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Christian Temperance Union Alcoholic Beverages
1,157 wordsIn Illinois during the year 1900, temperance and prohibition were prominent issues on the social and political stage. The temperance movement found most of its adherents in middle-class women. Urban women saw the linkages between poverty and alcoholism, while many rural women were aware of how the isolation of farm life amplified the horrors of alcohol abuse. The temperance movement was directly related to the women's suffrage movement going on across the country. The temperance movement enabled...
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World Health Organization Biological Warfare
3,181 words... at AIDS is caused by immoral behavior, immoral sexual behavior or immoral drug use. He knows that's a lie, but he is a liar, so what do you expect. He's the master of deception. He was in on it, I have no doubt whatsoever. We said we were going to return this document. This is the House of Common Social Services Committee, and this is a document prepared by the Royal Society of Medicine. You can not get more official than this in Great Britain. And this is what they say: "The scale of the de...
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Segregation And Housing In Chicago
1,131 words... s and whites became a major issue during the twentieth-century. Chicago soon became one of the most segregated cities in America. Though as more blacks started to move into Chicago, there were very few integrated neighborhoods. The ghetto that existed expanded and turned into a second ghetto. It was during World War I that almost all of the migration of blacks took place in the city. This huge migration continued until the 1920 s when the Depression hit. When the Depression hit people slowly...
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Foreign Relations Harvard Law
1,324 wordsREPRESENTING ILLINOIS One public official is now making waves not only as TIME magazines 100 most influential people in the world, but also a candidate in the 2008 presidential race. Lauded by millions of Africans during his 2006 tour of their continent, he is also the writer of two best-selling books, not to mention the many other civic works that occupy his time. (US Senator Barack Obama of Illinois). Born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, he rose to prominence because of his inspiring ke...
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Small Schools Learning Environment
1,008 wordsA COMPARISON OF SMALL SCHOOL AND BIG SCHOOL SIZE SETUPS Until the mid- 1960 s, there was considerable agreement among sociologists and educational reformers that a substantial part of the differences in school performance by different students could be attributed to differences in the quality of schools they attended. Not only did the argument seem intuitively obvious, it also had considerable impressionistic evidence to support it. Students who attended run-down inner city schools, often with i...
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Mental Illness Mentally Ill
2,298 wordsDepression and Mental Illness: Crime or Violence/ Treatment or Punishment ABSTRACT Statement of the Problem According to Michael D. Yapko, PhD, (1997) " in every way, depression is a growing problem. Rates of depression have steadily climbed over the last 50 years and are significantly higher in those born after 1954 than in those born before. In addition, the average age of on-set depressive episode is steadily decreasing it is now mid- 20 s whereas it once was mid- 30 s. Cross-cultural da...
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