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The Crucible
Number of Words: 570 / Number of Pages: 3
... sorts of people thrown in prison such as Rebecca Nurse and Mary Warren . She got all these people in trouble by saying she saw them with the devil and accused them of witch craft. John Proctor started to be a nice guy, but later in the book when his wife was accused of witchcraft he seemed to have changed. He ended up being mean and started to abuse his power to the household maid named Mary Warren who was one of the kids telling lies. He told her that if she did not start telling the truth about her and the other girls then he would kill her. By saying this he showed that he doesn’t care for anyone e ...
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The Death Penalty: Justifiable
Number of Words: 1000 / Number of Pages: 4
... strangled a 74 year old widow by the name of Merle Laird in
her own house. Banda then sucked the blood from the woman's mouth.
Does that describe a kind, gentle man, who is not a threat to society? A
man who values life or a man that deserves life when he seems so eager to
destroy it? I certainly wouldn't think so.
Some people believe that the death penalty is wrong, what do you think?
Is it OK for a man to commit heinous murders but not OK for our valued legal
system, who's outcomes depend on ordinary people like you and me, to decide to
terminate that mans life for his crimes to others?
The death ...
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The Federalist Papers And Federalism
Number of Words: 1003 / Number of Pages: 4
... defines Federalism as, "A mode of political
organization that unites independent states within a larger political framework
while still allowing each state to maintain it's own political integrity" (712).
Having just won a revolution against an oppressive monarchy, the American
colonists were in willing to replace it with another monarchy style of
government. On the other hand, their experience with the disorganization under
the Articles of Confederation, due to unfair competition between the individual
states, made them a little more receptive to an increase in national powers. A
number of Feder ...
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Articles Of Confederation
Number of Words: 814 / Number of Pages: 3
... legislature called the Congress, consisting of two to seven delegates from each state; each state had one vote, according to its size or population. No executive or judicial branches were provided for. Congress was charged with responsibility for conducting foreign relations, declaring war or peace, maintaining an army and navy, settling boundary disputes, establishing and maintaining a postal service, and various lesser functions. Some of these responsibilities were shared with the states, and in one way or another Congress was dependent upon the cooperation of the states for carryin ...
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Affirmative Action
Number of Words: 1384 / Number of Pages: 6
... and white males?" The problem is not with hiring a variety of people from different ethnic groups. The problem begins when the person who is best qualified for a job, loses the position to someone less qualified. More and more, white males are having problems finding jobs because they are not black or Hispanic or do not have breasts. , which is action in the form of quotas and special treatment for "protected classes", has resulted in a politicized hiring process in which white males are openly discriminated against. A 1984 poll found that one in every ten white males lost a promotion because of quotas ...
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Terrorism Esy
Number of Words: 1028 / Number of Pages: 4
... put a terrorist organization into a specific group. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is an analytical terrorist group, even though they can be part of each. The PLO was created in 1964 during a meeting known as the Palestinian Congress. This was an effort to give a voice to the many Palestinians that were located in refugee camps in Lebanon. The leader of the group is one of the most recognized terrorists in the world, Yasser Arafat. It did not take long for sub-divisions to break off of the PLO. Most of these groups felt they could better achieve Palestinian liberation. The most notable of ...
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Alcoholism
Number of Words: 444 / Number of Pages: 2
... the pancreas, and cirrhosis of the liver. The nervous system
can also be permanently damaged. Blackouts, hallucinations, and extreme tremors may
occur to the person as a direct result of drinking alcohol. Studies have evidence that
shows that heavy or even moderate drinking during pregnancy can cause serious damage
to the unborn child. This is known as fetal alcohol syndrome. About 10 percent of all the
adult drinkers in the U.S. are considered alcoholics or they have some sort of drinking
problem.
The consumption of alcohol is currently rising in the U.S. There is also an increase
of alcohol ...
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Legalization Of Marijuana
Number of Words: 1196 / Number of Pages: 5
... but marijuana does help the patient deal with the disease. There are drugs with marijuana’s active ingredient, THC, which can be used in place of marijuana, but most of them are problematic. Marinol can be used by cancer patients and AIDS patients. Marinol can cause intoxication; it is only available in a pill form which is hard to swallow while vomiting and it is difficult to take the correct dosage. Patients with epilepsy and multiple sclerosis can use dantrium and lioresal. However, dantrium can cause liver damage, and lioresal causes sedation and sudden withdrawal can cause hallucinations and seizu ...
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Raves And Drugs
Number of Words: 1348 / Number of Pages: 5
... "The media has given E and the rave scene a bad reputation, since 30 years ago music has been greatly united with drugs. For example Weed and Rock in the 60's and acid in the 70's." (E for Ecstasy by Nicolas Saunders, ch.1) Ecstasy is just a hard and dangerous as weed, "a drug that 1 out of every 3 highschool students in the American population have had experiences with." (Drug Information Database, www.pharmlink.org/stats/index/main.html/) "Why is E judged so harshly when the ecstasy related deaths can not compare with those related with legal drugs just like tabacco and alcohol ...
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BLACKS, PRISON, AND INSTITUTIO
Number of Words: 1425 / Number of Pages: 6
... the whole of society directed against the few of society. As a facet of that institutional racism Blacks are now forced to persevere the increasing trend of control by the US Criminal Justice System. Control by the USCJS includes the probation, parole, imprisonment, and death of Blacks. A study conducted by the Sentencing Project in 1989 found tat more than one-fourth of all Blacks between the age of 20 and 29 are under the control of the USCJS . This alarming figure becomes more so when you consider their are more Blacks in prison in this age group than their are all Blacks in college . This clearly ...
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