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Affirmative Action In Educatio
Number of Words: 1182 / Number of Pages: 5
... (Http://www.self-gov.org/freeman/8901paso.htm) He said, "It indicated that federal contractors should take affirmative action to ensure that applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin". (Http://www.self-gov.org/freeman/8901paso.htm) The growing United States population of minorities in the 21st century will eventually surpass the population of the Caucasian race for the first time in 1 Inaganti history, a change that will become evident in politics, education, industry, values, and culture, according to William A. Henry III (Beyond the Melting P ...
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Mitchell V. Wisconsin: Why Mitchell V. Wisconsin Sucked
Number of Words: 3340 / Number of Pages: 13
... a two year 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 Court's 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 Rehnquist's decision and t ...
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Euthanasia
Number of Words: 1056 / Number of Pages: 4
... when they are sick. Infact, humans even feel that their animals should be put to death if they are suffering. This is clearly stated by Janelle Rohr when she said, “A dying animal is quickly ‘put out of its misery,’ but no such consideration is offered to the terminally ill human”(136). “Among certain primitive people, the killing or abandonment of aged or helpless members was an accepted practice”(Jonathan Gould and Craigmyle 20). In America we perform abortions, execute murderers and draft young men so they may be slain for their country. But mention the subject of and people start to get a little ...
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Flag Desecration
Number of Words: 913 / Number of Pages: 4
... blooded Americans understood how important it was to respect the American flag. Congress passed a law in which it prohibited desecration of the American flag in 1968. According to the law, it was illegal to cast contempt, either by word or act upon the American flag ((Federal law, 18 USC Sec. 700 States, 1968); Sec. 2(a). The law states that whoever knowingly casts contempt upon any flag of the United States by publicly mutilating, defacing, defiling, burning, or trampling upon it shall be fined, not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both, Sec. 2(b). The term "flag of the ...
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Indian Suffrage
Number of Words: 1449 / Number of Pages: 6
... of direct and
indirect contact with the Europeans. The whites wanted more lands for their
developments, and because of this greed, they created direct policies to clear
the Indians off their lands. For example, one form of direct policy that the
whites used to rob Indians of their lands was by signing treaties. Then later
the whites broke these treaties and forced Indian off their lands by the Removal
policy and claimed the lands as their property (Lowy: Lecture 11/96). There
were many indirect methods that white used to rob Indians' lands. They use
bribery, threats, and among countless other thin ...
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Affirmative Action
Number of Words: 1845 / Number of Pages: 7
... did not end there. Discrimination was everywhere, but no
person had the means to address it as a problem, or fight to end it. It wasn't until 1862 that
a political figure formally acknowledged the problem.
The Emancipation Proclamation was addressed by president Abraham Lincoln in
1862. It was enforced in the beginning of the following year, stating "all persons held as
slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in
rebellion of the United States shall be then henceforth and forever free; and the executive
government of the United S ...
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Interracial Relationships
Number of Words: 1591 / Number of Pages: 6
... been a steady focus of opinion on a variety of racial issues. Since 1972, surveys have asked whether the respondent would favor a law making inter-racial marriages illegal. "Since 1901, there has been a ban on these interracial marriages in Alabama" (Afgen). In 1980 the results showed that 30% of whites and 18.3% of African Americans favor such a law. By 1994, data showed 14.7% and 3.2% respectively. Similar trends have also been observed in busing and even integrated social clubs (Ties that Bind). A simple analysis shows that complete desegregation is moving in the right direction.
Regardless of the ...
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Teen Pregnancy
Number of Words: 2405 / Number of Pages: 9
... one-third of teenage mothers receive a high school diploma. The rest of the mothers usually end up on welfare. "A majority of both boys and girls who are sexually active wish they had waited. Eight in ten girls and six in ten boys say they wish they had waited" ( Facts and Stats 1). Many people are concerned about the problems teenage parents and their children face. The health risks for a teenage girl who becomes pregnant increase sharply. One of the concerns of teenage mothers is the health risk. Usually young women have more complications in pregnancy than older women. The most hazardous complicatio ...
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School Safety
Number of Words: 936 / Number of Pages: 4
... seems to have a different perspective on why there is such a problem with . Some say it is the parents’ fault, some say it is the media, and others blame the schools. Yet, the question still remains. What can be done to make schools safer for the children and staff? One thing we need to do is learn to listen to our children and observe their behavior. According to Dr. Ronald D. Stephens, Executive Director of the National Center, there are some common characteristics among youth who have caused school- associated violent deaths. Accounts of these tragic incidents repeatedly indicate that in most c ...
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Islam More Than A Religion
Number of Words: 1341 / Number of Pages: 5
... man must submit, is made known through the sacred scriptures, the Qur'an (Koran). Allah revealed the Qur'an to his messenger, Muhammad. According to Islamic beliefs, Muhammad is the last of a series of prophets (including Adam, Noah, Jesus, and others). Muhammad's message concurrently perfect and do away with the “revelations” attributed to earlier prophets. From the very beginning of Islam, Muhammad had indoctrinated a sense of brotherhood and a bond of faith among his followers. The Prophet Muhammad fled to Medina in AD 622, it was during this time that his preaching was accepted and the community- ...
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