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Assault Weapons Gun Owners
1,505 wordsPro Gun Control It is a Friday afternoon in Charlesbay High School. Students are piling into the lunch lines awaiting hot pizza, fresh French fries and ice-cold sodas. As the students discuss what they are going to do after the football game and how their 1 st hour test was, a gunshot is heard not far away. The students are ordered to stay low to the ground by school security guards. None of the students know what is happening outside the lunch lines. What is going on is a 17 -year old frenetic ...
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Cystic Fibrosis Bone Marrow
1,259 words... not banned (HCF 1). By combining genetic engineering with cloning, the breakthroughs could allow scientist some insight on how to perfect the treatment of fatal diseases. Ailing convalescents will be free of rejection by their own immune systems (HCF 1). In a rare degenerative disorder, syringomyelia, a syrinx, or fluid filled cavity forms a scar near or on the spinal cord. Left untreated, the cavities cause unbearable pain as well as a gradual loss of sensory and motor skills. The tradition...
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Sojourner Truth Equal Rights
1,301 wordsAccording to many sources Aint I a Woman? is Sojourner Truth's most recognized impromptu speech. The speech was given at a womens rights convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851. Frances Gage, a feminist activist and author, recorded the event. The speech was published more than twelve years later in 1863. Frances Gage reported that Truth encountered hissing and hostility as she began to speak. Yet there is much debate and conflicting reports on how she was received. According to Carleton Mabee, Gage's...
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Time In His Life Game Of Basketball
2,039 wordsWhat is Basketball without Michael Jordan When someone says the name Michael Jordan, the first thing that might come to mind is basketball, Nike shoes, or Wheaties. Through the years Michael Jordan has proved time and time again that he is the greatest basketball player ever and by doing that he has gained tremendous popularity throughout the world. People of all ages and from all nationalities have gathered to watch him play. 'Even your Aunt Matilda, who might not know anything about basketball...
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Correct Reasoning Requires Beliefs About Incontinence Arabia
1,159 wordsEDUCATING ETHICAL BEHAVIOR: ARISTOTLE'S VIEWS ON AKRASIA Deborah Kerdeman University of Washington "Can the teaching of ethics really help cleanse the business world of shady dealings?" Asked by Newsweek magazine during the height of the recent Wall-Street scandals, 1 this query resonates with perennial concerns about whether or not virtue can be taught and how such instruction might best be effected. The problem, Newsweek declares, is not that students lack ethical standards or are incapable of...
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Political Correctness American Medias
1,514 wordsMedia Bias in Politics The Medias are being traditionally referred to as the democracy's fourth column, in the sense that they influence peoples minds to a great extent, which is often a single factor that defines citizens political affiliation. One of the most important principles of democracy is independence of Medias. In theory, Media owners biggest goal is to deliver honest and unbiased information to the people, while leaving it up to them to come to their own conclusions. Of course, it is ...
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Does The Divorce Of Parents Harm Their Children
1,618 wordsDoes the Divorce of Parents Harm Their Children? Title of Article: Divorce Is Hard for Adult Children Too. Author of Article: Holly Hubbard Preston. Journal Name (volume, page numbers): Newsweek (v. 136, no. 10, 2000. p. 11). Briefly state the main ideas of this article: In this article, Holly Preston strives to instil readers with the idea that divorce always negatively affects children, regardless of circumstances. Author also implies that children from families fractured by divorce are very l...
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Krispy Kreme And Its Competition
829 wordsKrispy Kreme and Its Competition Is there really any competition for Krispy Kreme? Krispy Kreme has been serving coffee and doughnuts since 1937, and has the distinction of being the only fast food that has had a police helicopter use the drive through. In a scenario perhaps too stereotypical for words, Albuquerque police officers flew a police helicopter to the (relatively new) Krispy Kreme for a doughnut break in October 2001 (Reuters 2001). The incident made the national news. Advertising lik...
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Did Timothy Mcveigh Deserve The Death Penalty
803 wordsDid Timothy McVeigh deserve the Death Penalty? According to the statistics, the punishment overtakes criminals more and more often. But the existing sociopolitical roots of terrorism will have new fears in the world community for a long time. From the middle of the last decade the terrorism has ceased to be characterized as only foreign policy. In 1995 there were two events which made the whole world shudder. A Jew Iraq Amir has lifted a hand against his relative a Jew Yitzhak Rabin, prime-minis...
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Rest Of His Life Bad Luck
1,768 wordsEnglish Romantic Verse John Clare's poem "I Am" emphasized suffers of a cruel world and reflects on ones singularity within this world. In his poem Clare presents the speaker who is in the state of brokenness. The speaker recollects his past misfortunes, unhappy love and sadly remarks on his present: he is abandoned by friends; no kindred spirit would speak to him and listen to his woes. What was dearest to him became alienated and strange, even stranger than the rest of the world. Harsh memorie...
