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Slavery
Number of Words: 635 / Number of Pages: 3
... route where Europeans would travel to Africa bringing
manufactured goods, capture Africans and take them to the Caribbean, and
then take the crops and goods and bring them back to Europe. The African
people, in order to communicate invented a language that was a mixture of
all the African languages combined, called Creole. This language now
varies from island to island. They also kept their culture which accounts
for calypso music and the instruments used in these songs.
Slavery was common all over the world until 1794 when France signed the
Act of the National Convention abolishing slave ...
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Attack On The Tobacco Companies
Number of Words: 456 / Number of Pages: 2
... the cigarette companies and the risks of smoking. The cigarette companies began printing the Surgeon General’s warnings on the packages. An action the people have taken against the tobacco companies is law suits. The industry always had such a powerful defense helping them win so many suits. Their defense was that smokers assumed the risks of smoking and should bear the responsibility for it. The people were not having much luck in their fight against the tobacco companies.
Along with the people’s fight against the tobacco companies, the states are now helping take action. The number of sta ...
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Los Vendidos And Mexican Americans
Number of Words: 424 / Number of Pages: 2
... disrespect yourself by disrespecting your heritage. I believe thee way he sold-out was by disrespecting his heritage. the Mexican- American is still trying to decide weather he is going to live Mexican or American. When the Mexican-American says, "The only thing I don't like is how come I always got to play the goddamn Mexican-American"(Page-384). You are unsure by this statement weather he is selling-out his Mexican or his American lifestyle. You know he wants to perfect because of his attitude toward playing the part of the Mexican-American.
The Mexican American doesn't know where he wants to go ...
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Realism
Number of Words: 381 / Number of Pages: 2
... about eachother.
grew in this Country as a result of war and industrial hardships. Regionalism grew because of great improvements in transporation.
Jack London, a Naturalist, lost his father at a young age and had to cope. He also witnessed first-hand, the casualties of the California Gold Rush. “Buck did not read newspapers, or else he would have known that trouble was brewing, not only for himself, but every dog.” (P.488). Brett Harte, a Regionalist, lived in many places in his lifetime, including: Albany, New York, California, Germany, Scotland and London. While moving around, he was able to ...
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V-Chip And Television Censorship
Number of Words: 331 / Number of Pages: 2
... parental control. Under the legislation, it is the government (either directly or by coercing private industry),and not the parents, that will determine how programs will be rated. If a parent activates the v-chip, all programs with a "violent" rating will be blocked. What kind of violence will be censored? Football games? War movies? News reports?"
Even though the V-chip legislation has already been signed into law by the President, it remains at the heart of a heated political battle. The strongest objection raised to the V-chip by its opponents is that it violates the First Amendment Rights of th ...
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Juvenile Delinquency
Number of Words: 975 / Number of Pages: 4
... the police ignore
many children who are accused of minor delinquencies or refer them directly to
their parents. But in other communities, the police may refer such children to
a juvenile court, where they may officially be declared delinquents. Crime
statistics, though they are often incomplete and may be misleading, do give an
indication of the extent of the delinquency problem. The FBI reports that
during the early 1980's, about two-fifths of all arrests in the United States
for burglary and arson were of persons under the age of 18. Juveniles also
accounted for about one-third of all arre ...
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Dueling
Number of Words: 2889 / Number of Pages: 11
... 14). The judge, Sir Jonah Barrington, served from seventeen fifty-seven until seventeen ninety-one. It was an understanding to the Irish people that a young man was not an adult or educated until he had had a duel with one of his colleagues (Cochran 14-15).
in the South and Ireland had a lot of commonalties along with a few differences in law. One would first want to look at the law of the Irish duello and compare it to that of the Southern version. One of the causes of the duel in Ireland was that a punch or a "blow with the fist" was considered to be not worthy of the actions of a gentleman. ...
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The Debate On Gay Rights
Number of Words: 2551 / Number of Pages: 10
... the Bible such as “thou shall not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (Leviticus 18:22) This passage would be stating that men are not to be involved with men the same as they are women. These people believe that homosexuality is a choice for people. That they find people of the same sex know how to please eachother and lose their connection with God. An advertisement campaign was run by Coral Ridge promoting change among homosexuals. It claimed they can change with help from their faith and help from God. Anne Paulk and her husband John Paulk appeared in these ads as Ex-Gays. Anne ...
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Existentialism In The Early 19th Century
Number of Words: 1643 / Number of Pages: 6
... judgment of right and wrong, existentialists
have argued that no objective, rational basis can be found for moral
decisions. The 19th-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche further
contended that the individual must decide which situations are to count
asmoral situations.
Subjectivity
All existentialists have followed Kierkegaard in stressing the importance
of passionate individual action in deciding questions of both morality and
truth. They have insisted, accordingly, that personal experience and acting
on one's own convictions are essential in arriving at the truth. Thus, the
understandi ...
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Smokers: The Right To Pursuit Of Happiness
Number of Words: 485 / Number of Pages: 2
... to our right to the pursuit of happiness? Why should
we be forced outside just to smoke a cigarette. It is not right. We should
be able to enjoy a cigarette in comfort. We are entitled to the same
treatment as every other student here at Albright. We are entitled to a
comfortable chair when we want to sit down. It doesn't matter if we want to
smoke a cigarette while we're sitting.
The Declaration of Independence says all men are created equal,
that they are endowed . . . with certain unalienable rights . . . among
these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Equal Rights
Amendment takes ...
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