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The Vote To Breakup Quebec And Canada
Number of Words: 1249 / Number of Pages: 5
... (BQ), a distinct, federal level
party which swept[t the polls in Quebec in the 1993 federal elections, and
whose 53 members in the Ottawa parliament are second in number only to the
ruling liberals of Jean Chretien.
Already in June, Parizeau had retreated from his outright
separatist stance by agreeing with Bouchard, and with Mario Dumont, leader
of a small nationalist party, to couple a declaration of sovereignty with
an offer to negotiate with residual Canada a form of political and economic
partnership, similarly modeled on the European Union. By naming Bouchard
the chief negotiator o ...
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Medical Article
Number of Words: 1324 / Number of Pages: 5
... arguing that people are being frightened into wasting money on a service they will probably never need. Moreover, private companies are growing in tandem with public banks, and some scientists worry that private banking will limit public access to cord blood. They are concerned because the cord blood in private banks remains the property of the donor family and is not available to patients seeking a compatible donor. But the companies say that however remote the possibility that the blood will be needed, people who choose to bank their own cord blood have a right to do so. In most cases their cor ...
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Affirmative Action - History
Number of Words: 1488 / Number of Pages: 6
... for people in the work force and for students seeking admission into higher education. However, this is not a valid point. While affirmative action creates equal opportunity for some individuals, it discriminates against others, primarily white males. Therefore, affirmative action uses reverse discrimination to solve the problem of discrimination. Do two wrongs make a right? The answer is no.
The first reason affirmative action should be stopped is that employees often are hired that are not qualified to execute their jobs effectively. Many times employers are forced to find the best minority, ...
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Should The Government Of Canad
Number of Words: 663 / Number of Pages: 3
... have to be with the Canadians who don't believe in the government increasing the proportion of salaries to income tax. I believe every man for himself. What an individual earns, he deserves, because he worked hard for his pay. It's not that I don't agree with government intervention, I do, I just believe it should be trying to help its people become more independent, instead of 100% dependant on its government. For almost sixty years the Swedish economy was looked upon and admired for its high standard of living. Everything, you name it, they had it. They had a system called cradle-to-grave welfare sy ...
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The Death Penalty
Number of Words: 1038 / Number of Pages: 4
... a light error in dosage or administration can leave a prisoner conscious but paralyzed with pain, serving as a witness for his own demise." The following is an eye witness account of an Arizona gas chamber execution given by Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens: "When the fumes enveloped Don's head he took a quick breath. A few seconds later, he looked again in my direction. His face was red and contorted as if he were attempting to fight through tremendous pain. His mouth was pursed shut and his jaw was clenched tight. Don then took several more quick gulps of the fumes. His ...
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The Press And Media Cause Rampant Swaying Of The Election Votes Through Their Opinions And Reports
Number of Words: 2657 / Number of Pages: 10
... in spite of his
undoubted intelligence, made a mistake of such proportions that it brought about
his own downfall and the party's (Press and the Presidency, John Tebbel 1985).
This mistake would be the Sedition Act, which tested the first amendment and the
freedoms of the press. This obviously did not please the press and its opinions
were generally shifted to that of the Anti-Federalist. This was a deadly blow
to John Adams' presidency and the Federalist party. He himself was no stranger
to the press, he worked together with the Sons of Liberty and "cooked up
paragraphs" while "working the politic ...
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Abortion
Number of Words: 861 / Number of Pages: 4
... to
have an abortion would help them. Once the fetus has been aborted, then the parents can
concentrate on their other children.
Teenagers are more affected by having a baby these days than it would have been 100
years ago. There are more responsibilities for the average teenager, they have to study, work,
and go to school for an entire day. This leaves almost no time to take care of a child. Also, the
teenager would have to most likely support the child by herself. This alone is a greater
responsibility than anything in her life. All her time would be put into taking care of the child ...
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Congress And The Change In Term Limits
Number of Words: 1698 / Number of Pages: 7
... and bureaucrats, that person may
actually come to believe what these influential people are saying. This is why
new blood needs to enter Congress more frequently, in order to avoid the highly
influenced Congress that is filled with old people with old ideals. Needless to
say the once optimistic freshmen were unsuccessful in their task, and it=s plain
to see why. Until that changes, Congress is not going to change. Congressmen
need to get back to basics and realize that they are in office to serve their
people, and not themselves.
What would change Congress is term limits. By the middle of ...
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Walkabout
Number of Words: 426 / Number of Pages: 2
... came to a valley were there where many birds. For lunch they ate uncooked worwora. They stayed near the pool they found for three hours avoiding the heat. They hiked some more then when it was night the bush boy made a fire.They left early in the morning. Peter sneeze the whole time them where hiking that day. When they getting ready to go to sleep that night unexpectedly the bush boy sneezed. The bush boy walked off in the morning and Peter chased after him. They went and caught some fish to eat. Peter later started to worry about the bush boy’s cold. 4/4- Since in the Aborigine had a weak immune sys ...
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Brief History Of The NRA
Number of Words: 1629 / Number of Pages: 6
... Directors are elected by secret ballot.2
Brady Act
The Brady Act was approved by Congress in November of 1993 and was then
signed into law by President Clinton later in the month. The act was originally
named for anti gun lobbyist Sarah Brady, and not for former press secretary Jim
Brady. It was through Jim Brady's support and the media coverage that linked
his name to the act. The act requires that there be a waiting period of five
state government business days at the time an individual applies to purchase a
handgun from a federal firearm license. During the five day wait, the local
sheriff ...
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