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Responsible Driving
Number of Words: 1774 / Number of Pages: 7
... go into the basic
signs,signals and rules of driving to inform you of the current laws and
regulations. Finally I will go through a step-by-step process of driving, from
getting out of the drive way to turning onto a highway.
Accident risk is the chance of injury to yourself or others and the
chance of damage to vehicles and property. All driving involves risk. You have
tonotice that risk always exists and can sneak up on you at any time. 85% of all
collisions are the drivers first collision. 49% of vehicle crashes involve only
one car. The liklihood of being in a collision any year is only 1/5 p ...
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Divorce In The United States
Number of Words: 1314 / Number of Pages: 5
... easier to obtain
than at home. For example, a couple living in New York State, where until 1967
the only grounds for divorce was adultery, would establish residence in Nevada -
- a procedure that took only 6 weeks -- and file for divorce on grounds of
mental cruelty.
Popular attitudes toward divorce changed as the United States became
more urbanized and less religious. The increasing acceptance of divorce was
reflected in court interpretations of existing laws and in new legislation
enacted by the states. Two tendencies merged, making possible the establishment
of new and easier grounds for divor ...
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Animal Experimentation Is Acceptable
Number of Words: 415 / Number of Pages: 2
... the cruel experiments result in more animals and people surviving
otherwise fatal or paralyzing diseases. The Research Defense Society
stated that 50,000 people fill antibiotic prescriptions, 180,000 people
with diabetes survive because of insulin, 4,000 heart defects are corrected,
and 400 heart and heart/lung transplants are performed a year because of
animal research that is cruel. Also the Americans for Medical Progress
Education Foundation stated that the following were benefits to humans as a
result of animal experiments: antibiotics, vaccines, gene therapy, pace
maker implants, chemotherap ...
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Inhumanity
Number of Words: 719 / Number of Pages: 3
... an act of violence. True aggression involves disputes between individual rivals. The primary function of the aggressive acts is to intimidate and dominate these rivals. When violence is concerned, the victim is depersonalized and becomes, not the rival, but the ‘goal’ or the ‘paycheck’. In war, groups of men enter the battle with complete stranger in their sights. They have no personal knowledge of the enemy troops, who, if they can see at all, appear as no more than tiny impersonal specks in the distance. They are not killed through anger or personal rivalry, but through the need of each fighting man ...
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The Meaning Of Society
Number of Words: 1349 / Number of Pages: 5
... These classes were; the capitalist who owned the factories, banks and the goods to trade and the proletarians who owned nothing but their own labor power. Marx felt that the division of classes was what was responsible for the conflict and suffering of all society. This is what encouraged Marx to believe that chaos was the only way in which classes would break up and no longer exist.
Marx was able to get his point across in the modern socialist doctrine, better known as the Communist Manifesto. Even though, Marx was ordered to leave Paris because of all his revolutionary activities he did set ...
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Liberalism
Number of Words: 877 / Number of Pages: 4
... the people in the high offices or positions. This also pertains to a person’s right to think, talk, and worship in any way that they feel they need to without depriving other people of their rights. Also within the moral core exists a persons civil liberties. These are a persons right to think for themselves and learn from their own experiences without anybody obstructing their ability to do so. Civil liberties also include a person’s right to express oneself, to speak ones mind, and to write and publish freely. There is also a persons social liberties that fall under the moral core of . A pers ...
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Rationalism
Number of Words: 2064 / Number of Pages: 8
... colors, figures, sound,
and all other external things are nought but the illusions and
dreams of which this genius has availed himself in order to lay
traps for my credulity… (330)
Ultimately, Descartes discovered what he felt was the one irrefutable truth. He could not doubt that he existed, and he also could not doubt that he was a "thinking thing". From this he concluded that the self that thinks clearly exists, which is the conception of the phrase 'Cogito ergo sume'; I think, therefore I am.
Once Descartes established himself as a "thinking thing", he then focused his attention on the ex ...
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Generations
Number of Words: 410 / Number of Pages: 2
... mopcuts, bellbottoms and more are the appearance my parents
remember. I think, as a change for the better, my generation mostly keeps
their hair neat and trim. We habitually wear loose-fitting, comfortable
clothes, and many also wear a hat. These vast changes astonish my parents,
but they do not see them as a step towards a more or less civilized society.
However, they do notice some changes that may be for the worse.
My parents, and probably a lot of their generation were
continuously looking for money, and saved and spent money very carefully.
Nowadays, kids and teens often have plenty of mone ...
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Women In The Police Force
Number of Words: 3444 / Number of Pages: 13
... of women into the police force. We will not only look at what it took for women to get into the police force but also what types of roles they play in the police force today. In addition, we will look at what roles women hope to play in the police force in the future. By doing this we hope to show you how far women have come in the area of police work in the past one hundred years and how far they will still have to go.
History of
In the past, policing and women were never associated with each other. Policing was a male dominated profession which women were not welcomed to join. However, the ...
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Is Psychology A Science?
Number of Words: 1661 / Number of Pages: 7
... and in reaching conclusions which
either confirm or nullify a theory.
During the mid-19th century, scholars (although at that time probably
termed philosophers) wanted to study human nature with the aim of applying
the scientific method to observe, record, and treat human behavior that
was deemed as unnatural. They believed that if people could be studied in
a scientific manner, there would be a greater accuracy in understanding
present behavior, in predicting future behavior, and, most controversially,
in altering behavior through scientific intervention.
There are many areas of psychology, each ...
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