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Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
Number of Words: 1012 / Number of Pages: 4
... case of Tinker v. Des Moines Ind. School Board obviously came
some conflicting viewpoints about the armbands. The school board said that no
one has the absolute right to freedom of expression, where the Tinkers said that
only banning armbands and not other political symbols was unconstitutional. The
school board said that the armbands were disruptive to the learning environment,
where the Tinkers said they were not. Finally, the school board said that order
in the classroom, where political controversy should be discussed, is entitled
to constitutional protection. The Tinkers believed that the armb ...
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The FBI And Its History
Number of Words: 320 / Number of Pages: 2
... not federal crimes at that time. This changed in 1932 with the passage of a federal kidnapping statute. In 1934, numerous other federal criminal statutes were passed, and Congress gave Special Agents the authority to make arrests and to carry firearms.
The FBI's size and jurisdiction during World War II increased greatly and included intelligence matters in South America. With the end of that war and the advent of the Atomic Age, the FBI began conducting background security investigations for the White House and other government agencies, as well as probes into internal security matters for the E ...
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Affirmative Action
Number of Words: 1237 / Number of Pages: 5
... 50% of their
employees are Asian. Under the affirmative action, they must employ someone who
is underrepresented. This type of situation happens often. It is not the
qualifications, but the color of the skin that employers look for today.
Affirmative action is a step backwards. We are back to color and race
differences. We are all Americans and should be treated as so, not what
ethnicity we are. Affirmative action should be abolished solely because we do
not want to make the same mistake our society made in the past --- discriminate
according to color. Two wrongs do not make a right.
Man ...
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How Much Power Should The Fede
Number of Words: 511 / Number of Pages: 2
... it seems United States citizens should be able to make a simple decision on whether or not to wear a safety belt, the ever intrusive federal government makes the decision for its citizens.
The government further restricts our freedoms by enforcing jaywalking fines. If one does not walk in a crosswalk specified by the government a fine is issued. The government can trust its citizens to decide to work and pay belts, yet citizens cannot be trusted to decide where to cross the street. The simple freedom of choosing where to cross a particular street is dimished.
The overbeari ...
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Analysis Of Sexual Harassment
Number of Words: 1558 / Number of Pages: 6
... position of power over the other; or when a woman has an untraditional
job such as a police officer, factory worker, business executive, or
any other traditionally male job. Typical victims of harassment are
young, single, college-educated, members of a minority racial or
ethnic group (if male), in a trainee position (or office/ clerical
positions if male), or have an immediate supervisor of the opposite
sex. (Cq researcher 542)
Presently, it is hard for courts and others to decide when
sexual harassment has taken place because the definition of sexual
harassment is ...
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Home School
Number of Words: 1640 / Number of Pages: 6
... Christian morality, with its concern for the larger good over individualism (Clark, 1994). Massachusetts enacted the first such laws in 1852 requiring children ages 8-14 to be at school at least 12 weeks a year unless they were too poor. The laws proved to be effective, from 1870-1898 the number of children enrolling in the public schools outpaced the population growth. Except for certain religious sects and correspondence schools ing remained limited for most of the 20th century. During the 1960's the hippie counterculture exploded into the scene. This culture led a revolt against the education est ...
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Humans Are Curious By Nature
Number of Words: 796 / Number of Pages: 3
... have come up with many theories as to why the rein of dinosaur rule of the earth stopped "once upon a time" and in truth none of them can be proven factually at the moment.
Though the "Disaster" theory does offer some scientific logic behind it since it offers some raw material which can be thrown into the equation. "The impact story, on the other hand has a sound basis in evidence"(453) he continues to state that scientist "…had revealed a massive increase of iridium in rocks deposited right at the time of extinction. Iridium, a rare metal of the platinum group, is virtually absent from indige ...
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Rape
Number of Words: 887 / Number of Pages: 4
... the conditions in society which make women easy targets for . Victim control teaches women to avoid , but doesn't reduce the threat of . Furthermore, cannot always be avoided, no matter what precautions the woman takes. It also puts part of the responsibility and blame for on the victim. Rapist control confuses prosecutions with prevention. There is little evidence that punishment serves as a deterrent. Besides, very few rapist are ever incarcerated. From very early ages, men and women are conditioned to accept different roles. Women are raised to be passive and men are raised to be aggress ...
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Harrasment
Number of Words: 1588 / Number of Pages: 6
... ∙ Touching someone in a sexually suggestive way, or in a way calculated to invade her personal space.
∙ Touching of another’s breasts, genital areas, or derriere.
Whether or not conduct is unwelcome is a critical concept. Conduct is not welcome when it is unsolicited, when the victim has done nothing to incite it and when the victim views that conduct as undesirable or offensive. Simply because a woman acquiesces ti sexual demands-or participants in a sexual relationship, even for an extended period of time. Conclusions cannot be automatically drawn about whether or not she we ...
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Animal Cruelty Leads To Human
Number of Words: 1540 / Number of Pages: 6
... fun!! I recently ran across a link to a web page that contained a
online petition to put a cat’s killers to justice with maximum sentence. This is the article I
found on this brutal torture of an innocent creature.
***WARNING*** (graphic details)
“On October 10, 1999, a beautiful female cat came willingly to the four boys who
stopped on the side of the road and called to her. Her trust was rewarded by unthinkable
terror and cruelty - being used as a tug-of-war toy until the boys heard something "pop",
having her legs broken, being jumped up and down on like a trampoline. Even when her
pitiful batter ...
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