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Saturday Evening Post Organ Donation
2,195 words... locally first. Mickey Mantle got his liver quickly because he was classified the most critically needy patient in the Dallas area (Adato). The fifth myth is the minority candidates wait longer owing to bias in the system. In fact, no consideration is given to race, only to medical facts. In many transplants the necessary matching antigens are more likely to occur between people of similar race or ethnicity. Blacks are one of the lowest groups to give to organ donation. All other organs can b...
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V Chip Television Violence
1,324 wordsBy Mary Ann Banta Board Member, National Coalition on Television Violence Almost from its inception, television has attracted critics concerned with violence portrayed in prime-time and Saturday morning children's programs. Spokesmen for the broadcast industry took the position that television and the violence portrayed on television had no affect on behavior of the viewer. To many this was a strange position for an industry that was also selling commercial time with the specific intent to influ...
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Abolish The Death Penalty Mentally Retarded
1,184 wordsThe sentence of capital punishment is an expensive barbaric alternative for punishing a criminal. Where does the hostility and ignorance stop once it begins? Murder is unaccepted by society, yet people seem to pacify themselves by killing criminals. Is that not considered to be murder? Sentencing a criminal to death does not solve the questions and problems that are left behind. Parents will still cry for a child that is never coming home. Mourning families will still carry a never-ending hearta...
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Hours A Week Percent Of The Population
1,293 wordsThe Health Insurance Crisis in America Health insurance comes as second nature to many of us. We grab that blue and white card and put it in our wallet behind old Irving fill-station receipts and forget about it until we are sick or injured. When this happens, there it is, cushioning our fall like the extra padding it provided to cushion our wallets. This is not the case with everyone, however. Many Americans have no cushion to fall back on, no blue and white card to show the emergency room when...
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Low Income Housing Mentally Ill
1,648 wordsHomelessness is an ongoing problem for our society. Everyday we come to terms with the effects of it, but what about the causes? By definition, a person who is homeless lives in public. The lack and destruction of federal housing programs and increasing rents forced those who are homeless to do in public what everyone prefers to do in private. According to the website, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, the Low Income Housing Information Service estimates that there are twice as ma...
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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
953 wordsWhile most people won t admit to watching more than a couple of hours of television per week, at any given moment millions of Americans are glued to their television sets. The variety of programming offered ranges from action, to comedy, to drama. Though not all programming is suitable for all viewers, as adults living in a free country, we have the right to choose what we want to watch and what we don t. Censorship, as defined by Britannica, is the changing or the suppression or prohibition of ...
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Anti Gun Control Pro Gun Control
1,445 wordsGun Control in the United States Regulation of guns is a necessary action that needs to be taken in order to save lives. A good definition of gun control is needed to understand the sides and issues. Gun control is an effort to soothe rise in violent crime by strengthening laws on the ownership of firearms. Persons in the group against gun control believe that gun control is wrong, and that it is a violation of constitutional rights. Those in favor of gun control believe that gun control is good...
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Compulsive Gamblers Legalized Gambling
2,085 wordsGambling is prominent in todays society. This can be seen especially through politics. Everywhere voters are electing people to office who are pro gambling. William Thompson of the University of Nevada (1994) describes politicians by stating, Its part of the American landscape, theyll trade morality for dollars (1). In North and South Carolina, for example, the last governor election showed that the people were for legal gambling by voting in governors who wanted a lottery. Now in the U. S. , 47...
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Violence On Television Violence On Tv
1,841 wordsTV Violence: Friend or Enemy? Television violence is a contributing factor to aggressive behavior in children. Recently focus has been placed on this issue, since the majority of violence occurs during prime time and in cartoons. ? It? s not watching that? s bad for kids, it? s what they watch and how much. ? (Slow 2) Parents must accept television into their home and explain the violence that is occurring. TV and TV violence are not new, we have been hearing about TV? s affects on children for ...
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Low Income Housing American Red Cross
3,427 wordsImagine a typical Homelessness Title Imagine a typical day in your life: You wake up, throw back the covers and get out of bed. You don? t put on a robe because the heat is on and it? s warm in your room. After freshening up in the bathroom, you go to your closet to choose an outfit to wear. You grab a quick breakfast. Then your best friend gives you a lift to school. At the end of the day, your mother picks you up to go shopping. Later, after dinner, you do your homework, talk on the phone and ...
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Low Self Esteem Fact Sheet
730 wordsEveryone thinks they have it tough. On a day to day basis the average person complains at least fifty times. But, most of the people who complain have it pretty well Nice homes, loving families, and nearly all they want. Now, imagine the stress of a teenager who has no home. It seems pretty hard to understand how these youths survive. Between school and home (wherever they call home), destitute children have unbelievably tough lives. School presents itself as a very hard place for homeless child...
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Death Penalty Capital Punishment
958 wordsEven though they are just kids, should they be tried as adults? The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the execution of children as young as sixteen is not cruel and unusual punishment. Out of thirty-eight states with the death penalty, thirteen have set the minimum age for death at eighteen; four states set the minimum at seventeen; nine set the minimum age at sixteen; twelve have no minimum age specified. In 1996, prosecutors in the state of Mississippi sought the death penalty for juv...
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Anti Gun Control Pro Gun Control
1,451 wordsRegulation of guns is a necessary action that needs to be taken in order to save lives. A good definition of gun control is needed to understand the sides and issues. Gun control is an effort to stop the rise in violent crime by strengthening laws on the ownership of firearms. Persons in the group against gun control believe that gun control is wrong, and that it is a violation of constitutional rights. Those in favor of gun control believe that gun control is good, that the Second Amendment doe...
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Minimum Wage Affordable Housing
835 wordsWhy are People Homeless? Where am I going to stay tonight? Is it going to be too cold to sleep outside? Or will the shelter be too crowded to sleep in tonight? Questions such as these do not arise in my everyday life. Yet, there are many people who have to ask themselves those questions everyday. Although, many homeless people are not seen in small towns such as this one, homelessness is an increasing problem. The media has said that minimum wage has improved; whereas, it is not improving as fas...
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