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Rest Of The World Death Penalty
1,717 words... on death row (Cornell Law Review, 542). Death-penalty advocates often point out that no one has been proved innocent after execution. However, the DNA evidence that could establish such innocence has frequently been lost by prosecutors with no incentive to keep it. In Virginia case, a court actually prevented posthumous examination of DNA evidence. On the defense side, lawyers and investigators concentrated their scarce resources on cases where lives can be spared. And while DNA answers some...
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Breaking The Law Cd Sales
1,105 wordsBREAKINGDebate On Napster &# 65279; NAPSTER: BREAKING THE CONSTITUTION The Napster software, which launched in 1999, allows people to share digital music files (MP 3) between each other. This Internet program has sparked a historical debate about copyright law and the Internet. Copyright owners strongly believe that sharing these files via Napster is stealing (TIME). Downloading music against the wishes of an artist or producer is breaking the law. Some believe that it is not stealing or illegal...
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African Americans Black Family
467 wordsFar Chideya has accomplished many things at 28 years old that many journalists can only hope to achieve. She began her career as an intern at Newsweek while studying at Harvard. After her graduation, she was hired at Newsweek as a reporter and stayed on from 1990 - 1994. Chideya covered news in Newsweek's New York and Chicago bureaus, as well as in the Washington bureau, where she covered national politics, from an article titled Skewering Congressional Pork, to following President Clinton as a ...
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Pretty Good Privacy U S Government
1,476 wordsThe Internet is a method of communication and a source of information that is becoming more popular among those who are interested in, and have the time to surf the information superhighway. The problem with much information being accessible to this many people is that some of it is deemed inappropriate for minors. The government wants censorship, but a segment of the population does not. Within this examination of the topic of, Government Intervention of the Internet, I will attempt to express ...
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Gun Control Laws Stricter Gun Control
2,308 wordsIs Gun Control Necessary? As a result of the many school shootings that have taken place in the last few years, there has been a huge push for stricter gun control laws. Many people don? t feel safe in today? s society. The government has been listening to the people and has already passed some laws. There are some people who are opposed to starter gun control laws. Many gun enthusiasts don? t believe that gun control laws realy work because only the law abiding citizens would follow them and th...
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Safe Schools Fire Department
1,390 wordsSafety in our Schools Safety in the schools can mean life and death in many situations. One way is fires. With such things as thin walls, flammable interior, or exterior, schools could turn into a flaming inferno. All schools should be routinely checked for things such as escape routes from the building and the ease of opening and closing these routes. They also should be clear from any interfering things nearby. Schools should have such things as walls inside and outside that do not have flamma...
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Gun Control Legislation National Rifle Association
2,229 wordsIn recent years, political discourse about gun control and the Second Amendment has become increasingly volatile. Gun lobbies such as the National Rifle Association are more organized and aggressive and their issue agenda has evolved as new and more powerful weapons and militia appear. On the other side of the debate, the critical wounding of James Brady gave gun control advocates a visible martyr with strong ties to Republican conservatives. In sum, gun control and the right to bear arms have b...
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Oklahoma City Bombing U S News
1,613 wordsThe Governments Response to the Oklahoma City Bombing The Oklahoma City Bombing affected many Americans, including the President of the United States. From the start the White House immediately dispatched the FBI. The initial reaction was to close the airports, but that would infringe on civil liberties. Government intervention with this tragedy would help many victims family members cope with the loss of their loved ones. Presidential response as well as monetary compensation would attribute to...
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Cloned Embryo Cloning Humans
1,511 wordsScience vs. Ethics An elderly man is diagnosed with an aneurysm, the thinning in the wall of the aorta. In order to repair his failing artery, he receives a patch of healthy tissue-cloned from his own cells and cultured in a laboratory. A child is born free of the gene that allows sickle-cell anemia, despite both her parents being carriers. How was this possible? In the embryonic cell from which she was cloned, normal DNA was used replaced the flawed gene. Could a genius clone Hitler? Could a wa...
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Smoking During Pregnancy Developmental Psychology
1,087 wordsSUBSTANCE USES AND PREGNANCY THE MULTIPLE WAYS OF DISSEMINATING INFORMATION January 1989 the results of a study conducted by Ann Pytkowicz Streissguth were published in the Journal of Developmental Psychology. The study investigated the relationship of maternal use of drugs, alcohol and / or cigarettes during pregnancy on the IQ of her child at the age of four years. Newsweek and Scientific News also print articles later that year reporting the effects of maternal use of alcohol and drugs on the...
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