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Discrimination Against German And Irish Immigrants
1,478 wordsThe Declaration of Independence states, All men are created equal, , but, taking a look at our nations history, we can clearly see that this statement is not valid. This was not accepted by the thousands of slave owners based in the South and the people who enforced oppression upon womens rights as equals. The nation's relatively newly-established independence, escalating prejudices against blacks, differing viewpoints regarding slavery, monetary inflation, and antagonism to womens basic rights ...
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Jane Addams Hull House
1,362 wordsJane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860, and the eighth of nine children. Her father, John Addams, was a prosperous miller and local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War, he was a friend of Abraham Jane's mother dies when she was only two. Her father remarried and her new stepmother brought along two new stepbrothers to add to the already large family. With the fact of Jane's mother passing away she w...
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Put To Death Capital Punishment
824 wordsAn issue that has continually created tension in our society is capital punishment. Capital punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty. It is carried out in the United States in the following harsh ways: electrocution, hanging, firing squad, lethal injection, and the gas chamber. The death penalty has imposed throughout history for many crimes, ranging from blasphemy and treason to petty theft and murder. Ancient Roman and Mosaic Law endorsed the notion of retaliation; they believed...
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Mentally Ill C C
802 wordsWorking For Central City Concern Central City Concerns owns and operates a great number of the transitional housing in Portland along with Hooper Detox. I have worked for C. C. C. for almost three years now and I'm among one of the only workers that haven't discovered a dead body yet. Due to the fact that we at C. C. C. work with a large number of Portland's mentally ill, drug addicted and homeless our employee and tenant turnover is high. Every time I hear of another body being found after days...
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Army Led By General Led By General Attack
496 wordsPasschendaele was a battle that began in July of 1917, and the British commander in charge was Sir Douglas Haig. He conducted the battle under the orders from General Robert Nivelle, while the reorganization of the French army (due to mutiny) was happening. After careful planning, Douglas Haig prepared to attack, the preliminary attack was the heaviest to occur so far, in a period of ten days approximately 3100 guns fired more than four and a half million shells. This attack, however, only churn...
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Driving While Intoxicated Drunk Driving
635 wordsDrunk Driving is yet another risk factor that lurks on college campuses. It is observed that the majority of underage students continue to drink alcohol despite drinking age laws. College alcohol use policies aimed at decreasing drinking opportunities on campuses may also have increased the likely hood that students will drink off campus. This change may place students at risk when returning to campus residents after consuming alcohol. The NCADD (National Association Against Drunk Driving) did a...
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Social Justice Common Good
604 wordsIs Welfare in Keeping with the Norms of Social Justice? In order to answer this question we must first begin with the starting point of all Catholic Social Teaching; the dignity of the human person. All social action, and activities, between individuals, lesser organizations, and the governing body must seek the common good of all society and of the individual person. The common good is that objective moral standard which takes into account the whole of man and woman in their material and spirit...
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Civil Rights Act Religious Views
1,028 wordsThere are arguments for and against a National Civil Rights Act that would extend a protected status to homosexuals. First, I feel it is necessary to define what I think a protected status would encompass. It would ensure that gays are not discriminated in any way because of their sexual practices. This status would be enforced in all situations where the government can exercise its power to end such discrimination. My personal feeling toward this topic, opposes, the National Civil Rights Act. T...
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Compressed Air Kinetic Energy
849 wordsThere are many ways to make an internal combustion engine work more efficiently, they include cylinder heads that use dual overhead camshafts, variable length intake manifolds, turbochargers, and superchargers. This paper will discuss the last of these devices listed, the supercharger. All good supercharging systems also integrate an intercooler to increase efficiency, so lets take a look at the two units together and discuss the physics of what they do and how they work. A supercharger is actua...
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African Americans York City
1,201 wordsAn Old Fashion Dog Fight in the Big Apple: The 1998 U. S. Senate race in New York is one of the most heated and competitive political battles in the country. New York has traditionally been a place where only the strong willed, and tough at heart could compete; a place where crafty tactics, extensive connections, and stocks of cash are essential aspects of political competition. This years combat field of a campaign has been no exception. The two primary candidates, 60 year old, incumbent, repub...
