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Twentieth Century Southern Italy
728 wordsOnly thirty years after the Piedmontese army marched into Rome to unite Italy under one government, the country suddenly found itself on the brink of the twentieth century and a rapidly changing world. The twentieth century would mark the beginning of great changes throughout Europe, and Italy would not be left untouched. What set the stage for these changes, though, were the years just prior to, and directly after 1900. The decade before 1900 can be thought of in terms of its government leaders...
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Sicilian Mafia Organised Crime
1,598 wordsYOU would not know it from the English-language signs promising to serve passengers ''quickly'', but Naples' Capodichino airport is British-owned. In August, 70 % of it was bought by BAA, a company that also runs, among other things, London's main airport, Heathrow. For the Italian south this is a symbol of hope. Finding an international firm of this calibre willing to invest there has greatly boosted its confidence. BAA, for its part, was attracted by the south's tourist potential, but spent th...
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Manifest Destiny Civil War
1,086 wordsIn Mexico City there is a mural by Diego Rivera which depicts Hernando Cortez as a one-eyed syphilitic hunchback. What this lacks in historical accuracy it makes up for by faithfully reflecting the artist's attitude toward the conquistadors. We are repeatedly told on public television that Lincoln was a clearly heroic figure. If heroism is measured by the size of the pile of corpses a man leaves behind, this is correct. We must not let our emotions deprive us of objectivity. Lincoln was neither ...
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Social Security Reform President Clinton
850 wordsOur American society values hard work and assumes lower and middle class workers can retire with confidence. Our Western culture respects the maturity of elders and wishes to provide for them. Our capitalistic economic principles strive to maximize competition and efficiency. Our democratic political system guides politicians to please constituents while making the best policy decisions for the entire country. A true American crisis is one that plunges these ideals into conflict. Because this is...
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Police Departments Medical Marijuana
1,451 words... criminal-defense lawyer who advocates drug-policy reform. "But the real word is 'confiscation. ' Current law goes way too far. " In 1992, for instance, state troopers grabbed $ 38, 000 from the briefcase of Tom Russo (not his real name) after stopping him and then charging him with drunk driving, among other violations. Although a state judge ordered the cash returned because of an illegal search, police had already transferred it to the federal government, essentially leaving the money -- p...
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Public Broadcasting Service Government Funding For Public Broadcasting Television
409 wordsmedia, " 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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Institute For Propaganda Analysis Church Or Nation People
1,037 wordsPropaganda is an attempt to influence opinion by presenting distorted, exaggerated, or untrue facts of information or facts in a way that will appeal to emotions or feelings rather than to reason. As generally understood, propaganda is opinion expressed for the purpose of influencing actions of individuals or groups. Name-calling is labeling thing and people without telling the facts. Bad names have played a powerful role in the history of the world and in our own individual growth. They have ru...
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Million Dollars A Year People To Live
1,061 wordsIn major cities around the world, both time and money are being wasted in the fight against prostitution. Not only are politicians constantly devising new methods of eliminating the prostitutes, but also the mayors of these cities are continuously squandering precious amounts of money in trying to rid the streets of prostitutes. What the politicians do not realize however is that no matter how hard they try, they will never fully eradicate prostitution. Sex is essential to the human being; if on...
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Men And Women Upton Sinclair
1,159 wordsUpton Sinclair's most famous novel, The Jungle, not only symbolized an era where dirt and filth ran rampant in meat packing industry, but it also exposed people to the natural human desire of greed, power, and corruptions. This newly gained knowledge resulted in a socialist transformation. The novel follows the lives a large Lithuanian family living during the early 1900 s that immigrates to the United States in the pursuit of freedom and happiness. The family of eleven took what little money th...
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Compensatory Damages Criminal Case
1,356 words... Another example of an immunity is where a witness agrees to testify only if the testimony cannot be used at some later date during a hearing against the A court order that prohibits a party from doing something (restrictive injunction) or compels them to do something (mandatory injunction). Latin: All legal rights are either in personal or. An in personal right is a personal right attached to a specific person. In rem rights are property rights and enforceable against the Latin: All legal ri...
