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Important Cases Of The US Supreme Court
Number of Words: 787 / Number of Pages: 3
... United States. Reynolds when convicted argued that the
federal law violated his constitutional right to the free exercise of his
religious beliefs. The Supreme Court did not agree with Reynolds claiming that
congress was not without the power to punish violations of social duties or
subversive of good order. The court said that to place religious belief
superior to the law of the land, would in affect permit every citizen to become
a law unto himself. Government would exist only in name under such
circumstances. The ruling in this case has upheld that ones religious beliefs
do not permit him/her t ...
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Capital Punishment
Number of Words: 895 / Number of Pages: 4
... book “Should We Have ” by JoAnn Bren Guernsey, these choices were made with the goal of a more humane murder in mind. The gas chamber is a small, sealed room in which the prisoner sits strapped to a chair. A lethal gas is sent through the floor of the room, and death usually takes about five minutes. Lethal injections simply involve the insertion of a needle filled with poison into a vein and injected. This procedure can be effective, but also takes long amounts of time quite often. The electric chair was invented as a way to quickly and painlessly kill the prisoner, but has proven to not be as effec ...
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The FAA
Number of Words: 1095 / Number of Pages: 4
... when it may impose a high cost on to the airline industry either.
In August 1990 the FAA issued a rule that required airlines to install
fire-resistant cabins into new planes. The materials were also supposed to
be installed into the cabins of in-service planes that required a “
significant” amount of the cabin replaced. The FAA failed to define what a
substantial amount of the cabin was. The airlines also weren't required to
report the materials that were installed. This problem was not corrected
until 1991, after Pan Am flight 811 had an electrical fire in the cabin.
Three people received ...
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History Of The Bureau Of Land Management (BLM)
Number of Words: 1256 / Number of Pages: 5
... U.S. Grazing Service. Most of the lands managed by the BLM are located in 12 Western States, including Alaska, although small parcels are scattered throughout the East. Besides protecting and managing the public lands for a variety of uses, the BLM also maintains custody of nearly nine million pages of historic land documents. These documents include copies of homestead and sales patents, survey plats and survey field notes.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the BLM has about 9,000 employees, most of whom work in field offices throughout the 12 Western States.
Mission Statement
The Bureau of Land ...
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Australians Against Further Immigration
Number of Words: 2205 / Number of Pages: 9
... ploy to silence critics and avoid the real
issues. We believe in freedom of speech. The philosopher Spinoza said, “In a
free state every man can think what he wants and say what he thinks”. This
should apply here to debates on immigration.
We care about Australia and want to pass our heritage to our children and their
children. We want to preserve our Australian identity. We stress that migrants
already in Australia are welcome, what we are against is further immigration and
the effect this in now having on social harmony.
Our opposition is the pro-immigration lobby comprised of big business ...
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Canada's Institutional Landscape And The Government's Ignorance Of Farmer's Needs
Number of Words: 3297 / Number of Pages: 12
... and effects of a possible Quebec separation will all be analyzed.
The current institutional landscape of Canada has not acted favorably
for Saskatchewan wheat farmers. The development of the institutions, ie. the
House of Commons and the Senate, and the policies that have developed from these
institutions have continually ignored the needs of prairie farmers, emphasizing
the cynicism Saskatchewan wheat farmers have towards the political process. The
antipathy towards the political institutions has developed because of recent
cost-cutting initiatives and deregulatory procedures by the govern ...
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Mdeical Benifits Of Animal Tes
Number of Words: 393 / Number of Pages: 2
... mention animal use is being reduced as much as possible, “most scientist are glad to use alternative test because they are usually faster and cheaper than test on animals”(Yount 72). However, “you cannot study kidney transplantation or diarrhea or high bloodpressure on a computer screen”(O’Neil 212). Besides, “Animal research has led to vaccines against diptheria, rabies, tuberculosis, polio, measles, mumps, cholera, whooping cough, and rubella. It has meant eradication of smallpox, effective treatment for diabetes and control of infection with powerful antibiotics. The cardiac pacemaker, microsu ...
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Bilingual Education
Number of Words: 1163 / Number of Pages: 5
... the chances of the generally poor, non-English speaking children ever having a equal share in the promise of American life.” By simply having everyone learn a second language eliminates the lines of income, and ethnic background. Truly would also eliminate the psychological effects it has on non-English speaking children. When they are in a classroom filled with people who do not speak the same language they do, they are forced to feel alone because they can not perform at the same level as their peers, they feel there is something wrong with them, lower than everyone else. “’Empowering Minority Stu ...
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Personal Impacts Of Death
Number of Words: 925 / Number of Pages: 4
... to focus on the processes of dying. Thus contemporary fears of dying involve the anxieties of dying within institutional settings, where often life is structured for the convenience of staff and where residents suffer both physical and psychological pain in their depersonalization. They also involve fears of being victims of advanced Alzheimer's Disease: being socially dead and yet biologically alive. In sum, the dreaded liminality between the worlds of the living and the dead have historically shifted from the period after death to the period preceding it.
Cultural coping mechanisms have not kept ...
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The Republican Party: Overall Issues, 1860-1868
Number of Words: 587 / Number of Pages: 3
... in any Territory
of the United States."
In the first four years of the 1860's, the North and South waged war
over these issues, with the Republican North emerging victorious. The
Republicans took charge of the national political power. Although he worked
with an anti-slavery platform, President Lincoln attempted to make a generous
peace with the South, with hopes of expanding the power of the Republican party
with support from the South. Examples of this can be found in the fact that
Confederate officials were not barred from public office, compensation for lost
slaves was not ruled o ...
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