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South Bronx Alcohol Abuse
1,952 wordsAt first glance, it seems that the author is going to take us on yet another journalistic ride through the land of the poor. Similar to the ones you read about, or hear in the news. However, this is not the case; the real underlying theme is what is society doing about the plight of the poor? Kozol uses the views of children to emphasize that these reports on living conditions are not being obtained by disgruntled adults, but from innocent children whose only misfortune was being born to this pa...
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Social Action Government Funding
1,348 words... ween Hazel Stanley, Philip Trenoweth, (Health Visitors), local police, education officials and representatives from Carrick Council. 2. Coffee mornings were set up and attended by council officials and police to encourage enemies to confront each other in a civilised manner and sort out their differences. 3. The Penwerris Tenants and Residents Association was formed. 4. A successful bid for 2. 2 million of government funding was put in for central heating and energy efficiency measures throu...
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Single Parent Families Young Mothers
1,083 wordsThere are so many young mothers in todays society that its becoming so normal to have a one-parent family with a young mother in charge. Young teen mothers having children has increased so much over the years that its now a regular thing. Being a young single mother in todays society is challenging but with the help of government assistance single mothers are finding their way. The government has provided some help for these mothers with welfare. Welfare is a program for single parents with low ...
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Women In The Progressive Era
1,062 words... rant workers habits, including drinking, saloons, and prostitution. With the settlement houses, which were mostly ran by women, were renovated, maintained, and lived in. They were located within ethnic neighborhoods to 'improve' the people who resided there and at the same time, 'Americanize' them. Like Jane Adams, founder of Hull House in Chicago in 1889, most were women who had few alternatives other than marriage or teaching, here, native-born women wanted to acquaint their neighbors with...
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Canadian Standard Of Living
809 wordsSince the day Canada was created the standards of living have been constantly changing. There have been ups and downs in Canadian Standard of Living, but in my opinion, the system we have today is nearly perfect. Although I believe that no one will ever create a perfect system, mainly because of the differences in opinions. Not a single country in the world has the standard of living that in my opinions is ideal. We can look at other countries such as: Russia, Holland, or China. Although these c...
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Finding A Job Spread Of Disease
1,089 wordsAt the turn of the century, America was viewed as a land of freedom from the hardships of everyday life. During this time, millions of immigrants from all over the world, poured into America seeking that exact kind of freedom. Some were escaping oppression, while others immigrated seeking religious freedom. The Italians were one of the many ethnic groups that strove to overcome oppression and poverty in the New World of America. However, upon arriving in America, the Italians discovered many obs...
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Bear Arms Concealed Carry
2,102 wordsCertainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizen to bear arms is just one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. -Hubert Humphrey, 19...
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19 Th Century Industrial Revolution
389 wordsThe Industrial Revolutions: The Effects On Europe The Industrial Revolutions: The Effects On Europe And The World The Industrial Revolution affected life in Europe during the 19 th century very greatly. Cities in Great Britain were growing rapidly, this was known as urbanization. Many cities such as Glasgow and Berlin more than doubled in size. The Industrial Revolution was having a positive affect on Great Britain. From the outpour of people into cities looking for work, things were so rapidly ...
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People With Disabilities Equal Treatment
1,111 wordsThe Rights of People with Disabilities Many people with disabilities have been fighting for equal opportunities and equal treatment. Discrimination against people with disabilities was at an overall high but, in the last ten years new laws have been passed and equality is one step closer. Why disability rights? One man tells a story on why people with disabilities need rights and laws to get the same opportunities. Paul had been active in progressive politics for more than 25 years. He became di...
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Parent Households Police Force
761 wordsThere are problems facing people everyday, some worse than others, but none anymore pleasant. We see problems ranging from the environment to crime, gangs, diseases, wars and so many more. William Finnegan saw a major problem arising for the residents of Lancaster, California where he went to find out why two skin head gangs are so prevalent in the area. Parents working low wage jobs for long hours far from home made absent parents a huge problem as well as lack of education greatly due to poor ...
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