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Doing It Publicly
Number of Words: 783 / Number of Pages: 3
... adventures of a 14-year-old girl who married her 71-year-old foster father"(Flint and Wharton). To those who do not tune into these shows this discription may sound like an exaggeration; however, it is not. This is exactly the type of topics on some shows. Not only are half the shows ridiculous with topics of deceit, revenge and "extreme behavior", but some of them are false(Flint and Wharton). On the Jerry springer Show a Canadian comedy troupe went on the show and created a story. The story was that one of the men had an affair with his baby-sitter. After the show appeared on television, the troupe ...
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Secondhand Smoking
Number of Words: 1806 / Number of Pages: 7
... from someone else when the family has just as much right to be there as the smoker does? Isn’t there some way to compromise between the two? Won’t someone be unhappy no matter what the decision about banning smoking is? The fact is that everyone has the right to smoke if they want to; but there is no way that a non-smoker should be forced to inhale smoke that isn’t theirs. Although, won’t a restaurant lose a lot of business if they cut out the smoking sections? The Institute for Social Research at York University for the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit at the University of Toronto performed a study on ...
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Affirmative Action
Number of Words: 982 / Number of Pages: 4
... Bakke, a white male, who applied twice to the Medical School of the University of California at Davis, was rejected even though his grade point average and MCAT scores were higher than most of the applicants. With the fact that applicants that were admitted with the special admissions program had lower scores, Bakke alleged that the Medical School’s special admissions program operated to exclude him from the school on the basis of his race (258). This, he stated, violates his rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Equal Protection Clause states that “No State s ...
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Teddy Roosevelt's Contribution To Natural Resources
Number of Words: 1852 / Number of Pages: 7
... household throughout the remainder of his childhood, and items such as bird nests, insects, minerals, and shells were added to the Museum¹s collection. At age thirteen Roosevelt took lessons in taxidermy and started a book-study on mammals and birds. In Roosevelt¹s freshman year of college at Harvard, he intended to become an outdoor naturalist. Discouragement in the naturalist field instead led him to politics, where his interests could translate into more visible activism.
In 1881, Roosevelt was elected to the New York State Assembly, and in December of 1887 he hosted a dinner for ten of his sport ...
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Civil Disobeiance
Number of Words: 281 / Number of Pages: 2
... also willing to accept any penalty like imprisonment. Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 at Concord, Massachusetts. He was Educated at Harvard University. During his early years Henry spent most of his time walking in the wilderness or talking with his mentor and friend Ralph Waldo Emerson. In July of 1846, Henry needed his shoes which had holes in them repaired. After the cobbler repaired the shoes Henry exited the store and was approached by Sam Staples, the town constable. Sam asked Henry to pay his poll tax. Henry intentionally did not pay his taxes because the revenues were used to help finance ...
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European Studies
Number of Words: 5423 / Number of Pages: 20
... to stabilise markets and to ensure reasonable prices for the
consumer. (3) This is unusual in the context of the Treaty of Rome which
provided for free trade and movement of resources. Agriculture was ill-
adapted for this approach. Protection was given, not only by customs
duties, but also by a variety of agricultural policies. This essay will
discuss the merits and demerits of a the pre-1992 CAP with its emphasis on
price reform, in comparison with the post-1992 CAP which was oriented to
structural reform.
It cannot be denied that there were merits of the pre-1992 price reform
po ...
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A Senator's Pain
Number of Words: 790 / Number of Pages: 3
... that a white Senator showed more
anger toward racism than the former Black Panther.
When Senator Bradley begins telling his story his he points out how our
society still has inequalities as he says, "I mean, you know, it's still...
There are people who are, uh, who the law threats in different ways" (Smith:
214). The following statements Bradley makes during his interview shows his
anger for racial differences. When Bradley informs the reader about an African-
American Harvard Law School student who experienced unjust treatment by the
police. Bradley's anger is expressed through his statem ...
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Hazing
Number of Words: 339 / Number of Pages: 2
... practices. These consequences would have to be as sever as 180 days up to two years in jail and $1,000 to $10,000 in fines. The acts of senseless abuse and misjudgement must be prevented in future instances. More organizations such as CHUCK (the Coalition to Halt Useless College Killings) are a must in colleges, universities, schools, and in communities to promote awareness to this subject. The more knowledge that is shared; the more ramifications will be known and seen through consequences. The less of senseless the better for all. Consequences will play a major roll in the elimination of in to ...
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Censorship
Number of Words: 944 / Number of Pages: 4
... be defined. It's an elusive term
we use, but can't explain. Different people often see things differently. Some
see obscenity in nude pictures, statues, paintings, etc. While others find less
obscenity in these things. All the same, "obscene" isn't the same as "wrong" or
"bad". Clearly obscenity is not identical with evil. It only covers a single
segment of it. But what is that segment? A look at the words "obscenity" and
"pornography" suggests that it is a segment that didn't worry people very much
till relatively recently.
Though censorship was known in english law quite early on, it wasn't for
obsc ...
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Why Mitchell V Wisconsin Sucke
Number of Words: 3338 / Number of Pages: 13
... maximum sentence. The Wisconsin jury, however, found that because Mitchell selected his victim based on race, the penalty enhancement law allowed Mitchell to be sentenced to up to seven years. The jury sentenced Mitchell to four years, twice the maximum for the crime he committed without the penalty enhancement law.
The U.S. Supreme Court¹s ruling was faulty, and defied a number of precedents. The Wisconsin law is unconstitutional, and is essentially unenforceable. This paper primarily focuses on the constitutional arguments against Chief Justice Rehnquist¹s decision and the statute itself, but will a ...
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