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Amount Of Money Federal And State
1,409 words
In the early 1970 s property tax rates peaked and
were still rising each year, which was driving
people out of their homes. Even though this gave
the state and county governments a surplus of $ 3.
8 billion by the end of the 1970 s, something had
to be done. Homeowners were also getting angry
because as their property taxes rose the quality
and quantity of their public services didnt.
Legislature tried to respond with an introduction
of three major reform packages in 1977, that was
not enough. W...
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Dred Scott Case Anti Abortion
2,051 words
... big mistakes having abortions, and they regret
it later... Many unwanted babies are abused,
neglected and / or battered or even killed by
unloving or immature parents. Many women make
mistakes in having babies they don't want and
can't love or care for. Some may regret an
abortion, but this should not be a reason to deny
choice to all women. Abortion causes psychological
damage to women. They suffer guilt feelings all
their lives. The Institute of Medicine of the
National Academy of Sciences...
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Men And Women Male And Female
1,409 words
... schools are known to put up their football
teams in nice hotels before home games, two to a
room, while women are bunked four to a room while
out of town (Tarkan 27). Football players daily
food allowances can average $ 25 for dinner and $
15 for breakfast, while women receive only an $ 11
total daily allowance. Another luxury of being a
college football player is the mode of
transportation. While female sports and most male
sports rely on busses and vans, the football team
is flying. Footba...
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Public Broadcasting Service Government Funding For Public Broadcasting Television
409 words
media, " saw funding for public broadcasting as an
easy target for spending cuts. He stated that one
reason to cut funding of public broadcasting is
because its programming is elitist. He argued that
programming like ballet and opera found on pubic
television serves only the upper class. one of his
fellow Republicans have joined him in this attack
on the Public Broadcasting Service. They argue
that public television, which supposedly served
only this small group of people, should not have
to exp...
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Funding Faith Based Charities With Taxpayer Money
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There is much controversy over the recent
initiative to have the government fund faith-based
charities. The proposal is to allocate about $ 10
billion of taxpayers money to religious charities
in the hope that they will efficiently distribute
aid to the needy. (Miga). The people who want to
pass this bill claim that the aid will reach more
people with more efficiency than through federal
charities. However, most experts, both religious
and secular, disagree. Federal funding of
faith-based charit...
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Twenty First Century Order To Survive
1,284 words
Recent trends appear to be supportive of a greater
role for nonprofit organizations. Indeed, we see
the continuing increase, expansion and
strengthening of nonprofits in the decade ahead.
However, their long-term financial viability will
remain in question unless they undergo radical
transformation in how they operate in today's new
public and private economies. Eight trends in
particular lead us to this conclusion: 1.
Nonprofits are taking on more "public"
responsibilities as governments contin...
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Different Types Of Ownership In The Business Sector
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Sole trader ship is when the business is fully
owned and managed by one person, though others can
be employed to help run the business. As the sole
traders only financial income is from the business
and / or bank loan, they do not have the resources
to expand and cover regional or national areas.
These types of businesses are located in the small
business sector and usually cover local areas.
Such businesses could be hairdressers, corner
shops or market stalls etc. Sole trader ships have
unlimit...
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Campaign Finance Collective Action
1,259 words
... occurring. Rationally, each candidate is
running because they each want the chance to run
against President Bush for a chance at the White
House. Each of the principles can explain the
actions taken by the individual candidates and
enlighten us on what may be to come for the
primaries. If each candidate has the goal of
winning the primaries, they are going to do
everything within their powers and the rules to
get there. Campaign spending is a big issue here.
The more money one candidate has ...
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Pursuit Of Knowledge Parkinsons Disease
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Topic: How do beliefs about the World, and beliefs
about what is valuable, influence the pursuit of
knowledge? The pursuit of scientific knowledge has
often been believed to be an exploration in which
information is gathered solely from
experimentation, but people are slow to realize
that experimentation is only one way, among a
variety of ways, in which scientists gather
information. In their pursuit of new scientific
knowledge, scientists may conduct surveys, or
build on pre-existing informati...
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Scientific Knowledge Political Beliefs
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Quite often we think of the pursuit of scientific
knowledge as an exploration through which
information is gathered solely from
experimentation, but experimentation is only one
among a variety of ways in which scientists gather
information to be formulated into knowledge. Along
with experiments, scientists may conduct surveys,
or build on pre-existing information using
assumptions and theories in order to obtain
knowledge in any particular scientific medium.
That which the scientists determine a...
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Social Security Reform Retirement Income
2,513 words
... They may have invested in firm-specific human
capital, which lse's value if the firm des play.
