penalty is a costly, immoral, and imperfect form of punishment. Before Americans chant “Death” for a moral wrong, we should make sure that we are right. V. Today we will discuss some of the problems with the death penalty, solutions and alternatives to it, and even give you a glimpse into how our future A ...
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