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Smoke Free Restaurants
Number of Words: 608 / Number of Pages: 3
... avoid the problem of nicotine odors ruining
many meals. The Onion, located in downtown Spokane, requires that all smoking be done in the
bar area. The bar is separated from the main restaurant by a gate. I ate lunch at this restaurant,
and while I was there smoke from the bar drifted to my table and spoiled my lunch. The non-
smoking policy is catching on in various public places and restaurants taking on the same policy
would solve this problem of spoiled meals caused by cigarette smoke. Enclosed smoking sections
is also a solution to smokey restaurants.
Enclosed smoking areas have solv ...
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Hate Crimes
Number of Words: 2632 / Number of Pages: 10
... in hate. In this brutal murder, the motivation is obvious and clear-cut, the bigotry so blatant that it virtually hits you in the face. James Byrd Jr.’s death is America’s shame: another man tortured for no reason- other than the color of his skin. This essay will use the Byrd murder to explore the cause and effects of , and attempt to draw meaning from it so that a tragedy like this will not happen again.
In the early morning of June 7, 1998, a black man was walking down a road in Jasper, Texas. James Byrd Jr. had just left a niece’s bridal shower at his parents’ house, and was trying to hitch a r ...
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Gangs
Number of Words: 1587 / Number of Pages: 6
... am familiar
with, the Necronomicon, who jumped me and my homeboy (who's Latino) just
because we weren't white.
Another one would belong to the punks. Which I do not have a
problem with. The only two punk gangs I know of, do not call themselves
"Gangs" but they call themselves a crew. They call themselves CFH,
(Cowboys From Hell) and the other one is the Martians.
A lot of the gang members come from broken homes, or something is
wrong. So the kids end up in gangs doing drugs, drinking, smoking,
committing crimes, and getting into violence. Some of us consider our
gang "family." Som ...
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Environmental Law: Nollan Vs. CCC
Number of Words: 898 / Number of Pages: 4
... site the Nollans had to
secure a permit from the California Coastal Commission. Upon submitting the
permit application, the CCC found that the permit should be granted on the
condition that the Nollans provide public access to the beach and to the local
county park, which lay adjacent to the property. This provision called for the
Nollans to use a portion of their land to be used as a public walkway to the
beach and park. The Nollans protested to the condition, but the CCC overruled
the objection and granted the permit with the condition intact.
Case Decision:
The Nollans filed a petiti ...
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Euthanasia Overview
Number of Words: 950 / Number of Pages: 4
... is a positive act of death (Singer, 76).
In the Encyclopedia of Bio-ethics, some religious views of euthanasia were given. Hebraic and Jewish denominations strongly oppose the practice. They believe life is a precious and divine gift, and that it must be sustained if possible. “Death must never be hastened by intention. Physicians who kill patients in order to spare them pain are considered murderers (554-555).” Judaism also rejects euthanasia. They do, however, accept two forms of eu thantos: caring for dying patients, and letting terminally ill persons die. Early Christians opposed self-induced ...
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Nazism
Number of Words: 2324 / Number of Pages: 9
... themselves as the party of the young, the strong,
and the pure, in opposition to an establishment populated by the elderly,
the weak, and the dissolute.
Hitler was born in a small town in Austria in 1889. As a young boy,
he showed little ambition. After dropping out of high school, he moved to
Vienna to study art, but he was denied the chance to join Vienna academy
of fine arts.
When WWI broke out, Hitler joined Kaiser Wilhelmer’s army as a
Corporal. He was not a person of great importance. He was a creature of a
Germany created by WWI, and his behavior was shaped by that war and its
conseq ...
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Homeless
Number of Words: 602 / Number of Pages: 3
... on waiting lists for homes.
people can be categorized into four basic categories, families, lone, transient, or bums. A person in a family is usually a man and wife with one to many children living on the streets. A lone person is that who has no connection to anybody and never travels, but stays in the same general area. Transients is a person who never settles down for more than a few weeks, but keeps moving throughout cities by means of walking and hitch hiking.
Even the people with full time jobs are in need of permanent residence. These people live on eating scraps of food from trash cans ...
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The Sources Of Public Policy
Number of Words: 2959 / Number of Pages: 11
... binding on legislators and executives.
3- Rules and orders issued by executives and administrative agencies, for they extend and apply the statutory law in greater detail.
4- Budgets of all governments, for they set the levels and objectives of spending as well as the amounts and sources of revenue.
b. Another key source of public policy is international relations:
Some policies cross national borders, taking the form of treaties and less formal working agreements between governments.
Ex: American relations with other countries and with private foreign enterprises. Making and adjusting such pol ...
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Why The End Of Integration?
Number of Words: 862 / Number of Pages: 4
... students wanted to go to their neighborhood
schools and not be bussed for long trips to attend a 'better' school. In Seattle
the school board unanimously voted to "avoid race-based school assignment and
increase enrollment in schools closer to home."(Lilly) The busing plan was not
working and soon many schools were trying to deactivate this maneuver. "There is
evidence that federal courts are realizing that the 25-year-old policy of busing
to achieve racial balance in schools has not worked as a means for ending
segregation or improving the academic performance of minority students."(NCPA)
Busing did n ...
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Euthanasia - The Right To Die
Number of Words: 956 / Number of Pages: 4
... not legal issues.
Do people have a right to choose death? More in particular, are euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide morally legitimate? Euthanasia involves a death that is intended to benefit the person who dies, and requires a final act by some other person, for example, a doctor. Physician-assisted suicide, which requires a final act by the patient, can also be undertaken for the good of that patient. The essential point is that both involve intentionally ending a human life (Emanuel 521).
But how, some ask, can we ever allow people to intentionally end human lives (even their own lives) w ...
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