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Gun Control 18 Years
1,149 words... e D'Amato, Schumer is a quintessential New Yorker; hes aggressive, intense, and by no means shy to take credit for his accomplishments. Important to note, is that in more than 25 years in public life and 18 in the House of Representatives, he has managed to carve out a solid and moderate record. He has been the House Democrats' leader on crime-fighting, crusading for more money for police and prisons, tougher sentencing laws, tighter gun control and capital punishment. His legislative record...
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Beer Hall Putsch People Of Germany
1,509 wordsDuring the 1920 's and early 1930 's Germany was unstable socially economically and politically. The governments were more often in a state of disarray than not, the populace was disillusioned and scared, and the Great Wall Street stock market crash of 1923 saw the economy crumble before the population's eyes. These unfavourable factors combined to create a nation of precarious stature, a country which was looking for a savior. This came in the form of fascism, an ideology in which the individua...
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United States Congress Majority Leader
611 wordsThe legislative processes of the United States Congress are often open to certain influences. These influences can come from such elements of the congressional system as logrolling and party representation on committees. In addition, there are several manners in which party leadership in Congress can also contribute to these influences. Logrolling is one technique used to sway the legislative procedures of Congress in one's favor. Also known as reciprocity, logrolling is a method that one or mor...
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Reality Shows Roman Empire
1,107 wordsWriting Review Module 7 -Assignment 1 The growing popularity of reality shows on American TV has objective reasons that correspond to socio-political reality in this country. These shows have often been referred to as tasteless by many political observes. However, critics are unable to understand why reality shows attract more and more people, despite the fact that shows are often associated with promotion of spiritual decadence. In order for us to understand this phenomenon, we will have to get...
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Western Countries Social Prominence
1,882 words... validity of Soucasauxs statement. We can say that the reason why men cannot stand the sight of womens menstrual blood is not that they loathe it, in esthetic sense of this word, but that they feel that it contains a some kind of an unexplained force. It is not a secret that macho men despise domesticated hubbies more then anybody else, because in their eyes, feminized men became subjected to female existential power in other words, they committed a gender suicide. If we rid the popular stere...
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Majority Of Americans Important To Understand
1,742 wordsShould America Drill? The recent economic and socio-political developments in the world make the arguments of those who are against lifting the 1981 -ban on offshore oil drilling, to sound less and less plausible, due to the fact that citizens slowly begin to understand that designing Americas economic policies can no longer be affected environmental considerations, to the extent it used to be, even as recent as ten years ago. The reason is very simple Earth is already being overpopulated, with ...
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Michael Jordan Political Figures
1,000 wordsContemporary Gods of Metamorphosis Ovid? s metamorphosis reads as a collection of mythical poems, describing the timeless battle between the gods and humans. The relationship between humans and gods is not just one of single sided adulation. The gods in the Metamorphosis are susceptible to the same errors in judgement and of living erroneous lifestyles just as humans. The only real difference between the two classes of beings is that one has direct power over another. The relationship is interes...
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Domestic And International Military Intervention
1,717 wordsDemocratic peace is presently a theory that has come under fire from many individuals due to the complex nature in which it is applied to nations and their handling of foreign affairs. There are currently two accepted arguments: (1) Democracies do not fight one another because they are self-organizing systems and are therefor fundamentally distinct from other states, and (2) they are as prone to conflict with non democracies or quasi-democracies as non democracies are with one another. These vie...
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Maastricht Treaty European Integration
941 wordsECONOMIC AND MONETARY UNION OF EUROPE The main reason for creating a European Market was the growing international competitiveness. In the mid of the eighties the European countries recognized that in the long run the national economies alone won? t be able to compete against countries like the US, Japan and the new industrial centers in East Asia. The biggest advantage of the European integration is the unique chance of causing significant economic growth in the member countries by abolishing a...
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Regularly Scheduled Elections Made Publicly Not Secretly
1,354 wordsIn any system which claims to be democratic, a question of its legitimacy remains. A truly democratic political system has certain characteristics which prove its legitimacy with their existence. One essential characteristic of a legitimate democracy is that it allows people to freely make choices without government intervention. Another necessary characteristic which legitimates government is that every vote must count equally: one vote for every person. For this equality to occur, all people m...
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