Thus, few emplyee's would consciously agree t
accept default risk n their person benefits in re
t increase their expected cash wages. This is true
even when the employee has all the relevant
information necessary t assess the default risk f
the firm. In mst cases, the emplyee's d nt have
the relevant information, and this fact makes the
welfare lss even greater. Fr example, consider the
profile f a...
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American Poverty And Welfare Reform
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American Poverty and Welfare Reform Perspectives,
Vol. 2, No. 6 I. Poverty in America Ironically,
poverty may well be the richest country's most
serious social problem. According to the March
2000 Current Population Survey, over 32 million
Americans - 11. 8 percent of the population - were
poor. A family, and every individual in it, is
considered poor if its total income is below the
poverty threshold, which was $ 17, 029 for a
family of four in 1999. A typical poor family
needed an extra annual...
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Museum Of Art Freedom Of Speech
2,774 words
Things are heating up in America. People are
protesting outside of the movie theaters,
concerts, and book and record stores of this great
nation everywhere. What is all the fuss about?
Censorship, Government officials and raving mad
protesters alike have been trying to stop the
expressive creativity in everything from Marilyn
Manson to Mark Twain. One of the biggest shake-ups
happened in museums all over the world recently
that would have made Michelangelo and DiVinchi? s
hair stand on end. In t...
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People Per Square Mile Alcohol Abuse
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Substance Abuse Prevention Community Assessment
The community that we have chosen to assess is
Springfield, Missouri. Springfield is located in
Green County in Southwest. According to the USDC,
Bureau of the Census in 1999 the population
estimate for the Springfield Metropolitan area was
308, 332. The annual population growth rate is 1.
8 % for Springfield. This is compared to 0. 6 %
for the state of Missouri and 1. 2 % for the
United States. Population density of Springfield
is 2, 068 people pe...
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Death Row Inmates Imprisonment Without Parole
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Mead Shumway of Nebraska, was convicted of the
first degree murder of his employers wife on
circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death by
jury. His last words before his execution were: I
am an innocent man. May God forgive everyone who
said anything against me. The next year, the
victims husband confessed on his deathbed that he
[the husband] had murdered his [own] wife
(Radelet, Bedau, Putnam 347). There are an
uncertain numerous amount of incidents similar to
the one depicted above, that ...
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Musical Theatre National Endowment
1,493 words
Theatre in Wyoming There you are sitting in a
theatre watching a play. You say to yourself, this
play could be so much better if they would do that
different. Of course the designers could do things
differently, they might have even considered the
same things that you have, the only thing wrong
with that is that type of stuff takes money. What
most people dont realize is that the theatres in
Wyoming are very under funded. Theatres in Wyoming
are not able to support themselves alone they need
out...
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Freedom Of Expression Forms Of Art
596 words
It is my opinion that the role of the arts in our
country is that they are part of our educational
system. The arts and art education teach us
design, organization, cooperation, creativity,
risk-taking, and most of all that we need to be
active participants in our society. I believe that
education is a main priority and therefore art
should be as well. Since 1965 the most prominent
source of government support for the arts has been
from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). In
the Declarati...
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Long Term Goals United Nations
2,241 words
International organizations have been viewed at
one extreme, as the vanguard of an emerging world
government and at the other, as an exercise in
futility in fostering cooperation among sovereign
states. 1 Whatever they are recognized as, they
must realize that the world that we live in is an
ever-changing one. Not a day goes by where there
is not a significant occurrence, whether it be a
new leader in a new country or a war breaking out
in another, something happens and not only do
these happeni...
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Hewlett Packard Low Income
908 words
Fall of 1999, I applied for the University of
Idaho to pursue a bachelor degree. I could be the
first in my family to obtain this accomplishment.
The issue that always came to mind was will I have
enough money? Racial issues in the state of Idaho
were a concern of mine also, for I was a member of
a minority group. How is it possible for an Asian
American, from a low-income family, suppose to
fund their education and mentally tolerate racism
in Idaho? I felt scared and uncertain of what the
futur...
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Americas Endangered Asset Television Americas Endangered Asset Public
418 words
Public Television Americas Endangered Asset Essay,
Research Public Television Americas Endangered
Asset media, saw funding for public broadcasting
as an easy target for spending cuts. He stated
that one reason to cut funding of public
broadcasting is because its programming is
elitist. He argued that programming like ballet
and opera found on pubic television serves only
the upper class. one of his fellow Republicans
have joined him in this attack on the Public
Broadcasting Service. They argue t...
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